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Yep, I think Boeing still has a paid break.

It would be interesting to take the same model but use known inputs for different eras, i.e. 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, and see when it would then predict collapse.

It doesn't seem to reduce the supply of labor in Canada, since the author of the article is self-taught. However it's likely to increase the overall level of training, which is goo…

I'm definitely for more guided resources on making Linux apps from idea -> release, which I wish TFA was more of. I think there's a common misconception that if the developers of t…

That the author describes himself as a self-taught handyman may not sound like much to USA readers like myself, but it's my understanding that Canada has a much more widespread for…

That's a great book, and (speaking as a carpenter, though in the USA) accurate and well observed.

Sometimes I feel like Google bends the laws of physics by shutting down more products than they launch.

> Again, these are not the densities that actually prevail in Middle Earth Obviously the author of TFA knows LoTR is a fantasy novel but I still find this comment hilarious for som…

If someone with a non-related degree and profession was interested in a career change to mechatronics/industrial automation and controls, what would people recommend? An engineerin…

I would like to listen to audiobooks at work, but often there's too much background noise to hear it properly (while not wearing headphones); it makes me wonder if there are audio …

> A better solution would be for nobody to tip Would you rather not tip or not use the service?

> (The majority of the rurals are considered urban by the US census, btw.) I wonder if there's some administrative reason the census considers huge cities and little villages both …

Certainly many books today are over-written, but I also wonder if the general reader today is less adept at reading. Skills like memorization and a person's depth and breadth of kn…

I don't know how the numbers would play out, but maybe higher average food prices would reduce global poverty if in general the global poor's income derives from food production?

Perhaps a build system with a very high kurtosis means the builds are usually the same.

So where do folks get good x220 batteries? My x220 is still running well but mostly tethered to the power brick these days.

The question of who owns a product's externalities is not absurd at all, but pretty complicated, and unfortunately rarely responsibly accounted for.

The author of the linked post wrote the (open access) Handmade Electronic Music, https://www.nicolascollins.com/handmade.htm , a really fun book to make projects from for anyone in…

Cool to see Eskil Steenberg's name pop up, his game dev diary was a very interesting read back in the day.

Used to love this living in MN (Gyro pizza with tzatziki sauce!), interesting to hear it's 'a style' at all. It makes perfect sense it's a popular tavern style, the small pieces ar…

At the risk of slightly embarrassing the lead dev of Evennia, Griatch, let me say that they are one of the best maintainers of an open source project I've ever seen, guiding the 15…