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I was reminded of the US Constitution's 10th amendment and reading some of the history around it. > The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibite…

I thought this was "the Dragon Book" Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools by Aho, Lam, and Sethi https://www.amazon.com/Compilers-Principles-Techniques-Tools...

Also don’t forget to blink while you are at it. https://uihc.org/health-topics/computer-vision-syndrome

TIL: Spanish has a sort of written contractions. I speak conversational Spanish so I’ve heard people talk this way, like Puerto Rico or Dominican Republic speakers shortening thing…

Worked at AOL tech support back in the day and I also still have the occasional flashback to the pain these so called modems caused us all.

I have this exact problem and (mostly) fixed it by swapping the sensor and transmitter. I just cut the wires and spliced with electrical tape. Now the problem still happens but onl…

why aren't these fines percent of revenue, or a multiple of the number of people affected?

You can't "catch up" on sleep. The only way to get enough sleep is to have a schedule that you stick to. It's ok to think about work off hours. Write down your thoughts, do some me…

One place I worked, the rule was "always have two pairs of eyes on code". Each team got to decide whether that rule was met with some mix of mob or pair programming, or just code r…

Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28793615

At least where I work, the DNS rule is "Batten's Law" because that guy's said it so many times, and been right so many times. https://www.battenworks.com/ It's DNS And, when you're…

Why don't excel and all the things that can read excel kill the old xls (2^16 limit) format? I mean still let excel read the file, but don't allow changing the file. Only allow sav…

Adding on to the thoughts about everyone writing terrible code sometimes, there is also “terrible code makes lots of money”. Source: over 20 years doing software dev at various com…

Is it this issue for Firefox? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1520157 See also https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro/issues/250

I think VR could be really cool solution to some of the problems with video calls, but the headsets are just too heavy at this point. I have an oculus quest 1 and can't stand weari…

I agree with your general thought about this, but in this specific article one of the scientists was quoted saying he was "baffled", but only "kind of". Maybe the title should be "…

I backed the Light Phone 2 with the thought that it's kind of like being an early Tesla buyer. People buy the Tesla to look cool, sure, but some also buy it because they want to se…

About a day and a half, making a few calls and texting a bit. So effectively I have to charge it every night.