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Over the years, I have noticed there are two specific places where my kids ALWAYS smile ALL the time. 1. Trampoline. 2. Pool.

Interesting, I was about to say -1, 0.9, 1.0, because I don't know is almost as useful as the correct answer!

OK I love used books but this diatribe is a thing of beauty.

Mathematica is the earliest thing I am aware of with this feature where it was Alt+. to expand selection in their notebook interface starting in the early 90s. But the thing I miss…

Yep on ChromeOS each user's home dir is separately encrypted with their own password.

+1 DJGPP/Allegro key life experience on my parents Windows machine, thankyou!

After reading TFA, I have to cop this as fair criticism :). Thanks.

Agreed with others it's just what you're used to. I was inverted-y for most of my gaming life because I started with flight sims where it was mandatory, reflecting the real life ha…

One idea for what happens next, that rhymes with pop-up blocker revolution, is Gates' "disintermediation of everything" via AI, where agents on our behalf will be able to "find me …

(Maybe skip the mini-insults & make the site nicer for all?) Anyway I think GP has a point worth considering. I have had a related hope in the context of journalism / chain of trus…

This is how Eiffel works. Instead of private, protected, public, you specify the set of classes a method can be seen by: `feature {ANY}` for `public:`, feature {NONE} for private, …

It seems a standard childhood memory! I had a chicken and salad sandwich downgraded to a salad sandwich while I held it my hands as a child. Couple of decades later, almost identic…

In 2004 I owned only my laptop, with no full size keyboard -- but the sword fighting minigame really benefits from a numeric keypad. And so I bought a USB numeric keypad, which is …

+1 this breadth vs depth framing. I notice this in aider itself: What right does that project have to support all those command line options, covering every little detail, and all …

I get so much value out of this site in all sorts of important fields (to my career, or to my interest) where I am playing catch-up. But every couple of months a thread pop up in a…

In what is surely not a coincidence, 2012 is also the year in which a Stack Exchange question about how to generate these beautiful diagrams in Mathematica came up: https://mathema…

Oh my, this is so amazing. I can't wipe the grin off my face. I never thought I was would see Hammurabi ( https://github.com/maurymarkowitz/101-BASIC-Computer-Games/b... ) again! W…

This! I used to think fridging bananas ruined them right away as they went brown, until I learned the insides are perfectly fine.

> In fact, it can be nice to do one's explorations in the REPL and then reify one's discoveries as tests. This is how I wrote unit tests when I worked on Mathematica: try out every…

I like this take. Previously there was a tension between easy-to-write (helper functions to group together oft-repeated lines of code, etc) vs easy to read (where often modest repe…

> Mathematica notebooks aren't related to juypter. I don't think that's fair. Rather, IPython, and later Jupyter, explicitly (successfully) sought to create a Mathematica-like note…

I got an LLM to explain it to me. That sort of thing is definitely in their wheelhouse.

Adding to the pile of anecdotes of dirty browser hacks we're proud of: In 2002 (few years before Ajax went big) I rolled my own Ajax-y thing using a hidden iframe with a form insid…

This thing would be a nightmare to clean. If you have ever had a jetted bath you will know what I mean.

The book Chess for Tigers by Simon Webb explicitly advises this. Against "heffalumps" who will squash you, make the situation very complicated and strange. Against "rabbits", keep …