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I want to know how well supported each language is. Rate support as Alpha, Beta, Full so I can decide if I want to use your app.

As a reference, $245,573 in 1995 is like $495,962 in 2023.

All the public libraries I've been to in the US use a decimal classification system that I assume is Dewey Decimal. For example, programming books are under 005.* AUTHORLASTNAME.

If you own a Mac, https://github.com/glyph/Pomodouroboros/ shows the timer on your whole screen and runs it all the time.

I floss first, rinse, then brush. No more food bits left after I spit out the extra foam.

I type words very fast (90-110 WPM). But as a programmer, I also type many symbols and numbers. Most typing trainers teach how to type words. What is the best one that teaches how …

Exercise helps because it completes the stress cycle[1]. When burnt out it can be hard to find time, so try one of these and see if they help: * High intensity intervals. Do 2 minu…

Radiopaper is both empowering and requiring every user to be a content moderator. Let's say Alice and Bob sign up and start holding interesting conversations. Then Nasty McNasterso…

I think Sean McClure's advice only applies when you have so much of one resource that you can afford to be inefficient when trading it for another. If you have so little cash you h…

Warning signs about the trustworthiness of this site's reporting: - Top banner says "News that impacts your health that other sites may censor!" -- a common claim of pseudoscience …

It's an interesting read of someone struggling with a hard idea. Im glad he started to think about the context, and why it's different for him to write about a Belgian nun than if …

Now there are devices for clinical at-home sleep monitoring, say for screening for apnea. Still uncomfortable but at least you are at home.

The daily limit on adventures is an example of trade-off #2. Their implementation is generous (40 adventures per day to a max of 200 means you need to check in every 5 days) but it…

Science for the People does in-depth interviews about science and technology, including history and impact. One topic per podcast, and they stay on topic without unrelated asides.

Re #2, keys, scales, and chords are fundamental units of Western music. You could compare them to words, which are joined into sentences. Chord progressions are sequences of chords…

BMI uses height and weight to estimate body fat % because those were the easiest statistics Quetelet had access to. There's speculation that BMI is effectively a proxy for waist si…

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/cafeRestaurantNoiseGenerat... is oddly helpful. The unintelligible babble sounds cover up real chatter.

Genevieve Cogman's Invisible Library series features a library that connects to multiple parallel worlds, with the portals anchored by books in its collection that are variants uni…

Online courses that aren't MOOCs either: 1. Allow a limited number of students to sign up for a run of the class, which is on a specific schedule, and there's high interaction with…

UnityScript is closer to ActionScript or Javascript-flavored C# than it is to Javascript. It uses class-based instead of prototypical inheritance and generally uses the conventions…

Shannon Appelcline has a great overview of rating, ranking, and other systems in the article series "Collective Choice": http://www.skotos.net/articles/TTnT_/TTnT_178.phtml . The k…

Women get a whole other dimension of online harrasment that men don't. For a gaming-centered sample, look at http://fatuglyorslutty.com/ .