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Discovering this years ago was such a rabbit hole. They had a fake SF Bay-adjacent office street address (Walnut Creek maybe?) and had incorporated their US HQ in Michigan using a …

Yeoman's work. TY!

caltech

Alliteration. They wrote "paragon of pulchritude", which to me sounds like smart, dry humor. It works.

Pronounced Bidi like MIDI, or Bidi like Wifi, or (?)

Groot force

Tcl was the first language used. I laughed, but only because I've developed in Tcl and it has its time and place. Though I don't remember how to do an if statement in Tcl off the t…

TL; DR: What is this? These pages are a collection of facts (identities, approximations, inequalities, relations, ...) about matrices and matters relating to them. It is collected …

Eric Lippert discusses this here (2015): https://ericlippert.com/2015/04/27/wizards-and-warriors-part...

To summarize, neologism Canary MacGuffin represents one likely, visible event (to the requestor) the requestee would have to do while Shaving the Yak (?)

Antonio Murdaca's tweet thread: https://twitter.com/runc0m/status/1015216562129825793

They used Agora: https://agora.vote/ (Aside: forgot to turn off my extension and so it appeared as, 'Sierra Leone just ran the first "Multiple copies of a giant Excel spreadsheet"-…

"This is thought to be entirely secure against the Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities, which require speculative execution on branch instructions."

From the article, it seems like issues with their "order-to-shelf" system: "Order-to-shelf, or OTS, is a tightly controlled system designed to streamline and track product purchase…

Josh Marshall just now: "Announcement to publishers who reshaped business models around Facebook. Bye." https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/951615904760172545

The Mark Twain Project has made his autobiography (and other writings) freely available online: http://www.marktwainproject.org/landing_writings.shtml I listened to the audiobook v…

From the article: "It is common to experience swarms of earthquakes at Mount St. Helens." "...there is no immediate danger of an eruption."

The State of California recently initiated a reclassification project for IT positions, which includes evaluating salaries. They last reclassified positions in 1976...back when Elv…