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If it's anything like my municipality, all that stuff is balanced in the budget by issuing bonds. My accounting knowledge is weak, but as I understand it, even though a city's cred…

Can you explain how environmental regulations induce that housing style? I struggle to see the connection

The exact same comment could be made of Atlanta's roads. How did we get here from the post about uv?

A huge value in having authors upload the original source, is it divorces the content from the presentation (mostly). That the original sources were available was sufficient for a …

Vitis AI is just riddled with bugs and undocumented incompatibilities. I also failed to get it to work for anything beyond the demo models.

Not a talk show, but the pilot season of Mythbusters tackled this. They registered some false positives and the test manufacturer refused to admit it was possible.

I'd agree that the second book has the highest cringe per page. The Luo Ji character was laughably bad.

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for" The author's experience aligns with my own, both at university and working with government-funded scientific an…

I spent way too long trying to find a way to read this without making an account on X, so here's the recap: An illustrator accidentally mislabelled a quasi-satellite named 2002-VE6…

https://xkcd.com/2040

Having also found the hyperventilating approach effective, I just want to note for other readers that hyperventilating before breath-holding is extremely dangerous when swimming or…

Something I've learned recently is that the convention of when to use angle brackets and when to use quotes is not prescribed by the standard but instead is implementation-defined.…

I don't think they are referring to the Reddit news, I think they are referring to the ongoing disagreement between the SO Inc staff and volunteer moderators and resulting strike o…

You're definitely right that some of the slowdown is due to physical wear. I have had the battery replaced once, about 2 years ago back when Apple was offering it at a reduced pric…

I’m now to the point where I frequently have first party apps crash on my iPhone 7, plus the screen has phantom touch issues. I really don’t want to replace it though.

Clicking the auto-link of my address on an iOS device will open a route in Apple Maps to an address with a different street name on the wrong U.S. state. Apple Maps has come a long…

The GNU Make documentation is excellent, and you can get t a long way with handwritten Make files, but when you move beyond a few translation units that have different needs, it be…

Hmm. You can search episode names and show notes on Pocket Casts on a per-show but not a global basis. I guess that is a shortcoming.

Pocket Casts has a whole “Discover” tab with both algorithmic and human-curated recommendations, as well as browsing by category. I’m not sure what more you could ask for except fo…

As they should be. No sense in fragmenting questions just because the best answer may have changed.

I’m so glad someone else pointed this particular case out! When I was a first year university student but still claimed as a dependent on my parents taxes, the accountant who prepa…

Well IRS Free File isn’t one single service. It’s a coalition of private tax prep services that have agreed with the IRS to provide their software for free to taxpayers meeting cer…

Not to pile on too much, but I feel very similarly. It seems like about 80% of the way through the first book (beginning with the Panama Canal attack), Liu gave up on trying to wri…