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I enjoyed cassettes. I still have a bunch, and a cassette player in my car. And I never use them over streaming audio from my phone. Why? Because this is 2017 and I'm not a hipster…

Stunning! Absolutely stunning! I will print these and hang them in my hallway.

Initial conclusions indicate an error in production that placed pressure on plates contained within battery cells. That in turn brought negative and positive poles into contact, tr…

I was commenting on "why did they design Java that way in the first place", as opposed to (say) Go. I agree that once the primary use of Java moved outside the browser, there was n…

Because Java was originally designed for set-top TV boxes and appliances, where it's kind of a big deal that you don't need to know or care what OS or processor each appliance is u…

> imagine that the algorithms you write had to work (perhaps slightly differently, but essentially the same) when hit with bit-flips in the code. How would one do that? Gray code […

It can feel like "flu with a hangover", that's my experience too. In my case that's triggered by too much activity. I've gradually learned to stay within my limits most of the time…

On the basis of having had a CFS/ME diagnosis for the past several years, and spending some time reading what I could find about it: There's no consensus yet, but there is a bunch …

Can't agree with that. Betting say $1 on a highly improbable event can't really be considered "insane" by any metric I can think of - if you lose, so what, you're only out one doll…

It's different in a number of ways: Suppose it's not you hacking your car, it's an enemy that want you dead. So they disable the brakes. Or perhaps it's possible for an attacker to…

I haven't tried a standing desk for programming yet (it's on my todo-list). But I did have a summer job as a student where I was standing in front of a computer all day, registerin…

Yes. Representing resolution by horizontal pixel count has been standard in digital cinema for years[1][2]. So they have 2k, 4k and a number of subvariants. So I guess we're just s…

Clear for people in the know, I guess. But suppose I had a Kickstarter for a car on the same premises: "A revolutionary car powered by sunlight and water - fill up with water every…

Not really. Last month was a special case: Several months of hype and preorders hit the statistics all at once when Tesla started delivery.

The Tesla price range in Norway is roughly equivalent to the BMW 320i to 328i. The Leaf is the same price as a Ford Focus or VW Golf. So if you're looking for a car in this class, …

I think it's similar to eBay: eBay didn't invent "buying and selling stuff", but it was still disruptive e.g. to classified ads in local newspapers. It's a limited form of disrupti…

It's an interesting choice from an evolutionary standpoint: At the time homo sapiens evolved, we presumably had saber-tooth tigers, tyrannosaurus rexes, abonimable snowmen (or what…

I have no better knowledge, just parsing the reports: The cleanup is more effective during sleep because the channels that transport waste from the brain expand 60% in volume, and …

I've no idea how much a razor "should" cost, perhaps you would enlighten us with your calculations? If I decided to produce my own razor blades, I suppose I would need to buy an ir…

Here's a blog post arguing that the iPhone wasn't disruptive , like PC vs mainframe - the PC was worse in every respect, but it was also dramatically cheaper. Instead, it was obsol…

I was struck by this part: "FEINSTEIN: [...] upstream collection [...] comprises about 10 percent of all collection that takes place under 702, and occurs when NSA obtains Internet…

Call it FoodStand, let if fill with food vendors in my neighbourhood (preferably those who offer delivery), and I'm all for it. That would transform PizzaHut from an obnoxious ad (…

At the moment, 15% (1:6.8) are in the UTC+2:00 timezone, which covers most of mainland Europe using Daylight Saving Time. Sounds ballpark reasonable to me - Europe is twice the pop…

Two reasons for non-Americans: - the snooping is explicitly targeting foreigners. In USA I'm a foreigner, by hosting in my own country I have at least the protection of being a cit…