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What a well-written piece. It reminded me of my own habit of logging my pour-over coffee brews. For months I saved every variable about every cup, imagining that one day I'd analyz…

Yep, I totally expected this article to be about Divorced Dads inexplicably catching on with Japanese youth.

I vividly remember playing Genesis in my living room as a kid when my parents were having friends over from out of town. My dad and his friend came in after a couple beers and my d…

I'd like to think `--all` just turns them all on at once.

I agree with you. It comes down to risks vs benefits, and I feel that for a huge number of people that aren't predisposed to addiction, that don't need to drink to the point of bla…

Reminds me of the fatalities in Mortal Kombat growing up. All the regular moves were in the manual, but IIRC the fatalities were not. It was a form of secret knowledge, and it was …

I attended, and one thing I learned is that being good at giving talks is often more important than the subject matter of the talk. It's all about keeping it slow and digestible an…

The rules took a while to get used to, but after a couple games I was hooked! You start to get a feel for what works and what doesn't, and it's not quite the same as Scrabble and s…

I never knew pizza rolls had such history. I assumed they were just an obscure and unremarkable snack before their breakout role in Mr. Plinkett's Star Wars prequel reviews.

The "unattractive slobs" bit seems a bit excessive to me, but I absolutely agree with your main point: the issues are indeed respect and intention. As the professor describes it, i…

"Tiles left to rotate" tells you how many still need to be rotated to solve the puzzle. Sounds like you're still two away from the goal. Some of the differences in this picture bet…

Caught them live a couple months ago at Madison Square Garden. I couldn't believe how good they sounded or how energetic they were. Zach had to sit down throughout the whole perfor…

I've been roughly halfway through the book for years, so take this for what it's worth, but if they were actually footnotes I might have read them. Instead they are endnotes , mean…

I use vim-gnupg. It makes the whole thing a breeze. And in my experience, the author is completely right: I won't open up all the way unless I have guaranteed privacy. It's not tha…

Anybody else see a resemblance to the awful Microsoft Teams emojis?

Fun idea, but I agree. I was greeted with a shade of cyan and a shade of lavender. Apples and oranges.

Hiccup syntax for HTML is such a joy to use. It maps perfectly onto HTML, it is a breeze to write, and I haven't encountered anything yet that it can't express. It is one of my fav…

I'd love to know too. I have a T530 from 2012. I ordered two replacement batteries from Lenovo's official supplier, and both bricked within a week of use. (Thankfully I was able to…

MyNoise is a really high quality, well maintained website run by a single person. He even goes out and does his own field recordings. I highly recommend it.

Always fascinated by salmon sushi's second class status. Salmon sushi to me is so much more flavorful than tuna. I thought maybe I just wasn't getting great tuna at sushi restauran…

"First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is."

Awesome project. I love the idea of recreating a game in the terminal. I tried doing an exact clone of Pokemon once (with graphics and everything), but keeping the frame rate up al…

I really am starting to feel like any writing I do that is not intended to be read by others should be in list form. When writing prose, I often catch myself worrying about "meta" …

> one of my favourite things is to use secret undocumented APIs where you need to copy your cookies out of the browser to get access to them I love this too. It's always a nice sur…

I use a sort of inverse tactic. While working, I often find that trivial questions pop into my head, and I get tempted to look up the answers and distract myself for a while. Stuff…