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The restaurant was one of those “all you can eat” salad bars. It closed during the early part of the pandemic and had been vacant for several months with no buyers, if I recall cor…

I think this is a reference to when Dropbox was first introduced. I recall posts dismissing it as “just something that could be done as well with a bash script”.

I’m looking at the currency block. Each box has a colored “drop shadow”. I spent a minute or so trying to figure out what the significance of the color is. Finally, I noticed that …

I’ve donated to the Smithsonian in the past. I am now wondering whether to continue doing so. Other news accounts not behind a registration/paywall: https://www.npr.org/2025/08/01/…

Here in Graz, Austria, if nobody wants to get off at a bus stop and nobody is there waiting for the bus, it continues right on to the next stop. It all seems to work, somehow.

This is perfectly wonderful!!!

Having looked at some of the links in the article, I just realized that one extra feature of roundabouts is that they allow U-turns (which is not always the case at an intersection…

I am learning German, and I will read something that I don’t quite understand, make my best guess at what it means, and run it through Google translate. Then I compare the results …

Plain old JavaScript (without frameworks) holds up rather well. My simplified blackjack game from 1998 (modified in 2003) and a calendar program from 2001 (probably written before …

Wondering how this sort would perform with Unicode input (given 256 buckets); specifically what the results would look like.

There are a few outposts of The Kebab Shop ( https://thekebabshop.com/locations/ ), and here in San Jose California area there are a lot of Mediterranean restaurants selling shwarm…

Addressed in the FAQ: https://github.com/SixArm/usv/tree/main/doc/faq#why-choose-u... Main point: ”USV provides typically-visible letter-width characters (such as Unicode 241F), wh…

If you want something JavaScript-ish with strong type inference, take a look at ReScript ( https://rescript-lang.org/ )

I think the ending of Anathem is possibly one of his best; it’s an acknowledgment that it is the ending, it’s rather tender and sweet, and it fits the mood perfectly.

My EV has a “paddle” on the steering column that you can pull towards you to engage regenerative braking. I use the actual brake pedal maybe 20% of the time or if I need to do a qu…

Ah, now I understand. My apologies.

See http://worrydream.com/refs/Tesler%20-%20A%20Personal%20Histo... (specifically the sidebar “How Modes Degrade Usability”) There’s also a sidebar “Objections to Modeless Editing …

I don’t see a link on that page where I can download the software. (I am exceptionally slow-thinking today, so it may be in a very obvious place and I have overlooked it.)

Driving from San José California to Los Angeles with 20 or 30 minute recharging stops every two hours works great for me. I get to walk around, stretch, maybe do some shopping if t…

A gallon of water weighs 8.3 pounds, so your estimate of 10 pounds is about 20% too high. To add to what someone else posted in terms of metric to “intutive” equivalences, 1 km is …

That’s why NPR (National Public Radio in the US) uses a disclaimer: “This is a developing story. Some things that get reported by the media will later turn out to be wrong. We will…

Interesting application, but my license plate (yes, I did renew the registration earlier this year) appears to not exist. The VIN number search gives the correct results. [Edit: th…

You might want to look into ReScript ( https://rescript-lang.org/ ). It has strong static typing with type inference, and it is very fast.

I would not be surprised if the students in my beginning programming class are using it; on a discussion assignment to give an example of a Python dictionary that you would want to…

I scripted a tutorial video, recorded it, and edited it. Then I used WhisperAI to generate a transcript for subtitles . The question is: can I use “not by AI” on the video, or did …