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it helps to have a good sewing machine - the difference between a poor quality one and e.g. a nice bernina is dramatic. even an old one thats been well maintained will give you man…

A tick bite in alberta? diagnosed lyme? when? seems very unlikely - there are no recorded cases in the 30+ years of tracking of a case of lyme disease from a bite _in alberta_. All…

Looks interesting! If I'm reading correctly, the indexing (Context Store) is neutral/unopinionated? How does it select fields for indexing? Have you done any testing on guided inde…

As an aside, do you have any suggestions for "state of the art" reading on safety culture?

Wow thats a name I haven't heard in a long time! I really miss the way tacops 2.2 felt, never did get along with 3.x versions. Was definitely a formative gaming experience for me a…

https://github.com/lua/lua Everything is nicely documented and pretty easy to read. It's a great companion if you want to learn more about how languages are implemented.

Your unit mixtures hurt my brain

What does this mean? Is there a list of approved conversation allowed on trails? What difference does it make if they are talking to someone virtually or physically present on the …

Actually I bet you wouldn't be too far off. Random googling seems to suggest that the average cruise ship today is under $1 billion: https://gangwaze.com/blog/how-much-does-a-cruis…

177ms from west coast of NA, but that is slower than I would have estimated. Other than HN, almost everything else I use regularly feels subjectively way slower, although I've not …

A plumber with five trucks isn't so much a plumber anymore as a business owner employing five other plumbers.

Congrats! Ordered. Been waiting for a physical copy, being able to scribble notes in the margins and bookmark and flip back and forth by hand just works so much better for me.

I think the big problem here was with Starcraft 2's lack of UMS and chat room focus compared to Brood War. I played competitive 1v1 in both, and anecdotally I spent alot more time …

Aside from the branding and history problems here, actually kind of surprising its been this long before a mainstream brand came up with a "vetted" crypto miner. Interesting. Press…

If you want to reduce animal suffering, there's a pretty good argument that cows are the last animals/animal products you should stop eating. You should definitely stop eating eggs…

I mean, isn't that sort of the fundamental problem with government funding? They're not very good at picking winners, and when they make winners by picking, sometimes it still turn…

Of course no one individually wants to sacrifice for society. The point is that if everyone is willing to do it, everyone is better off. By making some sort of collective incentive…

You're not even engaging with the parent's point. This logic does not work. You must make a choice to balance risks, because EVERYTHING has risks. Aggregate economic ruin kills peo…

The dismissiveness in this thread is unreal. From the comments you'd think the article only had one sentence insulting the Sanctity of Cargo Pants. If you happily wear baggy jeans …

What TFA is doing is basically the inverse of a digital camera sensor. They're essentially putting a coloured tint in front of each pixel (actually a block of 4 pixels) in a bayer …

I really like the idea of the watch instead of a phone, but it seems like they've explicitly designed it so that it will never be a stand-alone device. I don't mind buying the watc…

That's barely two applicants per opening? There is no way that's a technological problem.

I can think of two reasons: A sort of Dutch Disease caused by Rails is probably the biggest one. When one killer feature drives the adoption of a language, everyone who is interest…

This has finally allowed me to switch. I’ve been trying to since quantum came out two years ago, but this was always a deal breaker. Firefox is generally still a little buggier and…