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I wouldn't be surprised if it's not already in the Municipal Code for the city, since they need a way to maintain consistency. For example, here's the divisions in Renton, which ar…

Oh this is fun. I'm in the process of building something similar, but I'm splitting it into two parts: the first part is a static site generator and the second is a CGI that implem…

It's even weirder with people: blood sugar level change with how you perceive time to be passing, not the actual amount of time: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1603444113

That comparison would depend heavily on what you're storing. Ion has the option of using symbol tables to replace strings (e.g. in struct/map keys or in values). So, if you benchma…

Ion is heavily used on the retail side of Amazon, but it's only recently started to appear in AWS products. AWS is starting support PartiQL ( https://partiql.org/ ) queries in some…

> and the OS installed takes up well under 500MB Fast-forward to 2023 and many individual Android apps are 100-500 MB each.

I don't use my google account for much anymore, but I love the idea. I tried very hard to use it and... it didn't work. I went to my google account and clicked "Create a passkey", …

Sometimes. Sometimes the fast thing is just heavily parallelized.

RA (Router Advertisement) handles announcing the prefix for SLAAC addresses and DNS.

I suspect the lock is more about keeping other people's trash out than keeping theirs in.

I expect that's a corollary to Parkinson's law

On our last road trip, I gave our 4 year old a printed map with the route highlighted and lettered milestones every hour or so. I was hoping to give a sense of scale (how far away …

The book I learned from suggested five types of knots for different problems and suggested learning one of type, which I found to be a great starting point. The five were: a stoppe…

I generally only need `ln -s `. I know the -s means symbolic link, but in my head I read it as "source", since that's how I remembered the order long ago.

These, and the spoofed number phone calls where the other side just hangs up when you answer. For the phone calls, I just assumed that someone was trying to build a database of pho…

I assumed that the gap between the cost to do the bare minimum and the cost to do some elaborate was smaller at the time. If you're already laying each brick by hand, it seems like…

Coincidentally, just before this was posted I read a similar analysis of Windows executables from 2008: https://www.strchr.com/x86_machine_code_statistics MOV is still the top, but…

Ha, that is quite satisfying when it comes together. Maybe it's just from practice, but I think the sheet bend [1] is easier and faster to tie though. [1]: https://www.animatedknot…