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I've had exactly the same thought, after hitting walls repeatedly with limitations in single-language ecosystems. And likewise, I've had the same concerns around the complexity tha…

Not what I said. I said that, sub-dividing days is not really simpler with base 10, and that sub-dividing time is pretty important practical aspect of time-keeping.

I do. I sleep 8 hours, wake up 2 hours before work, work 8 hours, and spend 6 hours in the evening afterwards. That's 1/3, 1/12, 1/3, and 1/4 of the day, or 3.33, 0.83, 3.33, 2.5 d…

Fun little snippet of history =), but something that seems to get missed often in time-keeping is that 12, 24, and 60 are not accidental, they're used for a good reason - they're h…

I'd like to throw my two cents in here: strength training. I started having problems with RSI about five years ago, and I tried and failed to get relief from quite a few different …

Good article! I find CPS rather refreshing to work with in JS; so much so, that I prefer using it for asynchronous code over promises or async/await. It turns out 'callback hell' i…

If you want to get excited about UBI again , consider the opposite action: Take the US, and instead of giving everyone in the country 10,000 USD/year in UBI, take 10,000 USD away: …

Yes, its a living language. But, it makes everyone's life just a little bit harder when you try to co-opt a very old word, with a very clear definition, for your latest fiat curren…

You really ought to read the paper. 1. They do control for demographics. 2. They do account for temperature, by comparing geographically close cities with different activity inequa…

Native install for me. I can't compare it with crouton, as I've never even really used ChromeOS. The first thing I did was replace it with Debian. I'm pretty happy with what I have…

I've been using a Chromebook Pixel (64GB version) as my primary work machine since I received it in 2013, first running Debian and now Arch. You'd be surprised at how well it's hel…

Hey, I used to work with their CTO! Hopefully he'll respond himself, but in case he doesn't: > (384-bit prime) - Why not just use X448 since that's now an Internet Standard? I beli…

I agree! There are quite a few provably insecure algorithms in the project. That said, I do think they are useful to keep around: As a reference, for legacy systems, or to practice…