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I may be in the minority here, but I personally prefer the "wrong answer" highlighted at the beginning of this article. Scripts are source code. They go in the repo, and they have …

One of the cruel aspects of endurance sports is that they suppress your appetite. You can go out and burn 6000 calories in one race, spend the whole time thinking about all the del…

Worse still is having to merge in/out of traffic to avoid parked vehicles. In the state of Oregon, you are legally entitled to the same rights as any other vehicle on the road, but…

Rural areas in the PNW are about a 2 on the Bortle scale, and the stars are strikingly vivid. The first time I saw Starlink with my own eyes, I was making an alpine start on Mt St …

Are you concerned that you are introducing tech debt into the codebase? Anyone who refactors your code later will also have to refactor your comments (but likely won't).

I used to have fairly poor sleep hygiene but am now pretty good about it. I have had this experience in both states. I had night terrors as a child which eventually gave way to cur…

>do you also have high rates of sleep paralysis? Yes, often toward the end of this near-dreaming state, just before entering deeper sleep. I experience a sensation like entering a …

That is the normal state of ultra endurance athletes during long runs[0]. A lot of training stimulus is fat adaptation. Coaches will tell you that you begin to exhaust your glycoge…

When I see studies like this, I always wonder if you might get the exact same benefits and more by just going for a run. When I run for more than 90 minutes without taking in carbs…

Where's the gnome file picker missing a thumbnail view since April 2004?

It's worth noting that this is not the norm in the US either. A wait of 1+ months to see a specialist is very normal here.

I listen to a workout playlist on shuffle frequently while training, while slowly adding new music to it throughout the year. Like others have mentioned, Spotify has completely sto…

What about distributed systems? I had to reach for this tool recently to trace requests as they propagate through up to 5 separate devices. Not everything is a web app.

> Although the levels of individual pesticides are within legal limits, activists fear the combination of multiple chemicals could be particularly damaging to people’s health. This…

E2E tests are still extremely limited and let bugs through, unless they also fuzz somehow. But that will make them even more flaky and difficult to debug, costing more time. It's a…

I have experienced all the same problems that they outline. E2E tests require a huge number of human-hours to maintain, they're difficult to debug when they fail, almost always fal…

The food supply chain is already mostly automated. Food is not cheap because of the service economy. It's cheap because it only requires work from a very small percent of the popul…

For a really remote option, look into the GDT. Probably best if you already have experience on a trail like the CDT.

How does this scale though? If you've got integration tests that include state, now you've got to either run your tests serially or set up and tear down multiple copies of the stat…

Several years ago, I had to use this trick to automate an MSSQL install via powershell remoting. One of the operations the installer performed was disallowed for powershell remotin…