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Like freeways, it's not clear that increasing the baseline ram for basic laptops is an effective way to mitigate software bloat. Rather it likely creates bloat.

Ironic then that [0] (the first hit when I search "emacs org mode tutorial") says: You can make words *bold*, /italic/, _underlined_, =code= and ~verbatim~, and, if you must, +stri…

Me: tell me the current date please Chatgpt.com 4o: Today's date is March 11, 2025. Claud.ai 3.7 sonnet: The current date is Tuesday, March 11, 2025. gemini.google.com 2.0 flash: T…

I like the idea of users being able to pick their 3-hour window and timezone, and maybe only can change your window setting once per day (or maybe only pick a new window that start…

"This is completely wrong." Is it completely wrong? Or maybe "somewhat" wrong? Maybe just lacking nuance? I know nothing about the answer to this question, so this is an honest que…

Maybe also need to show that there are no other naturals between 1 and 7? And also that numbers greater than 7 can't be a divisor of 7?

I have another fork that is still (mostly) maintained and used as well: https://github.com/kevinawalsh/logisim-evolution The REDS-HEIG version you link to has more development acti…

What do you mean? All the inputs are continuous: light sensors, LIDAR, infra-red, inputs from mechanical sensors from the driver. Sure, the sensor package's hardware/firmware/softw…

The paper specifically details several situations in which humans are the ones making the decision, and the result is the same. There is no bounded-time decision procedure that can…

The missing piece of "just choose to always go left" is that this is a degenerate and uninteresting case. No decision is being made. The range must be discrete and at least 2 possi…

> Mandating vaccines (and now boosters) in young, healthy people who were already at small risk, including those who have already had the virus, is so absurd that I can't even char…

Did you get the pattern wrong? From the screenshot, it really looks like the pattern is: close "x", then title, then icon, then a gap before the next tab. At least, that's what I t…

> you can publish macOS software without paying $99 year. Can you point to straightforward apple instructions for doing so? I publish an open source project used in classrooms, mos…

And for those of us who do not trust these private, for-profit (and imo corrupt and predatory) companies with our financial data? What then? There is a reason Intuit does not want …

I was just recently at a gender-inclusivity seminar. The speaker asked everyone in the room to give their name, but specifically asked for NOT everyone to state their [preferred?] …

Instead of adding 3 bits, maybe they should have dropped 3 bits. A rollover every ~20 years is just asking for latent buts to blow up. A rollover every ~2.5 years is just business …

> I became an Software Engineer and now live in a major city, thanks to the affirmative actions adopted by India... You mean from reservations in school / university admissions? Or…

I'm very confused by your comment, and I hope you can clarify. I'm familiar with the colonial/European origin of the "cast system", but having been to India a few times and studied…

What is the difference between "the server I meant to communicate with" and a "server ... with authority to communicate on behalf of my intended peer"? This seems like a distinctio…

From wikipedia, it says "limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans and less than sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals. It may also be used when there …

My preferred solution for the err handling stutter would be something like "whenever". func Foo(x int) (int, error) { var err error a, err := whatever() if err != nil { return 0, e…

Being charitable, I think the parent wasn't saying it should be. But even in some fantasy ideal-government world, the budget is finite and zero-sum. By giving money to some fishing…

I like the part where you skipped right over "a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person" so you could quote "an account regarded as unreliable or hea…

Well, I suppose you mean: with the only moving part being the water itself. A hydraulic ram can move water uphill easily without any external power, electricity, etc., using basica…

Can you give me a citation for your first quote (from George Ward). Although it seems to show up on a lot of self-described "climate skeptic" pages, I can't seem to find any legiti…