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Thanks for the false positive looking for c#! I also don't see general functional programming listed, which was more prevalent a few years ago. Different times.

You had me at Patchwork. This is super fun. Thanks for making it!

Most commercial beer completely removes the yeast though, even many microbreweries. If you don't visibly see sediment in the bottle, it has been filtered. The reason is consistency…

I recently received a received an offer to purchase a website I run. The website in question has no revenue but is a good candidate for ad revenue. I have been unsuccessful in dete…

This was my experience as well. I became very interested in F# and Clojure about 6-8 years ago because they were seemingly better languages that attracted better users. I was wanti…

IIRC the layers of dead trees also caused pervasive fires. One because of the fuel from the trees, but also because oxygen levels were much higher due to large amount of carbon tra…

I run octordle, and I think you're right. I went with boards + 5 which felt like the sweet spot. Presently the win rate is 55% which seems good. Early on friends complained it was …

I have seen the same as well. It also causes the managers to be disconnected from the realities of the team. Since they've delegated most everything, they don't need to pay attenti…

I suspect they're thinking longer term than 3 months. The S&P returned nearly 29% in 2021, 18% in 2020 and 38% in 2019. That is doubling your money (nominally) in 3 years which is …

I experienced something similar in terms of having to juggle numerous responsibilities spanning multiple roles. It is unfortunate and not only is your company taking advantage of y…

I had a small one in my backyard for a few years. My goldfish would ofen simply disappear. One day they were there, the next day they weren't. They also died often and there were a…

Except it doesn't really exist anymore. Perhaps F# lives on within Walmart though. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/walmart-winds-down-jetcom-fo...

I imagine if you get caught once, the SEC is going to audit everything you've done and find most occurrences of insider training. Theres a 5% chance for each of those occurrences a…

This is my opinion as well. Many of the power user commands I've learned were to avoid annoying and fiddly things. It is less about saving time and more about saving effort for me.…

NimbleText https://nimbletext.com/ has saved me so much time. I use it to generate sql from spreadsheets and other one-off code generation from data.

Most (I assume) residential consumers pay a fixed price, so that cost falls to the energy providers. Events like these have caused smaller Retail Energy Providers to have to go ban…

This concept is called Demand Response and is quite prevalent. Consumers receive a discount for reducing their load at peak times. This frequently targets very high demand customer…

What exactly does the RPi control? Is it some sort of WiFi or programmable outlet? I've wanted to do this, but wasn't sure how to get the RPi to control the lights. My mechanical t…

The speech was about the mangos. They specifically said looking up the grower went from 7 days to 12 seconds due to blockchain and a $7b savings.

I was recently at an "Emerging Technology" conference for emerging technologies that was targeted at non-technical entrepreneurs and innovators. 90% of the conference was focused o…

Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/385/

My coworker was a member of that fraternity in the 80s, and he said he had never heard about that event. He was skeptical that it even happened until he read the newspaper article …

But then what would the media have to talk about?

I agree. I find them better than many modern American designs. Compare the North Korean peas to a modern American label NK: https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/centaur-wp/creativ…