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The sleeping kitty is from, or perhaps descended from, https://webneko.net/ To the decorative text behind the kitty, I would add that it's almost always helpful to include some for…

A related alternative would be that the listed tv price included the price of time spent viewing ads, and the sale price of your usage data (and that changing the price, say by sho…

Reusability increases costs if you don't reuse often enough. The shuttle would have been much, much, cheaper per launch if it had flown more often. The expected costs for the shutt…

The figures are about the change rather than the absolute value, so it's not too terrible, but even given that, they could have been normalised by being relative to year 1. A quite…

I have high hopes for Daggerfall once they finish fixing the main bugs and it goes into beta.

Was that a complete ban, or was it an attempt to get your phone number and other personal details? Instagram has always banned my accounts for suspicious behaviour on whatever page…

There is also 'homeograph' - "A word similar — but not identical — in spelling to another." That seems a better fit for your needs.

A lot of humour consists of buildup followed by a twist - the humour is in the contrast between the expected and the actual. This is very similar to explaining a concept that is fl…

On my map it seemed like the road consisted of a few points, rather than the points plus lines between them (or however it's described). Selecting intersections (maybe bends?) lowe…

I find that students talk to each other and spread interpretations of the assignment. They might be correct, they might not - either way the interpretation spreads (never through a…

It's all so ... readable.

They're pretty similar concepts. Either way, they're administering drugs to affect health.

"Remove dead code"

Many people put answers to assignments and exams in the course material and very few people get it.

Generally, anyone writing a paper about something that could benefit from bugfixes would love to accept them, but doesn't have the time or resources to actually do so - unless ther…

There's already a lot of published work in that area. Are you looking at confirming earlier work, or is there a particular focus that introduces novelty?

I had zero problems keeping myself still for an MRI, but I really wished I had picked a more comfortable position. Standing still, now there I have all the problems.

Research is also hampered by non-obvious changes in the product. Even when a good, reliable product is released, it can be modified to be cheaper to make/more expensive to maintain…

Politics has made it very likely that we will never know where it started, but that's okay. More important is how the next one could start, which is being investigated more thoroug…

My most cited paper has the head of an institution down as an author. Most, but far from all, of the citations are from students there. A previous paper introduced the concept and …

The hard part of fixing it can be that the manufacturer used a range of sources for each part. The parts are available, but it can be difficult to tell which easily available part …

Perhaps start with a set of blocks representing available resources. The 'top' equivalent could be a stream of blocks falling down the screen. Manipulate and rearrange the blocks t…

Souffle: https://github.com/souffle-lang/souffle Used by projects such as Doop: https://bitbucket.org/yanniss/doop and Ddisasm: https://github.com/grammatech/ddisasm

The personal massager. After 53 years of sales it's still very well regarded.

If you miss a word in a conversation, you automatically fill it in. This is usually pretty reliable even with unfamiliar material, since if you follow standard grammar rules there'…