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"Kafkaesque" suggests people standing in very long queues. It doesn't seem unreasonable as a name for very long queue software.

It's possible to host a web app letting you view old Slack messages from an export, e.g. https://github.com/hfaran/slack-export-viewer or https://github.com/srid/Taut . I wonder if…

I get out of sorts when other cyclists break the law. How can we cyclists ask drivers to obey the law, to protect us, if we won't even do it ourselves?

I'm right handed but I use my left hand to mouse for RSI reasons.

I learned to knit. It helps keep me from getting distracted during video meetings. (I apparently need to fiddle with my hands a lot, and a fidget spinner or doodling doesn't cut it…

If you do the take-home problem, do you get to skip the interview? My understanding was that it might, at most, replace a 1-hour whiteboarding interview. The one time I did a take-…

This reminds me so much of Vernor Vinge's story "Fast Times at Fairmont High". It's set in the near future, and one plot point is that high school tests cover this skill--to read t…

I think they can easily hedge prices (via futures), but hedging production is much harder (because your weather & production might be different from others around, and with insuran…

When I read it, I see that the "The data subject shall have the right to ... erasure of personal data ... where one of the following grounds applies: ... the data subject withdraws…

No. I have fast cellular internet but pay $10/GB, and I consider that a pretty good deal (total for me + wife is $45/mo, including cellular and data; in Portland, OR). Your 4G inte…

If you play the classical guitar, you may receive different advice. Long nails can have practical uses.

I also let my spouse unlock my phone. It's not so much "being an open book" as it is "I trust her not to snoop, and sometimes it's convenient that she can open a map on my phone." …

I posted a comment! Hooray for participation in government.

I think one thing that causes conflict here is that there are a lot of things that aren't blatantly racist, but rather subtly racist. For instance, casually assuming that a minorit…

I agree that rational debate is good, but in this case the rational debate has to include judgment because the one side of the debate is arguing that the other side (say, racism), …

Let's be clear--right now, there is this discussion. Now, when some people promote racism, others explain that they're wrong, and why. This is exactly the thing that the article ar…

So, let's talk about the really basic case: calling people out for making racial slurs. If someone uses the n-word on my friend (or "faggot" or "jewed" or "gypped" or what have you…

The important question about this perspective is, I think, this: How do you fight against harmful, unjust beliefs such as racism without making it socially uncomfortable for people…

So, deregulate ISPs, but regulate some sites on the internet? Sure, tha will lead to good outcomes for everyone.

The overuse of antibiotics in large-scale animal farming is particularly terrible; many are given low doses of antibiotics as part of their food [1]. This gives bacteria lots of ti…

One of the complaints is that it runs stock Android, without "enhancements." Personally, having had a Sony Android phone and a Nexus, I think stock Android is way better: stock is …

Moral of the story: we should all wear body cameras, just in case we're involved in some sort of altercation, involving the police or not.

But satire is covered by fair use, right? So I think the neo-Nazis aren't hampered by the copyright.

I think that almost none of us will be able to retire comfortably at 62. You should plan for living expenses through your whole life, and you might well live to 100--and you pretty…

What a wildly anti-union article. "Deregulation has worked well. ... Before deregulation ICC-regulated truckers paid unionized workers about 50 percent more than comparable workers…