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ljnelson

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    Comment #48738775

    Many comments so far seem to imply (perhaps not intentionally) that this syntax was intended only on the "right side" of the URI, but you can think of it more as adding qualifier-l…

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    Comment #46117056

    This was the absolute golden age of Car and Driver. David E. Davis Jr. was the editor; he later departed to found Automobile magazine.

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    Comment #41723764

    Interesting note: the JDK deliberately randomizes iteration order of certain immutable sets and maps ( https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/jdk-23%2B37/src/java.bas... ).

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    Comment #39994763

    One thing many don't talk about is the social aspect of getting a concussion. An acquaintance has decided to try to do something about that: https://concussionbox.org/ (Disclaimer:…

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    Comment #39866972

    The actual report: https://zenodo.org/records/10701706/files/PlastChem_State_of...

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    Comment #39266823

    Does this make Gates and Bezos the Lords of KoBold (hear our prayer)?

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    Comment #39022027

    Put everything I possibly could into a Roth IRA starting at 21.

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    Comment #38789706

    You want to make sure you're using PYREX, not pyrex. They're different![1] [1]: https://www.allrecipes.com/article/what-is-the-difference-be...

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    Comment #37759941

    AnyList ( https://www.anylist.com/ ). Streamlines grocery shopping and the paid version is absolutely worth the money. ~$15/year for a family.

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    Comment #34812001

    Interestingly, this is often by design: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/10/945136599/how-spanish-flu-pan... .

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    Comment #33950777

    See also the Financial Times, which originally reported the story: https://www.ft.com/content/4b6f0fab-66ef-4e33-adec-cfc345589...

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    Comment #33203764

    I also like https://technicshistory.com/2021/02/18/the-age-of-steam-intr... , which points in part to metal purity and engineering tolerances.

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    Comment #32964227

    Playing jump blues at the North Bend Blues Walk ( https://www.northbendblueswalk.com/ ).

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    Comment #29357425

    What a masterful headline.

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    Comment #29237706

    Indeed. “of” infected Java with the awful naming conventions imposed by java.time (and to a lesser degree java.nio) because “new” is a keyword and doing “newThing” instead was not …

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    Comment #28902213

    How do I put this? We are all going to be forgotten, utterly, along with every last thing we do, within no more than three generations (one for most of us). That makes everything w…

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    Comment #25202162

    Part of what I love about this is that periodically it doesn't work and a dude comes in from off camera and manually makes sure your email is torched. Very 2020.

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    Comment #24529398

    This seems like it isn't physically related, but it is: as the years accumulate, it becomes more and more clear that the person staring back at you in the mirror is the one you hav…

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    Comment #24032474

    Looks like the original story is here: https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/28643-bacteria-in-the-gut-h...

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    Comment #20437918

    Oops: https://monday.com/

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    Comment #18836802

    Oh; thought we were talking about Simone Biles. Never mind.

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    Comment #18243048

    Rampant sexism.

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    Comment #18188307

    Build the wal—er, never mind.

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    Comment #17604619

    Is this a Go-flavored version of something like https://jclouds.apache.org/ ?