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> Quick quiz, hot shot: what did you think of the surgery team metaphor? Interesting side discussion -- I have just started reading the book, but I did think that the idea of the s…

There was a Firefox extension called "ScribeFire" which did this and seemed somewhat popular. I used it for a while in the mid-2000s. It looks like the Firefox extension isn't arou…

Having learned multiple Devanagari languages at school (including both Sanskrit and Hindi), I don't recall being explicitly taught stroke order as such. There's an intuitive way to…

Here is an index of different theories that astrophysics departments have developed to explain these FRBs (Fast Radio Bursts): https://frbtheorycat.org/index.php/Main_Page . There …

> I can't imagine providing a feature-rich web application in Lambda without this kind of abstraction. This reminded me of a caveat about using some of these abstractions – which i…

forge and github-review ( https://github.com/charignon/github-review ) have given me a near-immersion experience for bitesized code reviews in Emacs. They even work together, via g…

For what one person's opinion is worth, I quite like the look of old-style text-and-hyperlink websites, so long as there's something interesting to read on them. A canonical exampl…

This has been my experience exactly. I switched from Linux to OSX/MacOS around eight years ago, and the better and (to me) more intuitive modifier keys have been one of the feature…

Nearly 10 years ago (wow, time flies), as a weedy undergraduate, I was fortunate enough to do a research project [1] under one of the scientists [2] who worked on this survey. It w…

What are some alternative sites that send you guests? I have used hotels.com sometimes (has dark patterns too, but fewer of them). I would definitely prefer using something that wa…

It's interesting to know that a traditional ISP like AT&T is heading the same way. I think Google gets more freedom to try out some of these techniques because people still fundame…

Here's my attempt at an explanation, after reading the article. Most companies' networks have edge routers (which sit at the points where they connect to other networks) and core r…

Just an anecdote, but I tried to use lob.com to send out Save the Dates for my wedding. The couple of test postcards we used did not arrive on time, and the tracking didn't work at…

I still use a keyboard with a PS/2 connector (Hangs head in shame). It's an old (at least 10 years) Kensiko ergonomic one I rescued from a giveaway pile and have never been able to…

Tangentially, there's a funny Easter Egg in strace – with some trial and error, you can get it to strace its own pid. $ strace -p 957 strace: I'm sorry, I can't let you do that, Da…

Note that mail sent this way is "in the clear" and can be used for passive monitoring. I wonder if the Great Firewall allows clients to do opportunistic STARTTLS or if it modifies …

To my (admittedly untrained) eye, the picture looks a lot like an Indian palm squirrel ( https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Indian_P... ) – which does have stripes…