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I don't know if there's a name for this genre of photography (it's not exactly "abstract" since clearly things are being represented), but another example is the cover of Modest Mo…

To flesh this out, the root notes of C and A minor are not that close in the circle of fifths, but the chords sound similar because they share 2 notes (C is spelled C, E, G, and A …

Hey, the original Myst was made in HyperCard!

Well, in principle you could have the node objects be created with an object literal in an outside builder function, and the manipulation also be done by outside functions. That's …

They're using objects, including arrays [1], so I think they would have been more precise to say that they're using objects and arrays as simple data structures rather than using O…

Americans (and I'd imagine the British) have "eh?" too, it's just not as common ("not bad, eh?"). Among Americans I feel like I've seen it more in casual written online conversatio…

I wonder if "ent" evolved from "innit" under British colonization (or they both evolved from a common ancestor in British English).

A slight variation of that is even in colloquial English, with "no." As in "we should probably get going, no?"

Maybe "endangerment" is more fair, given that it's still massively popular compared to, say, the interrobang. Also note that two of the three authors cited are known for their bare…

Man, McCarthy's vendetta against semicolons makes sense in his hard-bitten Western prose, but does it really make sense to have zero semicolons in these nonfiction books? When used…

I don't think Oxide is trying to say no one's done this before, more that they're the best and most comprehensive offering to buy an onsite setup for this fully set up from a third…

Right or wrong, I think the notion of "the cloud" that Oxide is selling is the "elastic" part--the ability to request resources by quantity instead of having to think about the exa…

> In my experience, it is rare for a network to correctly generate Time Exceeded messages for both IPv4 and IPv6. Doesn't that make it more one of those situations where the non-do…

Chrome is also very big on macOS even though it's not preinstalled, although yeah, that also has to do with the marketing. It seems hard to find good stats on this but it's definit…

Practically no one would ever be talking about Australian Rules Football (outside of the handful of countries where that's popular, of course), although presumably outside of the U…

It really highlights the amazing security level of one time pads, that they can be comfortably doing secret announcements on a public radio channel with provably perfect security. …

I actually did make a quick search to see if I was blowing hot air, and found this blog post that shows a bunch of benchmarks over time with a fairly typical Raku/Perl flavored tex…

Raku has metaprogramming and an almost unprecedented amount of syntax... and an insanely slow implementation. Although they're chipping away at the speed thing.

I remember it taking a few years between DHTML becoming a buzzword and XHR becoming popular. XHR was slept on for a while even though it was available in all major browsers by the …

I think the joke about it being "the only way to vertically center elements" is just referring to the fact that it's still kind of hard to do vertical centering and there's still n…

It's almost certainly a joke but not obvious exactly what the joke is. What it actually stood for (in case you don't know) is "Dynamic HTML." My guess is that he's drawing a parall…

> > Japan reactivating nuclear reactors: > Japan invested on nuclear then nowadays don't want it anymore but now needs energy. One has to see them canceling their planned phase-out…

I'm not surprised if there's no link between violent games and violence in real life. But as a subtler concern, I do wonder if (some) violent games help to cultivate a sense of gen…

Just as important as anything we can do to contribute on the tech side is how we can take advantage of the privileges this line of work offers in terms of working style. Programmin…

I'm sorry that I can't directly help you (although I have IBS and a couple of other chronic diseases, so I can sympathize). But it makes me wonder if there's an opportunity for a s…