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Explicit variable size is useful for limited memory space envs like microcontrollers.

The kids in my family attend a school where the parents have all verbally agreed to not get their kids a smart phone until 16. This removes the peer pressure element of owning a ph…

How are you measuring O2 levels? I’ve also been experimenting with a slightly elevated mattress recently, it seems to help quite a lot for my OSA.

Do you mean a petrol leaf blower? Because of the motor emissions or the blowing?

Myst would be a perfect game to play on a long flight. Sorting the right controller setup might be tricky though.

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This joke’s also a reference to the fast turnover Australia had around that time of prime ministers, due to them getting replaced by their own party.

For anyone using or considering a CPAP device, you should also do some research into mandibular advancement devices (MADs). They’re basically a mouth guard that opens your airway b…

It already can be used for development, IDEs such as PyCharm perform quite effective live type checking based on type hints.

Acidic foods and drinks will temporarily soften the enamel in your teeth. Brushing right afterwards can remove the softened enamel. Brushing right after drinking acidic soft drinks…

I'd love to see a display of absolute humidity for indoors and outdoors to see if opening the windows will reduce or increase indoor humidity.

It's not that bad, it doesn't even have an accept cookies popup blocking half the screen.

Cool. Interesting to note that the original is not necessarily the "correct" real world color palette (it's accuracy is subject to camera settings, sensor response, lighting, etc),…

Heist Poscast did a great episode on Crazy Eddie: https://facebook.com/heistpodcast/posts/the-story-of-cray-ed...

I love my cast iron skillet, which must be at least 4 decades old. It’s great for cooking with the only challenging task being scrambling eggs on low heat (for fluffier eggs), whic…

> Their reproductive organs have moved anteriorly, and males have a penis that protrudes upwards from the front of their body meaning they have to position themselves underneath th…

Once you have an internet connected phone or PC (as we all do) then the cost in physical or mental effort, time, or money to click another link or watch another video is basically …

The odour you smell is unburnt gas (to make gas leaks less dangerous). Burning gas produces carbon monoxide (among other things), which has no odour.

As a start (and possibly as an equivalent proof?) you can mentally brute force it by cutting the board down to 4x4 and just visualising how the blocks might fit. It quickly becomes…

There is usually at least 1000 people shot by police each year in the US . All other developed nations have significantly lower rates and incidences of police killings: https://www…

Interesting. I'm definitely looking forward to electric buses and trucks though. Standing on the sidewalk when a bus accelerates next to you can be offensively loud.

"it unconditionally flags every use of while expressions." I'd find that pretty annoying. Consider a while loop in a thread: while not quit_thread_requested: # do threaded task

It probably has something to do with not getting notified when someone replies to your post.