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Dave was a friend. He was one of the most intellectually curious people I knew. Gone way too soon.

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The biggest advantage fountain pens have is physics. Ink flow in a fountain pen is via capillary action (touch nib to paper, ink flows), as opposed to a ballpoint pen where you hav…

It sounds like you missed the point of what parent was trying to say. As one of those people who was in the exact situation the parent mentioned, your concise and incrementally mor…

Quite possibly because they don't want to do any of the things you listed in your first paragraph. UPDATE: Also, sir, this is an Arby's.

Not unrelated: The House of Saud is losing a lot of money on the Credit Suisse rescue/buyout.

"The law doesn't have this exact word in it and therefore none of the observed effects of the law actually exist." is not the airtight defense you may think it is.

> in the opinion of many adults. How many?

So.... let's say that was even possible, and you did that. You pay: $20,000 in $some_coin (ignoring gas fees for the moment) 1/100 of annual royalties is $1,142, taxable at your ma…

Looking at most of the auctions, this looks like: "these are the deals that don't make the hurdle rate of the typical buyers, so let's make some money selling them to the dentists …

That's the free space on the "edgy word salad" bingo card. You're going to have to write out a few more of those phrases to actually win the crappy clock-radio.

The telemetry is concerning, but I'm much more concerned about whoever else decides to use your telemetry hooks to exfiltrate data. I'm 100% on board with trying out a new terminal…

Just to put some numbers around that... Density of ice at 0 degC is 0.92 kg/L. So, 1 kg of ice =~ 1087 cubic centimeters of space, or a cube ~4.25 inches on a side. Rounding that d…

With that kind of attitude, how are you going to get more people to come in and provide you with exit liquidity?

A key differentiator is that airline seats are a perishable good. That is, an empty seat has value until the plane takes off, at which point the value goes to zero. On the flip sid…

My preferred method is overly broad rhetorical questions that add nothing to the conversation. Also, spatula. Yours?

Sure, but the ability to do so is separate from whether it's a good idea or not.

How does Timescale handle lookup tables? That is, "I have this seldomly-updated list of ~10000 things, and I'm going to need to join it against my time-series data." With other tim…

You only have to go back 19 years for the Zakim bridge in Boston. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_P._Zakim_Bunker_Hill_M...

I've found you can determine a company's values based on who gets more resources: e.g. raises, promotions, etc. Similarly, a company's anti-values could be discovered by who gets l…

As far as I know, there is still a configuration I wrote at a previous employer where I left the remark: ----- -- STOP. YES, YOU. -- -- THIS CODE IS A PROOF OF CONCEPT THAT DOES HO…

Making an assertion and sticking a question mark at the end isn't questioning anything.

Twitter is a platform that offers a product. Your attention is the product. The part of Twitter required to maintain a decent stock of product has not needed to change outwardly, b…

The typical big-casino rake isn't that large. From memory (it has been 2 years since I've physically been in a poker room), the typical rake at a full 9-player table at the Encore …