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A terrorist state does not need to be "baited" to attack. It is absolutely correct to hold the state to higher standards, regardless of what you pay for. But it is not correct to r…

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Google actually started pipe syntax, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41338877 Now it is supported by DuckDB, BigQuery, Spark SQL, Firebolt, and probably others. I use it more …

TXT files are good. Scribing notes with a pen in plain paper notebook beats .txt files.

I still remember one bug I filed to Firefox, about issues with roaming profiles on Windows. I then forgot about it, as nothing was going on with it, except few times a year someone…

A bunch of countries joined the non-proliferation agreement, including ... Iran. Which makes those nukes illegal in the eye of Iranian own laws. Israel is not a singer of the treat…

A more realistic example: something like printf or scanf. It can take an object of multiple types as argument. It takes computer's locale from environment and does locale dependent…

Hawaii Big Island does care about light pollution - for the sake of astronomical observatories. They use yellow low pressure sodium light. Yellow is dispersed less by air. The ener…