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Looking forward to reading this, I am one of the people who preordered. I've often heard people with degrees say that they regret not being better at the material in this book, so …

I always bind a side button on my gaming mice to ctrl+click so that my thumb can open links in a new tab. Slight ergonomic improvement for me.

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine!

I feel like I'm being rickrolled over and over again by infomercial-grade slop.

It's also TV in 1950.

Perhaps consider making some tutorials, then, and share your wealth of knowledge rather than calling people stupid.

It's a social-media-level of fact checking, that is to say, you feel something is right but have no clue if it actually is. If you had a better source for a fact, you'd quote that …

Yeah, the Steam HW survey shows that 16:9 resolutions form a majority (60%+) of their users with 1080p + 4K, so it makes sense as a default design choice for a company that only wa…

I quite like the 2x3 grid of videos. No complaints, actually.

I saw profiles across different searches which had no contact info listed, seems like it isn't really designed to be a hiring tool. I'm very skeptical of the claim that you'll be a…

"There are no shortcuts, you have to put in the work." Spoken like someone who doesn't use an SRS system, then. They're actually extremely hard to use, because the focus is on feed…

Anecdotally, English/History/Communications professors are confirming cheaters with them because they find it easy to identify false information. The red flags are so obvious that …

For longer beer drinking sessions, store in a double walled vacuum-sealed insulated bottle, of course.

I quite like the sociological definition for several reasons. Rather than trying to pin down precise criteria, you simple can ask people "Are you a mathematician? Are you a theoret…

I've seen math PhDs mess up addition and subtraction on a whiteboard, though. Beating the 99th percentile human at any subject should not be difficult when the LLM training is equi…

Reminds me of this talk [0] led by CB Bailey, a top answerer on StackOverflow for the tag 'git' [1]. They create commits from scratch from the command line--manually creating each …

In the event that this is added to the standard library, I'm going to be really curious to see what a "hello world" project/example would look like. I went so far as to find the co…

When simulating or modeling how long something will take, (0 hours, 1 hours, 2 hours...) you never use a normal distribution because of the potential for negative values in the lef…

> exactly the opposite of what we should expect out of programmers. I mean this only jokingly: Who gets to decide what programmers are supposed to be like? You? As someone who trie…

I was reading over a student's code and he couldn't tell me his own variable names, couldn't even find one when I referred to it conceptually ("Where is the variable that holds you…

When I was first learning Go last year, Penn mentioned on his podcast that he had a friend Rob who worked at Google. I realized that he was talking about Rob Pike who helped create…

For existing homes, owners should pay a plumber to install a "drain water heat recovery unit", assuming the price of copper is reasonable. It's one of those low hanging fruits that…

The best MPG you can get on the highway is just the slowest you can safely go without confusing other drivers, making people angry, or getting pulled over by the police. Drag is pr…

I think you'd do well doing a podcast interview with some financial independence folks, if that's in your comfort zone. Understandable if it's not. Paula Pant gives a great intervi…

This site helps you run financial simulations, though. It's not supposed to be a product you use to track your account balances.