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To be fair, they're operating in a situation (budget vs. volume of material to collect and share with the world) where it's necessary to minimize the human overhead of this mechani…

I'm still waiting for Brendan Eich to apologize for donating $1k to the campaign to to pass Prop 8 which held up same sex marriage in California for five years.

Then there would be the risk that the rest of fb's employees might be exposed to the reality of this.

What's actually wrong with reCAPTCHA is that google has convinced so many sites all over the web to require it to use them, and all that free labor is going to just improve Google'…

There's a remarkable array of ways you can get a crude semiconductor junction. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_bolt_effect

Not the same thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phthalate#Identification_in_pl...

I also recommend cable ties (the long ones that won't be accidentally swallowed).

Having both, I'd say that the indoor sensor is not worth it. It doesn't have both sensors so it isn't equipped to test them against each other. I do like the outdoor sensor though.…

I think the real way to see this is as "who is being taught how to think and who is being taught how to do mindless busywork in minimum-wage jobs?"

No, it is not like touch-typing. That is a skill that won't be obsoleted when a vendor decides to change the user interface on a whim with the next OS release.

Learn how to understand who the "customer" of your software is and how to deliver what they need. Learn what you're inherently good at and not so good at (and develop strategies to…

It seems that what changed is that sometime in recent years it became much easier for shady gateway providers to remain in business. In earlier times, it would appear that originat…

How has apple managed to make iOS as bad as Windows 95?

I was casually wondering the other day if Intel had hired some Oracle lawyers recently :)

Such things were possible with core memory, bubble memory, and FRAM. None are really fast enough by today's standards, though you can get some microcontrollers and battery-backed S…

Kind of like what they've done to shipping costs!

Ironic that Tyler Cowan's book The Great Stagnation was the first book I read on Kindle.

as a start, try "man -k systemd"

On the other hand, I find white noise exhausting. Not sure if this is a neurological difference between people.

I'm not sure if I'm more worried about the privacy implications, or that of a future where a Visa/MC duopoly collects a tax on all retail.

No it's not, it just seems that way to the vast majority of us who haven't developed the proper intuition.

Some casual googling earlier suggests to me that fiberglass ladders are fiberglass/polyester, not fiberglass/epoxy.

As far as I can tell after some brief googling when I saw this article earlier today: 1. Fiberglass ladders tend to use polyester resin. 2. polyesters tend to have a glass transiti…

At least be honest that you are implicitly stating an opinion that abortion at 9-15 weeks is equivalent to infanticide.

200-2000 employee companies have a lot less bureaucratic bullshit than 10000+ employee companies, and they also aren't as big of a life commitment as startups.