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We're talking about train tracks here not military funding.

Of course I'd be willing to pay for new train tracks. I've wasted days of my life in northern virginia waiting for the track to free up. And they wonder why nobody uses the train!

Who takes this shit seriously?

Based on "Lock In" Scalzi should take a class on narrative.

Depends on the claimed rate!

I seriously doubt that nobody has noticed it. It simply takes a lot of effort to advocate for bugs you need fixed. Furthermore, Is JavaScript really a bottleneck for any site? what…

How about a state machine encoding cart state? There are many advantages to encoding state changes in sql, but the database logic isn't strictly tied to the specifics of the cart l…

Typically, something like this: you do something stupid like use an alternative primary key scheme (which the database is agnostic about) and then your teammate accidentally omits …

There's great reasons to use ORMs (rapid prototyping, for instance) but "flawless" does not inspire confidence that you are aware of the pitfalls that people experience. Secondly, …

It's disheartening to think of how little leverage many states have over google compared to the reverse.

Yea this is all interesting a language research.... but that AmdGPU.jl driver is the most interesting thing about this by a good margin. CUDA lockin sucks, sucks, sucks.

You measure the durability of ikea furtniture in terms of the moves it can withstand. If it stays in one place it's fine.

Speaking from personal experience working with these reputation warehouses and with handling a good deal of incoming and outgoing email volume, they aren't any more effective than …

There's a small chance this could (generally, not just in country) lead to online payments without going through centralized payment processors. That seems like it could be positiv…

Congressmen may not realize this.

I use unsalted butter for all my cooking and use. Never grew up with salted butter and don't miss it. The vast majority of my family and friends back home (new england) use unsalte…

How come you never see stuff this useful at Target?

I just don't get what there is to show off. It's a phone. It's not like you built the thing! People are willing to address that these phones are "beautiful", whatever that means, w…

I would take such a shittier screen if it meant I could abandon the case. I hate cases so much.

FWIW I've used glow for a while as more or less a dumb, colorful markdown pager and had no idea this functionality was there, and I am very sure glow was not phoning home because o…