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I deleted my Reddit account a long time around the beginning of the hostilities, but still occasionally visit via search results. In that case, I usually try to switch to `old.redd…

Because no one around me understood how to calculate false positive/false negative probabilities, I put together this calculator[1] in 2020. [1]: https://www.covid2020.icu/false-po…

> Governments need to wake up to this insane level of Evil Governments are made up of people. People who have at best median level understanding of the things they are ruling about…

I was able to test the keystroke-doubling and that works well in Windows Terminal now. I am going to try out the formulas later.

This looks good, but, I noticed: > Supported Functions (v1) > SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, MIN, MAX, IF I would recommend switching to numerically stable algorithms for adding numbers and …

Might want to add /sarc just in case someone believes it :-)

> Unfortunately, the rest of the interviews from that event have never seen the light of day - until now! Not really -- It invites speculation as to why they were not published for…

> 2026-02-22 by GIMP Team I am confused > This interview took place on February 4th, 2017

HTML + CSS works great for this kind of thing. Once you get the print scope correct, you really never need to think about it again.

> too much punctuation I thought you were joking. ... After a while, I started expecting a comma after each and every word.

First time I heard about the Moomins. I thought this was about Mumins[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumin

It is your twist and unjustifiable generalization of the author's words about the author himself: > "aging is a synonym of cognitive decline" compared to: > As I near 60, I’ve come…

This is why Firefox's changes are so frustrating[1]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43203096

This is pure speculation, but what are the chances this change is simply an attempt to provide legal cover what they might have started doing 50 versions ago?[1] [1]: https://news.…

1 is 2 to the power 0 ... 0b0001 shifted left once, it becomes 2 to the power 1 ... 0b0010 shifted left twice, it becomes 2 to the power 2 ... 0b0100 shifted left three times, it b…

This was corrected to: > ... SSH certificates issued by the Cloudflare CA include a field called valid_principals which indicates it wasn't just the spelling of `principals`.

> the SSH certificates issued by the Cloudflare CA include a field called ValidPrinciples Having implemented similar systems before, I was interested to read this post. Then I see …

> if (argc above 1) I give up.

> I am a simple sole, ... go back to the halcyon early days of the web before Netscape dropped the JS-bomb. You know HTML for the layout and CSS for the style. I am not sure if thi…

Early in the A-B craze (optimal shade of blue nonsense), I was talking to someone high up with an online hotel reservation company who was telling me how great A-B testing had been…

Number one criterion for finding a good beach to swim: A prominent sign saying "Swim at your own risk: No lifeguard on duty."

This[1] links to http://www . workmanlayout.com/blog/ which is a 404. (space inserted to avoid auto link generation). Going to the main page of that site reveals some articles from…

The rather troubling part of this announcement in a GitHub issue is that this nugget comes out in a seemingly innocuous comment[1]: >> Firefox still uses MLS for `browser.region.ne…