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As a lay-person who likes to read about bugs, I've come to expect the qualifier "true" to connote something special about bug's "mouth parts".

>>I'm not a headphone person but always have music playing in the background on speakers — often at a fairly low volume so it is easily ignored... Given the number of self-exonerat…

Note how one opinion provides the warrant for the other.

To add to your comments on travel, reading position, lighting, some books are just too large or heavy to lug around or even hold for long periods. There are a number of door-stoppe…

There is a story about an inventor who approached Trajan[0] with plans for new construction machinery that would require far fewer laborers. Trajan's response was incredulous: if h…

Consider that you may be eavesdropping on the sort of self-talk the author engages in. The clear reasoning mixed with vituperation makes me suspect he probably beats himself up. Th…

People often screw around over the piano keyboard, usually an octave or so about middle C until an idea occurs. Brahms likened this to a pair of hands combing over a garbage dump. …

Make it three. I'm on the third battery for my darter pro: twice so far, the battery has swelled up and made the keyboard buckle. System76 support consists in selling me replacemen…

My impression is that the term came from Make magazine marketing/PR/branding. I think that we say "maker spaces" rather than "hacker spaces" probably has a lot to do with the succe…

It's also the sound a gun makes when it's fired (in German). There's a pipeline-related joke in there somewhere.

I would guess most people interested in the quiz would be familiar with betacode (which this looks like, sans diacritics). edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Code

That sounds like a Fagan review. I haven't been involved with one either, but I think some of the forces that drove people to do them have been weakened. When you are shipping code…

Eumenides trousers?

woosh

In the early 20th century, arguments against eugenics included pointing out that natural selection works through environmental pressures. Selecting for traits we value currently ma…

My thought is that one didn't simply travel alone on horseback, but with a group and baggage, and I wouldn't expect servants to be mounted. The animals help with the baggage. You a…

I recently reread the first few chapters of The Castle and was surprised find such a different novel than what I remembered as a teenager: it was funny . My German is better now th…

You're probably a conscientious person and from "the inside" it maybe feels like you're procrastinating. But taken on your own account, it just looks like you don't actually have a…

I'm not the one getting down-voted.

This caught out the current Show HN poster, so I imagine the comment could be useful to future Show HN posters. Besides, the comment wasn't unkind to the present poster and is actu…

I shared the urge to avoid loop until I read Pascal Costanza's Highly Opinionated Guide to Lisp[1] >> Seemingly, the intended way to use the LOOP facility is to just "guess" a way …

Giving your friend the benefit of the doubt, sometimes one gets the wrong perspective from a careful, qualified statement. W. Sidney Allen wrote Vox Graeca[1] and Vox Latina which …

This seems obligatory: https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Coffee.html

The argument is actually more about insight. You can't have insights about things you don't already have in your head. Insight in this context is noticing some new relationship bet…

This morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas; how it got into them, I'll never know... If there is a standard library for GNU Make, one would expect it to be part of the GNU proje…