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Not a very good title, given that the subtitle for the very same article gives the important context that "Voyager 2 would have had to shut down one of its last remaining instrumen…

Yeah, mine are the AP ('professional') class ones. What matters is the amortized cost per year, I think - more expensive up front but cheaper in the long run.

I mean, not all of them? Mine's a fancy-pants Stihl battery mower, but it works quite well and has been doing so without problem since I bought it ~4 years ago. The other battery s…

> I disagree with the interpretation that it needs to be held physically. Digital ownership is still ownership. I go out of my way to find music on Bandcamp, games on GOG, and rip …

My first reaction is that the step to torture was a step backwards, a disregard for what we've learned about the efficacy of torture in getting reliable information, and an embrace…

The OK-ing of torture was a clear step into the totalitarian camp and a clear breach with justice, liberalism, and decency.

Why on earth? Because I love that TV series, and the passage from that TV series is what comes to mind for me.

The passage that comes to mind for me whenever this idea comes up, from the Brett version of the Holmes story "The Dancing Men": H: So, Watson. W: Hmm. H: You do not propose to inv…

s/perpetual/permanent perpetual has pejorative connotations and only started appearing in marketing speak when software rental became the new business model.

Not to be that guy, but 38-53um is 1 order of magnitude smaller than 200um

What types of problems are better solved in F# than C#? Is having a combination of F# and C# in a single codebase possible? Is it recommended?

He's redirecting requests coming from hn to a photo of a hairy ball in an egg holder with some mildly insulting text, and setting a cookie so the redirect happens outside of hn lin…

> large portion of the time, the maintainer notices what happened a few hours later. So add it at the package manager level instead of the user level then?

There's also clearly a voiceover, they must lose points for that too. /s

> When the applause fades, my employees, or reports, or "my team" when I'm feeling jolly was good too

Well at least the spelled 'appendix' correctly

> You decide when updates happen, not the other way around. What's the other way around? "Updates decide when you happen"? Sounds like part of a Yakov Smirnoff joke.

One neat inflation calculation I stumbled on is that inflation since 1945 to today is ~20x, so, from the film-noir era to today, 5¢ = $1 25¢ = $5 $1 = $20 $5 = $100

I have a mixed opinion of unicode, but it's hard not to love the box-drawing / block-element chars.

"Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something" - Mitch Hedberg

It's hard to escape the tick-tock of time slipping away, even if there's no clock in the room

There's a Far Side cartoon in that "Oh boy, look at that all that melting ice cream.. I hope he sits on our anthill!"

Related, mapping of OSM infrastructure data: https://openinframap.org/

That's right. You can also introduce or correct information with a point-of-information, at least as I was taught them. Other types of interjection are point of personal privilege …