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The caption declaring him chairperson is absolutely perfect.

what styles are contained in folk tradition choral music? I know of sacred harp singing which can be really spectacular.

That suggestion feature actually exists on ADO. It was introduced in the last year or so.

Yeah excellent point. When presenting numbers for reading/interpretation then talking in terms of cubes with a certain side length has to be the easiest to interpret. Its important…

I'm so confused. Blog author said this: > You can stash everything, create a new branch, switch to it, fix the bug, commit and push it, then switch back to what you were working on…

That's the third bullet point. I was talking about this one: > You can stash everything, create a new branch, switch to it, fix the bug, commit and push it, then switch back to wha…

How is it different from the second bullet point? Except the second bullet point is more specific in that it says what to do with uncommitted changes.

How strange that it took someone saying that for you to realise you didn't like the show! It might warrant further introspection.

I'm not sure anyone is claiming Seinfeld invented the words but he presented them in newly humorous contexts that become widely used. Shrinkage became a word used in a comical atte…

Pretty sure the image at the top is of Wistman's Wood in Devon, UK. In case anyone was wondering! https://www.google.com/search?q=wistmans+wood&rlz=1C1ONGR_en...

I've seen this as an LPT or similar posted on Reddit. I think it helped save a life in the New Year pre-pandemic. I'd stopped at a picnic location near a rocky Atlantic (European) …

It's amazing what different people take from articles. That someone would read through this page and instead of appreciating the effort and craft their response would be an absolut…

I thought that looked pretty dubious. Do you know of anywhere to read up on it? edit: some reddit discussion here https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/44gfpz/astonishing...

Is there a subset of these constrained optimisation techniques that work when the constraint bounds are unknown before evaluation time? This applies to certain physical engineering…

Switch the view so it shows reported deaths (drop down in top right). Those numbers should be more reliable comparable.

One method I use fairly frequently is to combine ipdb and importlib. You can set a breakpoint in one module, after some time intensive task, and pause there in your console. Write …

Any idea why a surround feature isn't in vanilla Vim? It seems to follow the Vim philosophy, i.e. enacted with a command that has action and movement components.

I'm confused. What's the relevance of this to the posted story - "Antibiotic resistance: The grim prospect"?

Couldn't you go to the bank with your passport? That's the fallback solution in the UK.

Sometimes these crackpots are people of high social status (well, sort of...) http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/nov/14/science...

From this link: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/09/in-home-depot-breach-inve... "The malicious software that unknown thieves used to steal credit and debit card numbers in the data…

Mapcodes also have to be combined with some context. In most places it's just the country name, but in large countries it also requires the state (or equivalent). So if you go to t…

This video suggests their early prototypes required some further calibration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSy5mEcmgwU