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I think the author is a woman, from the name Emily.

Firefox implemented something a few years ago where buttons on pop-ups were greyed out for a few seconds, to avoid this. I believe it was a security concern that an online game cou…

In-ear headphones always fall out of my left ear. At first I thought it was something to do with the ridges in my ear, because they're quite different between my left and my right …

Thanks for introducing me to aphantasia, which I hadn't heard of. For others that haven't, it means not being able to imagine images or sounds in your mind. It was only discovered …

Actually, you're pretty much spot on. The word you want is "irreducible", rather than "indivisible". In general rings there are irreducible elements and prime elements, and they ha…

That's not available in my country, whereas the current link is

I discovered Diceware a few months ago when looking for a password generation scheme for my company. We were just letting people choose their own passwords before, which I don't th…

Different dialects of Chinese use the same characters. Cantonese, for example. Switching to pin yin would only work for mandarin.

I'm from the UK. My colleagues with kids all do their grocery shopping online. They love not having to find time to go to the supermarket, and not having to entertain their kids wh…