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On a day-to-day basis, weight measurement changes are dominated by changes in retained water. This will certainly correlate with daily food choices, but does not really reflect mea…

Maybe Rust makes newtypes _easy_, but certainly C supports similar idioms by way of wrapping data in a unique struct.

> Three points define a plane; it's guaranteed not to wobble. This gets repeated a lot. I think if you stop to consider the common case of non-planar ground, you will see that this…

> Netflix has been using anti-consumer dark patterns for years. Examples? "Trailers in your face on the main menu" is not a "dark pattern": there is no element of deception involve…

The key phrase is "who are not fully aware of their responsibility". The commenter is not wrong in identifying a subset of the candidate pool which has a high risk of inadequate ex…

The term "subsidy" implies that the state is actively paying out cash to Foxconn. If I'm correct that these are actually tax breaks, then the state is merely claiming less tax reve…

My recollection from earlier stories covering this deal is that "subsidy" actually means "tax break". If that's correct, then the tone of this story is very misleading.

"Hardened SHA-1 hash" is a confusing way to characterize git's current hash behavior. There is no change in the hash--it continues to be SHA-1. The change is in git's business logi…

Yeah, it's extremely unlikely that a high-speed serial phy would even expose a primitive word size any smaller than 32 bits. Byte-by-byte decoding is extraordinarily difficult at t…

> They have 18k classes because they came up with a rather clever way of allowing many separate developers to all work on different features of the same app, without stepping on ea…

Location: Wisconsin; actively looking to relocate to a warmer climate. Remote: No. Willing to relocate: Yes, please. Technologies: C++, C, Python, OCaml, Verilog, bus analyzers, JT…

Location: Wisconsin; actively looking to relocate to a warmer climate. Remote: No. Willing to relocate: Yes, please. Technologies: C++, C, Python, OCaml, Verilog, bus analyzers, JT…

Location: Wisconsin; actively looking to relocate to a warmer climate. Remote: No. Willing to relocate: Yes, please. Technologies: C++, C, Python, OCaml, Verilog, bus analyzers, JT…