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I’m curious and suffering from a failure of imagination—why toggle location services regularly?

> Our core innovation is a radiative cooling material that we’ve combined with a panel system to improve the efficiency of any vapor-compression based cooling system A heat pump is…

Out of curiosity what are the other ways?

Relatedly, here’s a slicer built around Fidget https://github.com/Wulfsta/WeekendSlicer/tree/main

Soon available as a service https://www.reflectorbital.com/

Yeah, given that everything is now multi-core, it makes sense to use a natively parallel tool for anything compute-bound. And Spark will happily run locally and (unlike previous bi…

How about speech to text instead? Whiteboard use in real life is a combination of speech and sketching.

Following the numbered citation, I think this is the table of contents from a different book, originally published in Finnish by Jaak Henno, which would have an English title somet…

Google’s first hire (Craig Silverstein) was an International Collegiate Programming Contest champion. Make of that what you will.

Yes, you should be able to tell your direct manager basically what you told us. Copy and paste into an email if that’s easier. (Your tone here is fine.) It does sound like your man…

Yeah Los Angeles already fines pedestrians pretty aggressively for jaywalking, even on urban pedestrian-heavy streets. This maintains a different norm for the city about jaywalking…

Unfortunately there’s not a control arm here. Looks like maybe original design was to determine effect of the additive as treatment, with sodium bicarbonate as the control. But bot…

To clarify, they implemented the algorithm in Dafny, and then proved that version correct. They did not verify code that will actually run in production. From the paper: > Dafny is…

There is a footnote about the drug charges section that anyone commenting here may want to read first.

Sometimes a word is worth a thousand icons. https://blog.codinghorror.com/sometimes-a-word-is-worth-a-th...

A literal one that I probably picked up from another comment section here: Treat your closet as an LRU cache—always put clothes away on one side, and start looking for items from t…

Incidentally, there’s actually a map projection where all “great circle” routes (shortest paths on a sphere, ie missile paths) are straight lines. It’s called the gnomonic projecti…

There are clearly solar systems installed in Florida that are both grid-connected and capable of operating as backup power when the grid is down (see partway down the page) - http:…

Yet plenty of people struggle with alcoholism and obesity.