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It's interesting to see lack of tolerance towards potholes - the government has a lot of other issues to work on (healthcare, education, pollution) yet potholes, being a problem we…

zoning is still necessary, you don't want a pig farm (or anything equally stinky) next to people's houses.

You may find it beneficial to workout some pelvic floor muscles. It's possible that your muscles got weaker and struggle with doing their job as well as they used to.

And then you get hit by Universal Scaling Law (or Universal Law of Computational Scalability) - see the section on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_J._Gunther You can't throw mor…

I used Flattr for a while but struggled with: - flattr support discovery: Instead of having a "Flattr" button on the webpage I visit I need to navigate to flattr website and search…

I'm curious - why? Can you send some resources about that? Do you know if there is an alternative law I could support my claims with in UK or EU?

I think it was more about security/confidentiality - when you print and scan you exactly see what's that that you're sending. No hidden HTML elements, e-mail headers and stuff like…

The effort was zero - I copy-pasted an e-mail template from the internet and volia. Yes, this is in Europe. I think I learned quite a lot, namely: - why I failed the interview (I s…

I once asked for a feedback, was told that they won't give any. Filed a GDPR request and got all of their e-mails and internal tickets about me and my application. Funnily, they pr…

Poppler ( https://poppler.freedesktop.org/ ) handles this for you with pdftotext utility. It also ships with bunch of other utilities to work with PDFs

Other captchas also waste (your and captchas' provider) electricity. For example reCaptcha requires tons of resources to track your moves to ensuring you're "not a robot". Sure, th…

See also White Rabbit Project, i.e. how to synchronize clocks over the internet with sub-ns accuracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rabbit_Project

The monarch has a lot of power to vet many laws without the public even knowing it happened. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/royals-vette...

In the UK every bigger grocery store has a bin for old batteries, disposing batteries is trivial.

From https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ : > Because it's a system daemon, and under Unix/Linux those are in lower case, and get suffixed with a lower case d. And since …

See the following https://kunit.dev/ - unit tests for kernel https://docs.kernel.org/dev-tools/testing-overview.html - entire testing overview.

Why would it care about stracing? It was never too slow for me. A "bad" performance might be caused by ex. consistency checking. Benchmarks like these don't tell much - you can't r…

I'm happy we have special-purpose tools for dealing with logfiles. I don't want to craft one-liners for "give me logs around timestamp" or "give me logs about my service's first st…

"tail /var/log/nginx.log" is now "journalctl -fu nginx" or "jouranlctl -eu nginx". Not that much of a difference, it really depends what you grow up with. We could argue "tail" is …

I'd recommend you to have a look at https://80000hours.org/ or at least their job boards: https://80000hours.org/job-board/ They focus on the very problem you're asking about.

emacs, a lot of art including books, film, wheel, fire, some programming languages (C, Perl, Python)

Do you happen to know where does the "So you want to" prefix originates from?

a lot of scientific books are like that, for example the art of computer programming.

Are there any plans for ECC memory support?