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In driver's ed class we were give the assignment to come up with safety-related rhymes. I remember one from a friend named Roger. "Keep your eyes off the foxes, or your car will en…

Given the current style, if the book were published today would it be titled BAREFOOT ?

We live in a simulation. Dark energy corresponds to a memory leak. A reboot is specified when this proportion reaches 2/3 (66.6%). This is all written in The Runbook.

It is true in general that the "binding energy" of a nucleus is reflected in the measured mass or atomic weight, exactly as mc^2.

> This shows how easy it is to end up with two opposite conclusions by using Ngram Viewer slightly differently. Hence the commonly-encountered phrase: You believed a naive ngram re…

I have taken my CD player/decoder made with discretes and turned it end-over-end while slowly backing away from a strong magnet.

Stay tuned. I will let you know. I hope this doesn't turn out like the CD-rewinder I wasted my money on last year.

> (Probably there's some principle of standpoint theory that says that I as a white person am not allowed to judge Mi'kmaq Indians. Fine, far be it from me to challenge standpoint …

Also, modulo a successful coin-in-the-middle attack.

Watch out if the AIs start to say: I can help you, but there is one little real-world favor I need to ask for.

> a game Competitive prompting?

Well-enough written. A good reminder. Miffed that they are numbered 1-10, not 0-9. Something to work on in my next lifetime.

> The automotive industry, with its increasing reliance on advanced electronics for everything from engine control units to driver assistance systems, demands materials that can co…

> We will protect the confidentiality and privacy of clients by: Perhaps add h: keeping the therapist's cell phone in a sound-isolated enclosure.

If the comment history is considered sacrosanct, it could be nice to be able to go back and retroactively change the username for an account, at least.

> naming things is hard Of tangential interest: I recently heard that Faraday, while discovering new electromagnetic phenomenon, then turned to either a linguist or classicist for …

I have seen immediate-mode SVG for GUIs. Is parsing and rendering SVG well-pipelined at this point? Offhand it might be cache-friendly. I have not tried a simple elapsed-time-in-lo…

Also, is there any workflow option in current Kicad for importing a component-naming netlist (of the kind so many existing schematic packages can output), without having a live Kic…

Scrolled all the way through; very impressive. > We have implemented (fully or partially) 48 POSIX Functions from above. ...[however] These 24 POSIX Functions will Halt when TCC We…

I am aware of some research into operating systems with a database rather than filesystem as a base layer. If SeaweedFS serves a middle-ground between databases and filesystems, co…

I have not read the ESA document, but in their defense one possibly applicable principle is this: If you get too far from understanding/practicing implementation, soon enough you w…

> like an affine transformation between lisp code and algol family stuff like c I wonder how far one might go introducing common lisp with parallel examples in javascript and pytho…

Hackaday soon: Synchronizing a treadmill to a pdf the size of Germany. Obligatory?: The pdf is not the territory.