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Xerox scanners/photocopiers had this problem. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29223815

I knew exactly what this meant before reading the article. I had to pass through a similar screening at the courthouse every morning while I was on a jury. (Unlike airports you don…

In my experience it's the "force inline" directives that can make this terrible. I had a coworker who loved "force inline". A symptom was stupidly long codegen times on MSVC.

The full article is linked [1] and I can view it. See Fig. 1 and quoting the actual article: "Specifically, 28.8% of adolescent men ages 14–17 were categorized in Class 2 (no sexua…

"Software toy" is the term most famously associated with Will Wright's products.

[1] says Eisenhower grease was based on "English asbestos grease" which I assume is "Compound 219" [2]. Arnold J. Morway is credited as the Standard Oil researcher who developed Ei…

There was an article related to this idea that received some popular attention last year [1][2] and one of the authors wrote a book on it. [3] [1] People systematically overlook su…

> (also "free money for surfers"? wtf) I was curious about the surfers as well. It's a reference to something John Rawls wrote in 1988: "[...] those who surf all day off Malibu mus…

Were the high numbers from early 2018 caused by bad winter weather? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318_North_American... edit: Or the flu season. https://www.cdc.gov/flu…

Watching this video caused some noticeable motion aftereffects for me.

Lombard (the CEO) won't actually be in prison. "Yet since that term is under two years and as Lombard does not present a danger to society, he will not spend time behind bars under…

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thresh.jpg John Carmack in 1997 wearing what is presumably the exact shirt.