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Something like this came up in Robert R. McCammon's 1987 book Swan Song[1], one of the first novels to win the Bram Stoker award[2] for Best Novel (alongside Stephen King's Misery …

I was complaining about SQLAlchemy's insane quirks to a group from my alma mater and one of the grad students said, "Well, the solution to your problem is clear: Write your own ORM…

Us iPhone 13 Mini holdouts need to get a little louder. It feels like I find more and more on the internet every month -- I'm pretty sure there're far more than just "dozens of us"…

> Unfortunately, the quality of the readings can vary widely . . . I tried LibriVox in college to listen to difficult-to-understand poems (at the professor's recommendation) on my …

Yes

Just looking up his callsign, I found this: https://www.cardcow.com/215722/k9bcj-ill-seeing-you-farther-...

My friends have managed to avoid introducing their 5 year old to the iPad. They do allow her to use it on airplanes, but they rope the flight attendants into it and have the attend…

Interesting. I get this controller headphone port feature when using the PS5, it's too bad it doesn't carry over to PC.

Location: South Bay Area of SF, CA Remote: Yes, prefer hybrid. Willing to relocate: No. Technologies: Java, C++, Python, Bash, C, Objective-C, SQL, Unix/Linux, BigQuery, Google Clo…

I have the \LaTeX command in my skills line, which is really hard to typeset in anything other than LaTeX. Other engineers notice it unprompted.

ugh me too lol

The Tile existed before the AirTags.

Flying toasters!

The most common error is installing Brew in the first place.

I just went to Central Computer for the first time a couple weeks ago! I got my PSU, AIO, and a smattering of other cables and cable wraps. The Microcenter near where I grew up was…

Some kind of local time zone vertical line overlay option might be a nice addition. Why I thought about this: I'm using a ~12 year old monitor that occasionally has a broken column…

It was behind the exorbitant number of spatulas the whole time!

just put some cardboard down and you're fine

Substantial?

Watching this frustrates me tremendously.

I think this is what you're looking for: https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/ "Dr. Thompson peered inside his perfect offspring to gain insight into its metho…

> Most people come by their politics by assimilating their family or communities, especially in college . . . I, without a doubt, formed my opinions largely because of my family (a…

A tweet thread [1] from @realscientists (a Twitter account authored by a different active scientist each week) supports this point: "People think math and coding are skills u r bor…

To me, [Syn,Lin]thesia are very useful when YouTubers don't have time to transcribe the thing into proper sheet music. Hari Sivan[1] and Kyle Landry[2] do this and often times fans…

Community college classes are a great way to satisfy that need to learn. Usually, community colleges have group keyboard classes, which are a great, cheap, and not-intense introduc…