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Ummm, are you saying that C is the grandparent of C, or do you have a typo in your example? Sure, the initial comment is not necessarily the grandparent, but in your ABCDE example,…

Here's a fun fact: There's a typo in his article [0]. I only learned about the typo when I asked him to sign my copy at a Christmas Tree lecture years ago. Instead of signing it, h…

You're correct that the rail needs to continually have its stress managed. This could be cutting the rail and adding a new piece, or removing a bit. This is a fairly labor intensiv…

This is a fine article. It covers a lot of the decisions one must consider when considering stock options. I just think it's a little abstract for folks who haven't lived the exper…

If I'd bought Bitcoin at $1 and it went to $5, I would have sold. If I'd bought at $10 and it went to $20, I would have sold. If I'd bought at $100 and it went to $150, I would hav…

Read the first "Alex Cross" book. It's...not very good, but it's a pretty good example of Patterson's work. I read the first 3-4 books in the Alex Cross series, but gave up after f…

Disclaimer: I know nothing about Windows or RDP. I was just on a developer group call the other day where another developer from another organization was having weird scaling issue…

Hello there. That's eerily familiar. For me it was sports (although I was quite good at baseball and soccer) and Turbo Pascal. My parents, especially my Mom, put up a huge resistan…

> Parenting is a tricky balancing act! Indeed it is. Our rule of thumb is that you have to finish what you start, and generally give it two chances. This worked well for me as a ch…

I had this happen with a fraudulent charge once. To be clear, I don't know that it was a recurring payment with Stripe, but the behavior was similar. It took me about three years a…

I don't know if there's comparable data, but I can tell you the mining companies in north west Australia would routinely run 300+ car trains without incident. But these were very m…

I worked in this industry for many years. The railroads were always hyper-focused on increasing throughput. I left the industry about ten years ago, but back then derailments were …

Exactly. I've had a bunch of different mortgages over the years. Plenty of them have been passed around, but I've never had to sweat the details. I just set up autopay and forget.

Yeah, I could not care less about what they do with the loan. I'm not looking for a relationship, just the best deal I can get. Full stop. Do people still think otherwise on loans?…

Has anyone actually used Rocket? Every time I (or a friend) have looked at them they have higher closing costs and wanted multiple points to close the mortgage. I was able to do wa…

>>Learning syntax as a filter >Syntax is one of the most universal things about our psychology. The idea that some people have it and others don't seems a little absurd to me. Shee…

It's also harder to learn to program when you keep running into syntax errors. I suspect that's a big part of the allure of these visual languages. I don't know if that's good or b…

This was one of my favorite books to read to both my children. Others have touched on all the reasons why so I'll throw out another couple books for any aspiring parents: - The Goi…

I've done exactly what you're saying I should not do and it worked out very well. My point is that these hard and fast rules don't leave any room for nuance. Consider, as I mention…

There are lots of things I'm close to that I need to think objectively about. Maybe I don't hit your ideal of 100%, but I do my best. Investments is one area. The health and well b…

That's certainly not true. You should evaluate the investment just like any other investment and decide if you can afford to lose the money and stomach the risk. Part of your evalu…

And Bill James did a lot of his Sabermetric writing while working night shifts as a security guard.[0] He's not Einstein, but he was way ahead of his time in a particular area and …

Many of my dreams are weird and don't make sense in the cold light of day. So...

This. Even if you work in a small shop, SOC 2 Type II Security is starting to become table stakes for any kind of formal business arrangement. This means you have a formal Change M…

I've seen a couple mass layoffs. I survived one, but did not survive the next one a few years later. This is very general advice and you need to correlate it with other events, but…