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You should try a Vietnamese place if there’s one near by you. The ones around here at least don’t seem to skimp on the meat as much

In the UK, GMT is often used to refer to "the current British time" both GMT/BST. I've seen the same in the US where people say EST but mean EDT.

Because software companies never charge for features?

Looking at archive.org, the page has had "to be released soon" since at least 2005 [1]. So I think your skepticism is in order. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20050130011942/https…

I think the disproportionate noise about Slack is just due to it being (often without choice) used by so many people, and hence to cite that people only complain about Slack as evi…

Attempting to sign in with google gave me a 500 Server Error

What language does have a deep copy/merge operation built into the language?

NPM is definitely usable as a package manager for frontend Javascript applications, just needs a little more complicated webpack or similar setup than a node.js app.

Ironic. Apparently we need a postmortem postmortem

What about fault-tolerance though? That's definitely a single point of failure scenario.

The Raspberry Pi has a GPU. Why wouldn't you use accelerated graphics?

This is another gem of weird internet design. Note especially the animations on hovering over images, and color choices on some of the linked pages. It somehow sort of works though…

The problem with the separation is mainly with making changes to code, not with reading the code as it currently exists. This problem is avoided at no cost in Go, where an external…

I’m not saying it’s a bad idea to implement it, but there’s a greater time cost, and if the performance gains aren’t worth the effort, then there’s no reason to make the improvemen…

Depends on how often you need to search. The implementation of the parallel linear search in Go is a lot easier to get right than what you’re recommending. Though I would certainly…

The author's use of "type soundness" matches the precise, widely-accepted mathematical definition which is used in the literature. Type soundness does not require total functions, …

The difference here is that presumably fewer record companies have the money to fund the development of their own streaming service. The movie industry has much bigger players in t…

You can't even search "burgundy dress" now. This is a totally ridiculous "solution"

I think he's trying to get at the distinction between being able to think in abstractions versus choosing the correct abstraction for the problem at hand. The first is a prerequisi…

Really off-topic, but the logo at the beginning of the video for the Blocks project (B made out of a rectangle and two circles) is totally indistinguishable from the logo of the sk…

It's a conscious decision, but that decision may be greatly influenced by the content being prohibitively expensive for them to otherwise obtain.

Some "gifted" school programs require an IQ test for admission, and I believe that there have been studies that show that the students who were part of these programs do better tha…

You don't have to use the full url to import a package. The name of a git repository doesn't have to match the remote name though, so I don't see why it would be a problem to fork …

The GPU is drawing 60 times a second regardless of whether the page is static. Not sure how they do their streaming to the GPU, but there will be state changes every time you scrol…