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I've always thought it was strange that so many people just watch TV for noise. Any love for silence anymore?

Something about comparing the US to other rich nations rubs me the wrong way when, in my opinion, servicing a country as large as the US is very different from servicing a small is…

Looked into scraping some data from this, here are some URL templates worth mentioning: https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download_image/master_image/POM00... The link above will give you…

Built off of NCBI E-Utilities, this currently only works for citations found on PubMed. I would love to find a way to make this more general, have it work for Google Scholar or the…

You obviously don't live in a place with harsh winters.

I love Graphviz, here's a citation graph tool I build with it: https://github.com/shanedrabing/gref

I was thinking the same thing! I 3D model would be really neat to watch and pick apart.

Blood Meridian (or The Evening Redness in the West) by Cormac McCarthy. Quickly became my favorite book after reading it a second time. I've never read a book with more effective l…

This is a tangent, but the "utility monster" scenario only makes sense if the utility gained from an activity remains the same with how many resources are put into it. This doesn't…

What about the usage of capitalization?

I've been a weirdo with my Python code recently, and tend towards a more functional programming style. So, the `operator` module is essential for doing some cools things with maps.…

I had no idea a patent existed for this type of software, I figured this current program out through trial and error and a couple of iterations. How can a developer protect themsel…

Still working on some bugs, but it's easy to use already.