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I was working there that fall as one of my co-op work terms! I recall the onboarding tour around the testing rooms which were essentially giant Faraday cages. There was a print-out…

I'm guessing that using some clip-on aero bars would make a big difference. Then you're not using your hands to support any weight so the typing would be a little easier. And if yo…

Do you happen to have a link to the talk about Nix on macOS you heard about it from? Or event the title/details so I could search?

I've purchased a 90W USB C car charger: https://www.amazon.com/Charger-Cigarette-Lighter-Adapter-Cha...

I used to work at a company in the chip-design software space that built Linux-only software for $100k/user/year, so there's definitely money to be made for Linux (even if it happe…

This is the comment I came here for. I had a professor in college who was building self-driving tractors and would come in every other week complaining about John Deere this, or Ca…

Yes, and much of the non-livestock emissions from agriculture is from growing plants to feed to livestock !

This is so great.

This is bad.

This was the key line that stood out to me as well. I've seen both situations where individuals are jealous of successful people in resource-limited environments and where employee…

This is a decent sample project to start with: https://github.com/airbnb/BuckSample

It would be great if this list would include Buck or Bazel and their associated HTTP caches. For us we lowered our clean CI build times from 22 minutes to 4.5 minutes (1 million li…

"Military testing calls for survivability of three hits from the round marked on the plate."

It's just stunning how they have been able to achieve 7nm features. With a 193nm wavelength laser no less.

Once people don't have to own their own vehicle, many roads will get an extra driving lane that used to be used for parking.

There's another building that was built on friction piles: http://www.aboutcivil.org/burj-khalifa-design-construction-s...

I went to school at the University of Regina, and did an engineering co-op 5 years ago. It was amazing to see how gradual it makes moving out from home if you go to school in the s…

Great stuff.

However, saying "bullshit" with his disclaimer at the bottom, I'm also the original author of "High Performance MySQL" published by O'Reilly Media certainly lends more credibility …

This is a big step to improving Android in general.

His hope is that sites would only need to be indexed once. It would only be the 4.9GB for Google and he would save the 4.8GB used by Yahoo and the 11.27GB used by the other search …

The HD video recordings within 24 hours is pretty exciting.

It gets a little exciting when the time changes from 09 to 10.

Actually, I think that was people not using code review tools professionally.

Many times guards will bring in cell phones and sell them to inmates for upwards of $1000/each. It helps to supplement the (relatively) poor wages most guards receive.