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Even the CBC thinks of London, England before London, Ontario.

We are fortunate that this individual's stylistic perspective is out there adding spice and variety to the world. I think, however, that most of us would be ill-advised to emulate …

I'm confused, this tweet reads like the lead-in or movie-trailer to a story, but where is the actual story?

The map tile backend is in the middle of a multi year effort to migrate from the Flippity Service to the Floopity Service. The FlippityFlooper was believed to have finished the nec…

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I think you can still go directly to /messages/ and not see the feed.

Why is the whole implementation in header files?

I mean, it's also an attentional commitment for me to remember your idiosyncratic apology-preferences. So I might continue apologizing for replying late to your email, unless you c…

My main home PC is a Puget Serenity workstation from 2017. It has been rock solid and outperforms much newer laptops. And it has almost zero fan noise which is a priority for me. U…

Tomorrow: modify man pages from kernel space!

Omitting can lead to weird surprises. I once had some JavaScript mysteriously breaking because document.body was null during inline execution. Since then I always write explicitly …

Shoutout to fava, the beancount GUI frontend: https://beancount.github.io/fava/ I really like its big picture view of the accounts, the search / query interface, and live editing o…

This illustrates the difficulty of maintaining a separation between bugs and discussions: > To be clear, I 100% believe that there is some kind of leak affecting some specific conf…

This is not a standalone article but a section from Butterick's book, "Typography for Lawyers", which is hosted in full on the website. The book is an opinionated style manual, and…

I'm fond of STIX Two, which is very close to Times New Roman but just a little bit nicer, especially the italic.

Once I realized that some people expect and are happy for you to jump in with unprompted thoughts or stories, it became easier for me to be intentional about doing so. I think I'm …

I hate these too, but I'm worried that a ban just incentivizes being more sneaky about it.

Developers have been anthropomorphizing computers for as long as they've been around though. "The compiler thinks my variable isn't declared" "That function wants a null-terminated…

If LLMs produce fake citations, why would we trust LLMs to check them?

Wouldn't this fall under Auer deference (agency's interpretation of its own regulation)? There is some uncertainty about whether Auer deference survives after Loper Bright.

Your link is just the abstract, I had to hunt for the full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1kc7fcF5Ao But it is quite interesting and especially learning about the security …

I tried to read this but the pronouns are so grating

The only thing I know about rock tumblers is that Steve Jobs thinks they're like teams of people building software... Apple must have been a noisy, violent place :P

Interesting that the canvas looks to be in a 5:3 aspect ratio. Did SGI displays have that shape, or would they have used non-square pixels like many DOS games in CGA/EGA resolution…