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I’ve been on this for 20 years. The guy has coffee table books! He cashes checks! He took something that was previously done anonymously and for free, put his name on it and starte…

Yes, putting out cones. Bending over, laying down a cone, taking five steps, laying another. Hard work. Meanwhile Malcolm Gladwell changes his mind about it. Put out some cones, Ma…

To this day I swear I want Yo. I’d use it daily.

The rule only applies to vowel sounds like the ones in believe/receive. There are versions of the rhyme that attempt to include this caveat.

Please ride safely

I looked it up. Rule 5.4 of the American Bar Association.

They have, let’s not call it a union to not upset people, but let’s say a collective agreement that they won’t work for capital. They will only work for other lawyers. So there’s n…

3 seconds would not matter to me. As it is, latencies are much higher and afford time for my family group chat (WhatsApp) to "spoil" events that I have not yet seen. I don't want t…

Best-selling author Stephen Hawking?

https://qntm.org/abolish

I love this generally but some of it has leaked out to the wrong people and there are strong cargo cults around such things as one codebase===one app.

Tell us what distro you recommend?

There's MEME if you wanted to bet for instead. For betting against I don't know if there is an ETF yet but you can short MEME manually.

Yes and then spend a lifetime with annoying workarounds. A friend has been double knotting forever :(

We are past the point that machine generated comments would survive and be engaged with by human users on Hacker News. Have you suspected machine generated content in HN comment th…

I know this isn’t quite the same as what’s happening in the article, but: what do you use when referring to a singular person of unknown gender?

The Super Bowl in 2013 featured an intentional safety. Losing points but running the clock down. The play was predicted by one attendee at the party I was at —- a British gentleman…

Cancel next iteration of alarm on iPhone.

The Volt was an instant classic and you're very lucky to have one. IMO the best EVs right now are coming out of Korea but things are moving very fast and I'm expecting good things …

Last time I looked into this I implemented some stuff from Astronomical Algorithms https://www.amazon.com/dp/0943396352 which was more fun for me than just grabbing the data.

Listing the Beatles in order of genius is a fun game and endlessly debatable but it’s not clear to me who you are referring to respectively. It reads as if the first two you mentio…