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There are many guitar 'tunings', and many predate the 'standard' tuning the article refers to. Also, players make up different ones all the time, including using capos to temporari…

If storing information and creating associations between bits of it were 'learning', then databases would be very smart indeed. No, learning is not 'storing pieces of information i…

Ah, cue the long thread of “No because my special combination of hardware/special configuration demands caused problems so Linux bad!”

* In order to write cursive legibly, you need to slow down* And right there is one of the crucial cognitive and proprioceptive benefits of handwriting over ‘keyboarding’.

This is not true, of course. In the US, millions of students still learn and write cursive. Yes, even in public schools. Is it uniformly taught/practiced? No, but it’s far from ‘dy…

A: "I have nothing to hide!" B: "Then stop wearing clothes." A: "That's stupid, it's against the law to run around naked in public!" B: "So what if we had privacy laws like that?" …

I would go further than the writer and say SQLite would be appropriate for almost all WP applications. Offhand, I can’t think of a meaningful use case that would make MySQL more pr…

Thereby defeating the fundamental benefit of playing with Legos. So much software tries so hard to replace what never needed replacing.

As Queen, she met 14 US Presidents (15 total) and 16 Prime Ministers (17 total). Whatever our feelings toward the anachronism of hereditary monarchies, she's been a participant in …

frequency of appearance != favorite.

Yep, I do.

Reason #368 why I cover all cameras and disable mics by default, and only uncover/enable when in use.

In fact, this is most recruiter inquiries.

Consider the dataset. Adjust expectations accordingly.

Russia didn’t ‘transition to democracy’. This seems to be a particularly American fantasy.

Based only on your comment, I'm guessing you're unaware of Palantir's work with intelligence agencies even when Tan was there. Also, Thiel's mission from the start was this kind of…

I have no strong opinion of Tan, but calling a person who happily worked for (and profited from) Palantir a 'moral canary in a coal mine' seems a bit of a stretch.

After requesting the crack pipe from my fellow traveler, I conclude that the answer doesn’t matter. The universe Is.

There’s no such thing as a ‘realistic engineering take-home test’. When will we admit tests are not only unrealistic, but an utterly useless predictor of…anything?