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They didn't really do a very good job of selecting marketing examples. The only good one, that shows off creative possibilities, is the knit elephant. Everything else looks like th…

An interesting problem for those who're good at e.g., geometric packing problems and space-filling curves. I wonder about having an optional fill mode with more of a sphere-packing…

Not noodles vs. gourds but two different gourds: * spaghetti squash (named for the long fibers in it's flesh) * butternut squash ...should probably be written with some hyphens: "S…

Prior to computer-generated 3D animation, I can imagine it was very difficult to float and spin vector-arrows in mid-air with enough accuracy to show what goes on without having to…

Rust allows for higher stakes in terms of risk/reward while guaranteeing many aspects of safety. I'm not sure for this case if the scheduler would benefit from more complex/risky s…

When I use the word 'Simple' in e.g., a class name, I usually mean: ~"This is meant to cover the 80% of common cases--I haven't done extensive testing or development on it. If you …

I think one part of the trick is that you find high-functioning people but in less-overlapping domains. In one of the more successful teams I was on back in the day, I was a JavaSc…

It's not really $ > person. It's group of people A, who are conducting a [series of] transaction(s) with group of people B. It so happens that the wares being exchanged are currenc…

Yep. The primary fault lies with the too-many people who abused the non-hostile system. "This is why we can't have nice things"--because trust is too costly in the societies where …

It happens all the time, no tech required, any time someone is foreclosed on. I agree it's wiser to avoid such situations but a lot of people end up delegating this kind of respons…

My favorite is being asked to estimate a bug fix before I've had any chance to analyze the issue. It's like calling a mechanic over the phone and asking how much it will take to fi…

That makes sense to me but I'm not sure your average judge/juror would see it so simply--especially given that in most cases it'd be a lot easier to tell if/when a deadbolt has bee…

I'm not saying owners should be completely barred from modifying their systems but there are security implications to bypassing their centralized / cloud-based authentication. It'd…

That dovetails nicely with: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” --Upton Sinclair

Was actually thinking, once you've integrated it with a CI action and cheap static web host, this replaces Confluence in many ways. Looks like the basic editor is and will remain f…

> 10 years is nothing It depends on how much was invested up front. Spend a couple hours recording a joke song on your phone that happens to become a viral hit? Ten years of monopo…

The library reminds me a bit of a page I threw together to browse the EmojiOne set: https://stime.tech/emoji-explorer/index.html Give it a minute to load the JS, and then you'll ge…

I'm not sure if it'd be necessary/useful but it might also be interesting to leverage zero-knowledge proofs so that interested parties could verify when the contents of a disclosur…

I like the general idea of improving communication / transparency. Perhaps some branch of the government could provide a registry for responsible disclosure (e.g., ` https://some-b…

This may be beyond the FCC's purview, but given some of the comments (e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37393644 ) perhaps an entirely different strategy is warranted. Ins…

Their expectation of neutrality probably stems from the word 'journalism'. I'd say that the expectation of neutral journalism is a (commonish) fallacy, though. Unbiased, neutral, o…

It doesn't work for really wet foods like soup but I've been using wooden plates for e.g., microwave burritos. Since wood has a low dielectric loss, it's highly transparent to micr…

As we become more interested in the relatively new information about these materials, different kinds of conversations are occurring than we've had in the past. To facilitate these…

> Over the course of a century, the pasta and cheese casserole traveled from Italy to France. By the 14th Century it is a French dish of parmesan and pasta that was brought to Engl…