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Looking at the photos, I can imagine it is even rotating. Ok-ok, it is near the axle, but you do not see racing bikes with huge internally geared hubs neither, so...

> Using extension modules is just a time-tested, highly organized, modular, robust design pattern. I really don't get this. I'am fully on the side that limitations may increase des…

Another, but much cheaper trick is to always leave the alarm on: then you have around 10 seconds of chance every morning to find it, if not - then better luck next day!

Yes. But economics is different for local and remote work: Like it is natural to pay the same price for something we both order from China, and in the same time it is also complete…

Based on more mature codebase. /When I tried Clickhouse, I managed to segfault it with NULL pointer dereference error. Ok it is anecdotal, and maybe I just had bad luck, same could…

I use tabbed for Alacritty, it works in any WM. https://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/

I actually liked the mixed language approach (keywords/library functions in english, my stuff localized) when I've learned programming (and did not speak english well): Even then, …

So is it a joke on "Gilbert Ryle: The Concept of Mind" ? But it just reiterates his first example using breakfast instead of university ... 'The first example is of a visitor to Ox…

> an (loosely) inverse relationship between physical attractiveness and intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox 1. certain (genetic) diseases lowers both int…

"Opposition parties are so inept: they could not even operate corruption." (Do not know if it is original or some old joke: I have heard it from hungarian stand-up comedian Tibor B…

> Who invents the rules Anywho is: they could be someone with states of mind, bending over endless amount of paper, paging, writing and deleting symbols on them with their pencil f…

> I called water a "mild" solvent because it's not so reactive as to instantly destroy everything in its path. Ok. But I guess the proper common terminology would be "corrosives" f…

> Water is ... a mild solvent I remember, when I was a child I asked my parents (both are chemists), about what the most powerful solvent is. To my suprise they answered: water. Wo…

https://boardgamegeek.com/abstracts/browse/boardgame I play patchwork and Azul regularly and like them.

To show a positive example, without word redefinitions: IMHO western society largely managed to end prejudice against left-handiness, while keeping the word "right". (And this "lef…

I like "tabbed". Traditionally I use terminal tabs on local machines, and tmux on remote. (tmux in tmux is just too much tmux for me) After I've changed to alacritty, which does no…

It happens me every day: I just start to type while still in command mode, and then have to press "u" a couple of times. (But ok, thats maybe just me - thought this is a common exp…

The only thing what makes modal editing bearable (from UX PoV) is the unlimited undo. e.g. Would anyone take a plane that has modal cockpit buttons?

IANAL but I recall some vauge memories that Datomic was to be modifed, to provide real physical deletion according to the GDPR reqs...

Italy has hordes of feral cats so does Spain. I would be interested to see now a feral cat/capita - Covid-19 growth rate chart.

Its a bad logic anywaz: old people are the base voters for many populist ruling party in Europe

Has already been done in the Polgar family, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r The article has some quotations about Judits opinion: "I always say that women sho…

Haskell has dataflow support too (just to mention a better known language), but not sure how popular this compared to all the other concurrency libraries Haskell provides. https://…

Doesn't mt76* count? It is in since 4.19. http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1808.0/04276.html I know, because I've immediately bought an usb wifi dongle for my desktop with…

Just skimmed over, but this is only about the oil droplets experiment - which would have been a great macroscopic model/demonstration of pilot wave theory. If it fails the double s…