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I'm sorry, what? Who was complaining about generated slop ANSI art back in that time? Did I manage to live and participate through a period of time and miss some massive controvers…

Pulumi is free: "Pulumi is true open source, uses the Apache 2.0 license, and does not and never will depend on BSL-licensed software in any way, HashiCorp owned or otherwise." ( h…

Here: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/107919/1/Hope_economic_consequences...

I'm unsure whether I'll ever forgive Google/Verizon for only offering 2 years of support for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. After all the promises of "this is our flagship phone and we'…

John Jackson has a (currently) 6 part series: https://altrightorigins.com/2020/06/19/hsu-irresponsible/

Your opinion of the paradox put aside - Karl Popper was a well-regarded 20th century philosopher, not some flimsy rando-streamer with 20 subs on Youtube.

I love that someone took the time and effort to fix the bugs in E.T.: http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/

I am a tab hoarder and cannot survive without https://www.one-tab.com/

It does because one of the getting started tutorials features a GIF that suggests newcomers star their repository.

This seems to be pretty comprehensive: https://lwn.net/Articles/686767/

Agreed. That game is a gem. Have you seen Open Outcast? http://www.openoutcast.org/

After using Dapper and Massive, I have settled on PetaPoco. I've used it in multiple deployed data access layers now and have no major complaints.

FWIW, I've flown with an Arduino kit (wires, etc.) in the US and encountered no issues.

Slightly off-topic: Forcing sign-in to read full answers strikes me as an odd path to take - reminds me of expertsexchange.

Agreed. Malcolm is an author and entertainer. It would be a perilous decision to place his works on the same level as a peer-reviewed scientific journal. I wish we could expect rea…

It won't. In just about all cases, C# doesn't do backtracking to infer types. See Eric Lippert's posts: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2010/10/04/no-ba...

I was hoping I would get a "bing!" sound when I pressed J. Sad panda.

If I'm reading this correctly, USPS doesn't want your electronic device to be activated: "Cells or batteries properly installed in equipment must be protected from damage and short…

What a cute little slideshow...