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Scapegoats abound. It’s never the readers’ personal responsibility for retweeting conspiracy theories, The Onion as fact or PR-manufactured articles. Maybe NYT trying to get the In…

You’re bikeshedding on a switch versus a button, still an extra, unnecessary step to forget. Same problem. You failed. Try again.

There is more than one legal form of union-busting. They could’ve reorganized departments and “eliminated positions,” but instead they chose to throw everyone out on the street as …

Thanks, dad. In the meantime, the GP’s not “alt-facts” remain the apolitical reality of the rich vs. poor.

More than binary nuance is needed. The ship that crashed is a system of humans plus machines, the UI being just the API between the two. Forensic incident analysis of ship design, …

I’ve seen hundreds of millions (!!) wasted at a university on a program of software projects that failed miserably. Having too much money allows for unproven, complicated or arbitr…

That is super dumb and dangerous. They should just flip the inputs on one end. EDIT (since some people obviously don’t understand the problem): ... so that each set of controls is …

Redundant affordances are needed: Controls that are active should be illuminated in a particular color, say red. Controls that are disabled should be extinguished, physically-locke…

News and social media are legitmized gossip that create information overload / Tragedy of the Commons / false equivalency. This leads to InfoWars, Cambridge Analytica, foreign stat…

Probably drives a Mercedes, but not so bad as a BMW.

This sucks. Wine subscriptions are big money-makers for vineyards. And, it will mostly hurt California.

In the US, paying prisoners is technically optional per the 13th amendment loophole. Furthermore, the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and combined with for-prof…

Higher dpi maybe required for those kids these days whom hold their phones a few centimeters / inches from their eyes. I call it sera rubens myopia, Latin for glowing myopia.

1G started in 1976 with the IBM 3800 at 240 dpi. HP’s first 2G laser (LaserJet w/ Canon CX engine) was 300 dpi in 1984. Also I had a 600 dpi LJ 4 which was released in 1992.

Served with a side of mealworms, or crickets, if you prefer. Interestingly, allrecipes lives up to the name on its tin: http://allrecipes.com/search/results/?ingIncl=frog&sort=re

Yes. It’s similar to the difference between a mechanic and an engineer: a mechanic figures out something works, but the engineer can then take the next step to discover/know how. I…

I hear you, brother. Much less work for more benefits with benefits. Men and women both have sex on the Maslow hierarchy of needs, to varying degrees. Men and women both get mood a…

Aerion, Boom, Gulfstream, HyperMach and more. It seems crowded for such a niche product with a lengthy, costly and uncertain development cycle.

General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, …

Yup. Pointers to functions and call equivalence of functions and pointers to functions are that in C. Prototype interfaces (ie plugins) are trivially had with a struct containing p…

Hmmm. It depends on the power, frequencies and distance to tissue. I remember a coworker at a GPS mfgr accidentially turned on a 440 MHz radio in high-power (25W) mode with only a …

My folks live in the nearby area not downstream. That’s what happens when preventative maintenance is ignored by reactive bureaucrats. Pennywise, ... Here’s one of the YT channels …

Thanks. I hate these pseudo-PDF, book shovelware sites that paywall/proprietarize/socalize content to be useless on readers and generally get in the way.

Superscalar is an idealized notion of concurrent instructions per clock, almost MISD. Even the Pentium doesn’t really work like that, where one pipe isn’t fully capable, but it sti…