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The code is correct. That's a Lisp thing called `quote`. https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/Pairs__Lists__and_Racket_...

The bigger, of course also more distant and vague, announcement is that "by 2050 Microsoft will remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted either directly o…

In feed lots they're fed grain, but that's only the last few months of their life. That's why it's called grain-finished rather than grain-fed.

I'm a German engineer in the US. The thing with these stories is that they won't happen to you. If you're employed by a tech company you have great health insurance. Of course, it …

You can get 1.35% currently with the free online account at Ally (no affiliation). Still below inflation but much better than 0.02%. Reliable access to a computer or smartphone can…

The actual title on microsoft.com, "MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL: more choices on Microsoft Azure", has actually less marketing spin and more information.

This looks pretty cool! What's the business model going to be? The ToU are quite far-reaching regarding user content: "By submitting User Content through the Services, you hereby d…

Do you have a recommendation for a soil-based probiotic? I've been looking recently and found them somewhat hard to research among all the lacto ones.

Right. You could always define a new type with an existing underlying type, like Celsius with the underlying type int in your example. See the spec here: https://golang.org/ref/spe…

The Go standard library is very well written and depending on which parts you read you can learn about lots of things like file operations, HTTP, crypto, etc. It's easy to read it …

I've used both extensively and I think they are fairly different, with different strengths and weaknesses. Bash is more pragmatic and more concise on the command line. PS is more u…

Isn't the Chevrolet Volt what you describe in your third paragraph?

So why does it need to be Vancouver where prices are already very high? Why not buy in another city that's more reasonable?

I wonder if they're trying to do price anchoring here. The Voyage and the Paperwhite have now moved down a step on the Kindle scale, so people might get the Paperwhite instead of t…

Azure just recently announced price reductions to be competitive with AWS. The blog post has some interesting links. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/helping-azure-custome...…