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Yeah, that one caught my eye (and then moistened it). The way he breaks his slump by sharing Factorio with his son -- what a wonderful, unexpected benefit of working in games. How …

Did they change the rules just to punish her? Last I heard, the policy was that missing interviews incurs a fine, which Osaka decided she could handle. If so, this starts to look a…

I just say "compile", too, because it's strictly correct and I like being correct. But "transpiling adds zero information" seems unfair: when you see that word, you at least know t…

WTF is with this Borat-level parody of "bad English"? That's not how people actually sound when English is their second language, and you didn't sound like that two months ago. Wha…

I've been playing this game for 15 years now. Somehow, it just doesn't get old. One great DCSS tradition: whenever a new major patch is released, there's a two week long tournament…

For God's sake, just quote the whole thing. You really broke it off mid-sentence? If including "a million buildings destroyed" (or whichever other part you felt you couldn't includ…

> The same people who tout the virtues of being well-read skip right past the Bible, the most popular book in human history. Who's doing that? You wouldn't be able to understand ha…

Do you think your friend might have been using the alphabet as an example of what Sesame Street had taught his kid, and not as a complete catalogue?

Your edit drastically undersells the extent to which you were wrong on this one. > Amateur sleuths found fertile ground to fan conspiracies. They didn’t hesitate in casting Jeff Ps…

a "dirty" rebase sets $? to 1, so I think the auto-abort feature is just `git rebase foo || git rebase --abort`.

Oh, right, the article ...

I wonder whether anyone has used "otherwise" for this. It'd be a simple alias for "else", but it'd certainly sound natural: if (X) { doY(); } otherwise { doZ(); }

> The current level is "severe", which was set on 3 November 2020, due to a shooting in Vienna by a suspected "Islamist terrorist" in which four people died. It was raised by Home …

I'm not buying it. They're already back online after 90 minutes. What kind of deplatforming is that? Why not say who was responsible or post those juicy, juicy emails? This is a ba…

Almost too minor to bring up, but my brain won't let go. In your first sentence, was "surreptitiously stumbling upon" the book meant to happen "serendipitously" instead?

Wouldn't that be shocking? But in fact, the URL in question opens a specific reply to that article. How embarrassing!

> Importantly for us, Roam differs from other webapps in that it doesn't store all state and history in its backend. Instead, Roam's backend just stores a snapshotted Datascript da…

What differences did you see? They seem essentially similar. The exception being: > We should shift more of the tax burden onto capital, including by raising the capital gains tax,…

I can't believe I had never seen this. Thank you.

Nope, you're not missing anything, then. Maybe I am -- I use the fzf plugin, but only for finding files. Is this (build_quickfix_list) what you're using? https://github.com/junegun…

Is fzf buying you anything over just using :grep? (If speed is the issue, the magic words are `set grepprg='rg --vimgrep'`, after which it's actually usable.)

I love this one.

Fun seeing that pretty much everyone else finds that idiom confusing too. Half-serious, over breakfast: (case [(> n min) ( (Side note: Clojure's `>` and ` n min)` into "if n is gre…

This was the first play I ever read for fun (instead of for a class). I fell in love with it, and over the years I've re-read it several times. I don't know what it was -- it just …