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Are there any architectural blogs you recommend?

To your point they also, like, wrote their own PHP interpreter. If you asked your Facebook interviewer about PHP you'd probably get an interesting answer!

I think the example of video games and movies is instructive - there's always a ton of "cut content". In software, we can always change the requirements to meet a deadline :)

No, the mysteries that "are deep, hard to understand, and not worth the effort" are why Scientific American is publishing this junk article. My lay theory is that SA hasn't been wo…

The skill-based matchmaking that's popular today is optimized for setting up a fair game, ie. theres a roughly 50/50 chance of either side winning. It makes logical sense, but it t…

Rather the opposite - us-west-2 is big but not the biggest region, or the smallest, or the oldest or newest, it's not partitioned off like the China or GovCloud regions. Because us…

They're different doctors! Surgeons are a subset of doctors, and plastic surgeons are the ones who decided to chase money over glory

It's hilarious that the replies in this thread are mostly people arguing bitterly about how to make pancakes

It's probably been in a lot of movies, but I've always loved this scene in THE CORE where they land a space shuttle in the LA river: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG1RwE_x6Vg

Well, at least once, recently

People here know offhand what they weigh in pounds, and the packaging on food lists macronutrient content in grams. The article could've listed g/kg as well, but for a US audience …

Only slightly pedantic: The United States has been at war for just over 16 years now.

This isn't the first round of AI that's been useful for "large-scale profitable applications"

Well; good?

At the very least: * What people buy * What people want * What people say they want * What people would actually enjoy * ...

The current theory is that particles are waves, or rather localized excitations ('bumps') in a field. One of the surprising things from quantum theory is that these bumps have a fi…

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Would pessimism help?

I had a bramble of related ideas in mind, and instead of putting in effort to untangle them I lazily let them came out as a pithy aphorism. But: - Even if all of Musk's enterprises…

By the time we've learned how to live on a planet as inhospitable as Mars, maybe we'll know how to make a home on Earth.

He maintains that attitude deliberately (it's part of the joke).

I agree with you very strongly, but I want to reframe it a bit: the fact that there is no "true self" and "we are in control of who we are" is basically the modern condition, and t…

You've seen their merits, then - now think about when they would be worth taking...

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