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Huge fan of the Keychron K2. Also like the K3, but not nearly as much. I have the medium-clicky keys on the K2.

I’ve read through parts of the Wikipedia page several times in the past. It’s not ideal. I haven’t studied music theory systematically but I believe all the modes that contain a mi…

lcc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCC_(compiler) PBRT: https://www.pbrt.org

This “law” was never really reasonable or sensible. I’ve been working on optimizing compiler backends for nearly 30 years. The reality is that you hit a wall of diminishing returns…

I don't think they have a choice either way, but you're right, and I have a friend who recently did this, but not between Apple and Meta. He was working at another well-known tech …

Sorry I cannot tell what “this” is since that article neither mentions downplaying grades or interviewing students. I believe the specific things I am talking about were discussed …

Invest the money in relatively stable/safe investments. Some real estate, index funds, etc. Leave yourself enough for a year or so, and take that time to figure out what you’d real…

Sorry, but I don’t think your idea of meritocracy is very much in line with what most Universities are looking for. That’s why they have things like essays and consider extracurric…

Blog posts like this one [1] from SiFive are claiming “billions of chips”, but I have no idea what devices those chips are going into, or whether this means there is a decent chanc…

I was going to make the same point, more generally about electronic music gear. People greatly favor knob-per-function and minimal menu diving. Having some kind of screen and minim…

The religious right elected Trump. Without their support he would not only have lost the popular vote, but also the electoral college. He spent his presidency attempting to keep th…

To be very contrarian and sound like a bit of a neo-Luddite, I have been a photographer for more than 30 years and have never taken photographs as good as the ones I take with my L…

Interviewed there a few years back. This was right after one of the many Facebook crises became public (sorry, forget which). I wasn’t super interested in the role or working there…

Interestingly, Monk’s own version of Caravan from “Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington” was also derided by many critics (well the album as a whole, really), but it’s one of my fa…

There’s nothing strange about going to a restaurant alone. Or a movie. Or a play, concert, etc. I’ve done all the above many times, in addition to doing all the above with other pe…

This is true in the US as well, at least where I live. Judges specifically inform the jury that they cannot treat a police officer’s testimony with any more weight or as any more c…

If you bought a PC-compatible clone in the 80s you had a good chance of being able to find documentation of some kind to tell you about how pieces of the hardware itself worked. No…

Under what legal principle would this be based on, and why haven’t we already seen this happen over say the last 50 years of consumer electronics?