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Congratulations, you're a sensible human being who has figured out that listening to your body and intuition works much better than all these "optimal" solutions everyone is chasin…

The death toll of nuclear energy is only a minute fraction of the casualties brought about by coal and oil. The most pessimistic estimations of deaths caused by all nuclear power a…

My dad had a workshop where he made woodwind instruments. For some applications he required lead. I recall entertaining myself as a kid by melting some small pieces of lead with a …

When you state "in this country", please specify what country that is. Despite the use of English as the lingua franca here we're amongst a geographically diverse group. I'm going …

That's really just a failure of input sanitation or not properly escaping special characters or putting the comment in CDATA when constructing the XHTML. Basically that blog allowe…

Not really. Tests with two lines generally have one "control" line and one "test" line. If the control line fails to appear, then the result is invalid and you should try a new kit…

Look up "Time Cube" and prepare to indulge in a bit of insane internet history.

Consent is too often treated as this magical concept that makes everything right when it's present in some form. Many people seem to think of consent as a "yes" when often it's mor…

There are of course the ways to share your digital collection. Your games list on Steam, books on Goodreads, music on services like Spotify and last.fm. On the one hand it's less i…

I'm glad to hear this perspective and know it's not just me. I live in Europe and parking in a garage here always raises my heart rate. I don't think I'd make it without parking se…

Does someone know if this is purely a property of languages and their evolution or if there is a biological or neurological foundation for this? I understand that you could make na…

Printers use cyan, magenta and yellow because printing is a subtractive process. It's the complement of the additive RGB that monitors use. For example, cyan acts as a filter for r…

It won't protect against a newer version of an established library introducing malicious behaviour.

Having the means in place for total surveillance and thinking it will be kept in check with "strict control" is a total delusion. Who determines what constitutes proper grounds for…

A well-known quote is that whoever doesn't understand Lisp is doomed to reinvent it: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2352

It's exactly like the premise for Black Mirror episode "Nosedive"!

There are certainly situations where that can work well, but there are also many instances where running two solutions in parallel is anything but trivial and adds another layer of…

I also recalled hearing exactly this. In fact, in my recollection Burger King had a vegetarian burger option for some time before dropping it due to complaints of it being prepared…

I'd wish that not every other article I read these days feels the need to focus on detecting misogyny or racism. It is absolutely important to identify the ways in which outdated w…

Complete rewrites seldom tend to work out well. Using a current version's behaviour as a "requirements doc" rather than the code or an actual up-to-date document probably misses ou…

Slightly ironic that a system which has scalability as one of its goals went down due to traffic. Although I guess few things are prepared for an onslaught of catching attention on…