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If you mean Tatsu-ya, the music is not only deafening, it is the worst selection of music for a restaurant I've ever heard.

I guess you don't care that your use of a free thing causes harm to balance out your free use of it?

You can replace a derailleur hanger on a modern bicycle for about $10 or less. This is the part that bends on a right-side crash.

So you are confirming that your relationship with the Bay Area was transactional, as the article quotes an advocate as saying. Meaning the Bay Area won't miss you or your money, it…

This is because every cloned repo stores local state. Local state is sticky, it collects garbage, and it becomes stale very quickly. Doing something complex in git with a local rep…

I think the tool in question (git) is complete and what you want is an incomplete simplification. Preferring incomplete simplifications to complete toolchains is hobbling and a sig…

HEAD_TRUNC? Is this to detect when Autopilot has driven through a freight trailer and severed the driver's head?

A beloved co-worker and the best engineer on my team suddenly had to leave 2 months ago because his H1B renewal was denied. He asked the company HR for help and they sent him home …

My mood disorder has made my whole career a rocky journey. I'm 43 now, and doing well in my current role. Managing your depression will always be part of the trip. Don't listen to …

I can't find a single admirable thing about Roth from his writing. Selfish, consumed by sexual desire during years when he ought to have learned long ago that sex is a procreative …

> It has failed to help enough small businesses. ... in large part because publicly-traded businesses have scooped up the funding.

> The narrative I've seen in all the press is that's it's a failure because it all went to Shake Shack and others who didn't deserve it Where have you seen that narrative? I think …

Scott Alexander just posted a nice piece about this kind of thinking the other day. There's never been a risk-controlled trial to determine whether parachutes actually lead to bett…

These metaphors are so insulting I had to quit halfway through, and I was really trying to absorb the marketing.

I was like, "Why Dracula when everyone else calls it Darcula?" Then I saw that it was for sale. Oh.

Using GUIDv4 presents an infinitesimal risk of collision, particularly given that GUIDv4 space is partitioned by the clock, and globally clocks are roughly synchronized. It's the k…