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I'd say it's kind of like room temperature. Lukewarm may be a little above room temp. The antonym would be any other temperature

It's sort of like the PC User Groups that were more or less rendered redundant by the internet. I remember going to the HAL-PC (Houston Area League of PC Users) monthly general mee…

Knobs on a mouse UI suck

I mean, I can sing or whistle any song I can think of -surely thousands of tunes- without thinking about what I need to do with my lips. That same mechanism that connected tune in …

What about just trying the doorknob to see if it's locked. Is that illegal?

Loved me some Frac!

It is a common thing among those who grow up being praised for their intelligence. If one comes to base their self-worth on their intelligence and believe it is a static quality th…

No read performance? Other than being solid state, that's the real advantage of SSDs, especially non-sequential ones. I typically use an SSD for the OS and applications, and then u…

Maintaining the value of commercial real estate?

My company mandated everyone back in the office but everyone still meets via Teams, even when we have offices next door to each other. Making people come is just dumb. Imagine the …

IDK, all the NBs are a bit distracting

SQL is pretty darn perfect for its purpose. As long as databases exist, SQL will exist. It is also super easy and intuitive to learn- I taught myself and it has been my bread and b…

Why not just use air pressure for the whole thing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit

Played way too much Pickaxe Pete as a kid. I can still hear that sound when he goes through the doors to another level. K.C. Munchkin was pretty cool, too- even had a level editor!…

"What's that? I couldn't hear you over my keyboard clacking!"

The Sistine Chapel?

I just wanted to add salient to sentience and sapience ;)

I'm not sure that's salient to this conversation

I think the primary goal here is to create an exercise for exploring different graph theory concepts, not to actually be useful. You're thinking too much :)

Sadly, the most profitable use for the CO2 might be piping it to an aging oil field and using it for a [CO2 flood]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_flooding ) to recov…

We need fusion yesterday

Mine's been solid black back since 1986 :)

You mean Froot

I'm all for being gender-neutral for the sake of neutrality, but the idea that the use of "he" somehow hurts people's safety or well-being sounds a bit absurd to me.

Does that reverse the brain damage?