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Yeah, I noticed that too. Treating a byte as eight tally marks misses the point about the combinatorialnature of place settings. It's not 100% wrong, because bit shifting and bit p…

There's this mythical belief that programmers like to tell themselves: "I'm as good at math as I am programming." It turns out that for many, this idea is far from the truth. The s…

This confirms most of what I have always suspected to be true, regarding font snobs.

So, effectively, three security questions, like this: Favorite color? red Favorite band? yes First vehicle? car In reality, they actually reduce complexity, defeating a 12 characte…

This headline was very confusing, since Googling S3, for context that doesn't involve AWS is nearly impossible. Favorite search result: https://www.s3integration.com/company/execut…

“The atom bomb works. Fission makes uranium explode.” See how I didn’t need a citation? It’s because the facts are not only well-understood, but a river of citation is ready to flo…

Actually, if anything, that means everything that happens next matters now more than ever. Put another way, if we think of 1960's era ICBM technology as entry level autonomous warf…

...as mentioned over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17886529

It doesn’t really “turn to liquid” but really starts behaving according to fluid dynamics. Nothing melts or freezes. More to the point, the motion of the macroscopic objects (rocks…

It’s not a true liquid, but rather solid dust mixed with trace amounts of water. Drier than mud, but powder and rock that can shift in a fluid-like way. It’s like an avalanche or r…

So, this is kind of similar to the whole corn-starch-and-water non-newtonian solid kind of problem, right? A little different, because this isn’t entirely about mixtures, aqueous s…