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It's been a while since I visited Japan, but one thing I remember is that people tend to not "walk and eat" there. So you buy your konbini sandwich and sit on the benches in front …

Guessing the X was to disable it without disabling it.

I'm not sure what bullying a car entails, but does that mean you're allowed to bully cars without those symbols?

And the American symbols symbolize what they signify, too. A stylized wheelchair to indicate physical mobility. An ear with a line through it to indicate deafness. Less poetic, may…

Only 17? This one's 783 better!

The reason they don't (and won't) have an NRR rating is that they're only useful for constant noise, and not for impulse sounds. There's no question that Airpods are not industrial…

They don't block out loud things or ambulances approaching you. They block out constant loud background noise. This is why they're good for airplanes, lawn mowers, motorcycles and …

+1, but add a motorcycle to that list too. Not Miami, but a large city, and now a smaller city. All the assertions I'm seeing in this thread are bizarre to me. One can easily hear …

"C-800 Spectromaster" is exactly how specialized devices like that should be named.

Kubernetes zeitgest aside, the naming confusion between the old and new things called Docker Swarm doomed the new one.

This reminds me of the joke about the economists who spot a $100 bill on the sidewalk.

But "slop" has meant low-quality stuff for a very long time. See also "swill", both analogies to pig feed. The earliest OED2 citation of "slop" for the sense "figurative. Nonsense,…

On one hand, "clanker" has good steampunk vibes. On the other hand: "Stop trying to make 'clanker' happen! It's not going to happen!" "AI slop" caught on but "clanker" did not.

I read an article not long ago which I cannot find for the life of me now, but the thing in it that stuck with me was the idea that people (in the context, career software develope…

It's not uncommon to have small amounts of data come out of experiments. These are appropriate tests for the size of the data. These tests failed to disprove the null hypothesis.

-vex

I was also curious. It looks like it's probably Kristy Noem[1], and the citations are to The Week and the NYT: > Noem has since become one of the most prominent examples of so-call…

If the Vision Pro was balanced on top of the head, it would definitely be easier to sustain for a longer period of time, but the weight is attached to the front. That means you're …

This reminded me of the Diataxis documentation model.[1] A lot of what's out there now is the "application" side of the model, leaving the "acquisition" side unfulfilled. [1] https…

You mean a mandala effect. A lot of people thought it was Mandela Effect, but it's been the mandala effect all along.

I was pleased, because for a moment I was worried they'd had an LLM rewrite the prompt thing into some other language.

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a metaphor?"