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This is actually a good idea for a HN dataset toy: replace all plausibly confusable words in HN headlines with the names of programming languages.

All I know is that when I finally buy that Zodiac RIB, I'm naming it SANGAMON'S PRINCIPLE.

More conservative if you understand how the term is used. In my experience and observing Poland today, "freedom of expression" is the term favoured by the right wing, denoting that…

As a child of an entomologist turned botanist and another naturalist, who grew up in our home library full of assorted atlases, monographies and other odd books, I often learned th…

I was recently facing a real issue with audible phone notifications. For those that I do have enabled, I needed to quickly distinguish what just came in, and possibly from whom, be…

>> How is THAT legal > Why shouldn't it be? Companies are free to set prices to whatever the market will bear. Those are the rules of a free market, I'm not contesting this in gene…

A diplomatic mission established for the sake of establishing it and staff making the best out of their time there I can somewhat understand, but not tourism into DPRK for the "cur…

I get that the discussion here focuses on doubtful decongestants, but just the mention of acetaminophen makes me think of pharmaceuticals and people's relationship with them in the…

You know what a turtle is? Same thing, Leon.

Just set the page's theme to "Drunk". It'll be OK.

Now let's get them to come up with a valid design including a valid QR code. Maybe one containing Maxwell's equations.

...or adding system-wide Copy and Paste when the iPhone first launched without it...

They will also refuse to print 3D printer parts, especially spares for the printer to print them.

As a (very) frequent "µ" user (and several others like ± and Δ and °) I've had the alt codes memorised for ages but having recently, out of necessity and a bit of a nomad lifestyle…

2009 indeed. Their app store was an absolute cesspit even in the early, pre-WebOS days and it hasn't changed much since, like, who would install any of this and why? Even the "offi…

> the whale we need to go after is IEEE. I wholeheartedly second this. I'm an individual member and a member of a specific IEEE society that sponsors a specific standard and I stil…

Wasn't there yet when I read it.

I swear it wasn't there when I first read it! Must have been my firewall.

Not only does Enoch run everything as root, he also has an account in my system, and in yours. But I guess he was there first...

There's an obscure Polish film from 2002, "Haker" (Hacker), obscure for many reasons and not in a good way; it's absolute drivel, not even accidentally funny in a MST3K, B movie ki…

Not exactly full "IP KVM" and missing the VM part, BUT for basic screen access to say a server or scope or whatever with a VGA output, those dirt cheap "VGA to USB" converters foun…

There is also the name of the site / product that is reminiscent of a Russian placename or surname, say Voloshov (which happens to be both). It's the first thing that came to my mi…

To me, Pandoc is "never have to touch Word again", in other _words_, salvation. Sadly, the .docx templates aren't enough - they have the styling, but for those forced to produce a …

They had to make openings in the coffin because it "fused with the body". Adam and Eve, Chris' ramblings and this.

*.eu.org, was (is) an early attempt at something similar this side of the pond, starting in the early 2000s, also free although community managed, but still surviving. Used to be a…