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The reported average of 20 days is likely skewed by a small number of long leaves and I suspect* is nowhere near typical for the median worker (it's nearly taking a day off every t…

And yet I would still stop and wait before walking out. The law will not save me against 1.5 tons of metal hitting me by accident.

Indeed, at 3 pieces per second (I don't have a good sense of how fast good tetris players play, but I've seen some videos and it looks like they can average more than one a second)…

> Also: in Europe everybody normally takes paracetamol and not FANS as a first reach to minimize adverse effects. So this article looks like very US centric. This is not my experie…

As a fencer watching these, I've never felt like I've not known where the blades are. Just from the hand positions and knowing what people do. So I find the constant lights a littl…

I've never grokkeed suffix trees, but isn't possible for them to be O(n) in space (n total length of all strings)? Is there just an unacceptable constant factor overhead? I can ima…

That is... amazing. I think my favourite part is the fact that '1' isn't even one of the supported values.

As an Englishman that has been transplanted to another country, I find myself making them more in Germany than I ever made them back home. But that's because my wife requests it. I…

I am not a fan of Github's interface. But my point is, is that I believe the important thing to preserve in history is whatever your unit of review is. If you could stack PRs and e…

I want every commit to represent a buildable state in which I have confidence automated tests pass. Bisecting is made unnecessarily difficult otherwise, and it's nice to be able ch…

Thanks for pointing out what I was missing. Please consider a variable `List{int}[3] x`, this is an array of 3 List{int} containing List{int}. If we do `x[1]` we will get an elemen…

The closed intervals for slices caught my eye as well, but I simply filed that under 'that's a weird quirk' rather than 'wtf?'. It would require more thinking on my end to change t…

Reading through, something small caught me by surprise. https://c3-lang.org/language-common/arrays/#fixed-size-multi... Multi dimensional arrays are not declared in the same way th…

Looking at those in my extended family that have reached retirement, this does not appear to be a given. End of life care* is highly variable in duration and costs and many people …

An unfortunate reality is that you're never going to have such services until there are children for them to service. Decline like this is difficult to reverse, but that doesn't me…

Your real commit history is irrelevant. I don't care too much about how you came to a particular state. The overall project history though, the clarity of changes made, and that bi…

I work on a build system (Bazel), so perhaps I care more than most. But maybe it does all just come down to equality comparisons. Just not always within your own code.

It's sometimes nice to be deterministic. I don't often care about a specific order, only that I get the same order every time.

Open source projects? Maybe less so. But there are definitely companies that use Bazel in a major way.

At least in British English usage, there is no distinction between Jail, Gaol, and Prison other than at least one of these is a dated word. I believe only the US has a strong disti…

Part 4c (this is quite a long series) goes into some detail here. https://acoup.blog/2025/09/12/collections-life-work-death-an... My own interpretation is that it's difficult to pr…

This may be because the 'headshot' multiplier is lower than the regular multiplier (1x vs 2x) for the prod and baton. For most weapons the headshot multiplier is 8x (or something).…

Erm, yes. Yes it is...

Those are not the same; one is a bit less than an hour, another is 3 and a half days. A microcentury is 100 nanoyears if you prefer that.