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Does `it` conflict with Rspec's `it`? Surely they've thought of this, but to my eye it looks like it would get confusing.

Yes, that’s exactly the connection that American Nations makes and the OP ignores

My read of Albion’s Seed and American Nations is that they’re more about how a regional culture was germinated and founded, under the idea that the culture (including legal and eco…

Applying Albion’s Seed to California misses out on Spanish missionary culture and the shipping merchants who came from New York City, which does not have the same puritan roots as …

Reading that the GBC standard specifies 1 ball per second, it’s fun to imagine a module that puts 1,000 balls in slow moving storage, taking 15 minutes to warm up and cool down

I’ve worked on several TS projects that don’t type check but still “compile” (emit non-TS JavaScript). To me that’s the difference between a linter and a compiler, and I wish those…

Perhaps it's the versioning? Like in the way that libraries for Elm 0.18 are often (mostly? always?) incompatible with 0.19. (N.B. 0.19 has been the latest version for almost six y…

Maybe the idea is to order your vocabulary into some kind of “semantic rainbow”? Like a one-dimensional embedding?

I think it has to do with what you’re considering as artwork! There’s a traditional distinction between “fine arts” and “applied arts.” Fine art, like painting, is almost definitio…

> "How to program" isn't something the academy understands, so they generally can't teach it This was my (limited) experience with (introductory) formal CS. Which is sort of amazin…

I've been happily hacking on my Ikea Bekant for three years. I replaced the top, replaced the buttons with a double throw rocker switch (1), built a Mac Mini/laptop shelf on the ba…

Not sure, but the Dakar Rally hasn’t involved Dakar, Senegal since 2007. Most recently it takes place within Saudi Arabia.

Where does the water go after being used for cooling?

Sometimes they work together! I submitted an email receipt and it kept getting rejected because Concur only shows the first page of a multi-page PDF unless you go through some very…

The audiobooks are also good.

Stop using them so much?

William F. Buckley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTyZAul60ok Mr. Burns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=othBTFk_W1Y

Imagine wanting to learn Postgres but not knowing how to use a package manager, for example

I guess what I’m wondering though is: what is being negotiated over what looks to me like 8 connectors? Why can’t they just be simple conductors?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TQNQWPZ Why isn't it just connectors? What is the chip doing?

About the same amount of land. In North America alone, 30,000 square kilometers for all oil and gas[0]. For a rough approximation, the US produced 14% of oil in the world in 2021[1…

A list and an index creates the possibility that the index is out of bounds, and then your code probably has to check for that scenario and figure out how to handle it. With a zipp…