I remember in the early 90s seeing 8 GB hard drives being advertised for sale, and thinking "who on earth would need 8 gigs of hard drive storage?" (Me, that's who. I now have 63+ GB just under my Music folder)
I have wallpapers on my desktop and phone, but honestly hardly ever look at them. Even on the desktop, I pretty much always have various programs maximized or nearly so. If I feel the need to take a break, I either just…
hopefully not too dumb a question, but why put this on html instead of body?
Brian Eno's got some great ambient stuff (although Ambient 4 is not one of my favorites). Some I'd recommend: * Ambient 1: Music for Airports * Ambient 2: Plateaux of Mirror * The Pearl * Thursday Afternoon * Discreet…
Yeah, I played around with this a little bit. It seems like Notepad knows the document has been changed, the bug is purely that the title bar isn't updated in this one case. Which actually seems all the more odd because…
The only time I ever watch broadcast TV anymore is for (NFL) football. And in that case, I'm usually also , participating in chats and discussion forums, following box scores, and the like. On the other hand, I've also…
Not sure if the site is meant to be strictly Linux/Unix or not, but on Windows, cd without any path just prints the current directory and doesn't do anything else. (Although "cd ~" produces the response "The system…
Here's another way to look at it. This link (https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/) says "traffic crashes [...] account for 2.2% of all deaths globally." Which means that out of your 50 closest…
I thought one of the basic lessons we learned from the last 70 years of programming language design is that it's a bad idea to make semantics depend on lexical structure. I'm really surprised people like Rob Pike and…
To add on to zaroth's remarks, here's a list of records set or tied in the most recent (and IMO not very remarkable) 53rd Super Bowl: https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/02/03/patriots-rams-super-bowl-2...
The sequence beginning at 1:58 is (I think) a still from the Hard Day's Night movie. The sequence beginning at 4:29 uses the Help! album cover
For me, the problem with the Fermi paradox is that we only have one poorly understood and incompletely documented example of a planet with intelligent life from which to draw conclusions. Beyond that: * How many…
I feel like the actual moral of the story should be "don't underestimate how trying to scrimp on a vital resource can result in horrible logistical complexities and a nightmare UX".
Back in those days I wrote my own assembler for the C64 (and later the C128). Probably my single greatest moment of joy as a programmer was when it successfully assembled its own source code.
I'm not sure if I would describe a 94 degree angle as "behind them", but I would also observe it's a good idea to exercise caution in navigating a blind intersection whether you're on a bike or in a car.
Basic rule of the road: if you haven't made eye contact with someone, you should assume they haven't seen you and don't know you're there. I mean, they could improve the intersection by making it a full stop, but…
Perhaps OP was referring to the pre-cooked chicken available at the deli counter? That's typically a lot more expensive than buying it raw.
> the Tucson experience of insane heat for about five months of the year. I've got to object to this. Yeah, June and July (and to a lesser extent August) are pretty intense, but I'd hardly characterize the rest of…
How many functionally inequivalent C programs are there? Surely this is undecidable?
why this does not work: [1,2,3].map({2:4}) (in JavaScript)? It does (or, at least, it can) if you give Array.prototype.map a suitable value. Here's one possible implementation: Array.prototype.map = function(o) { var…
I remember in the early 90s seeing 8 GB hard drives being advertised for sale, and thinking "who on earth would need 8 gigs of hard drive storage?" (Me, that's who. I now have 63+ GB just under my Music folder)
I have wallpapers on my desktop and phone, but honestly hardly ever look at them. Even on the desktop, I pretty much always have various programs maximized or nearly so. If I feel the need to take a break, I either just…
hopefully not too dumb a question, but why put this on html instead of body?
Brian Eno's got some great ambient stuff (although Ambient 4 is not one of my favorites). Some I'd recommend: * Ambient 1: Music for Airports * Ambient 2: Plateaux of Mirror * The Pearl * Thursday Afternoon * Discreet…
Yeah, I played around with this a little bit. It seems like Notepad knows the document has been changed, the bug is purely that the title bar isn't updated in this one case. Which actually seems all the more odd because…
The only time I ever watch broadcast TV anymore is for (NFL) football. And in that case, I'm usually also , participating in chats and discussion forums, following box scores, and the like. On the other hand, I've also…
Not sure if the site is meant to be strictly Linux/Unix or not, but on Windows, cd without any path just prints the current directory and doesn't do anything else. (Although "cd ~" produces the response "The system…
Here's another way to look at it. This link (https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/) says "traffic crashes [...] account for 2.2% of all deaths globally." Which means that out of your 50 closest…
I thought one of the basic lessons we learned from the last 70 years of programming language design is that it's a bad idea to make semantics depend on lexical structure. I'm really surprised people like Rob Pike and…
To add on to zaroth's remarks, here's a list of records set or tied in the most recent (and IMO not very remarkable) 53rd Super Bowl: https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/02/03/patriots-rams-super-bowl-2...
The sequence beginning at 1:58 is (I think) a still from the Hard Day's Night movie. The sequence beginning at 4:29 uses the Help! album cover
For me, the problem with the Fermi paradox is that we only have one poorly understood and incompletely documented example of a planet with intelligent life from which to draw conclusions. Beyond that: * How many…
I feel like the actual moral of the story should be "don't underestimate how trying to scrimp on a vital resource can result in horrible logistical complexities and a nightmare UX".
Back in those days I wrote my own assembler for the C64 (and later the C128). Probably my single greatest moment of joy as a programmer was when it successfully assembled its own source code.
I'm not sure if I would describe a 94 degree angle as "behind them", but I would also observe it's a good idea to exercise caution in navigating a blind intersection whether you're on a bike or in a car.
Basic rule of the road: if you haven't made eye contact with someone, you should assume they haven't seen you and don't know you're there. I mean, they could improve the intersection by making it a full stop, but…
Perhaps OP was referring to the pre-cooked chicken available at the deli counter? That's typically a lot more expensive than buying it raw.
> the Tucson experience of insane heat for about five months of the year. I've got to object to this. Yeah, June and July (and to a lesser extent August) are pretty intense, but I'd hardly characterize the rest of…
How many functionally inequivalent C programs are there? Surely this is undecidable?
why this does not work: [1,2,3].map({2:4}) (in JavaScript)? It does (or, at least, it can) if you give Array.prototype.map a suitable value. Here's one possible implementation: Array.prototype.map = function(o) { var…