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If you're a shy person who would like to do better in social situations - learn to dance. Becoming a dancer opened up all sorts of doors for me. It made me comfortable in social situations from s…

Talk to a lawyer. Probably they will write a nasty letter to the appropriate party. Nasty letters from lawyers tend to get respected.

I thank you on his behalf. Most of his fan mail was for his reading of The Prisoner of Zenda, so perhaps try that if you haven't already and the genre is to your taste?

My late father did a number of recordings for LibriVox. In fact in the last conversation I had with him, he said to tell the people on the LibriVox forums "Cheerio" from him, so he had certa…

The VMS operating system had a standardized command line help UX. Typing HELP gave you an overview of commands available (Curses style) and you could drill down into more specific commands from that. …

Not really similar, but in some circumstances the Sys Rq commands may help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key …

You probably already know this tool, but it was new to me relatively recently: https://www.shellcheck.net/

Now if you want me to really get my hackles up, ask me about hot-desking. There's a policy invented by someone who had never met any actual human beings! :)

Pros: Situational awareness. It's cheaper. Cons: Lack of focus. Dishonesty in how it's 'sold' to the workers; the cost is never openly acknowledged as the reason. I don't hate…

> I've always wondered if there would be value in teams establishing an internship or low/mid level position for a technical writer to serve as a team librarian. If I remember rightly, th…

"Say yes more" - from reading the book "Yes man" by Danny Wallace. It's a light and not-too-serious read, but I was much influenced by that central message. It got me outside …

It's a quotation from "The Princess Bride" so mostly a joke. The land war the movie is referring to is Vietnam, not generally considered an American success story. In the movie the humo…

Possibly in order to raise Pull Requests against the repo? https://github.com/jbranchaud/til/pulls?q=is%3Apr …

The Open University is pretty well respected: http://www.open.ac.uk/

What's supposed to happen is that you explore why some people think it's a low point task and others think it's a high point task. Typically you'll either find some rats nest of co…

The Kappa architecture succeeds the Lambda architecture. This article not only says that, but is the origin of the new term.

It has its fans: https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A303346

The obvious question to me is "What are the units?"

But if you're planning a trip, why would you plan it in Parsecs rather than Light Years (or some other more convenient unit) when you're not stuck on earth?

The point of a parsec is that if you're stuck on earth a very long way from the stars and you're trying to work out where they are relative to each other, you can take advantage of the fact …

Perhaps the inspiration behind this? https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23536914