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Probiotics can help with gastrointestinal problems and are easy to use (they come in pills!)

My first question was "what should I be looking for when this image is compressed?" A good compression algorithm should preserve important qualities of the image, but I can't evaluate t…

85% of software engineering graduates from the University of Waterloo do so every year. https://x.com/danluu/status/1351785083598893062 Anyone who can code is fleeing this c…

I find it hilarious that boomers used to hire assassins from a magazine and that was more successful than the "darkweb hitmen" today.

Literally every city in southern Ontario is now a bedroom community of Toronto. There isn't anywhere else to move. Let's take London, Ontario, a city of 400,000 people 120 miles (200 km) fro…

Kagi search isn't free either.

Arbitrary precision sounds good but my registers have 64 bits and it takes several instructions to load arbitrary bit slices from memory. It's a lot more performant to use the equivalent of scien…

"Floating points are the worst method of representing rational numbers, except for all the others." —Winston Churchill probably

Alternative alphabets have been kicking around for ages as a way to make it easier to learn English; mainly because our existing alphabet is inconsistent and doesn't have a 1-to-1 correspondence …

The court would make a "declaration of incompatibility" with the ECHR which leaves it up to Parliament to change the law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_in…

It's entirely possible for something to be a positive-sum game, and still have people individually acting in their own self-interest reducing the size of the economy. Global warming is the same t…

The less labour rights a country has, the more competitive a country's businesses are. If you can keep your workers in quasi-indentured servitude, you're going to be more profitable than a b…

If twenty components work 99% of the time, then they only have an 0.99^20 = 82% chance of working as a collective. If your 5.1 GHz (billion instructions per second) CPU had a 0.00000001% chance of fai…

I've been getting randomly flung by the terrain in Roblox since 2008.

It goes against the spirit of the thought experiment because it's an attack on that spirit. Abstractly, Rawls says society shouldn't be racially/ethnically/socioeconomically/e…

I watched something based on this in my debate club, so this isn't my own original thought. There's a strong argument that the knowledge someone has from being disadvantaged contributes to t…

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/meta-openai-say-disrup... https://openai.com/index/disrupting-deceptive-uses-of-AI-by-... OpenAI has also banned …

In Canada, we have software and computer engineering programs accredited by the same entity (CEAB) that does civil engineering. My program is more out of date (Java Server Pages, VHDL) but the school …

Brilliant. I own some Bed Bath and Beyond stock. I was going to sell it for a ton of money, but now that the company is bankrupt, I can sell it for practically nothing and avoid taxes!

Original article: https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/04/video-engineering/inst... I'm a huge fan of Ryan Peterman. I appreciated his actionable advice on his …

Journalists are often judged based on their public output. You get bylines on published articles, and you can use those to apply for jobs. There's not much emphasis on secrecy because the goal of…

This is a good point. It's a occupational hazard that's been joked about for decades (as Royal Mail acknowledges). The article doesn't say what the postal service is doing to mitigate t…

The most important metaskill is reading paragraphs. The reason? It allows you to read books instead of blog posts made out of single sentences. The big-picture style of writing only gives us an overvi…

I've never had that when using Gentoo but I started in 2016 or so. The IRC was helpful in getting me started and I learned a lot in menuconfig.

It's on-topic when the author said: > Funtoo started as a philosophy to create a fun community of contributors building something great together. For me, it's no longer that so I need to …

For those that don't understand the differences between Funtoo and Gentoo, this is a good summary: https://www.funtoo.org/Wolf_Pack_Philosophy My understanding is that it was cre…

My current solution to std::vectors not being constexpr is initializing a std::array with an immediately invoked lambda expression. That lets me algorithmically determine the size of the array at comp…

I'm more interested in hearing why the above post and the examples you've cited fixed the problems that others have encountered in the socialism space. If this was a startup trying to make…