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This holiday season I rebooted https://game.stackybird.com (try on desktop). It's a project I started years ago when my son was born to teach him the programming mindset. He's …

Incredible video. Makes you wonder how many of those workers and users died. You will only find out that something went wrong 30 years later and that is horrifying for people that still have asbestos …

My wife has a side project selling antique maps. I built her a shopify site about 1 year ago that costs €30 p/m but it's hardly generating any revenue. I spent maybe 10 hours on it and she h…

If the death rates in children vs. elderly were reversed with COVID, all hell would have broken loose. There is nothing people are more protective over than their kids. Behavior would have been comple…

In my mind the resell value of intel macbooks dropped significantly with the M1 release. Not sure if that's reflected in the second hand market already, but I think it will.

I didn't mean using the acronym adjectivally, that would be ridiculous as your examples show ;) When expanding the examples and using the acronym as a noun you can indeed use both forms: Taxol g…

Very interesting! I don't think that grammar is the issue here. "FDA" and "the FDA" are apparently used interchangeably no matter the sentence. With NASA, the difference is th…

Ok, that's pretty embarrassing. It's obviously less straightforward than I thought.

I actually completely agree. If anything it's a one-way shibboleth: if people use "FDA" they likely have industry experience. The other way doesn't signal much.

I don't know, but am really curious to find out the rationale! I just noticed it as I started working on FDA approval of a medical device this year and thought it was really odd.

Fun fact: most professionals and all official FDA documents use "FDA" and never "The FDA". It's a neat little shibboleth because it is so counterintuitive to omit "the&qu…

You are right!

Seems more reasonable than the article! But aren't there simpler methods for this? Iron tools were a big time and money investment right?

So he is basing these super specific conclusions on the measurements of a single dodehycron? This is just silly number theory and can easily be proven or disproven by measuring and weighing another. I…

You should use cloudflare to handle surges in traffic like this. (Sorry, couldn't resist ;) )

That wording is brilliant. I struggle with this a lot in a regulated industry. Everyone wants to do The Right Thing, but doing it "The Right Way" and documenting accordingly is so much work!

I love his shirt: "Star Wars #1 Fan" with a picture of the Enterprise :D

Very cool :) Unfortunately it seems the sets are not complete so I can only add 2/3's of my kids' collection.

Well, antique books/prints were sometimes using recycled materials like even older books. The old writings can only be uncovered using x-ray scans or other tech. If you just do a normal scan, you…

*DML

How good are those DLM speakers? I can't find much about it, but the idea of having very good, completely flat $100 speakers is very appealing.

Fantastic idea! I find it really hard to give meaningful presents to people I care about. They already have everything they need, so often it's just food, wine, etc. For kids (that already have w…

I was working at Mendix previously. I believe Low-Code resonated much better with the market.

MDD is like overengineered OSI, while Low-Code is like pragmatic TCP/IP. From my experience, vendors remain the same but use the different names to go with the marketing appetite.

Maybe this could be considered prior art: a satirical Dutch commercial from 2007 (or earlier) about the "Star Wars Mosquito Defence System" https://youtu.be/TGkPMZxWPpA …

Works like a charm with Linux/Chrome and my Roland HP504! Interesting that there's no hints in Chrome that anything is connected. For the product, a great next step would be a link to a suit…

Wow, thanks for creating this @jacquesm! I'm going to give this a spin tonight with my kids!

Well, there was the 2009 satellite collision over Siberia. The problem with space debris is that it is uncontrollable and that movement isn't dampened as it is within the atmosphere.

I do this for FDA databases. Great to keep track of competitors and new product categories. Internal repo though.