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On the topic of English and speaking it better each day: the funny „upside down quotes” are an instant giveaway that you are German. It’s not really a correct typographic treatment of quotes in Englis…

Looks like this was eaten by link rot. You can find it here: https://smartbear.com/blog/test-and-monitor/fabrice-bellard-... …

It's an unreliable keyboard, but I'm not sure it's worse than e.g. the hockey puck mouse, the G4 Cube or "antennagate".

This is arguably a chicken-and-egg problem. If products like Photoshop make these pain points obvious to more users, Apple has good reason to improve such workflows.

This and the document @gnachman posted has me intrigued. Are you saying that subpixel AA is not just like a multichannel mask? I would expect the amount of R/G/B foreground and background co…

I worked as tech support in a call center years ago. In my experience, the biggest barrier to customer satisfaction was not what I did, but the many conflicting and antagonistic rules I had to follow.…

This was confusing, I thought this was an AMA with James Halliday.

I have probably always thought of meritocracy as an obviously good and economically sound principle, but this just made me realize that it’s basically local optimization. If we want the economy as a …

Wouldn’t it be possible to introduce a versioning mechanism, similar to strict mode, where you could opt in to a newer version of JavaScript? This issue is not going to go away, almost any sensible me…

Thanks for posting, to me that was a much more potent illusion. I can hear whatever combination of brain/green and needle/storm I’m thinking of. It’s interesting how both this and the yanny&…

Wow, I had no idea this was such a common issue. That explains my unreliable left cmd and up arrow keys.

Sorry! I should’ve both read and expressed myself more carefully. I meant the Klein bottle topology, not the torus. EDIT: FWIW torus puzzles are definitely not a new thing - I had this one as a kid: …

Could someone who understands the topology of this more fully say - if I had a set of two or more of these, could I solve each separately and put the solved puzzles together into a larger pattern?

As pointed out, this is a rather trollish comment. I though the “significant” qualifier would be clear. Participating in a fossil fuel loving society is not enough; spending big money to systematicall…

We should start talking about actions that contribute to global warming in a significant/active/systemic way as crimes against humanity. That is what they are. Executives and politicians nee…

That’s a terrible idea: parseInt(0.000001) // 0 parseInt(0.0000001) // 1

I opened the link and only skimmed it, but I left the tab open in the background since it seemed like an interesting read to return to later. Then they started to blink the tab title. It's one …

I’m guessing that “photo” is in fact a mock-up? Because it appears to show a screen that is able to occlude the background with both light and dark colors, which is not consistent with the description…

Since the content of the request is very generic and applies to almost any individual and business, it's not unthinkable that it will be automated on the other end, so anyone can push a button an…

I wonder how to deal with data that is accidentally identifiable. For example, imagine that you are running an anonymous poll or survey. In the general case that would not identify an individual perso…

Of course! I’m not saying it’s rational. If I had experience hand-writing machine code maybe I would feel the same about that...

I always get an uneasy feeling when this is not (practically) possible. Whenever I add a dependency to a project I will at least skim through the source to get an idea of what it is I’m adding, and it…

I’m not saying that obesity does not come from eating too much and/or eating the wrong type of food. I’m talking about the mechanisms that drive this behavior, and what it takes to beat them. Wil…

This Vox article is a well sourced but easy to read overview. https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/12/7/16587316/ba... …

This comment is perpetuating many falsehoods about obesity. For most people with chronic obesity, it is not really a matter of willpower. Just because the direct cause of their condition is too high f…

Is there a reason why functional programming algebra insists on using one letter identifiers?