jkern

He says that having the ability to tailor the amount of powder for the size of the load is one of the selling points of powder. But I'm guessing most people would much rather waste the few cents of savings in exchange for not needing to think about their dishes even that tiny bit extra.

We're earthlings. Let's blow up earth things

Totally agree. Kim's vocals are usually way more interesting

I enjoy Sonic Youth a fair bit, but in the majority of cases find Thurston Moore completely uncompelling as a singer.

Glyphosate is great for killing the invasive Tree of Heaven which is rampant in my area. Really the only time I've needed to use it personally

I'm not trying to be harsh, but it genuinely sounds like you have no idea what you're talking about

It really is jarring that this is about the actual justification for a war, and his response basically boils down to "well we don't know they haven't done it or if they might in the future".

Bit of a Pyrrhic victory isn't it?

Funnily enough I've had a very similar bug occur in an entirely separate redis library. It was a pretty troubling failure mode to suddenly start getting back unrelated data

I do a similar thing, except for making gifs:

    if [ -z $3 ] 
    then
        echo "usage: $0 file start_seconds duration [scale=600] [fps=15] [crop]"
        exit 1
    fi

    if [ -z $4 ]
    then
        SCALE=600
    else
        # w=iw/2:h=ih/2 half size
        SCALE="$4"
    fi

    if [ -z $5 ]
    then
        FPS=15
    else
        FPS=$5
    fi

    if [ -z $6 ]
    then 
        CROP="crop=iw:ih:0:0,"
    else
        # CROP="600:ih:250:0" full height
        CROP="setsar=1,crop=${6},"
    fi

    rm "${1}.gif" &> /dev/null

    ffmpeg -ss $2 -t $3 -i "$1" -vf  ${CROP}fps=${FPS},scale=${SCALE}:-1:flags=lanczos,palettegen palette.png -loglevel error
    ffmpeg -ss $2 -t $3 -i "$1" -i palette.png -filter_complex "${CROP}fps=${FPS},scale=${SCALE}:-1:flags=lanczos[x];[x][1:v]paletteuse" "${1}.gif" -loglevel error

Ohhhh that's lovely

I'm not sure bashrc tweaks completely qualify but considering it involves probably the most convoluted shell script I've ever had to come up with I'll plug https://github.com/jkern888/bash-dir-collapse. I like having the current directory in my prompt but got annoyed at how long it could get so made this to shrink the overall length without completely sacrificing the full path

You sold me! Starting it now

Yep this is how we've been doing it at my house too, and results are great.

For your first claim, I wish people would stop talking about feminism in this way precisely because it is such a generally accepted stance. The better question is in what ways does one believe men and women aren't structurally equal?

This also seemed weird to me. From the tone of the article I was expecting that they never even replaced the phone booths or something like that. But it sounds like they were replaced within a month, which seems fairly prompt considering they weren't essential items

I'm going to be generous and hope this is some really dry humor and not an actual comment

So you can remotely cause a kernel panic on basically any system with kernel newer than 2.6.28? The doesn't sound great

Ha. I like the way you think!

Yep. Take a look at https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

The comparison to Abu Ghraib is about the low level military officers there, and how they took the entirety of the blame for their bad actions when what they were doing was pretty clearly encouraged by a lot of the chain of command.

That said I don't agree with the comparison at all.

My understanding is that graph databases are better suited to handling many-to-many relationships

I'm not a parent but maybe this is a result of an increasingly competitive landscape for kids these days. I can easily see parents worried more about their kids falling behind in ways that institutions care about.

It seems to me less a question of how social the various STEM fields are than that CS is more closely tied into the larger internet culture. Especially for young men I can see this making them more insular as a group even if they're, in lots of ways, just as social

It sounds click-baity and is probably making people think of other internet junk like "you'll never believe this crazy trick to do X". It's also just an unnecessary sentence since the reader is already expecting that if they keep reading you'll give more details.

Keep in mind that if the company now feels like they're overpaying that may impact their future decisions about salary .

It seems like this would be true if everything were working perfectly and there was a gradient of purchasing options across price/expiration. As it is consumers really don't have any choice wrt expiration date since as far as I'm aware the option to pay more for longer lasting drugs doesn't really exist.

So that's a no then?

Do you have a personal connection to Stripe?

When he was doing the same work by hand he was producing data with errors in it. All he's done is achieve the same error rate he had before. I don't see why the fact he could trivially reduce the errors to 0 is relevant when from the employer's point of view the exact same result is being produced.