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Re:The Therac-25 Incident
on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @12:09PM (#45041570)
This and Tacoma Narrows are literally the only topics covered in engineering ethics, which itself is literally only a one hour presentation.
Re:Student finds scorpion crawling inside Shein parcel
on Friday October 11, 2024 @10:47PM (#41815969)
good
Re:Drying Fruits (2003)
on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @02:30PM (#37485409)
The National Center for Home Food Preservation has an extensive website for canning, pickling, drying, and fermenting.
Re:Microsoft Appears to Have Lost the Source Code of an Office Component
on Saturday June 17, 2023 @05:35PM (#36374894)
Here is a nice white paper about a previous Excel 2007 bug, where a calculation that should result in 65535 is displayed as 100,000. The author concludes that since the patch only alters a few lines of assembly, that it was hand-coded.
http://lomont.org/papers/2007/excel-2007-bug/Excel2007Bug.pd...
Re:FBI chief says TikTok 'screams' of US national security concerns
on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @01:14PM (#35072607)
Is the US going to set up a Great Firewall to block tiktok.com? How is this going to work?
Re:A manifesto on shower temperature control
on Thursday February 02, 2023 @09:55PM (#34636576)
I want a valve that turns off the hot water supply completely after 10 minutes
Re:As Carvana crashes, used car dealers, not buyers, stand to win big
on Sunday December 11, 2022 @08:00PM (#33949548)
good
Re:Baker's Math (2009)
on Sunday October 02, 2022 @11:07AM (#33056507)
A “baker’s dozen” is 13. Presumably so that the baker gets one to himself.
Re:Qt signal is ten times slower than a virtual function
on Thursday August 11, 2022 @03:18PM (#32430450)
My TA in college said it stood for Quite Terrible.
I've used it once since then on an embedded vehicle guidance system, and it seemed fine, once you learn all it's quirks.
Re:Domino's spent $50.4M on TV ads to brag about $100k donation
on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @11:25AM (#32071307)
This is also true from the labor perspective.
Re:Free book to master SSH tunneling concepts
on Saturday January 15, 2022 @12:09PM (#29948073)
Is this just the man page for ssh? I’m not sure what’s going on here. If you understand the tool you know the ways it can be used.
Re:Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands for review f...
on Saturday September 18, 2021 @08:40PM (#28580662)
Jeopardy! hasn't had a $500 clue in 20 years
Re:8-Year-Old Calls Out NPR for Lack of Dinosaur Stories
on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @11:59PM (#26098401)
A Prairie Home Companion is also not a NPR program
Re:8-Year-Old Calls Out NPR for Lack of Dinosaur Stories
on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @11:58PM (#26098396)
Marketplace is not a NPR program
Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings
on Saturday December 05, 2020 @10:11AM (#25315088)
Is this even a trick? If you're setting up PiHole, you gotta recognize right away that this is an obvious way for devices to bypass it.
Re:How coronavirus infected my brain: anxiety, the internet, and keepi...
on Thursday April 09, 2020 @07:47AM (#22821619)
How can you tell it's a metaphor without clicking through? Since this is a "novel" virus, I thought it would be about some heretofore unheard of symptom.
Re:Why I Procrastinate (2019)
on Thursday January 23, 2020 @10:38PM (#22135198)
I think the bolded parts were really good for emphasis.
I’ve found myself thinking those exact thoughts ever since I suspected I suffered from ADHD, and I plan to quote them at my doctors when I seek my own ADHD diagnosis.
Re:Show HN: Tax plan impact calculator
on Thursday December 07, 2017 @02:10PM (#15872995)
I think the Married Filing Joint standard deduction for 2018 would be $13,000 under the current Code. Your comparison shows it as $12,700.
Re:Quitting Caffeine
on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @09:12AM (#15017863)
No one can make them feel inferior without their consent. They are just projecting their own insecurities.
Re:Let's crash the integrated browser in Facebook
on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @04:05PM (#13870999)
An iOS equivalent is Friendly
Re:Calling Yourself ‘Humbled’ Doesn’t Sound as Humble as It Used To
on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @08:40AM (#13481270)
You think you're really righteous? You think you're pure at heart? Well, I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art.
Re:The science of Westworld
on Saturday January 07, 2017 @11:55AM (#13345063)
Greg is white. Also, Greg is Lily.
Re:New NIST password guidelines: don't require character types or rota...
on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @08:49AM (#13175888)
I wrote a PowerShell script that does exactly this for Windows Domains.
Re:“There is no justifiable reason to be working 100+ hours a week."
on Monday December 05, 2016 @08:24PM (#13111499)
No politics.
Re:Share: The Icon No One Agrees On
on Thursday June 12, 2014 @03:40PM (#7885550)
I thought this was going to be about how I don't agree the icon should exist at all.
Re:It's time for the US to use the metric system
on Friday May 30, 2014 @11:34AM (#7822321)
Celsius is based on arbitrary state change temperatures of an arbitrary chemical, just like Fahrenheit.
Re:What can men do?
on Friday April 25, 2014 @11:43AM (#7647176)
I take it this is the first Jeff Atwood blog post you've read.
Re:Linkedin down
on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @11:55AM (#6599485)
who cares?
Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses
on Thursday May 30, 2013 @09:28AM (#5792322)
What does "unicode snowman" have to do with this?
Re:Designing a modern email
on Thursday April 11, 2013 @04:47PM (#5534677)
I frequently receive marketing emails from sites I never opted into. Either the site didn't provide a choice to opt-in or opt-out on the same form where I provided my e-mail address or they ignored my preference.