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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.

https://nchfp.uga.edu/

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...

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
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.

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.
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
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.
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
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.
I wrote a PowerShell script that does exactly this for Windows Domains.

http://pastebin.com/raw/ytwy0nCB

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.

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