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That's as American as Uncle Sam himself.

The dot com crash shook a lot of (then-)younger people out of the industry too.

It was the pinto that caught fire when rear-ended but the corvair had plenty of problems its own. Stability through corners, for starters.

> some settings where you should only ask questions if you are already sure of the answer you will get

"In open court" is one of those settings that springs to mind

Now I want to cry too.

You took it after they switched to Java, which abstracts away the mechanics of collections.

Linked lists were much more fundamental (and covered much earlier) when they were using C++.

Jaywalking isn't a felony in 33 states.

If you found someone else on, say, your college network, you could download songs from them faster than you could read their titles.

By refusing to have to prove themselves to "some damn machine" and demanding to see its manager.

Not entirely surprising - the biggest change in car technology over the past few years has been the inclusion of driver assistance features and liability is the most expensive component of auto insurance.

I could see gas being less efficient at heating a pan since it's using convection in an uncontained space.

What I was getting at was the fact that with electric, you're burning the gas inside a heat engine to generate power first, so right off the bat your best outcome is the Carnot limit.

If you're burning fuel for power that's one thing, but you don't get any conversion losses at all if you're burning it for heat underneath/inside the thing you want to be hot.

My college fight song has a call-and-response section where the band drops out and the crowd spells out the name of the mascot.

The crowd hears their own section yell in time to the band and then everything else just kind of seems like an echo of themselves.

To the band on the field, each letter comes back about 3/4 of a beat (375ms) late and much louder than the band itself.

Some tech debt behaves like a payday loan with usurious compounding interest.

The more insidious kind behaves more like a completely unhedged call option - fine, until it very suddenly isn't.

There are some great web frameworks out there (gin, mux, echo, etc) but one of Go's strengths is that it's just as easy to stand up a server without them.

Ideally, but what if those representatives and all of their credible opponents are doing a bad job and have been for years?

I've done this setup and so long as your communication and expectations are lined up it's brilliant.

A few years ago I was showing someone how many calls a request to Spotify makes and I noticed they were getting 429s from Sentry. An amusing little insight into what is surely a thorn in some Spotify engineer's side.

It brings up a valid concern. If the media (acting as the experts' proxy to the public) continually fail to distinguish between actual experts and political hacks is it really reasonable to expect other non-experts to do better?

I once had a boss who measured productivity in terms of number of commits each dev made per day.

Guess when I found out you can set cron jobs to run every minute?

> "powerful yet mystifying magic" I find in Rails

Django might avoid this to some extent but Django rest framework has you covered.

What's really staggering going back to an antenna is just how many channels there are to choose from now. Sure most of it comes off like they gave an AM radio station a TV studio, but a lot of it is great and all of it is free.

I wonder how many companies kite ideas like that out through the USPTO first to see how much blowback they get.

> you're trying to return nature to a previous state before humans interfered

"Those of you who volunteered to be injected with praying mantis DNA, I've got some good news and some bad news. Bad news is we're postponing those tests indefinitely. Good news is we've got a much better test for you: fighting an army of mantis men. Pick up a rifle and follow the yellow line. You'll know when the test starts."

The honor system isn't the problem, it's the total lack of any effective enforcement of it.

In other cities (and countries) you can be fined and/or detained for skipping your fare; in Seattle (according to the article at least) the situation seems to be more "pay your fare or I will chastise you a second time."

It's s long way up to the top of mt. Jnco but we're on our way

There was a brief period of time, say from the 60s to the early 10s, where offensive takes in public were slightly more tolerated, but that's what's in a lot of peoples memory. I'm sure it waxes and wanes.

Either way it's not as personally damaging to be accused of being a racist in 2022 as being accused of being a communist in 1952, let alone before that when expressing the wrong opinions loudly enough could get you tarred and feathered.

And here I was expecting to see how the power station is wired.

https://www.piping-designer.com/images/disciplines/electrica...

I've seriously thought about going hiking with a raspi running something that really wants to get friendly with any Bluetooth devices in range.

Lack of zoning is one element of the equation but having developed before the car is pretty crucial too. Houston, TX has no zoning laws to speak of but because most of its growth happened in the last century, it grew outwards instead of upwards.