(Originally posted on Quora ) As a programmer, you learn to blame your code first, second, and third... and somewhere around 10,000th you blame the compiler. Well down the list after that, you blame t
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7 min read · Jan 3, 2021 -- There is a “free speech” petition circulating right now in my academic community. I feel that simply not signing it is insufficient; here I want to explain why I am not sig
The resilience of American democracy has been sorely tested by Mr. Trump’s first term. Four more years would be worse. But even as Americans wait to vote in lines that stretch for blocks through their
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Photo by Target Presse Agentur Gmbh/Getty Images Thirty years ago, the philosopher Judith Butler *, now 64, published a book that revolutionised popular attitudes on gender. Gender Trouble , the work
Before Shaun Of The Dead , before Hot Fuzz , before The World’s End , the project that first brought together the likes of Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes and Nick Frost was Spaced . The ‘90s
Tony Stark should have died at the end of the first Avengers film. The final scene saw Iron Man take a nuclear weapon through an alien wormhole, detonate it in the middle of a pan-dimensional army and
Kobe Bryant, you have probably heard, died in a helicopter crash today , along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and several other people who have not yet been identified. It’s a terrible, heartb
Any time you talk about money, you risk sounding like a jerk. I’m going to take that risk in this post. I’ll start out by talking about a couple ways I shot myself in the foot financially and what I l
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After testing, our favorite cast iron skillets are the Lodge 10.25-Inch Skillet and Lodge Blacklock 10.25-Inch Skillet . If you haven't noticed, I'm a big fan of the cast iron. When I packed up my apa
“My son is on the severe end of the autism spectrum.” “We’re all a little autistic– it’s a spectrum.” “I’m not autistic but I’m definitely ‘on the spectrum.'” If only people knew what a spectrum is …
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Photo collage by Slate. Photos by Marvel/Disney. What is it like to see Avengers: Endgame if you haven’t seen the 21 previous Marvel movies that came before? We sent two Marvel newbies to find out and
San Francisco Had an Ambitious Plan to Tackle School Segregation. It Made It Worse. Rooftop Elementary School in San Francisco. The city allows parents to apply to any school in the district, having d
We have just seen the first image of a black hole, the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87 with a mass 6.5 billion times that of our sun. But what is that image really showing us? This is an awe
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The hyphen is a punctuation mark that I think about fairly regularly and today was no exception. Many grammatical freaks fret about the misuse of semicolons and apostrophes—nearly all hope is lost for
“I’m not a hero. I just happened to be the medic there that day,” said former Army Staff Sergeant Ronald Shurer, who received the Medal of Honor from President Trump in October. Medal of Honor recipie
Soon after Federick Banting discovered that insulin could be used to treat diabetes in 1921, he sold the patent to the University of Toronto for about a dollar. Banting received the Nobel prize becaus
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Purl, directed by Kristen Lester and produced by Gillian Libbert-Duncan, features an earnest ball of yarn named Purl who gets a job in a fast-paced, high energy, bro-tastic start-up. Yarny hijinks ens
WARNING: Strobe lighting between 8:58 and 9:03. Please be wary of this. Breath of the Wild is a phenomenal achievement, and in this video I take a look at how the works of Studio Ghibli helped shape a
This movie was not supposed to be good. Here’s the plot: A middle-aged cardiovascular surgeon’s wife is killed by a one-armed man, and said surgeon is sent to death row. But his bus crashes on the way
In this 27-minute video, Bismuth explains how fellow speedrunner Kosmic achieved the world record for the fastest Super Mario Bros game ever. 27 minutes may sound daunting, but if you've ever played S
TANK May 23, 2018 TANK is an animated short film that I have been working on for a year and half. It's up today on Red Giant's site . The Making of Tank The way I made TANK is a little crazy. I made i
A look inside the Xbox Inclusive Tech Lab as they reveal their new controller with improved accessibility. (Video shot and edited by CNE and Justin Wolfson. Click here for transcript .) REDMOND, Washi
When Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One was published in 2011, the reviews were ecstatic, beatific. It was an “ enchanting ,” “ accessible ” “ nerdgasm ” full of “ fascinating social commentary ” that on
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W itches, man. Just when you thought we were safe from their malignant influence on America’s virtue, the NFL has proven we are still in real danger from their dark powers. It is fortunate for our cou
Small, quiet, powerful - normally you have to pick two - but Compulab thinks they have changed that with the Airtop 2. Check out the Inferno Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/106508559
On March 3rd, during a large East Coast winter storm, I headed to the ocean to capture some wave action. My travels eventually took me to Great Island Commons in New Castle, New Hampshire, where Whale
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Here's a tip from Cabel Sasser of Panic for those of you out there with Touch Bar MacBook Pros who use Terminal and the "sudo" command frequently. Pro MacBook Pro Tip: have a Touch Bar with Touch ID?