A huge value in having authors upload the original source, is it divorces the content from the presentation (mostly). That the original sources were available was sufficient for a large majority of the corpus to be automatically rendered into HTML for easier reading on many devices: https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessible_HTML.html. I don't think it would have been as simple if they had to convert PDFs.
Not a talk show, but the pilot season of Mythbusters tackled this. They registered some false positives and the test manufacturer refused to admit it was possible.
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for"
The author's experience aligns with my own, both at university and working with government-funded scientific and engineering organizations. I suspect that many well-intentioned cybersecurity, outsourcing, and streamlining measures have, on the whole, significantly harmed the ability of these organizations to fulfill their missions.
I spent way too long trying to find a way to read this without making an account on X, so here's the recap:
An illustrator accidentally mislabelled a quasi-satellite named 2002-VE68 as a moon of Venus called “ZOOZVE" on a children's map (Venus doesn't have any proper moons).
Having also found the hyperventilating approach effective, I just want to note for other readers that hyperventilating before breath-holding is extremely dangerous when swimming or diving. This is heavily emphasized in safety trainings for swim coaches. It greatly increases your chances of hypoxic blackout: https://www.socom.mil/POTFF/Pages/Hypoxic%20blackout.aspx
Something I've learned recently is that the convention of when to use angle brackets and when to use quotes is not prescribed by the standard but instead is implementation-defined.
I don't think they are referring to the Reddit news, I think they are referring to the ongoing disagreement between the SO Inc staff and volunteer moderators and resulting strike over the new policy on generated content: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389811/moderation-s...
You're definitely right that some of the slowdown is due to physical wear. I have had the battery replaced once, about 2 years ago back when Apple was offering it at a reduced price, but it's back to "significantly degraded" status. I have a hard time thinking that the system software load increasing over time doesn't also have a significant impact, though.
I’m now to the point where I frequently have first party apps crash on my iPhone 7, plus the screen has phantom touch issues. I really don’t want to replace it though.
Clicking the auto-link of my address on an iOS device will open a route in Apple Maps to an address with a different street name on the wrong U.S. state. Apple Maps has come a long way, but it still doesn’t cut it.
The GNU Make documentation is excellent, and you can get t a long way with handwritten Make files, but when you move beyond a few translation units that have different needs, it be becomes much easier to maintain things with CMake.
Pocket Casts has a whole “Discover” tab with both algorithmic and human-curated recommendations, as well as browsing by category. I’m not sure what more you could ask for except for maybe user-generated shareable playlists.
Pocket Casts even has this excellent feature where you can share a link to the current time stamp in an episode and share it. The recipient of the link doesn’t even need to download the app; the shared snippet is playable right in the browser.
I’m so glad someone else pointed this particular case out! When I was a first year university student but still claimed as a dependent on my parents taxes, the accountant who prepared the returns wasn’t even aware that it needed to be reported, so they had to redo it. Later when I was doing taxes for myself via TaxAct, there was no way (that I could see) to accurately report that income. It also stumbled on HSA contribution limits. Both issues were easily resolved with the free fillable forms (which come with detailed, if overwhelming, instructions)
Well IRS Free File isn’t one single service. It’s a coalition of private tax prep services that have agreed with the IRS to provide their software for free to taxpayers meeting certain constraints. The insight into how your liabilities stack up certainly varies by product (I found TaxAct did this quite well, but I’ve stopped using them and started filing out the forms directly since I no longer qualify for the free file program).
How did we get here from the post about uv?