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Proper Release Versioning Goes a Long Way.
The mathematical case against blaming people for their misfortune.
The problem is that much of economic and social life in affluent countries is structured to require individuals to commit most of their resources towards one strategy for pursuing a flourishing life. Taking out a student loan or mortgage, or buying a taxi medallion, are all strategies that require a large, if not total, commitment of a person’s financial resources. Here, real hedging would require us to start from a place of considerable wealth, and so it isn’t a viable strategy for many.
Naming things is hard. This sheet attempts to make it easier.
Interesting blog theme.
The Internet is (not) broken.
Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing (via lobste.rs).
I think that a better thought, instead of trying to defend 1-based indexing, is to try to answer the question “why is 0-based indexing even a thing in programming languages?” — of course, nowadays the number one reason is tradition and familiarity given other popular languages, and I think even proponents of 0-based indexing would agree, in spite of the fact that most of them wouldn’t even notice that they don’t call it a number zero reason.
TIL.
Sidetone is audible feedback to someone speaking or otherwise producing sound as an indication of active transmission.
Sidetone is expected behavior for telephone systems. Absence of sidetone can cause users to believe the call has been dropped or cause them to speak loudly. Too much sidetone can cause users to speak softly.
I remember RSS Bandwidth Fixes were one of the harder tasks when I tinkered with my own RSS aggregator.
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