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Is this actually clickbait? The title is in the form of many clickbait title, but I'd argue it delivers; the article is more interesting than the title.

I suggest readers spend the click and the five minutes.


It's written by Ed Yong, who is a national treasure.

Hell yes, you should read it.


Defacement is not the point of graffiti. It's fundamentally visual, not fundamentally destructive.

Ask the people who have to clean it off.

they have no choice, and i don't care what their bosses think.

That is a really edgy and cool opinion.

Seriously? 99% is some stupid tag.. no art at all.. just the equivalent of a dog lifting his leg in paint..


Sorry for meta comments, but are we writing blogs like tweets now? I got 2/3 of the way through before getting overwhelmed by the lack of paragraph groupings to help me follow the stream of consciousness.

Interesting post though.


And the dishwasher, the laundry washer/dryer...

There's also plenty of examples where technology creates something very different than the thing that humans were doing: photograph vs painting, car vs horse/bike. It would be silly to say that we have all this horse infrastructure and saddle UX that we don't want to break compatibility with.

Maybe the lesson is that humans are adaptable but machines/manufacturing is not? It's easier to make a great new thing that humans will use than it is to make a cost-effective production thing that exactly replaces what humans did.


There are different ways to create an iceberg. You are probably thinking of a hard chunk of ice breaking off into the ocean, but probably a more common way is glaciers running into the ocean. A glacier is basically a "river" of snow and ice slowly flowing down a mountain. It would generally not be very compacted.

Fun fact: smaller chunks (less than 15m) are called "bergy bits".


Yes! Clean code (which is more readable and maintainable) should be a stop on the way to higher performance code. Otherwise, you are optimizing too early.


To be clear, I greatly disagree with Clean Code’s notion of what constitutes readable and maintainable code.


A food processor is a kitchen tool even though it does many things.

A computer is also a tool that does many things and the OS is arguably the important part of how a user wields that tool.


> A food processor is a kitchen tool even though it does many things.

It does variations of the same thing.

A computer is more of a toolbox than a tool.


Isn't a food processor just what certain marketing teams call a blender?


Blending is just one of the functions of a food processor. A food processor can usually also do kneading, mincing, and slicing, or (depending on extensions) even rolling (pasta) dough and squeezing citrus fruits.


Growing up I definitely noticed the wobble.

But I'm also so used to it that I didn't realize a lot of examples were videos.

Really interesting investigation!


Jurassic Park had a Thinking Machines CM-5.

https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=15

"The lights flash just like they do normally, although it's hard to understand why a theme park needs a supercomputer."

:D


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