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khy··on Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
I had a car that had a single physical input: a dial that you could press. The dial would move the focus around the screen, and you'd press the dial to click. This was, in my opinion, a far superior experience than regular touch screens, and it probably doesn't suffer from the problem you're describing.
khy··on A word used only by Postgres developers
I've noticed that the docs sometimes use the verb "spell" in an interesting way, e.g. "IN GROUP is an obsolete spelling of IN ROLE."
khy··on Great Vowel Shift
If anyone finds this subject interesting, I recommend The History of English Podcast: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com.
khy··on Amazon Destroys the Intellectual Justifications for Capitalism
What would illegal lobbying look like in the US?
khy··on The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
Ah, they split the cash along those lines? I see.
khy··on The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
Why do they specify that two of them split only half of the prize, versus just that all three share it? Does anyone care _how much_ of a Nobel prize you have?
khy··on Apollo – An Extensible Docker-Based Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Not sure which is more overloaded: "apollo" or "spark".
khy··on We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead
It's a weird, nice feeling watching your software in use well beyond it's planned - or more frequently, assumed - obsolescence.
khy··on With 200M daily users, Giphy will soon test sponsored GIFs
I interact with Giphy exclusively through Slack. Am I a daily active user?
khy··on “Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug ever is under active exploit
I was actually happy to see that the submitted link didn't point to the "marketing site" for the vulnerability.
khy··on Pgslice: Postgres partitioning as easy as pie
> Battle-tested at Instacart

I assume so.

khy··on NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?
This implementation reads almost as parody, although I don't suspect that the author meant it as such. If you didn't have a sense of what lurked behind the abstraction, it would be kinda beautiful.
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