Tautology

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Most people can recognize the Visa and Mastercard brands. Chances are, you use one of their cards to transact every day. You may have som...

When I was younger, I thought that money was cash. In this view, if you went to a bank and deposited a dollar, at the end of the day, the dollar would be placed neatly next to a stack of gold bricks, in a vault deep beneath the bank. If you sent a wire, t

How do React hooks know which component instance is being called, without being passed a stable identifier? There are many high quality answers online. For me, they either focus too much on React internals ( Fibers , render cycle , ReactFiberHooks ), or a

.footnotes li { font-size: 0.85em; } .footnotes ol { margin-top: 3rem; margin-left: 16px; } I observed lately that there aren't many things that I've done ten or more times. Ten is low enough to be reasonable, but is high enough that it takes some intenti

I got a charcoal grill. A portable, no-frills, Weber Jumbo Joe . It is a cute, round, and pleasingly-shaped little thing. You can get one used very cheaply. Contrary to its name, "Jumbo" Joe is one of the smaller grills you can get. (Smaller yet is "Smoke

Overwatering and underwatering have similar symptoms, but an overwatered plant is much harder to save. Overwatering causes root rot which dries out plants. A good cadence to water is often every two weeks, or even less. Water when poking a finger into the

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One question I had for a long time: What makes a destination IP address authoritative? I know you can spoof sending a message as a different IP address , but even if your ISP didn't prevent you, you wouldn't receive a response because it would be routed t