What's your GMT offset? If you're in North America, it's at least -5, so you can celebrate the new year at the same as the UK, which would be 7:00 pm eastern.

I guess what I'm saying is, if this is actually something that works, I'd like someone to explain the actual mechanism affecting the change. It's not magic, and I don't think that moisture is leaving the bread and entering the cookies, because there's not really much moisture in bread to begin with, and I don't really…

I'm not sure this jibes with the little bit I know of the chemistry of why baked goods go stale. The article you linked to is concerned with keeping the brownies "moist" by keeping moisture (read: water?) in the brownies. I think, however, that baked goods go stale because they absorb excess moisture, which causes the…

Same, although recently I've been considering trying to celebrate a general winter solstice type of holiday. That's probably a non-starter, but I still like the idea.

Yes, that's correct as far as I know. You require CSS3 in conjunction with the HTML to write a Rule110 machine.

I think, in combination, they are Turing complete, so an argument could made that they are.

That's... a bit darker than I would go. I tend to go the whole educate or marginalize route.

There was a lot of misunderstanding on this thread about what atheism and agnosticism are, so I apologize for sounding condescending if it's something you were always aware of.

I think you're misunderstanding atheism. An atheist doesn't "believe" anything, and that's the entire point. It's not a belief in absence, it's an absence of belief.

Maybe you're just an agnostic atheist. Totally possible to be both of those things.

This is a common misrepresentation of atheism as being a positive identifier, instead of a negative identifier. It's not an affirmative belief in anything, which is the whole point. Atheism is the ABSENCE of belief in a deity, and that's not a faith based claim at all, nor is it an " organized collection of beliefs".…

Yes! It started and I was like, "Copland!?" I mean, it's okay to copy greatness I think, but they didn't retain any of the emotion of their inspiration.

I substitute sweet potatoes for meat sometime. They were on sale this week for $0.49 / lbs at the store.

I always hear people say you should learn to code, it's so beneficial, blah blah blah. I'm a software engineer, and I don't agree that it's a useful skill for most people, but I want to get a sort of informal poll here. Is there anyone who has learned how to code and been able to apply that skill to their job in a way…

I mean, have you been to their website? Read their statement then scroll to the bottom and read their profiles. That is essentially what they are.

I have two dogs, long and short hair. I finally picked this model up when it was on sale, refurbished for something like 60% off on Woot!. It is spectacular. The switch for turning off the brush for hardwoods is genius.

I have two dogs, long and short hair. I finally picked this model up when it was on sale, refurbished for something…

When I and the rest of my team are bringing on new team members, these are the things that can put people over the top. There is some base level of software skill that is required obviously, but if you're completely unfamiliar with unit testing, I can teach you that. The following things, however, are incredibly…

Web developer != web designer

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Told me 911, which I would totally buy, but turbo. None of those bullshit naturally aspirated 911's thank-you-very-much.