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Having run an over powered desktop to enable my gaming hobby, I have been toying with putting a "thin client" on my desk and my beefy rig in the living room. Computer performance h…

The true real win of Rust. Knowing that you are incredibly likely to be able to compile it without any hoops. Random C/C++ project can still be a roll of the dice.

It is a 12 year old legacy product. What specification exists other than, "Yesterday it did X when I clicked the button, but now it does not do that anymore."

Maybe there are some underlying architectural problems that need to be addressed, but it would be impossible make those changes from the current situation. It sounds like it is imp…

The system is an enormous black box and this at least tells you what N things were being manipulated at time in point X. Easy to setup and gives just a bit of peace and mind if the…

But shouldn't the product be created for the typical end user and not the 1% of cinemaphiles with a blessed setup? A pretty common complaint is that developers only test things on …

>...by not doing a offset test or picking literally anything but a GM X-frame car (notoriously bad at overlap crashed, even by 1950s standards) So you are mad that they used a stre…

What is the basic process for even starting a business? I have been kicking around an idea, and have thought about building a site. Strictly an off-hours, hobby amount of effort. I…

It did not seem like that was the message? More just identifying a point where needs are met?

My only complaint with it is this half-way json vs standard config file situation in which it finds itself. The documents push you to the json system, but most of the available doc…

What is a y equivalent gram of sweetener? A cursory look says a 12oz Coke Cola has 39grams of sugar while a Diet Coke has 0.2 grams of aspartame. How would you like it to be labell…

How much generation capacity has been shutdown since then? With the seemingly endless installation of solar panels, I am surprised of the generation warnings.

The book Windup Girl [0] is a SciFi novel set in a universe where climate change has completely altered the world. Fossil fuels are no longer available, so production is limited by…

I am reminded of this article [0] on how NASA develops software. For things that absolutely must work, standard development practices do not apply. Real Engineers do not get to lea…

The pain of getting finance to approve recurring charges is quite real.

The forced Snap-ification of Firefox pushed me from Ubuntu into another distro (Pop OS). A decade ago, Ubuntu offered real usability improvements (working Wifi, what?!) compared to…

I was curious, so as a point of comparison, the latest Common Crawl [0] is 3.1 billion pages and 370 TB uncompressed. I would presume that Bing would be significantly larger given …

>For example, if I try to go to stadia.com right now from this mac/safari, I'll just get a page that says "Stadia requires Chrome", Not exactly encouraging that Googles cares about…

The typical Amazon reviewer is unqualified to differentiate between shipping delays and product quality. No way I can have any expectations for subtle health changes.

It does not even provide a `--sort-keys` option. That's like 90% of the the reason I ever lean on jq - to standardize API output for my human brain.

I want to, really I do, but it feels like trading one devil for another. Email is by far the biggest albatross around my neck. To migrate email requires me to setup two different f…

While it does not address the root question, one benefit of sugar substitutes is that they are many times sweeter than sugar: stevia is 200-300x sweeter, resulting in less total ma…

I appreciate the explicitness, so indeed I would.

Ah yes, the "It's still in Beta" defense.

Last year, I was looking to upgrade my desktop. Found a review that was bemoaning a motherboard because it only had two M.2 slots. How many consumers use two, let alone would benef…