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> Same reason why they stared iodine to salt… because people were having mental development issues. This is not directly related to the topic of Fluoride, but Iodine was actually i…

The status of Dendrite and its position vs Synapse is covered a bit in the Holiday Update: https://matrix.org/blog/2022/12/25/the-matrix-holiday-update... The relevant section: > T…

This reminds me of the general idea behind Tripwire[1] for macOS. I last looked into it back in 2005 (we went with other approaches), so it may have changed since then, but it moni…

HP used to make amazing monochrome laser printers. I can't really speak to other brands, but I maintained dozens of LaserJet 4000, 4050, and 4100 printers. https://en.wikipedia.org…

Sadly, my experience with FLEXlm has been far from fascinating. Matlab uses it, and Matlab has some weird license types (that we use) that don't map well to FLEXlm, so they approxi…

I use zfsnap.[1] It's been forever since I've worked on it (hence why it's now "archived" on GitHub), but it's stable for my use and I use it on all ZFS systems I manage. [1] https…

Though from an entirely different era than the songs covered in the article, I feel I must share some of my favorites here: * I'm Gonna be an Engineer - Pete Seeger https://youtu.b…

I would like to second this recommendation. I have found "Beginning Portable Shell Scripting" to be invaluable --- and far more comprehensive than I expected given the "Beginning" …

The lab I work in publishes, and has continues to extend, the studyforrest dataset for quite a few years now. http://studyforrest.org Most of the consumers so far have been neurosc…

Please note that number is in USD. I personally have no problem staying under $100k; I live in Germany and work at a university. But imagine if you lived in Switzerland or Norway. …

I agree with you. One culture's horrifying misuse of a symbol should not censor it for all and forever. My roommate for the first two years of college was raised as a Jain[1], and …

I assume he means Party Lines as in the phone system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony) ---Alex

I agree, Game Pass is a /great/ service. And, their streaming technology is pretty standard (granted, woven through an odd maze of servers) and stable. Because of that, I and a few…

Neither are new books, but this year I both read and subsequently gifted * 1491 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_A... * Stranger in a Strange Land (the "O…

> and, uh, that i3-like compositor, I forgot its name. The i3-like compositor is called sway: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/ As an i3 user, I'm pretty happy to see it so far alo…

The quote/joke comes from the intro of Garrison Keillor's radio show "Lake Wobegon", about life in a fictional city in Minnesota. So, hopefully that makes it a little less depressi…

Tree Style Tabs is the primary reason why I stick with Firefox. Without it, I wouldn't even know where to begin managing the relevant sites/info I encounter when reading up on dive…

No sources on this nor am I a developer on any of this, so take with the appropriate truck-load of salt. But, from what I remember from when the OOXML debacle was news, is that the…

Champagne? Or did you go to UIUC as well? ;-) ---Alex

Make works well for me... TMPDIR=$(BASEDIR)/tmp THEME=$(BASEDIR)/theme THEME_CSS=$(THEME)/css THEME_FONT=$(THEME)/fonts THEME_JS=$(THEME)/js VER_BOOTSTRAP=3.3.6 VER_FONTAWESOME=4.5…

Thanks for the link. After a brief skim, the articles feel more like generic science and technology news rather than a curation of the ideas and news we all have to keep up with in…

Excellent! And it's even for HN. :-D

I need to get my compulsive tech news checking under control. Simply, I need to do a better job of turning off and focusing my attention. Does anyone know of a weekly digest, or sl…

I'm going to re-quote the parent for you. > Routing traffic just isn't as trivial as you think it is ---Alex

Ahh, thanks for pointing that out; I didn't notice it was an old post. Usually those have the date (2008) at the end of the title.