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TIL I can just view markdown in okular directly instead of using a script that converts markdown to html, then converts html to pdf, then opens that pdf in okular.

that is really cool. well done!

actually, that sounds like a pretty good feedback mechanism, especially if you come up with a way to get lat/long and/or an accurate timestamp.

I derailed after this sentence. I searched for more uses of "rats" in the article, then looked in the HN comments to see if it was a bit of jargon that I was unaware of. I read "Le…

so far, I've used it to kill a bunch of time trying to get it to respond to "Hi @Kirk" in a private Slack channel. ...and to laugh a little every time it calls me "commander" or as…

It would make sense that the holes were a convenient way of thinking and speaking about large quantities of goods such that tribes of people might want to exchange. It would be a v…

This all makes a lot of sense. It is worth pointing out that AI isn't terrible at cleaning up tech debt. I've absolutely used it cleanup code sprawl and to correct design missteps.…

I've been using the "Zim desktop wiki" like this for years. I do recommend it as well...super handy to be able to go looking for my thoughts or snippets from 6 months ago. I can al…

I agree with this soo much. In a very real way, a codebase is a conversation among developers. There's every chance the next guy will be less familiar with the code than you, who j…

the chain link tech in Seveneves was wild. as a nearly perfectly uninformed occasional consumer of space-related articles, I can say it makes a lot of sense (to me) why we'd use so…

To all the commenters who asked if it's worth it? IMO it's super worth it if you have more than one wifi access point and it gets more and more worth it as your network gets more c…

same :(

Same. I once registered bithole.com because I wanted a better email address then what I had at yahoo.com...and I realized my mistake as I was typing it on my resume. This feels lik…

This reminds me of Auggie's photo album in Smoke..."Sometimes the different ones become the same ones and the same ones disappear." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGV_h36uZ5E

I agree with some of the article. I agree that code is a liability that's distinct from the asset that the code is part of. It's like tires on a car, they're liability-like whereas…

I have to admit, I'm not up to speed on anything he's been up to lately, but I absolutely read and enjoyed Dilbert way back when. I'm sorry to hear he's not long for the world. Eve…

I'm actually super-interested to see the next post. TBH, if you would've asked me yesterday if I'm the sort of person who might get sucked in by a cliffhanger story about a numpy r…

I love this line in the post: "The next time you use something that works so well you barely notice it, remember that somewhere, a designer solved a problem so thoroughly that both…

That's a long read, but it is an awkward thing tbh. My take on it is that, if you're going to write a decorator, make sure you test it thoroughly and be sure to cover the ways that…

I use solaar with a mx master 3s and it's great (thumbscrolling works as it should) except the mouse battery level indicator is uncalibrated...20% at the highest, then it's quickly…

LOL, that would be the sound of freedom from proper precautions :)

How's that work? My employer doesn't offer health insurance, just reimbursement and every plan on the marketplace is an HMO.

I'll admit that I'm not well versed in the different shades of suspend...I had to look up S3 and it definitely eats more battery than I'd like when it's suspended. With that said, …

It looks like the author has hit some pretty serious snags along the way and is a lot more understanding than I might be under similar circumstances. My experience, having just bou…

I disagree that we're greatly off-target. We can certainly build a grenade-dropper that sometimes picks the wrong target and gets intercepted by hostile actors. We have LLMs that a…