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This is great, thank you! Python's asyncio has certainly confused me more than other languages' async-await implementations. Nit in [1]: When timing durations inside of a program i…

I've done the same, but in case you didn't know Kitty can do that automatically (though it does a bit more that you may or may not want it to do) https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/ki…

> what's going on under the hood Rather simple methods are surprisingly effective [1]. There's sure to be more NN fanciness nowadays (like Apple's proposed NeuralHash), but I've us…

It _should_ be, but when I've tried to use format=flowed text still ends up displayed hard wrapped, especially on major mobile clients.

As I couldn't find the nice page about the IAP policy that I read and found quite clear ~4 years ago (you should verify, don't trust people on the Internet): the old rules prior to…

In the US, Zelle vs. Venmo is comparable to debit card vs. credit card. With Zelle/debit, you're basically mailing cash - it might get lost in transit, your money is gone right awa…

For things like "there's" vs. "there're", not too much harm besides a loss of precision, Grammer can be sloppy and meaning is still understood. But for "could care less" or "cannot…

They could get lucky and find one that fell off of a truck. https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/

Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but Windows 11 users who use Google chrome are only really a crowd at the User Agent string level. Chrome allows much deeper fingerprinti…

To hurl means to throw forcefully, and is commonly used as a synonym for vomiting, c.f. "throw up"

I completely agree with you, and I think you've worded this better than I have. I was trying to advocate for the middle path, where there's healthy communication from both sides, t…

I believe that the engineers are competent at developing software, and think that a lot of the quality issues are due to engineers abdicating authority over the software to manager…

Location: North Dakota, US Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Yes, for the right opportunity Technologies: Python (pandas, plotting, *nixy things, keras, flask), C# (asp.net co…

> ...caused trouble for Mastodon clients on various app stores (i.e. if you can use the generic client to connect to gab, the app could fail the app store's content policies and no…

I use a similar setup in Emacs with code-cells.el [1]. VSCode had a tendency to choke rendering large interactive graphs in-line, so if I was needing to view in a separate process …

Related: `m-x glasses-mode` inserts a virtual underscore (configurable of course) to turn camelCase into camel_Case

> This post seem to blame victims for the problem, and that is not fair. Indeed, the scammers are the bad guys. At the same time, what about people that still fall for Nigerian pri…

Even in war, we don't universally take "I was following orders" as a valid excuse. People writing surveillance software are not innocent - not as guilty as those that gave the orde…

Related - The Church of Interruption [1]. > When people are interrupting each other - when they're constantly tugging the conversation back and forth between their preferred direct…

"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter"

Dynamic range compression is called different things on different platforms, "midnight mode", "reduce loud sounds", on Windows it's "loudness equalization".

I appreciate the question you posed in your original post. I'd challenge you to engage with GP rather than deriding them. Your comment comes off as a selfish display of moral super…

For a programmer, screen real estate (dependent on scaling). I look at 4k 100% scaling as having condensed two 1080p monitors without bezels.

I've found that novelty, (new-to-me at least) to be much more distracting than the presence of lyrics, whether that be a new artist or a new song order. As my unit of listening is …