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Everyone has their own opinion as to what the best literature is, just like what the best music is. But there is also some consensus. For music it would be Beethoven, Mozart, the B…

To save everyone time: I just tried this and while ChatGPT got it wrong, Gemini and Claude answered correctly. Of course YMMV.

They weren’t blindingly fast then. The hardware was so much slower in the 90s. It’s difficult to remember just how slow a 5400rpm hard drive was.

My experience with any built in sandboxing for these command line tools has been awful. What I've done instead is built a script to create a disposable virtual machine (using incus…

Spaced repetition works well for motor learning. You just have to keep hitting “Again” until you are actually good at it.

What makes Zoom better than teams?

Git? Syncthing?

People run marathons without shoes, so I don’t think grip would be an issue.

Can you go into some detail about how you meditate to reduce anxiety?

Nice. Can you talk a little bit about what this is written in and how the development process went?

He was part of the Silicon Valley Linux User Group in the late nineties.

Yes. But that's also true of laptops, tablets, cell phones and lots of other items in our houses.

For a while Amazon loved selling the smaller units for a little as a dollar (and often including several months of Amazon music for free or almost free as well). Sell enough of the…

What did you write it in?

I've never seen a great projector that doesn't make a ton of white noise form the fan. Do "silent" projectors exist?

He paid $5 a season. Assuming he doesn't want to watch anything else on Netflix, it's better to just buy it outright.

The other way to think about it is that it's the same order as cp.

Also uwb for Air tags.

You should keep going with Brothers Karamazov. The first 150 pages are mind-numbingly boring. But starting at around page 151, it does indeed become one of the best, if not the abs…

According to both Merriam Webster and Oxford (not the OED, but the regular one) there are two definitions for retarded, both of which are offensive, and neither of which mean slow.…

I've never had the TSA confiscate my bladeless Swiss Army Knife (it has scissors and a screwdriver). But I have had it confiscated abroad more than once. Many other countries won't…

If you want to set it just for syncthing, just type this when you run it from the command line: GOMAXPROCS=2 syncthing

Other languages that are spoken in multiple countries might be technically standardized, like the RAE does with Spanish. But that doesn't mean people outside of Spain follow the st…

For EC2 instances and the like it will be almost all X86 for a long time. But much of the cloud is made up of services like S3, RDS, Redshift, Route 53, etc. ARM can be very compet…