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For monitors at least, if you plug in to the wrong port you will get a GUI prompt advising you to use the other one [1]: > while the ports aren’t labeled, if you plug an external d…

Its a great compliment to The Big Short (2015). The Big Short gives you a nice explanation of what the heck is going on but mainly follows "outsider" points of view, while Margin C…

The context is that Jeremy Irons' character knew exactly what was going on, he wanted the risk analyst to state it to everyone else in the room, and keep him on track and focused. …

In the featured article, it delves into this a bit: > Earlier, I said that 'Widevine-in-Chrome-on-Linux-on-aarch64' is not an officially supported platform. > I lied. > Chromebooks…

My jaded opinion is that Musk may not really care about remote work, but it turns out return-to-office requirements are a useful way to get people to leave without having to fire o…

I had to look it up too, pretty sure grandparent comment meant "if I understand correctly".

Over 14 years of QE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#United_Sta... And Quantitative Easing is a "refinement" of the Greenspan Put in the late 1980s. So yeah, 30+ …

My Dad told me a story from the dot-com bust: To save money at the time he drove a van for a carpool service (he could use it for free as a result). A lot of the guys on his van we…

What does “EEE” mean in this context? End to end?

The link is that Ad Tracking Transparency (ATT) happened relatively close to FB's numbers going south, and its a great scapegoat. https://daringfireball.net/2022/08/ft_effects_of_a…

It's a good counterpoint to the equally throw away argument that "if you disagreed with x you should have shorted it". The problem with shorting is you can't just be right about th…

FYI, the description of that addon says its unmaintained: "PLEASE READ THIS FIRST ! Invidition is now deprecated and is no longer maintained. Please, use Privacy Redirect by Simon …

The interesting question to be answered now is if "web3" skills are an effective substitute good (in the pure economic sense) for employers looking for developers. I suspect a lot …

DuckDuckGo uses Apple Maps, which has quietly become a solid alternative the past few years. ( https://xkcd.com/2617/ )

We've made machines so much faster that a lot of old software is unusable because its too fast. One of my favorite examples: Lego Island's driving mechanic is tied to frame rate, s…

This is actually what lichess does - if it flags you as a cheater, you are silently paired against other cheaters. They have almost the entirety of the lichess system source code p…

I host my blog using GitHub pages and hugo. Its all still markdown, but it also allows people to go to my vanity url and see stuff formatted exactly as I want it to be.

That is a fascinating thing to me - I have noticed that a lot of people arguing that the WMF is out of control and needs to cool it are editors . It really feels like there is a fu…

I use one on my full-duplex gigabit connection and it generally sits in the 800-900 Mbps range. This will vary depending on things like if you decide to enable smart queue manageme…

Interesting. Is there a US variant out there, too? (This one looks promising: https://github.com/jceloria/recruiter-spam/blob/master/list.... )

Absolutely, and if I had an iPhone at the time I probably wouldn't have bought it. I only started bothering with discrete amps when I picked up headphones with a 600 ohm impedance.…

Objectivity and audiophile in the same sentence always makes me suspicious, especially when you are looking at the 100s to 1000s of extra dollars for 3-5% improvement on measuremen…

Jason, the cofounder of Schiit Audio (its pronounced exactly as you think it is) regularly posts updates about the company to an audiophile forum, and his posts regarding the suppl…