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When we migrated away from JIRA, we scripted it such that the JIRA issue numbers were recorded in the newly migrated issues exactly because of things like this.

LWN.net is absolutely amazing and well worth every cent. Just to pick one thing, their kernel index has been so useful when I run into an area of the kernel I need to learn about: …

Yes! OpenMW is amazing. I just did a full play-through without any issues and heavily modded to boot. Very stable, good performance, etc. I also recommend this site: https://moddin…

I find myself doing unit queries like 4 all the time. "80 bytes / second * 1 year" results in ~2.5 GB. Etc etc. It's very convenient for making sure that you're handling units corr…

It really is amazing. I spent loads of time fiddling with Mathematica in college, thanks to the cheap(ish) student license. I solved problems 1 and 2 of the 'Substitute' xkcd ( htt…

I suppose eBPF could be used to implement real-time index updates, which could be neat. Maybe I'll investigate doing that as a little side project. Though from a quick look, doing …

Yep! I've had two nasty bugs (intermittent audio dropping and HDMI CEC power off being broken) that were fixed by firmware updates. I don't keep the firmware preemptively updated, …

I have a couple modern LG 'smart' TVs that I don't connect to the internet, and they work just fine. As you say, they just display whatever is on the HDMI input. I've updated their…

That's assuming you're varying only speed and not e.g. following distance. I try to leave at least 3 seconds' distance pretty much always (often more), so I have a pretty consisten…

I don't get it. The article clearly outlines the factors accounted in the safety score, and vehicle speed is not one of them (at least not directly). Yet the author and apparently …

> Being able to effectively reason about what the automation is doing is such an important part of why these technologies have been so successful in flight, and examples like this …

For superchargers, where you'd want it most, no. Superchargers use a specific protocol to communicate with the car for purposes of billing -- tied to the Tesla account associated w…

Definitely. Enmity between elves and dwarves is a deep theme in Tolkien's world. The Silmarillion presents several in-universe historical events responsible for that enmity. It's a…

Fun fact, that inscription also contains of the few continuity errors in published Tolkien material. It starts with: > The Doors of Durin, Lord of Moria but as the Tolkien Gateway …

Yes, it is arguably an unholy contrivance, but someone's already written it, and invoking it as a shell alias or likewise is both easy and useful. $ jq-structure my-file.json

I regularly use jq to summarize the structure of big JSON blobs, using the snippet written here (I alias it to "jq-structure"): https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/243#issuecomme…

Although it's about a different subject matter, I'm reminded of this quote from a patio11 article: > [A bank's] CS department is scored on number of tickets resolved per hour, and …

I'm pretty sure CNAME setups are allowed on the Business plan ($200/month). I had to set one up not too long ago.

Another huge difference: the current FSD feature set will not make turns at intersections as demonstrated in this video. It now (as of recently) can be configured to automatically …

Stack Sets are a killer feature, and so much easier than trying to do the same thing in Terraform. CloudFormation Drift Detection is very limited currently: it only supports a smal…

Drift detection is only implemented for a very small subset of resources: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui... Terraform does indeed reconcile drift 'aut…

Drift detection is only implemented for a very small subset of resources: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui... For a concrete example of one that bit us …

They do, and obviously it is workable, but I think every big MySQL org ends up with a tool/workflow like gh-ost: https://github.com/github/gh-ost which have their own set of challe…