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I'm probably preaching to the choir in a story about guitars, but if you're looking for some good 12-string music, Leo Kottke's 6 and 12 String Guitar is a good start. If you haven…

I built a PC this year in a Meshroom S V2[1]. The NF-A14x25 G2 fans I used for the AIO didn't seem so expensive when I was spending $600 on RAM, and I was happy that they were avai…

I held my nose and bought an RTX 5070 Ti for $100 over MSRP in January. The very next week the same model was up $200. It turns out that NVIDIA had been subsidizing retail graphics…

An editor that tries to be layout agnostic is almost certainly going to be a nightmare for people like me who set the layout in the keyboard itself. I downloaded the editor (I'm on…

The article links to a YouTube mini-review of USB enclosures from UGreen and Acasis, neither of which he loves.[1] I've been happy with the OWC 1M2 as a boot drive on a Mac Studio …

The article links to the opinion[1], which notes more than once that "the quoted language does not appear anywhere in the opinion," and " Goldstine appears to be a fabricated case.…

The blog post announcing the PSP Security Protocol as open source: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/ann... HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinat…

I found the idea of a password generator appealing, mainly due to vault anxiety. I didn't (and still don't) like the idea that I can't access a resource without this precious vault…

I don't see anything in the post or the linked tutorial that gives a flavor of the user experience when you supply an invalid option. I tried running the example, but I've forgotte…

Gemini says: pressing Option on the Swinsian menu changes the "Check For Updates..." menu option to "Check For Updates (Beta)..." I don't have specific complaints about the current…

Petrichor shows my albums as a single track. CUE sheet support is a must. I also have a hard time seeing myself using a desktop music player without an iTunes-style column-mode bro…

I don't think it's that it's not stripping "e.g.", but that the search criteria are empty. The empty result set is prefaced by "Search results for:". I actually like that the examp…

Although this is characterized as 1.0, it is governed by the Terms of Use for Early-Access, which are quite limiting, including: "You may use the Service solely for noncommercial p…

The video on Steam shows both first- and third-person perspectives. Speaking of LLMs, Gemini says: "Hypercharge: Unboxed is both a first-person and third-person shooter. You can sw…

> The thesis is predicated on the idea that people claim this is the result of some study. I’ve never once heard it presented that way. It's a rule of thumb. Code Complete cites ei…

The product appears to be similar to Microsoft's embattled Recall feature. In order to remember your digital life it takes frequent screenshots.

The obvious question is, what does free mean? Here's the license: https://gsap.com/community/standard-license/ Basically freeware with express prohibitions on competing with Webflo…

This is a better link for the actual feature, as opposed to the process that led to its prioritization: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-tab-groups/

Personally, I don't know what you mean about Rust being too massive. One thing I am wary of is using a truly massive language like C++ on a multi-programmer project without consens…

When I read SQL for Dummies almost thirty years ago, it made a point of distinguishing "sequel" as a historical predecessor to standard "SQL." As I recall, the author even asserted…

For a while I used dired-sidebar-show-sidebar and dired-omit-mode to give me a list of files in a narrow window on the left. I kept messing it up with C-x 1, though.

I played around with the calculator source code from the Android Open Source Project after a previous submission[1]. I think Google moved it from AOSP to the Google Play Services s…

This is a long rant that covers a lot of ground, a lot of which will inevitably be ignored because the letters "C++" trigger people, myself included sometimes. (Skip ahead to "It's…

I searched for Mac Studio SSD upgrades, and I do indeed see modules that look just like the one in the picture. Not cheap.