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I'm reminded of the lyrics from Pink Floyd's Time: "And then one day you find Ten years have got behind you no one told you when to run you missed the starting gun" The longer you …

I recently got into splatting. I looked for some good all-in-one tutorials, but didn't find any, and mostly muddled through through trial and error and LLM assistance. I present th…

I've lived in Japan for a few months. I was about halfway through the article, thinking about how it seemed to be a counter-example, before the author called out Japan specifically…

For what it's worth, it seems like "lego spike prime" is effectively equivalent to mindstorms, in that it includes a programmable brick that can connect to multiple motors, sensors…

As a workaround in firefox, I was able to right-click, "save video as", and open in VLC.

Another approach I've found useful for this - turn off your monitor, or turn your brightness down to 0. You can often do this pretty easily, with keyboard shortcuts or hardware but…

The examples of Dropbox and iPod being criticized on tech sites, but going on to become very successful, seems practically a part of the mythology at this point - but it seems to b…

Ah, good to know!

California's Proposition 13 law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13 ) "locks in" property taxes on homes at the time you purchase it. Most other states d…

If you don't drink alcohol - don't be afraid to ask for a non-alcoholic pairing! Worst they can say is "no can do". The one time I asked, it turned out that our server was ~30 year…

> When government (Latin for “control of the mind”) I don't think this is accurate. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/160026/does-the-...

I've also wanted a better shell scripting experience, and have bashed [no pun intended] my head against this several times. I think some of the major pain points that resist adopti…

On the topic of "who wrote this shit", I'd really like to plug the idea that some of the most high-impact documentation you can write is a good commit message. Say you track down a…

I've been using an HTC Vive on linux. It usually works pretty great. The performance might be percentage-points worse than a "clean" Windows install, but in my experience Windows d…

I've been using Skybox on steam vr on linux, and it seems to work consistently for viewing local video files, whether flat or side-by-side.

Disclaimer: I currently work for June Oven. The June Oven does this, and it works pretty darn well IMO. It's using just a video camera to do food recognition, but it's fairly high-…

An alternate strategy for seating - For our rehearsal dinner, we had maybe ~30 people, and did a 4-course meal. For each course, everyone was assigned different tables, such that o…

When my partner and I were dating, there was a long period where we were long distance, as they were in China teaching English. I can recall 3 projects that came out of this time I…

For a traditional style remote, held in a pointing grasp with thumb on top, I have a hard time imagining something much better than a T9 layout. Personally, I'm kind of enamored wi…

I don't have a great deal of experience with classical music. That said, I have this same pianist's album of Well-Tempered Clavier, and I think it's quite nice. ( https://music.kim…

I disagree. Don't pay for the news. I might pay for Netflix or HBO. If one is insufficiently entertaining, I won't. It makes sense for Netflix/HBO to compete on producing the most …

Agreed. As-is, it's a poor mobile experience. On mobile Firefox, the Reader mode does a great job of making the articles readable, though. So, mobile-specific default CSS would pro…

Looks great! This kind of generative art is, I think, one of the best "non-productive" things that computers have enabled. Two extremely minor nitpicks - * When browsing through sc…

Most gains in productivity have come from simplifying or automating away common tasks: * Text editors spell-check your writing (just put more care into your writing!) * Garbage-col…

Maybe nobody works for the end user ever, but some people work more for the end user than others. If you work for a web site that makes its money by lead gen or advertising, you're…