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The standard convention is that midnight is the start of the day. The instant 23:59:59 is followed by 00:00:00 of the next day. The only instant that could exist would be 24:00:00.…

This has been reimplemented as a tribute by a modern phone phreak named Shaun Ewing, who also created Lenny. https://se.au/notes/george-the-talking-clock-lives-on/ Number Region 02…

There are still a ton of time numbers kicking around. My local phone company still offers (513) 721-1700 and I have (513) 241-1010 burned into my memory from dialing it a million t…

You should really measure mass rather than volume.

I love a good telephone story. In true nerd fashion, I just want to object to one tiny detail, which is technically correct but misleading: >In the worst case, even a humble single…

I thought this at first, but then read farther and realized the flight started at 11pm on a moonless night. An unlit mountain is hard to see at night.

I wish this were more common. For some reason, employees are expected to give employers two weeks or more of notice when they quit, while employers are expected to terminate employ…

The same argument applies to DRM and piracy. DRM only disadvantages people who want to consume content legally. Only one person has to bypass it (be it through cryptographic or sof…

Whomever thought this was a post worth making?

The internet is for whoever wants to send bits to each other and is willing to pay for transit to do it. The WWW might be for end users, though that seems less obvious by the day.

I love to see more amateur experimentation with radar. Another example of tech that was government lab black magic in the 1940s becoming accessible to random smart individuals with…

No, I meant that having a lot of debt puts you in a position to be more vulnerable to any kind of negative outcome. Intuitively, this seems to hold true across the spectrum from th…

What's the purpose of keeping it off the balance sheet if not to hide it?

I disagree - high leverage inherently makes systems less stable.

Yeah... that's been my past experience with USB docks, at least any with more than one slot. I've never had great luck with them. "Can recover from power outage without being touch…

I used developer tools to delete the dementor, then I muted the site when it started playing music.

Neat blog! I was intrigued by this bullet point mentioned in passing: >my four hard drive USB 3.2 ZFS raidz2 array with four 24 TB drives Can you speak more about this? Which USB a…

Can you configure Bifrost using entirely config files without the web interface? Can it run without a database or anything stateful? I'm using LiteLLM but it is not trivial to run.…

Which applications do this?

Which is also well documented and trivially rotatable by anyone with root on the machine. How do you rotate the MS identifier?

aka "gas station heroin"

Yeah.... that was a cool idea. Too bad it'll never be built. (Supposedly they're building it in West Texas - last update in 2024)

SpaceX-the-space-launch-business is doing amazing things, which is part of what makes it so sad that the financials and buzz is all for SpaceX-the-enterprise-AI-business. Their S-1…

Not a recommendation for this fork of the extension, just the first I found googling. https://github.com/aspenmayer/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean-m... https://github.com/aspenmayer/…

The fact that this works by exploiting AMP is delicious.