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Somehow I expected from the headline it identifies loudspeakers by their sound signature and got really curious :)

Could be good option for rust projects with huge compile artifacts. Saving space and rebuild time.

The main value of this article is this absolute gold mine of a comment section.

In Germany, selling goods for less then the one bought them for can be illegal if its used to push competition out on a large scale.

I played with this extensively on hobby projects (music visualizer Wayland widget for example) and I like the idea. I like coming up with cool stuff and solutions. The problem is I…

That looks awesome! Do you have any metrics on storage space and query/insert performance for large amounts of data? Building something that has couple of million rows.

We used to do that with device that where in difficult to reach places with harsh uptime requirement! Think industrial routers and protocol converters. I think it pays for itself v…

Only half a data point: I played around with it for a private project. It works but the documentation is far from good enough for production. I was even considering getting the boo…

There seems to be the notion in a lot of comments that Stoicism is about acting against one's nature or surpressing ones emotions. For me, on the other hand, it was very freeing to…

An interesting side effect of that is one can use the grid frequency to coordinate emergency power response - individual nodes (batteries, peaker plants, etc.) can react directly t…

Could you elaborate on that? How come it requires being an insider? What constitutes an insider?

Restic over termux triggered by Tasker to s3 (backblaze) . Addionally syncthing to my laptop. Sounds unnecessary complicated, because it it's.

One. Letter. At. A. Time.

Interessting point with the tax right off. I asked my boss to donate to a open source software we used a lot in our dev department and he labeled it as license costs because donati…

Would you like to elaborate on how you run your FOSS buissness? What makes your approach different than the numerous company's that struggle with it

The author says the learning curve is steep but it pays off at the end. Somehow I don't really see that claim well supported. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love the idea of mana…

As I understand it, GrayJay is not free (as in they want to be paid, which is I think is reasonable). How does this work with something like AGPL? I'm curious to hear more, because…

I used to work for a company that wanted zero downtime through Erlang's hot code reload feature. While it absolutely works, it requires immense effort and extra code to handle stat…

Thanks for this little flashback to when I had to write XSLT for apache cocoon as my student job

I'm surprised that universities have to consider dyslexic students. When I went to university, I was basically told to figure it out. "It's your problem after elementary school. no…

Side note: Teams works for me in firefox on linux if I change the UserAgent with this add-on: https://mybrowseraddon.com/custom-useragent-string.html For these urls https://teams.m…

car batteries aren't great for storing and retrieving energy for grid usage. to expensive for too few cycles.

Side note: donations are kind of difficult in a cooperate environment. Once I request that the department donates a modest amount to an OS project. We had to call it a 'license fee…

Every few months there is a new breakthrough in energy storage. To this day none really materialized in the way these articles claim. I work in that sector but am not an expert in …