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> The gov can use it's buying power to sway things towards Intel, for example, over AMD Pretty sure that's the goal: the government wants a competent cutting edge chip maker on US …

The investments listed here in the article make this seem like an effort to shore up or incentivize industries or companies that are integral to national defense. One example, in t…

…you have bigger problems

I've used a HP EliteDesk 800 G4 SFF (with an i5-8500) as a NAS/home server for several years now. It's quiet, power efficient, has space for 2 HDDs plus additional nvme slots and r…

I wonder if there would be a perf increase on the Mac minis if they ran OrbStack instead of Docker?

You can achieve something similar using vlc + slop on Linux, here's the script I usually use (I run i3 typically). selection=$(slop -f %w,%h,%x,%y) width=$(echo "${selection}" | cu…

Important caveat: "Apple MacBook Pro with Intel chip was used in tests that met all requirements specified in this section". What I really want to see is performance evaluations be…

My experience as well. While I’d love a proper go to source approach, chatGPT nails most of the issues I run into with SwiftUI.

Ah yes, this footgun. Sometime last year I discovered our QA databases had all been locked with a ransom demand, how were they exposed? We had `ufw` blocking the db port?! Ah yes, …

Fly.io is really good.

I've been working on a small Go program to do this specifically for the lofi hip hop beats youtube stream (file here: https://git.sr.ht/~asimpson/lofibar/tree/exec-ffmpeg/item/ma..…

you forgot this: /s

100% agree with this! I used Advent of Code this year to explore Common Lisp. If you have any programming experience it becomes a fun hunt of "ok, I need to loop over an array. How…

This is why I made a service to serve up RSS feeds for Youtube channels, ytrss.co. Love live RSS! :)

I love scraping websites, it's a stupid hobby at times, but I dig it ( https://github.com/asimpson/nodejs-web-scraper-cookbook ). A couple successful scraper projects: 1. I automat…