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Yep, I've been importing CDs to Apple Music (which I buy from my local music store) and adding them to my Android phone for personal listening. It's a great way to spend money on m…

Thanks for the catch! Fixed :-)

Well, it's posted on Hacker News which is a general audience including people working on electrical/signal/audio/radio-frequency systems among other things (not just low-level netw…

~Well, if you asked a randomly-chosen person (technical or non-technical) they would probably say NASA is "the organization that does the space things" — it's pretty well-known~ ~O…

Sure, but if you are sharing with a general audience (where people aren't necessarily coming from your own domain) it's a good idea to make the writing accessible. My first thought…

I'm guessing Berkeley Packet Filter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Packet_Filter This is why National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) guidance is the following: …

Alternatively, it is a conscious decision to help prevent users from causing complicated situations. Given a highly configurable system, users will find ways to (unintentionally) t…

federated hardware (a bunch of raspberry pis networked into a high availability kubernetes cluster, hidden across various local coffee shops for free power and bandwidth)

It's easy to convert because CSG is a small subset of what BREP can do. It's analogous to "all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares" (squares=CSG, rectangles=…

It is open source, so you could send pull requests with improvements: https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms

Creo (and Onshape) both support STEP AP242 export, but customers may choose to export to an older version for better compatibility with third-party systems that have not implemente…

I think there's a lot of potential for some more old-school UI in business software. People using points of sale, CRM/ERP/PLM/etc. systems, intranet portals, and so on don't really…

I've also felt that composition is unnecessarily hard in web & data infrastructure. I do game development as a hobby, and web + data technology is in the stone age compared to game…

You can just git submodule in the dependencies. Super easy. Also makes it straightforward to develop patches to send upstream from within your project. Or to replace a dependency w…

How do I decline it?? I keep clicking no, hide, not interested, cancel, etc. but it keeps showing up and activating...if I had a nickel for every time I clicked it on accident in A…

Sure it's not officially called the "standard library," more precisely it would be "the parts of the ECMAScript and CSS standards implemented by all popular evergreen browsers," bu…

No, it means using the crypto module in the standard library instead of importing some third party dependency.

There are certainly security benefits to keeping things in-house. Less exposure to supply-chain attacks (e.g. shai-hulud malware) and widespread security bugs (e.g. react server co…

Thanks for creating and sharing that resource! I'm reading through it now, and it looks fantastic. I'll share it the next time someone asks where to get started with web dev. Come …

yeah, plus stack traces, debuggers, and profiling tools are easier to use when all of the non-essential complexity is stripped out. which in turn means it's possible to work produc…

I really think writing dependency-free JavaScript is the way to go nowadays. The standard library in JS/CSS is great. So are static analysis (TypeScript can check JSDoc), imports (…

Take async for example. You have to choose some third-party async runtime which may or may not work with other runtimes, libraries, platforms, etc. With Go, async code written in G…

Godot Engine has pretty good UI building tools. The places where it poses challenges in my experience are high quality typesetting/rich text, responsive UI that requires a wide ran…

Godot is pretty lightweight (especially considering how powerful it is), generally about a second or less. But maybe they are looking for a fast enough startup time that the engine…

AWS GovCloud is accessible to commercial customers.