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> but they tend to be one-offs that aren't worth the time Friend of mine used to retrofit CNC machines. He's left the business, because the machines that can be serviced moved to p…

> because everything is a method or an object or a closure well, except for pattern matching. That is just syntax.

> Imagine you run a company register for a local government. Is this data not public for some reason? I think it will not hurt if there are multiple copies spread between public of…

Thank you for this long context!

I second that. Loading the pages takes longer before the video starts playing. I also regularly run into bot detection where no video will play at all until I log in.

I switched bank in 2021 and it was hard. No bank advertises "we do compliant chip tan" and no bank advertises "we do not buy an app framework that scans for customs roms". Switchin…

> Dopamine has a half life of 2 minutes in the body. May be true. But doing "rewarding" work encourages your body to emit more dopamine. Some people call it "the flow", others "hyp…

An ADHD brain may work better without stimulating caffeine, YMMV.

I second this. Clownflare is agressively blocking: Fennec v149.0.2 - Germany

I am guessing: There is an evolutionary "shadow". Genes for getting old and healthy are not selected for, because you get old after having children. Evolution optimizes for the sur…

> wrote the defacto standard regex library in Rust What is the motivation that Rust invented its own RegEx flavor instead of sticking to PCRE or even RE2?

Next years headline will be > AI accounts for 90% of accidents while only accounting for 1% of traffic

When I shop for special hardware (e.g. bicycle shift gear) it is usually underspecified. If the information does not exist in the text block, a chat bot is of no use.

> Why can’t you tune your guitar? You can. (1) Movable frets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZC69A8TsJ8 (2) No frets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92TxCGBNEVg (3) force the stri…

I would like to second this. In Golang if you iterate over a thousand files and defer File.close() your OS will run out of file descriptors

I have heard rumors that at one point in time gentoo lost its forum - basically a catastrophic strike such as deleting Arch Linux wiki

I am unhappy with python. It degrades fast. It deprecates libraries every minor release and that tends to break the applications I use. Recent examples are distutils and opsaudio.

> I say let X11 die, bury it, and never let it rise again. totally awesome! And once we are done with X11, lets put pulseaudio to the grave! We can all focus on having an audio sta…

I once had to write an IPv6 stack intending to cache poison internet targets (alias resolution). I just referred to the RFC. A well behaved reference implementation would not be of…

A hull requires at minimum one shape and returns a convex shape. A minkowski sum, as far as I understand it, requires a surface and a volume and returns a volume. Example 1: apply …

I did not know about phonics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonics English is my second language. I found writing and pronunciation disconnected and learned two separate languages.…

> Go is strong. How do you parse the puzzle input into a data structure of your choice?

The web page says Private Spaces can hide an app from the user. What I want to do is hide my address book and gallery from the app.

Your Pixel 8 could be about two years old. The connector performed way under spec and you should send it in for repair (assuming your are in a country with a 2 year warranty period…