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Not sure I get what is better about this than simply using the month, like Documents/work/202606 (which also sorts nicely and does not need a conversion in my head to know what tim…

In addition to stuff mentioned by others, things I like: - Fully customizable status bars, top and bottom (I like book progress at the top, chapter progress at the bottom, various …

KOReader (mentioned in the article, an alternative OSS interface you can install on most ereaders) is really a marvellous piece of software. I was not sure about setting it up at f…

Did you have qualifications / an interest in this field before switching? What drawn you to this occupation in the first place? Just being curious

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What do you mean they support airdrop? Natively?

One thing I don't get with this workflow, and all the ones we see in similar articles: do the authors run their agents in YOLO mode (full unchecked permission on their machine)? It…

Does rewriting data help prevent bit rot? Does it mean powered drives can take advantage of it by periodically rewriting the same data over?

Also your website ( https://zulip.com ) is so fast and snappy, I was surprised to see everything load instantly when clicking around. I have not tried the app yet, but seeing a sta…

For more context, the FSL was created by Sentry, who explain why it's been created and what problems it was trying to solve here: https://blog.sentry.io/introducing-the-functional-…

This document is insane. I really can't decide if it's satire. Somehow I hope it's not.

How would reintroducing the black footed ferret reduce the plague ? It's not stated in that link.

I really don't get why people would want AI to write their messages for them. If I can write a concise prompt with all the required information, why not save everyone time and just…

I believe the strength of gravitational force would not be constant either, as your center of mass would still have a fixed location, so every point on the disc have different dist…

French high speed trains are fast, for instance the average speed of the train on the Paris-Strasbourg section (~400km in length) is 250km/h. This is the global average speed, so i…

Why are there so many "Update Reamde.md" pull requests ? They all are named exactly the same, and most of the time add a single line to the readme with the name of the commit autho…

Out of curiosity, how fast did you type on the frogpad ?

Bat is actually "bald mouse", not "shaved", which makes sense somehow !

What religious exemption is the page referring to ? How are vaccines a religious subject ?

I suffered from RSI in one hand for a whole year, which forced me to mostly use a single hand to type. I found out that as a developer, the time I spent typing was not that extensi…

Here you can find a detailed report about this event, if you get intrigued as I did : https://www.iaea.org/publications/10602/the-radiological-acc...

I use ranger quite a lot when I have to explore the contents of a folder I just cloned or downloaded. Moving around with vim keybindings is much quicker than typing many `cd`, `ls`…

Could you please elaborate on the exercises you're finding helpful ? I have a mild RSI myself (outer part of the forearm, near the elbow) and have been trying some eccentric exerci…