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Might be different for programmers… my experience is that—broadly speaking—programming ability is inversely proportional to how well dressed you are. I wonder if that is still true…

I switched to a keyboard with a thumb cluster[0] a few years ago and have been loving it. [0]: https://dygma.com/pages/defy

No way! That’s incredible! I’ve been follow the story for the last few days and assumed he was gone. How long until it’s a movie?

Amazing! Tristan’s entire website is a treasure. It’s a throwback to when the web was great.

I mean not really. There is a FUSE implementation, but you need an enterprise account https://docs.lakefs.io/v1.60/reference/mount/ I’m not seeing a kernel module anywhere..

Offline PWA sites are very limited on iOS. If you force close Safari, look at your phone funny, or don’t visit the site regularly, the cache is cleared and you are stuck at a loadi…

The one takeaway I got from my engineering ethics class in college was that everyone has different morals. Debating if something is “moral” or not is useless. Education on a subjec…

I have a laptop with a touchscreen that I regularly forget is a touchscreen until I accidentally touch it.

Canonical source: https://bash-org-archive.com/?5775

I really don’t want to work for the defense industry, but I have to admit that they do have very fun problems to solve. You know there are people at NRO who are dedicated to ship t…

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I’ve been using the Dygma Defy daily for over 2 years. Highly recommend.

That’s Simon’s goal. “All I’ve ever wanted from life is a genuinely great SVG vector illustration of a pelican riding a bicycle. My dastardly multi-year plan is to trick multiple A…

“Let’s spend thousands of dollars on lawyers to avoid donating to a good cause”. Large corporations can be so ridiculous.

Wow. I had a visceral reaction to the “we’re being attacked!” clip. Haven’t heard that for a long time, but it still got my heart racing.

Looks like Firefox is immune. This works by looking for web accessible resources that are provided by the extensions. For Chrome, these are are available in a webpage via the URL c…

Nothing drives more creativity from me than a tool in need of a project.

Tesla’s “autosteer” is significantly more advanced than the “lane keeping” feature I’ve seen in rental cars, or my own 2023 Jeep. My understanding is that autosteer will actively k…

My company has a policy limiting the number of high level execs traveling on a plane at a time. I wonder if plane manufacturers have similar restrictions. It’d be an ironic to for …

On Linux, if the blocks are page aligned, you could use mremap(2) to swap blocks very efficiently without using any additional physical memory.

What’s the maximum range to your phone to get notifications? I’ve been trying to cut back on my reflex to look at my phone every few minutes. It’d be great if I could keep my phone…

Linux on top of a hypervisor. There are several companies providing hypervisors, including the one I work at, so my experience is biased.

It’s also running virtualized in a lot of cars! Although I’ve seen more and more US car companies switching from QNX to Linux. Chinese car companies I’ve worked with all use Linux …

I would open a new bug for each of those questions and say “we will evaluate this after the MVP is implemented”. Give the person credit in the bug description. That will usually sa…