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Agree with the mini split observation. Mostly ductless, but sometimes ducted. Specifically, they're heat pumps, which removes the need to add an oil or gas furnace and works reason…

It's insane to me that some new construction buildings still use PTACs. Having used too many of those, this was a deal-breaker last time I was in the market for an apartment. Such …

Same. On Google Docs it auto-corrects to an en-dash (–), which is annoying, but I find the double dash (--) more easy to spot and read on computer screens. Also, cosmetically I don…

Also, what's native about this framework? What does that even mean?

dhh is still not very fond of it. To each their own. https://world.hey.com/dhh/turbo-8-is-dropping-typescript-701...

Interesting that in the US metamizole[0] (dipyrone, or Novalgin and Analgin comercially) is banned in the US due to agranulocytosis[1] risk. It's fairly common in Europe, Asia and …

NixOS has been my daily driver since 2022/2023 and I have greatly improved the management of my 2 computers and few VMs since. Because of LLMs, I now understand the language much b…

VLC is not the example you're looking for. Written in Qt for desktop and their own libVLC wrapper for mobile. Yes, in the case of VLC, parent comment is right: you clearly see the …

Care to expand on what this solution is? What is Clojure bringing to Flutter in this case? Ty.

Tons of great options, for sure, but community efforts and corporate sponsorship ends up fragmented if there isn’t a clear winner. For desktop app development, if I don’t care abou…

The LCD screen polarizer may eventually detach[0][1], effectively ruining the screen. Unfortunately, it's not easily replaceable. I think it's not impossible the enthusiast communi…

Thanks for the write up. Wondering why not use something like Flutter for good cross platform support with good graphical performance on all systems. One could argue that with agen…

I always thought the problem with hybrids was the complexity of the drive train, but this video is challenging that notion. It argues that the hybrid pack (minus the battery, perha…

I learned recently that Hitachi actually shipped computers that would dual-boot into Windows 98 and BeOS R4, except that Microsoft's license didn't allow for dual-boot, so the opti…

I love this project. It will bring great audio to a bunch of Pentium-era laptops and essentially expand this list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpd2CM3_384 . Problem with them, …

Relevant callout from https://bikemap.nyc/about : * Limitations * The data only contains the start and end station for each trip, but does not contain the full path. Route geometri…

Neat! This is a newer model, but i believe they’ve had one since the 80s: https://docs.fischertechnikclub.nl/info2/1987uk.pdf Did Fischer ever make it outside of Germany? My father…

The gaming laptops that have been made a bit less game-y without the RGBs and thick chassis turned out to be the sweet spot for me. Some compromises here and there, sure, but they …

> fire mid-management and PMs to prevent the same thing from happening again Firing PMs and mid-management would not prevent any of code reds you may have read about from Google or…

For something portable with a dGPU, I recommend the Asus ProArt px13. Works very well with Linux, including NixOS with the right config, with the community asusctl and supergfxctl.…

I tried some scanning on a Plustek 8300, which is supposed to be the fastest. The process is still extremely manual/slow and I don't think it's practical on a large scale. Many fam…

WinApps is the project to watch ( https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps ), although they're still working on Wayland support ( https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps/issues/779#issuec…

OP on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1nzcq31/epstei...

The decency? Classless? PowerToys is not installed by default and neither is this Google app, obviously. It's absolutely reasonable that Google picks the most intuitive and common …