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Best feature of paper notebook: no web browser, no chat apps.

The endearing angle: refusing to keep cookies in the house, because you admit an inability to merely store them.

Hey Sam, does 0.34 watt-hours per query include an amortization of the energy consumed to train the model, or only the marginal energy consumed by inference? I used to believe this…

And in such an avoidable way, too.

Location: Tucson, Arizona, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: web platform, Elm, Linux DevOps/SRE, Python self-hosted/on-prem cloud infrastructure (i.e. OpenSta…

It's not only notifications, it's permissions (that the app won't work until you accept) to track your location, exfiltrate your contact list, and so forth. It's an invasion of pri…

It's definitely true with KDE Plasma. If you squint at a KDE Plasma desktop, you see a Windows Start menu and System Tray. The similarity is more vague with GNOME (3) and Mac OS, I…

I often make the same criticism about services like this, but personally, discovering good new music greatly enriches my life. Sometimes I'll bounce off of a given artist several t…

> FIREPROOF casing! Have you tested this, perhaps by shorting a few unprotected cells in a full pack? Have a video? :) A lithium ion cell in thermal runaway produces a LOT of heat …

Great idea. Is the companion app open-source and free of tracking/surveillance? Does it work with no internet connectivity? Is the BMS communication protocol open, so one could wri…

> Sure there will be some things Slack are not currently getting an API for, but so so much more that they don't use but could, because they don't see why it is important for users…

About the resolution scaling warning in the article: If you're running GNOME, install GNOME Tweaks (likely in your distro's package manager). The "Fonts" section has a "Scaling Fac…

The "Operating System" section of the article touches on this. Most of Framework's employees use Linux, to the extent that the CEO himself runs Windows, to shake out any glitches w…

Location: Tucson, Arizona, USA Remote: prefer org with async, distributed-first culture. Willing to relocate: not at first but may consider after 6-12 months. Technologies: web dev…

There's a lot of metadata about when/how they used git and IRC, and some preliminary analysis on same. Another surname in one of the commits. An apparent LinkedIn account. (See hea…

So, you went with Pied Piper? :)

I believe Uni-ball Jetstream ink pushes this Pareto frontier. It provides the low-fatigue, low-drag experience of water-based gel ink, but dries instantly and is waterproof like oi…

I find that Pentel Energel ink dries quite a bit faster than other gel ink (Pilot and Uniball). But for glossy surfaces, consider Uni-ball Jetstream ink.

This is amazing. I recently got a Kuru Toga and wish it had a Twist-Erase eraser.

Unfortunately I find Pilot G2 to have loose tolerances between the refill tip and pen body. It's like 1.5-2 thousandths of an inch, compared to 0.5-1 thousandth for Uniball and Pen…

For those asking "why handwriting in 2024?", the paper has no notifications or web browser to distract you. It's just your own thoughts on the page. Being more effortful than typin…