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Saying no without attempting to negotiate first also comes off as childish, and affects the outcome of future negotiations because it demonstrates an unwillingness to compromise.

Code is a fantastic way to capture requirements, particularly iterative product discoveries over time. It's much easier to start with a manifestation of the requirements (and tests…

For me it's the gradients and dark gray backgrounds.

The DCT is a cool primitive. By extracting the low frequency coefficients, you can get a compact blurry representation of an image. This is used by preload thumbnail algorithms lik…

I don't recall any lawsuits, but whytheluckystiff made one 20 years ago. https://ruby-talk.ruby-lang.narkive.com/buiXXTZh/what-is-hoo...

Nature recently posted an interesting video [1] about what causes developing hearts to have their first beat. The gist is that eventually random electrical noise triggers a propaga…

Ton is a personal hero of mine. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a 3d animator because of Ton. I discovered Blender in the early 2000s as a kid. It was my first exposure to digital…

For users with SSDs, saving the write wear seems like a desirable default.

In my experience these are after exposures from lines of text. They get blurred together into indistinct lines because your eye focus moves between words, superimposing them.

Blender has done this since Dec 2000.

I replicate my entire filesystem to a local NAS every 10 minutes using zrepl. This has already saved my bacon once when a WD_BLACK SN850 suddenly died on me [1]. It's also recovere…

Selkies[1] is another interesting project in this space. It uses webrtc for low latency streaming and remote desktop suitable for gaming in the browser. [1]: https://selkies-projec…

Sounds like a good time to engage a professional coach or therapist, if you haven't already. Particularly to deep dive on the questions asked at the end of the post. In my experien…

Migrating out of this mess caused me downtime. Squarespace's domain panel crashed with a nondescript error when I tried to update nameservers prior to transferring out, and they sh…

rtlamr! https://github.com/bemasher/rtlamr

For any serious work I'm using hjkl.

My favorite part: If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the 100% possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this 100% is to make it 1000% free software wh…

So, what would they have done if she accepted? Claimed that the existing training of the Sky voice was voiced by her?

Keybase always performed crypto on-device using their open source client written in Go. What not-your-keys not-your-crypto setup are you referring to?

Alternatively for the case of id strings with known prefixes, a unique feature of TypeScript is you can use template string literal types: https://www.kravchyk.com/adding-type-safe…

April fool's at xkcd is a special occasion where external folks join xkcd to build an experimental interactive comic. Edit: I've updated the first para of the post to hopefully cla…

Residential fiber internet is a lovely thing :D

Funny story -- when I was working on the xkcd Machine comic, I actually used the ZFS snapshots to rescue data. I accidentally blew away some early physics prototype code and fished…

It's part of the 3-2-1 rule: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/ My mid term goal is to trade offsite replication with a friend for automatically replicating …