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Linux Desktops are having a moment this year, but there are still all sorts of sharp edges that a user has to navigate. Getting a laptop to properly hibernate such that the battery…

Even with copy-on-write, fork() still has to pay the setup cost for COW. If the parent process has a lot of busy threads (e.g. Java), you can end up doing a lot of unnecessary COW …

If Apple keeps using A Pro-series chips for the Neo, then the RAM will go to at least 12GB when they swap to the A19 Pro, or newer.

Or Dow Chemical.

If I understand the article correctly, that second proof was published as a rider on a first proof that was entirely Dedekind's. So, there was definitely a credit owed at time of p…

The fact that it was even proposed in the first place is still concerning.

From a quick skim of hardware support on Wikipedia, it looks like encoding support for H.265 showed up in NVIDIA, AMD, et. al around 2015 whereas AV1 support didn't arrive until 20…

Agreed. I think the buried lede here is actually the clawback clause. With that in the contract, this isn't a $1.5 million dollar grant, it's a $1.5 million dollar liability. If yo…

Also, "git reflog" lists out all commit SHAs in chronological order. Trying to figure out how to rebase, but got lost and everything seems broken? You're just one "git reset" away …

The control plane of Tailscale can even be self-hosted via the Headscale project: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale As for backups, I like both https://github.com/restic/restic…

> It doesn’t make sense to tax every other passenger for it. I'd rather pay a monetary tax on my ticket to keep families organized together instead of the discomfort tax of sharing…

I've never encountered a bouncer taking pictures of an ID. They check it, using a flashlight if needed, and wave you in.

Many businesses in the US check ID at the door. If you are underage, they don't let you in. On the surface it seems reasonable to ask for an equivalent ID check online. But. The bo…

README also leads with a screenshot that has macOS window styling. So, "works on Mac" is a reasonable first impression to draw.

This. There is plenty to dislike about Ruby, but it is exceptionally strong at implementing domain specific languages. Homebrew was able to use that to lower the barrier to packagi…

And then kinds just learn how to download and run an open-source browser produced outside of the country that does not implement the setting on the client side.

Yup. GitHub alone killed my last effort to go all-in on IPv6 for my personal cloud. Sure, I could have hacked my way through it. But, that was more work than just paying the extra …

That depends on whether you need to sell the bond before its maturity date. Supposing it is a 1 year bond, if you hold it for the full year you get your £100 back. If you need to s…

There is the unfortunately plausible scenario of the US Congress suffering a fit of insanity and blocking the ability of the Treasury to make a timely payment. It's hard to say wha…

Many brokerages also offer access to a public market of bank CD offerings. So, you can go that route and get FDIC insurance if you want while avoiding the pitfalls of dealing direc…

Bryan Cantrill draws some excellent parallels between this incident and software systems in his "Debugging Under Fire" talk (beware of semi-automated systems): https://www.youtube.…

To point 1, I'd argue that a SQLite database is a great next step beyond CSV despite being a binary format.

Sure, temperatures have changed before. But the rate of change this time around is as much of a problem as the amount of change: https://xkcd.com/1732/

I have one of these, nearly 12 years old at this point. Around two years in, it took nearly a full pint of double imperial stout head-on during a buzzed coding session. Was sticky …

As someone who was on the Civil Engineering track prior to ending up in tech, jail time seems unlikely unless the breach of ethics was particularly egregious. The consequence of po…