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I wish they'd have given more examples for traditional bikes than bottom brackets. Yeah, bike shops have to deal with lots of different BBs, but that's because they deal with bikes…

Personally, I love my smart home stuff. Homeassistant has been utterly reliable, automating things in node-red is easy and fun. I can use IKEA's stuff or buy from any of dozens of …

I don't know much about the flute world, but there's a guy on youtube who's been extending his contrabassoon's range to absurd new lows for years now. Here he is seven years back: …

Zwift is great. I've been on it about three months and it really feels like the most productive training I've ever done. It's hard to get a decent ride in where I live but zwift is…

I have a hard time agreeing with the central premise here. The article states that the Taliban had a protection scheme (possibly legitimate, possibly a racket) going on to effectiv…

The "OS as a service" era was also when they really ramped up the advertising and telemetry in windows. It would be nice if they decide whatever revenue that brings is not worth th…

I don't want to over-romanticize WSB, but this all seems fairly wholesome and even old-fashioned. A hoard of like-minded investors put a lot of money into AMC because they felt it …

I've been primarily a linux user for some time, so I've gotten pretty desensitized to various applications looking vastly different on the same system. But in the last several year…

I don't understand how this would work. You would tax corporations based on actual income? So money-losing businesses would have to pay taxes on their income even though they opera…

Since I mentioned Gradle aggravations, I'll share a couple: 1. Bizarre and inscrutable syntax. They say things like "build scripts are just Groovy code", but some things, like how …

This is an oddly unconvincing little write-up. Firstly, learning gradle doesn't mean you are learning Maven simply because most dependencies use pom files for their metadata. I jus…

Yeah, I came here to say exactly this. I would guess that most people's schedules are based on wall clock times and DST doesn't matter, but I'm not really sure. The author doesn't …

This makes a lot of sense to me. Most of Docker's products are being superseded by other tools in the linux/enterprise world (buildah, podman, kubernets, etc), but the one area I t…

I'm not sure I agree much with this. When I first started learning Java I had six or seven years of programming experience and I still found dealing with matters of classpath and j…

This happened to me recently and it was pretty embarassing - I copied a two paragraph snippet from a psychology paper and the website put an ad for CBD oil in my clipboard above th…

This story has stuck with me for years. Any time I've over-promised what I could deliver or stand to miss a deadline or am otherwise stressed out by situations of my own creation i…

I think you are underestimating how difficult it is to get a long-term visa for most European countries. Someone who is not employed or is soon to retire without an extraordinary a…

A minor correction - the article makes a couple of mentions of "Handbrake donation[s]", but I think the author was referring to the donations made to KDE and Gnome by the Handshake…

I don't see much in the way of recommendations or best practices in this article, so here is what I can offer: 1. As mentioned already, get custom-molded in-ear monitors. They're w…

The methods might be a bit more sophisticated now, but this has been going on for many years now. A single call center may take calls for hundreds of consumer retail products, but …