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D) Parenting

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM Looks like they didn’t meet the minimum crew requirement on this one.

My take on the difference between now and then is “effort”. All those things mentioned above are now effortless but the door to “effort” remains open as it always has been. Take th…

> “I would ban the sale of semiconductor manufacturing equipment to Chinese fabs”. Ahem, ASML, who makes the manufacturing equipment for TSMC is a Dutch company, not a US one.

You're right, the latency is in the embedded terminal. Perhaps it is trying to run SSH inside SSH. Still, the disconnects are a pain too.

I wonder if this is the same reason why Microsoft's Remote SSH plugin on VS Code is so flaky even with a decent internet connection. Every couple of months I try to give it another…

Works with Waterfox on macOS but curiously not Firefox. I wonder if their search deal with Google included keeping the image.jxl.enabled setting off.

Yes and yes. I make open source software because I fundamentally enjoy the act of learning something new and then applying that knowledge by making something. I publish it for the …

vLLM needs to perform similar operations to an operating system. If you write an operating system in Python you will have scope for many 40% improvements all over the place and in …

Thanks for the links. To the limit of my influence I try to protect my team from distractions, be fluid about methodology (constant agile churn can be depressing), limit the toxici…

This is so good.

The file system won’t allow you to overwrite an open file in Windows.

42 In less than 7.5 million years please. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(answer)

> “ After heating the swatches to simulate aging, they treated the samples for 10 minutes, by soaking them in a hydrogen peroxide solution or exposing them to the blue LED or UV li…

Here are some more points to consider. 1. Allowing user initiated early retry exit. Nothing is stopping some other developer from wrapping your function-with-retries in their own r…

I’ll look up that plugin, thanks!

Loved the write up, well done to the author. I get the same feeling building stuff with freecad and then printing it. Feels like there is no limit to what can be done. After going …

To me the online safety act is a latency tax and nothing more. Sucks for others though. I feel bad for them, it’s not right.

The consensus appears to be that this is theft but it’s worth considering that it could also be many other things. It could be paperwork mixup with the purchase of a legitimate pla…

This one time, traveling through Asia, a simple merchant transaction triggered a fraud alarm on my card. The default for my bank at the time was to cancel my card automatically. Th…

This problem is (so far) solved by the editions feature. Breaking changes can be made to the language without splitting the ecosystem (like python 2 vs 3). https://doc.rust-lang.or…

Bluetooth LE which most smartphones support today is quite a bit different from Bluetooth classic. It typically runs at 1 or 2 Mbps and can trade bandwidth for error correction to …

> “In either case, the plasma in turn produces chemicals known as reactive oxygen species (ROS)” Sounds like a simple ozone generator to me. Since the pandemic these devices are ve…

> “ While testing was conducted at 60 FPS, the response times even fall short of this low bar, with 16.67 ms being the slowest response time required for the pixels to refresh betw…

> “ Unlike pesticides or other chemical control methods that mosquitoes can develop resistance to, this method uses the mosquitoes’ own biology to deliver the control agent.” I don…