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My dotfiles. Specifically, I'm working to stop working on them.

Terrifying. My nightmares will return.

Physical experiments.

Physics

Why?

A reminder that space weather affects years of human efforts not just the satellites we launch now. I hope that there is much to learn from 40 failures.

This is a fun product

With you on that. I think having a workplace is a benefit of having a job. The cognitive load of pretending that you are at work, without any benefits of having a OSHA/legal workpl…

Zoom improves when you stop using it.

I enjoyed learning the difference between NixOS, nix (eg, nix-build, nix-env,...) Nix Language, and nixpkgs. Knowing the difference of tools in the belt is like knowing the blades …

Something needs this, but not me.

Its why does this have to be a thing now? Did anyone want this? Honestly, I have not heard anyone asking for it before or after it was released. If it's ambiguous, then why is this…

To say little of perfectionists/analysis-paralysis

I'm wondering, doesn't the concept of temperature change with pressure? For example, homemade fusion reactors operate at low pressures but at a temperature higher than the sun. So,…

Tragedy of the commons. A problem waiting for a solver

Could this be explained by the photo electric effect? I mean beaming energy through brain cells until the mouse has brain damage might be a better explanation for sudden loss of me…

I learned from your perspective here. Thank you for sharing your experience. Interesting, because this trade study could be conducted by an engineer and a manager in a small compan…

Certainly, as an almanac writer, he would not give up anything based on "media reports"

So they aren't predicting anything, are relying on manufacturers to self report, already have surprise shortages, and are monitoring and mitigating? These statutory authorities and…

This news is stunningly correlated to my lecture this morning from Dr Bailey at Virginia Tech. The man was in Alaska finishing the launch of his sounding rocket for NASA. The ideal…

Professions are practiced

alright hacker news, how did you know what I've been doing for 16 hours?

Humor follows: Strange to say a plan would split California into 3 and solve the human linked tickets. Especially, when considering over 100 years of Americans alone splitting Cali…