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Previous discussion about the File System and how it influenced SMB: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23519826

This is my attempt at running Github Actions locally on arm and arm64: https://github.com/mutablelogic/docker-action-runner Running the actions in a docker container is not ideal b…

In my vague understanding, there are five parties: 1. The viewer or listener of the music, you might or might not get the right to listen to music in your "territory" or country, a…

Thirteen Lives is now in production with a good cast and Ron Howard as director. Likely to be released around the middle of 2022

Not quite - they would need to determine the relevancy of the news story within clusters of stories as well, so it's likely they would take the whole article in order to feed into …

I used to use Apollo workstations in the late 1980's (probably around 1988). I used to have a DN3000 on my desk with a massive CRT monitor. They were pretty heavily used in my comp…

OSHPark also allow you to upload Eagle BRD files, but based in the US. I think it's a separate company.

I suppose this is only the first article, but before you commit components to a manufactured board, I recommend you do a schematic layout and then a wire-wrapped or bread-boarded v…

In my humble opinion, the home computer market fragmented into business machines (Amstrad's PCW and PC ranges) and gaming. Acorn and Sinclair [bought by Amstrad] failed to come up …

Die-hard Mac Pro user here. I have one "ashtray" at home and one at work. Prefer wired ethernet, wired RAID storage and wired big monitors plus all the ports I need (albeit not sup…

Android N is coming to the Nexus 6 today or tomorrow!

Speaking of Music Festival crowds, having worked at Love Parade a few years back where there were fatalities due to lack of crowd controls and at Tomorrowland last year, I was real…

Cyclists have a very different set of motivations when getting from A to B than cars do. Pedestrians also have a different set of motivations for their actions, but you notice it l…

Hi, can you confirm that the British Red Cross is a different organization and more transparent? Ideally they should confirm this on their webpage, but they don't.

Oh, I think they are collecting data just like all the other providers mentioned, and they are sometimes sharing it with 3rd parties. Ie, https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/commen…

I fear we are part of a small self-selecting group that has chosen the convenience to living in densely populated, well connected cities and are relatively well-off. I doubt you'll…

The code is indeed very useful to debug issues. When asked for it by YouTube, please provide the actual text rather than a screenshot...I get sent the screenshot a lot and then I h…

...and it's free. I'm super impressed with Norwegian Airlines.

I'm trying to build a mac GUI server app at the moment for postgresql for a standalone server, like Postgres.app. I should be finished in a couple of months or so and then I will w…

Live streaming from the IOC on YouTube is only available in 64 countries where there aren't exclusive broadcaster rights. All of those countries are in Africa or Asia, so not avail…

Yes, the IOC are streaming the whole olympics on YouTube at www.youtube.com/olympic to 64 countries in Asia and Africa, where there aren't exclusive broadcaster arrangements. It's …