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dws.rip? That hit kind of hard.

Imagine that every so often, without warning, a 47-61 db house fly buzzes somewhere in your house. I'd grab a swatter and hunt it down before it disturbed me again.

> Sure, I can run some slow Llama3 models on my home network, but why bother when it is so cheap or free to run it on a cloud service? Running locally, you can change the system pr…

Full authenticity would also require raised flooring, and an audio track of people shouting "SAVE YOUR FILES!" whenever the lights flickered.

Coding forms, accumulated until someone had access to a keypunch. Turnaround time could be days, which encouraged being very scrupulous when coding.

I don't know it they market this way. I learned it at the winery, from someone who clearly loved the wine. It was a, "Try these two. Taste the difference?" thing, followed by the s…

There's a vineyard in that area, Sobon Estates, that has a unique feature. If you look up into the vineyard from the winery, there's a dividing line between volcanic soil and alluv…

Sedona, Arizona. Named for Sedona Schenbly, of Goren, Missouri. She and her husband had moved to Arizona for their health. He wanted to open a Post Office, but the Post Office auth…

"This I now perceived to be wrong, not because it is too radical, but because it is too simplistic. The biggest mistake in the 'Build one to throw away' concept is that it implicit…

Can confirm that this runs on an ancient i3 NUC under Ubuntu 20.04. It emits a token every five or six seconds, which is "ask a question then go get coffee" speed. Still, very cool…

Lightweight branches was a huge selling point. If you didn't do them often enough that they were rote, branches in RCS/CVS/SVN required ritual sacrifice.

Keyboards are a matter of taste. To my fingers, the T420 is the last of the T series with a really good one. Older Thinkpads are easy to repair. I've replaced the keyboard once, an…

Many years back (so details are fuzzy), a friend who worked at Atari in the early 80's told that the programmer who did the game part of the work had the basic chess algorithm work…

"Notably, although officially psychoactive, we exclude caffeine due to its near-universal prevalence in software."

You'd lose more weight from the plastic components outgassing.

If you skimmed that headline and went straight to Firesign Theatre...

Agreed, thought it seems unlikely to me that the sensors I was testing were reacting to any sort of leak or out-gassing. They consistently showing a steady increase in TVOCs over 1…

Interesting that they don't recommend TVOC sensors. I spent a few months trying to get a set of CSS811 sensors to behave. They'd consistently, but erratically, drift upwards into "…

Some of my D1 Minis have regulators that run really hot. Hot enough that temperature readings get thrown off unless the sensor moved several inches away.

One nit. Hoffman says you don't need to pre-rinse the filter. Try that into a cup, then sip the result.

Give 90C or 85C a try, and see if you notice the difference.

Visualizing being the shower can also sometimes work. I got stuck on a problem a while back, and tried leaning back, closing my eyes, and imaging being in a warm shower with a head…

He didn't single pin pick the lock, as that wasn't the point of the video. Raking is a picking technique, though, and common as a starting move in locksport competitions.

Elsewhere, https://sive.rs/book/ShortSentences , Sivers recommends "Several Short Sentences About Writing", which is a perspective on writing that I'd not seen before. A useful rea…

And behind the camera, Stewart Brand