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I’ve tried several different audio solutions, including nice wired headphones + mod mic wireless. Ultimately people think I sound best just using my laptop’s internal microphone ar…

>The test suite is down, and has been for at least a year Yeah, that's lame. According to the Github issue it's been down since March 2019 [0] OP wrote an unofficial Activity Strea…

“IA.BAK has been broken and unmaintained since about December 2016. The above status page is not accurate as of December 2019.”

I was outraged for two seconds, then remembered I switched to wireless charging anyway.

House Democrats just proposed $100B to fund last mile fiber. The bill includes thinks like a "Dig Once" provision and supersedes state laws against municipal fiber. https://arstech…

heh I had this problem with the inane music my kids listen to. Those plays poisoned my recommendations and I only noticed when my annual retrospective playlist popped up full of di…

Qualified Immunity is fascinating. Nobody ever passed a law for it, it just evolved. Really weird. Need new laws to remove it.

That's a really interesting point. For years I got my best work done between 11pm and 2am. Maybe this is why.

This is why some governments raise speed limits. Faster traffic -> more energy required per mile -> more gas consumed -> more gas tax revenue

This article spills a lot of ink to say that you should focus on your Sleep, Diet, Exercise, Stress, and Drugs in that order. It provides a few tips for each topic: 1) Sleep Tip: "…

Navigation satellites are inherently geo limited. Can the Chinese system be used outside the Chinese mainland?

I like Unsplash, but I don't understand their business model. What makes it sustainable?

Any idea where I can get data on POSIX utilities ranked by use/importance?

Heh totally want to install this on a PineBook and give it to elementary school kids as their first personal computer.

Looks useful, but it depends on PipelineDB, a PostgreSQL extension for streaming data. Unfortunately PipelineDB hasn't been updated since May 2019 [0] when they were acquired by Co…

Looks good, but needs additional specificity / testability. > No hidden costs What is a "hidden cost"? Sometimes pricing is complicated. For example, shipping and sales taxes vary …

Can you provide a more detailed critique of Django’s “Fat Models” recommendation? How would you prefer to manage this logic?

I’m just getting started with Nix, with the explicit goal of making my entire system defined in a private , remote git repo. I want to be able to rapidly re-provision my entire use…

> I just wish I could buy a Zen 2 chip in a laptop that doesn't look like it was made for a fourteen year old (no offense to any fourteen year olds). I heard someone say the lack o…

These technologies could be used to create a valuable network of low-distraction reference resources. They might dodge the Eternal September problem simply due to the the high barr…

Also: * Write clearly & concisely * Use good headers and provide a table of contents Here are some useful resources for writing better: https://www.plainlanguage.gov/ http://www.he…

I'd much rather have a clear record of the assumptions made & rational for them than have to discover them later when problems crop up.

Very cool! Intake [0] is another package that might help here. It organizes a set of data sources into (1) plugins that actually connect to the data source and map the data to stan…

I wonder if we’ll get a fully open source release of the Keybase server out of this. It would be so awesome as a federated ecosystem...