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I’m piecing together through their website, online articles, etc. that the photographer shoots a lot of film. So perhaps other than a deliberate stylistic choice, the magazine used…

There is at least one semiconductor test platform which uses Excel workbooks as the programming interface. Automotive chips going in to new vehicles today are being tested for func…

The article doesn’t mention lyrics, which has to be one of the biggest contributions a singer provides to a song. Being able to emote through language in addition to music may as w…

I bought a newer K&E probably 10 years ago. I brought it to college and even took it as a calculator backup to a few exams. It’s still on my desk in the office. But I find it mostl…

This paragraph summarized the piece fairly well. It describes the ideology that the author thinks central bankers have: > The answer may be down to the grip of an economic ideology…

I used ledger for 2019–2020 and by the end of it I had scripts to pull just about everything automatically, whether via OFX, Plaid, CSV, or PDF. It became a drag when I realized th…

Because of that article I bought a hot water bottle on Amazon. I’ve had it for about a month now. It’s very pleasing to use to heat a bed in a way that an electric blanket isn’t: i…

There is not unfortunately.

Being a plan 9 nerd, I originally found 9ime [1] when I wanted a compose key in windows. It serves the same purpose and has the same default compose key of right-Alt. I’ve yet to b…

From my previous research on whole-house fans, they are a wonderful device to have so long as you live in a place where the nights are cool, and most importantly, low-humidity . Un…

Both made by Renée French, wife of Rob Pike!

I believe they’re referring to this thread from December: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25472970

This news surprises me, as I was just preparing a route in the (iPhone) app. Seems like it hasn’t been updated for me yet. I haven’t used maps.me much, but generally it’s been a go…

I’ve used the similar Fluke 80K-40 a number of times up to 20 kVrms. The arcing is always concerning, but it’s surprising how safe it feels to hold.

They mean that all the pattern day trading rules apply to options just the same as stocks, i.e. you cannot be an options day trader with less than 25k in the account.

Given the measurements in grams, I’d assume the temperature is Celsius.

This appears to be an attempt to make a Wikipedia using the semantic data from Wikidata. The semantic web ideas of Tim Berners-Lee may be catching on.

This is an excellent idea, though perhaps too much like crowdfunding. There’s an early bird bonus that bumps your ROC—for instance, helping float a parrot store through COVID as on…

I do similar reliability work for power electronics (first job after BSEE). I wouldn’t have expected lifetimes at the working stress to be a concern, but I had not fully appreciate…

Worse is Better versus The Right Thing strikes again. I find that I can extend Pandoc’s markdown to do most of anything I’d want. Could RST or AsciiDoc do it better? Maybe. I haven…

Postel’s law—be conservative in what you do, but liberal in what you accept from others

Off-topic: I really enjoy seeing online articles before 2010 or so that have modern stylesheets. It shows that writing is timeless, and the power of separating presentation and con…

Good article, interesting material to think over. I don’t think the author’s patronizing attitude towards historical theories is helping his thesis much. He starts off proposing th…

I can add that 3 of 3 multi-family dwelling leases I’ve signed in Texas have a specific prohibition to changing oil.