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    Comment #48631575

    For anyone interested in economics and life cycle math (for sailing in general, not the trimarans they are using here) I recommend https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/05/how-to-…

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    Comment #47222795

    I think I ran into an edge case: Directly after opening the example https://tuneithub.com/Legit-Control/get-colibri I pressed Undo and all text disappeared and I couldn't get it ba…

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    Comment #46883207

    For folks using devenv: prek is the default used for devenv's git-hooks since November 2025 https://devenv.sh/blog/2025/11/26/devenv-111-module-changelo...

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    Comment #46650097

    I'm also curious to see if we will see more "no drive zones". We see this in other domains: I recently talked to someone from an asset inspection (think flying around bridges to ch…

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    Comment #46096828

    Another great write-up on datacenters in space that goes a bit deeper in cost calculations: https://angadh.com/space-data-centers-1

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    Comment #46095987

    Careful though, you might end up like me and add more and more machines, because setting up new machine is very satisfying with nixos

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    Comment #45954757

    Instead of drilling deep, there is also an intersting case for storing cheap solar energy as hat in piles of dirts in the summer to power turbines in the winter: https://austinvern…

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    Comment #45727288

    Version control and meaningful diffs for .xlsx will be in high demand in a few months

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    Comment #45527443

    A diff makes these kind of errors much easier to catch. Or maybe someone from XEROX has a better idea how to catch subtly altered numbers?

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    Comment #45104257

    For cases I am not 100% sure I want to replace all occurrences, I prefer scooter: https://github.com/thomasschafer/scooter

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    Comment #44485532

    specifically for working better with diffs, I can recommend tmux + lazygit with this keybinding for quickly opening a floating lazygit: bind-key C-g display-popup -E -d "#{pane_cur…

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    Comment #44134572

    > The neighborhood cafe where locals can stop by at any time and see other locals This is still the norm in some places. When I was cycling through the Balkans, I was surprised how…

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    Comment #43469809

    Anecdotally, I see a lot of people wearing minimal shoes in their daily lives. But pretty much no minimal/barefoot runners anymore

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    Comment #42981150

    Adversarial play sounds fun, I might try that out! The LLM we use is mistral-large-latest, we didn't do any training on the data yet

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    Comment #42906674

    For anyone who is into decentralized protocols: here is a comprehensive list: https://codeberg.org/amjoseph/not-your-keys-not-your-name

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    Comment #42710736

    The layout is fully customizable. That being said I just stick with the default, works well for me. By default F12 is on the lower layer "V" key. https://docs.moergo.com/glove80-us…

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    Comment #42615877

    Ultra-endurance cycling like the race you mentioned is fascinating. I once met a few contestants in a European bike race and drove alongside one. He said the best in the field slee…

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    Comment #42326744

    I recently built a small, free analysis tool that takes public documentation git repos and evaluates the content against this framework: https://app.getdocsy.com/analysis/

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    Comment #42228565

    The explanation is in the article. Tldr is for sync functions, the CPU is blocked, with async functions, once the await statement is reached, other stuff can be handled in between