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If you really believe the UK is a privacy-friendly and anonimity-friendly country then you have definitely been brainwashed. I can't think of a first-world country that's worse tha…

I too love USB-C, though sadly my laptop only has two of those ports, and only one of them can do power delivery and display, so my only choices are between having a powered laptop…

The moiré effect of vertically striped wood walls gives me a headache.

I think the ai-as-an-exoskeleton analogy is quite apt: 1. It still requires your intent to move in the right direction rather than being fully autonomous, and 2. It's too big and b…

I can recommend Vernal desks. I just bought a corner desk that's height adjustable and it feels like quality.

I dropped them when they silently dropped support for veracrypt/truecrypt drives: https://old.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/1ol0pgf/backblaz... They're really proving lately that…

Stop minmaxing. Not everything has to be perfect.

The thing that supposedly sets Bitcoin apart from other cryptocurrencies is that it's deflationary and 'immutable', in that Satoshi is gone forever and any deviation of Bitcoin fro…

Return them and get what instead? Every other popular phone platform is even more restrictive.

> I have a great psychiatrist who has me on antidepressants, anti-anxiety meds, and mood stabilizers Disclaimer: this is not medical advice, but have you considered being on less m…

I never stopped using foobar2000 on the desktop. I can recommend Evermusic on iOS for it's excellent playlist management, carplay integration and last.fm/scrobbling if you're ancie…

You will literally get a fine for going three miles per hour over the speed limit in many countries.

As someone whose stance is to be extremely skeptical of AI, I threw Claude at a complex feature request in a codebase I wasn't very familiar with, and it managed to come up with a …

This to me is the strongest proof that we are in a bubble so far.

The example probably wasn't the best pick to demonstrate this, but I could see this making sense for e.g. linter rules (with fewer panels per rule).

Trying on every single thing you do is exhausting. I certainly don't have the energy any more to try hard at some personal life things when my work is stressful. I think it's good …

This is no different from reviewing code from actual humans: someone could have written great looking code with excellent test coverage and still have missed a crucial edge case or…

Framing matters a lot. If you can afford to, take 6 or 12 months to widen your points of view. That might mean taking up a job in a sector you're not familiar with, or maybe changi…

Can't believe no one's mentioned this classic yet: https://www.tumblr.com/kingjamesprogramming Back in the early days of Slack I wrote a chat bot that logged all the messages peopl…