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> We "log in" by running a Python script that pops a root shell. I'm surprised that when you do this, you can't then set the root password. (Also, holy cow. What a durable machine.…

I find that fascinating, because interacting with the tests in our codebase (both Python and JS) answers a _lot_ about "how is this meant to work", or "why do we have this". I won'…

> My dotfiles are private for now cause I need to clean some commits I had to do similar. I ended up deleting the git history and just recreating it before pushing. The best thing …

You weren't kidding. I was amused by the humor in the first few minutes, but then I got to its showcase of what you can do, and am just even more blown away. They weren't kidding a…

> every time it's like I'm reading it for the first time. I can only remember thew "mood" so to speak, I am like this with a lot of books. I'll remember a very high level overview …

I appreciate you laying it out like that. I've seen these NVME NAS things mentioned and had been thinking that the reliability of SSDs was so much worse than HDDs.

Training AI models uses a large amount of energy (according to what I've read / headlines I've seen /etc), and increases water usage. [0] I don't have a lot to offer as proof, mere…

Wow. This is amazing. I really like the way you use color and do footnote-like explanations.

Thank you for painting it that way. As someone who has normally done back end stuff in Django, having the ORM magic is so deeply ingrained for me. I was about to ask what one shoul…

The intention of "minimum wage" in the US is not merely subsistence level. FDR said, "by living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living."…

I really like that your page talks about _why_ a Hilbert curve is good. I don't remember ever learning about those before, and now hopefully if I'm ever trying to visualize 1D data…

This seems like it would be solved completely by printing the error message ("option b unknown"), and then also printing the "--help" stuff. You can see the error inthe first line(…

This is somewhat off-topic, but I am blown away by your use of uncommon characters like "①". They stand out so much that they (for me at least) make referencing parts of the code s…

I believe they mean a cover as in a case that has a folding cover, not as in the external layer of the phone itself. So you effectively turn that otterbox-ish thing into a faraday …

> show their QR code to vendors who scan it to charge their account. That sounds _brilliant_ -- being able to show a physical QR code card rather than dig out the phone sounds like…

You jest, but I've noticed that the conventions of "newest on top" vs "newest on bottom" is _seriously confusing_ for some people that I help navigate tech stuff. I don't know how …

For anyone else that followed the "buy a device" link on the docs page, and found yourself on the (ended) Kickstarter page, editing the URL to https://usetrmnl.com/ works :) (This …

I sincerely hope more games allow virtual interactions with culturally significant art. Hell, I'd love a virtual tour of major art institutions! It's not Rodin, but the game Horizo…

I don't know why, but I could NOT get into it. I read what felt like 2/3 or 3/4 of the first book, and still felt like I had no clue what was going on, and it felt like a difficult…

Good grief, Gwern is a treasure. Every time I stumble across a link to something they've written, it's chock-full of side quest links to things that are _absolutely amazing_. I hap…

I have a shell alias that I use sometimes when running long-running test suites locally, or doing some long task that is blocking my work (building Docker images, installing librar…

Thanks for linking this! I also learned that support for `\p{}` syntax isn't supported in the Python `re` library, and they recommend the api-compatible `regex` library, which does…

2.5 million users : 24 support staff 1 billion users : 9600 support staff If it scales linearly, that's about 10k support per billion users. I was going to say that a 10,000 person…

This is only tangentially related, but have you played the video game "Control"? That and Alan Wake (both from Remedy) seem to relate very well with the SCP genre.

Will I forget holding my first child? Will I have forgotten cuddling up in my mom’s lap? Will I miss having forgotten these things? If I can still remember all those moments ... wi…