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I have been trying to reduce my usage. I still cannot find a way to resist pulling out the phone to: - perform a quick search (browser or ai) - listen to podcasts - listen to audio…

I haven't Smart Comic before. Thanks for the recommendation. Definitely going to give it a try. (I admit that panel handling is a nice to have feature, but what makes or breaks a c…

Just curious: are the copy, cut, paste and undo commands remapped by Doom Emacs? Those don't seem to be the defaults. TY

> It identified a culture where Tessier-Lavigne “tended to reward the ‘winners’ (that is, postdocs who could generate favorable results) and marginalize or diminish the ‘losers’ (t…

I'm using Scrolla. Initially I had used vim-like extensions for browsers. Obviously Firefox and Chrome extensions are eras ahead of Safari's. Scrolla was like: "hey, I can get this…

It was no further than 1 week ago when I was talking with my spouse about how could we compare the size of some cars. We found it very tedious to even find the official dimension. …

Every month, I comb through previous month Downbeat, JazzTimes, and Jazzwise magazines putting together a list of albums. The trick? I do this with past years magazine though. I re…

Whatever system I have (tried to) used over time, I've run into the following challenges: 1. how to deal with old tasks (are they relevant anymore? should they be removed?). 2. con…

Is the email notification sent synchronously? What happens if there's an error sending the email?

Does this mean that tools like sdkman can include the Oracle JDK? (I haven't found any PR for it yet)

Who signs this post?

> Some technology is designed for massive scale and some is not. You may have to layer a little scale magic on top. This is as wrong as saying that everyone needs to scale day one.…

> I have a simpler suggestion, nicknamed the Big Bang license. Congress should allow anyone with a scanned library to pay some price—say, a hundred and twenty-five million dollars—…

I recently finished reading Walter Isaacson's The Innovators books. One of the things that caught my attention was that for many of the people mentioned in the book there was a men…

I assume this is the (counter) reaction to Facebook's instant articles. The lack of details doesn't help though.

Off the top of my head I know that Netflix and LinkedIn have been running Oracle for quite a while until they moved away.

The store was in read-only mode to prep for the new iPhones so the sales loss is already accounted for. As a side note (and speculation), as compared with other online stores, I do…

If it gets back online in time, it'll be a story to be told. If not, then :-(

I did a quick search for Grace Hopper and there doesn't seem to be anything in the pdf.