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Dude. Apple basically created USB-C.

You probably already know about this video series, in just in case you don’t: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK-Wicsj5rAasS2g7e-Z9eFUd... One of the most joyful things I’ve see…

It is just for the harness. Using a Mac Mini gives you direct access to Apple services, but also means you can use AppleScript / Apple Events for automation. Being able to run a re…

I didn’t create this, but on the surface it looks like a reasonable median between “Superpowers”[1] and “Gas Town”[2]. Posting as I don’t see any discussion on it here yet. [1] htt…

Looks like the slack invite expired?

Lack of scalability. It’s a person checking your transactions for possible fraud, not just an algorithm.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quantitative-Equity-Portfolio-Manag... Caveat: it’s not exactly “easy reading”, and you might want to have the “three blue one brown” YouTube channel on st…

Your logic seems to be “he doesn’t look like a fitness influencer, therefore he’s not fit and healthy”, and I’m not sure that stacks up. Maybe his goals are not the same as yours, …

Good for them, and good for everyone else here who's happy about the switch to remote working. That said: I think I'd almost rather quit than "work from home" indefinitely. For me …

If there's a Robin Hobb trilogy you need a break before starting it's this one. It left me a sobbing mess on more than one occasion.

The Emperor's Soul is set on the same world as Elantris, though is more or less completely unconnected to it.

There's another Sanderson Cosmere book called Warbreaker which crosses over with Stormlight pretty heavily from book 2 onwards (it's also very possibly there are references in book…

This might be the best YouTube rabbit hole I've ever fallen down. Thank you for posting it!

The thing that seems missing from this explanation is that without the physical goods the virtual goods are worthless.

And feature creep.

The engineering lab I did my PhD in (the Ocean System's Lab at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh) fit this description. One example: Myself and two colleagues took two weeks out …

As a bonus, the episode of 99% Percent Invisible which followed it[1] has an excellent callback. [1]: This one, I think: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/roman-mars-describes…

The nail gun in Quake fires “nine inch nails”, which I always thought was a nice touch.

There's the letter of the law, and the spirit of the law. I suppose it depends on which you think is more important.

The former, mostly.

Fast.ai + Floydhub is something I’d be really interested in... but this appears to just be about the former?