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> You contribute to projects run by others with the understanding that others run the project, is this not the default assumption others have too when contributing to FOSS? There a…

I wrote a multi-page essay about this for our condo association last year. There's lots of complexity and externalities here — Pepco grid modernization, PJM interconnection cap auc…

The US app is still laggy (even on the iPhone 17 Pro) and constantly logs you out. My theory is that they set the login timeout to a low number to make it harder to accrue points.

We dealt with this headache for 7+ years at my former employer. Thanks so much for this.

> ability to stream US TV when abroad (by exiting from my home network) Should note that Tailscale does not work natively with hdhr for mpeg television streams b/c wireguard doesn'…

The effects aren't too far off from reports of the maduro raid, though my understanding is that the US just used a standard LRAD

I stopped reading when I realized it wasn't a deep dive into the most interesting question I had, which is the technical hardware design process and finding a factory to actually t…

I discovered X-Face[0] through gmane! Such a blast from the past. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face

I noticed this and modified the .car to just make window corners sharp. It looks a bit jarring, but functionally speaking, it feels like a big improvement.

Thanks, typo; updated.

Dennis Ritchie running Rob Pike's acme editor on Windows back in July 2002. https://anders.unix.se/images/dmr_screenshot.gif https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-deve…

My mom's father died in his early 30's while working as an engineer for Mack Trucks in Hagerstown, Maryland in the '50s and '60s and my mom, to this day, attributes his rapid healt…

We bought a Google Workspace subscription for a building I help manage and I was shocked when I found out that you can't archive emails for discovery/legal purposes unless you buy …

Tried using the "Online Media" built-in plugin for a couple of trivial test cases — Youtube and archive.org — the former worked, while the latter failed, so I disabled it and switc…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AyEzA5ziE0

took me longer than i'd care to admit to figure out how to install whisper as a user/system package on macOS w/o brew (which pulls in all of llvm@16 during install) brew install uv…

> What is especially remarkable, however, is how quickly the Fox News report appeared and then vanished. Internet sources say that when someone stumbles upon evidence of a possible…

Was going to make the same comment. https://i.imgur.com/EGyYmkX.jpg https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/16/science/the-benzene-ring-...

I'm a fan of the tiles/patterns from DESQView/X https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16044021

When working for my former employer, we rolled our own help center, but after awhile, it was deemed easier and cheaper to just cut it and transfer everything to zendesk.

I'm Irish and this is the correct answer

I tried using tailscale to share my hdhomerun prime tuners over the internet, but sadly, it doesn't seem to work due to Tailscale's lack of support for mDNS lookups[0][1]. You can'…

sublime still has the lowest latency compared to any other major text editor i've tried

Many of the best engineers that I have worked with over the years have a discerning constitution which seems to innately allow them to identify high quality software, which is esse…