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What about https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/24/elon-musk...

Was interested until I checked the pricing and saw it sold as a subscription. Just let me buy it and I'll decide if I want to buy version 2 next year.

What Open AI api are you using to read PDFs?

The answer I got with the prompt "You are a git expert. How do I search for a string in dangling commits?" Was: Dangling commits in Git are often referred to as commits that are no…

I bought a $20 US gift card on ebay and redeemed that into a new US account

another service with ”contact us"-pricing. Seems having a clear and transparent pricing model is hard

I've gotten the impression that clustered Postgres still isn't very straightforward to run. Do you mind elaborating on your ideal setup and point to some resources? Thanks!

If you like it and want to support development, the main developer is on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/kovidgoyal

The book Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41795733-range argues a lot for this as well, and goes on to dis…

There was a previous Swedish tunnel project that had a number of incidents, among others groundwater pollution caused by a new sealing compound that contained acrylamid https://en.…

KanbanFlow, https://kanbanflow.com/ , is pretty serious about their Kanban implementation. Worth a look!

I keep a lot of scans in my Evernote account, and the built-in OCR is very handy for searching old documents. Does anyone know of any good alternatives here, preferably something y…

> so a remote driver can take over a car nope. nope.

We made the mistake of buying a 20 core server for running SQL Server 2008, which was fine then, but the upgrade to 2016 would be really expensive due to the new per-core licensing…

When having more than one web server (and no shared file system) ?

Registered, downloaded app, attempted to sync "This folder doesn't appear to be on a Mac disk - Please select a different folder". So, why is it not OK that I keep my pictures on m…

I did this as well, and it has been working great for me for a few years. A month ago I noticed by chance that it had stopped forwarding 12 hours earlier for no apparent reason. De…