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I've often thought the same thing about someone pushing this information out there simply to push the stock prices down. I'm wondering if it all will eventually blow over and if it…

Cool! I was in the process of reading the JavaScript version. Converting the book to various languages will help spread the concepts in this book to a larger audience.

I didn't know about the opium. He mentioned not getting addicted to things in the book. I bet he was talking about all of the things he had done wrong in his life. Do what I say no…

When I read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, the book was written in second person point of view (using you/your vs I/my or they/theirs). It sounded like the former emperor was talk…

I think the best way to find a project is to scratch your own itch. What kinds of problems do you face that an existing tool could solve, if it just had that one feature? That is h…

> You can do that in Linux... I think I _may_ have done that before. What I thought was interesting is FreeBSD just did that without any extra steps. When I "apt-get install" a des…

Exactly. I was on an M1 Mac, so trying to emulate x86/64 would have been painfully, unusably slow. For simple console stuff on the terminal, it's ok. But when the GUI is involved, …

On that note, maybe I should try the other BSD flavors then.

I tried FreeBSD on ARM64. I couldn't get the browsers, like Firefox or Epiphany, to load without crashing. I'm not sure if it was something I was doing wrong or if the ARM ecosyste…

I like the example using well-named local variables to put together the regular expression into something really readable. It reminds me of the chapters in Uncle Bob's Clean Code b…

Glad to see the MagSafe back and the SD card slot. Reminds me of the 2015 Macbook Pro before they started pulling all of the ports.