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For me `isoinfo` doesn't like the format of the .iso file ("CD-ROM is NOT in ISO 9660 format"). Using bsdtar worked though: bsdtar xOf xxx.iso initrd | gzip -dc | cpio -idv --no-ab…

Brokenness.

Personally I find "wrist warmers" work well. I don't like fingerless gloves when typing since material between my fingers is annoying, but wrist warmers are like fingerless mits (n…

I agree the number of attack vectors is significantly reduced in comparison to the same version of Android on a smartphone (particularly if the user is making little or no use of t…

I would like something like this but one thing that makes Android-based music players like this unappealing is the versions of Android they start with. When this is releases in Feb…

On a related note, the interviews with homeless people on the YouTube channel Soft White Underbelly were a real eyeopener to me. I highly recommend it, but some of them are extreme…

He also just released the second edition of his book, Taking Charge of Adult ADHD, this year. That book (along with Atomic Habits) seems to be the one most suggested by the ADHD su…

I recently watched the following series of videos by Russell Barkley who I believe is one of the world's leading ADHD researchers. I think it's a good place to start because it des…

Lex Fridman had an interesting podcast on IQ a few months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hppbxV9C63g

What? Power is the rate at which energy is supplied. Power and energy from one source are both exactly proportional to power and energy, respectively, from another source. Fuel, or…

On a related note, I've been getting increasingly worried that we're imminently and blindly walking into a human catastrophe due to our current energy policies. I'd be interested t…

As it happens, a kernel update appears to have fixed the issue, but thank you for this tip.

I commented here about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31498642

For anyone thinking of using this with Linux, there are a couple of issues I've encountered with Logi Bolt with my MX Keys Mini. Getting the keyboard and a Logi Bolt USB receiver t…

That site links to the 2005 edition of the book The Elements of Computing Systems, but an updated edition was published in 2021. (I found the original edition excellent years ago. …

Indeed. Applying it to the former case seems like an abuse of the word "efficiency" to me.

I'm not sure it's "desperately" chasing; its trajectory looks positive. For example, in the 2019 Stack Overflow developer survey[1] only 3% of professional developers reported usin…

I think they used underscores in their links originally and then changed them to dashes at some later date but broke things. (You can see this in the second article which links to …

The original Wired links are: https://www.wired.com/2012/07/ff-kaspersky/ https://www.wired.com/2012/07/kaspersky-indy/

He could be referring to multiple things, but the one I recall was the treasurer resigning, claiming he felt/was removed by the founder for blocking what he saw as misuses of donat…

Although it seems to be intentionally hidden when coming to that section of the site from the "Documentation" link on the homepage: > Coming soon. If you are interested in contribu…

I think it's too early to say it's failed to replace the existing systems programming languages and its trajectory looks positive. For example, in the 2019 Stack Overflow developer…

These could be useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_noise_control https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_gain_control https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_suppression_and_ca…

Troubleshooting mode might have been useful for diagnosing what was making Firefox slow: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/diagnose-firefox-issues...