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The noise levels everywhere in our cities overwhelms me. The constant chatter of people all around, e.g., a loud conversation in close proximity, people blasting some TikTok garbag…

I want my software to work, consistently, repeatably, and predictably, every time. Whether it's the software that I use is for work - including embedded and real-time systems - or …

There was a 1970's Indonesian progressive rock band called Contrapunk that released an album called "Putri Mohon Diri" [1] You can find the recording on YT [2] They were really uni…

The BBC micro was revolutionary. Had a few of these in school in the 1980's. This was the first machine I came across where you could program inline assembly, out of the box. Got m…

OAuth2.0 is for authorization, it is not an identity layer or authentication protocol. The article further conflates the purpose of OAuth with authentication types, phishing and ot…

The user agreement T&C document is cause for concern. [1] Specifically, sec 4.4: 4.4 You understand and agree that, unless proven otherwise, by uploading, publishing, or transmitti…

There could also be a distant relationship with the Brahmi script / family [1] Some characters have similarities. The Brahmi 𑀕 may be related to the 𐤂 character in the tablet. Ot…

Shein sells cheap, "fast fashion" goods. They had a few pop up stores here in Singapore, selling what looked like low end knockoffs, albeit at low prices. They're selling tops and …

You would be interested in this if you need the 'crypto' library to work in a FIPS 140-2 compliant way. You can switch on / off this mode by setting the runtime variable GOFIPS=1 b…

“If there’s a clear and present market reality, we need to twitch faster, like the athletes twitch faster,” he said. “There is something to be learned from that faster-twitch, shor…

TVIX was a media player made by Dvico. I used to have one a few years ago. You may want to check on trademark issues around the name. https://a.co/d/hOzOcvu

My current and past employers are all-in with Microsoft because (like it or not) managing large corporate fleets is easier. Our Linux and Mac machines are treated as exceptions. Th…

Valgrind will tell you about memory leaks and won't always behave the way it did here when there's a backdoor. In this case it just so happened that valgrind was throwing errors be…

xz is so pervasive, I just discovered on my Mac that the (affected?) version 5.6.1 made it into homebrew. The post in the linked article says that only Linux x86-64 systems are aff…

Hindenburg research's entire business revolves around producing "reports" about companies, claiming fraud and manipulation, and then short-selling on a large scale. They've done th…

Moderate to heavy use. Not 100% heavy use. The official specs claim 15-18 hours battery life. Practically, I'd say I do about 8 hours a day and the Mac lasts a couple of days befor…

Ignoring the power-guzzling data centres running Xeons at work, and talking as a layperson using a laptop, my older Intel MacBook Pro gives me 2-3 hours of battery life and heats u…

I paid for Affinity Photo because of its reasonably priced perpetual license, being a great alternative to Adobe's tools for my work. Canva's business model revolves around cloud b…

MN10 as in my earlier comment is the starting point. The German monk Nyanaponika Thera provides a detailed exposition. https://www.bps.lk/library-search-select.php?id=bp509s https:…

The topic is on what monks know about focus, so I'd say that any relevant monastic practices are relevant to the discussion, that includes Buddhist monks' practices on focus and mi…

Boeing's dismal track record has been years in the making and the problems we're seeing were inevitable. However, I'm not holding my breath here hoping for a real change. Boeing is…

In a discussion about what monks know about focus, I too find it strange that other schools and practices are ignored. The core of the Buddhist practice is about cultivating the mi…

I used to work with the Sun 3's, SparcStations and other Sun hardware at the time when they were transitioning from the BSD flavoured SunOS to Solaris. There was confusion at many …

The quality of google maps routing has become terrible over the past few years. I sometimes visit a few Indian cities on work. There are many places that you can walk to. Interesti…

Some countries are imposing extra fees on conventional aviation fuel. This is new - Air ticket prices to go up as Singapore mandates sustainable fuel for departing flights from 202…