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How to Design Programs https://htdp.org/2021-11-15/Book/part_prologue.html Take a quick scroll through, it features programming with pictures which is much more useful and motivati…

This is true, which is why I expect mDNS and DNS to become standard even for local addresses. I'm looking forward to using `router.local` over `192.168.1.254`.

This is an example of how the internet was originally intended: Every user of the internet has a public address that any other user can send and receive messages from. The design w…

Who uses the indicator lights? - people looking behind a computer or at switchgear. They aren't regular users, they understand how networks operate and what the green/yellow lights…

From xkcd's "Interplanetary Cessna": > X-Plane is the most advanced flight simulator in the world. The product of 20 years of obsessive labor by a hardcore aeronautics enthusiast w…

I just use my index finger for both j and h. Are you used to the arrow keys? I noticed with jkl;, my fingers line up with the arrow-key directions.

Mapping the sequence 'jk' to Esc supercharged vim for me. Faster, but also helps me stay in the flow longer. Run `:inoremap jk ` to try it out.

The compute modules come with onboard eMMC

Google tracks how many people connect with IPv6, which is a metric for how many people are staying at home: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html IPv6 connections pea…

Protobufs/nanopb would be my go-to for minimal message size. If you want small code size, CBOR seems like a good bet: > The Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) is a data fo…

The link explains that CouchDB can have replicas on mobile phones and websites, meaning clients don't always have to be connected to the internet. > The Couch Replication Protocol …

> Speaking at the BlueHat security conference in Israel last week, Microsoft security engineer Matt Miller said that over the last 12 years, around 70 percent of all Microsoft patc…

In New Zealand, the government funds tertiary education with a zero-interest loan. If you move/work overseas, it becomes a regular loan with 4% interest. It gives some pressure to …

Two of my flatmates never have a shower over 5 minutes long, because they "get bored".

From Google's Site Reliability Engineering book[1]: > SRE’s goal is no longer "zero outages"; rather, SREs and product developers aim to spend the error budget getting maximum feat…

Yeah, the site owner said he's been slashdotted in an IRC channel.

If its hosting costs the ACM is worried about, they could offer torrents as a free download option to lighten the load.

Some friends of mine are entry-level developers that work alone on an Arduino/C++ codebase. Baremetal development and C++'s bad library support encourages them to write huge amount…

I love the typed API svd2rust generates as well. Generally you can just let autocomplete do the driving, the only things needing a brain are the abbreviated register names manufact…

It's the sanity check to see if a language really is the worst someone has seen.

I've had similar success with the gradual typing in Python. NamedTuples are far superior to ad hoc dictionaries, for both documenting data structures, but also as a prompt to consi…

If you enable readability mode in Firefox first, the entire article shows up in the PDF.

Yeah. I can't find anyway to save the text either. Looks like the app is targeted towards deaf/mute people when looking at accessibility features it includes (e.g. phonecall textin…

I just had a look on the Play store for a voice recording app and came across "Live Transcribe" by "Research at Google". It's ridiculously good at picking up and transcribing my vo…