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"How to befriend crows", also known as "how to get away with a murder".

I've always hated the phrase "boy racer". So condescending...

Apparently the one app requires permissions for "an overview of your exact location, the ability to make direct calls via your phone and the ability to disable your screen lock." I…

Not when you factor in equipment, travel, keeping the lights on, etc.

Because Jeff Geerling is an internet personality and uses opportunities like this for publicity.

With a good chunk of that money being allocated to getting young Americans killed (i.e. military spending).

Reminds me of the 8-bit guy's device he created for manually programming character lcd displays. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZRL8luuPb8

It demonstrates how technology we take for granted obfuscates how complex basic tasks can be.

"This is a keyboard that is sure to provoke controversy." I miss this sort of drama...

It would be nice if I got to see how I did against other players.

Up. Politics is a major detriment to NASA's efficiency.

It's weird they don't say what year its from. (AFAIK this keyboard mouse combo appeared in 1981).

No one likes a non runny white.

You must be fun at parties. Edit: :P

That retro looking CLI gui is pretty slick.

This is simultaneously interesting and useless.

Hang in there, man. I can totally relate. I too find myself getting tired out at the three year mark at companies, and switching things up has always helped. Although it's easier t…

Github has always had a bad history graph. I've always wondered why we can't just have a live Github history graph like in Sourcetree.

Good point. V8 gave us Node.js, right? Also I've been out of the loop for a while now about Firefox. My understanding was Firefox had a pretty bad memory leak for a long time. Was …

Crazy thing is Mozilla was heavily funded by Google for years before Chrome came out.

Thanks for posting. What are the use cases for Firezone exactly? Is the intention to simplify networking configuration in data centers? (as opposed to the zero config nature of Tai…

How did Chrome become so popular instead of Firefox in the first place? Was it purely Google's advertising of their browser? Brand recognition is so important to typical consumers.…

The main perpetrator I've come across (in, I'll admit, my limited experience with scraping) was Google services. It seemed somewhat obvious to me initially while playing around wit…

This is a very valuable resource. My only constructive criticism would be maybe providing multiple point of views for each step because it's not always obvious what the step requir…

It can be frustrating learning web scraping with Python when so many sites actively block scraping.