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I had a CalDigit TB dock -- maybe 2021-ish? -- that every time I unplugged my MacBook would take my internet offline. I thought I was insane. How is that even possible? But I final…

Off-topic rant: to read this article, I: 1. Clicked on the link. 2. Got pay-walled. 3. Remembered that I had access to the Atlantic through Apple News+. 4. Opened the News App on m…

For what it's worth, I don't take that framing of intelligence seriously either. It's useful to have a word to describe the far-future state of the increasing capabilities of Compu…

I appreciate this paper for relatively clearly stating what "human-like" might entail, which in this case involves "reasoning about the causes behind other people's behavior" which…

There is always space for options for "fast and easy" vs "robust and maintainable." Nothing will ever beat the following as tech demo for how easy it is to make interactive UIs, bu…

It is possible with React to write an application where components have no internal state, every component is "read only," and all UI changes are state transitions in (something li…

"Lots of people are still using it, but nobody can quite remember why." I can remember why. This, and every other article I've ever read arguing to replace React with Web Component…

Just take the whole compressed, square, package-shaped "patty" of ground meat from the plastic and drop it into a ripping hot pan intact, and don't touch it until it browns pretty …

Ted's booklist/review websites have been my go-to for "I need something to read" for years now. He appears to not be maintaining them and some of the domains have expired, but here…

I thought this was going to be about "Moose Boulder," whose existence was (rather unconvincingly, I think) "disproven" a couple years ago, and which begs the interesting question a…

Sports, shows, movies, and games are all essentially free (or already paid for via a handful of subscription services). Travel, concert tickets, expensive restaurants, and wine are…

Finance YouTuber Graham Stephen recently made a big deal out of moving from Los Angeles to Vegas because the tax savings more-or-less paid for a giant mansion in Vegas. (And becaus…

Well, but we are all philosophers -- lovers of wisdom -- or at least all who begin to ask about it are. Sure, it would be idiotic to say that such a book is the end of philosophy, …

It's almost impressive that Docker-on-macOS works so seamlessly that people are downvoting this comment. Yes, Docker containers run in a Linux VM on macOS. It's just one though, an…

It's okay... to advocate for a major economic recession to make flying more comfortable for those of us with somewhat recession-proof skills?

Nothing. I self-host nothing. My entire home networking infrastructure consists of a more powerful WiFi router than the one built into the modem that the cable company provides so …

"Kid who has eschewed the internet gets exploited by mom for vogue.com clicks"

I don't know the answer to this, but I've always been genuinely curious: how accurate is the Date object? setInterval's minimum interval is ~15ms [1], so shouldn't something like..…

BetterTouchTool is well worth the money. Recommended setup (mine): One giant button in the left corner that says "escape escape escape escape escape" (what it does should be obviou…

> you just need to parse incoming sql to sanitize it and make sure there is no role escalation "Just"? I guess I'm skeptical of a statement that begins "you just have to parse sql"…

Do you work for the Minneapolis tourism association? You are correct, and it's kind of insane to me how much of a "baseline" there is to what "tolerable temperatures" feel like. Yo…

I think you're being down-voted because you are sort of wrong about the distances. We could probably get some people to another star. Why we would do that, or what we would tell th…

It’s too bad that “sales driven” is code for “information hiding.” But it’s true. Anecdotally, I’ve been able to solve the information assymetry problem by drinking recruiters unde…

Yeah. This is littered with stuff like: "This is, be it said forthwith, apposite as a castigation of historiographic diagnostics..." I don't know Polish, but it seems suspect that …

Or Frida Kahlo. It’s pretty easy to become an idol of art or health when you’re born into money. All those traditional mid-century Marxist “class is the only thing that matters” pe…