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My kids have an Ooma landline and haven't gotten bored with it yet. It's been months. The hype is real.

Me too!

Good feedback, thanks! Gemini got a bit carried away writing the README for me. Toned it down and added a demo GIF

I don't post here much, but thought I'd share this terminal Checkers game, because I vibe-coded [most of] it while my kids watched a movie and found it very gratifying. Runs via py…

DMA in what sub-field?

This is pretty cool

Got a music degree, decided the career wasn't for me, went to a programming incubator, really struggled with interviewing for a while, got a job at a startup, got a job at FAANG, h…

With the horrible news this morning about the American airlines collision with a helicopter near Washington DC, I am sure the biggest focus will be on how these two aircraft came t…

Yep same. "Teach yourself to eat chocolate."

When you pick up a landline phone, throughout the USA there is a consistent "dial tone" you hear in the earpiece. I haven't heard it in a while, but IIRC it's two synthesized tones…

Fun article! Particularly enjoyed the anecdotal evidence from individual soldier's writing.

Thanks, I enjoyed this and it rings true. This abstract concept of "space" getting filled up thoughtlessly, and that "space" being created by unnecessarily breaking things up into …

Try not to worry about what others think of you, and definitely don't think about IQ. Judgment is so much more important than speed. Why are you concerned with speedy thinking?

Made me laugh out loud

First example seems odd? The author acknowledges that the two proposed alternatives (printing " " or actually exiting) aren't great. The fact that the Python REPL provides a helpfu…

Yep this happened to me yesterday. In a taxi, the driver was following Google Maps, which showed a 22 min ETA, with one or two alternatives adding a minute or so. My phone was open…

Beautiful Country, by Qian Julie Wang. Beautifully written memoir about immigrating to NYC as a child in the 90s. Poignant, sweet, honest, easy to read, fun, not too too emotionall…

Sounds like the thing about "ad blocker sabotage" is about replacing the Web Request API with something called declarativeNetRequest. I've been sifting through documentation but ha…

Yep, everything in this article is right on my money in my experience.

This was invaluable in music school.

How could it help with anything at runtime? The type system only exists at compile time, right?

Reading https://github.com/total-typescript/ts-reset/blob/main/src/e... , I'm more confused than before. The generic NonFalsy [] looks to me like it should evaluate to never[] if t…

Interesting! The example [1, 2, undefined].filter(Boolean). // number[] is interesting because it makes use of the fact that the types of individual array members are known at comp…

I.e. comments that are literal spam, from accounts I've never heard of, on documents I've never seen, but where I am tagged. And they always mention some Bitcoin transaction whose …

Cool! Separate question: What makes people decide to use a mail client instead of webmail? What can I do with a client that I can't do with Gmail web?