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Thanks for the pointer to this fantastic talk. The excitement, thoroughness and dedication they put into this project along with their entertaining presentation is wonderful.

Back in the year 2001/2002 (I think) I remember doing this with a Wikipedia plugin for Rockbox ( https://www.rockbox.org/ ), which I had running on my Archos FM Recorder. It was tr…

I do the same and transactions work well most of the time. I use ZFS as filesystem for my DBMS (Postgres), which allows me to do consistent snapshots. Being able to rollback has be…

Works very well in my experience. I never get unwanted ads. The only time this is mildly annoying is during election time. Parties usually distribute flyers/pamphlets with their id…

I was recently surprised to see CS 1.6 running in the browser: https://play-cs.com Makes it way to easy to get sucked into a game or two.

Yes, this helps a lot! For me, it also helps to have a training plan, or simply calendar events that remind me what exercise I should do at a given day. Usually this allows me to t…

Very useful, thank you!

For many years I worked in a high profile research institute (neuroscience) as an RSE without a PhD. Still don't have one, and that's okay (for the path I'm on). Quite a few of the…

With coding, I often find Antoine de Saint-Exupéry helping me to limit myself: "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to tak…

Absolutely! Noticing that it usually takes ~20min for me of getting into the groove was a profound revelation for me a few years ago. I noticed a pattern that if keep on powering t…

But why would you not be able to reply with the aliased email? I do this regularly. Of course your mail client needs to support this, but using Mutt this is absolutely no problem (…

How do you mean? This is exactly what I can do with my setup. If you are referring to the use of Gmail: I prefer to run my own infrastructure as long as this is possible.

Nice! I do something similar, but using an automatic aliasing scheme so that I don't have to manually configure an email address for each service and other users can use this witho…

Found it also a while ago (maybe also on HN), and was captivated by it. I had to spend a whole Saturday reading through it. Absolutely horrifying.

I only get this when loading the page: This page crashed. Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'destroy')

Indeed, thanks for the link! We used this SimpleDB in university 15 years ago and implemented our own database nodes like hash joins, table scans, index scans, etc. as well as the …

Maybe a play on "batteries included"?

For what?

Wow, thank you very much for this link! I had no idea and the comic presentation is fantastic. I couldn't stop reading and read it front to back. It's horrific what these kids had …

indeed, and it looks like neither thinks having a death penalty is somehow problematic...

Thanks! There is also the nice book by Peter Wohlleben touching on this subject (the "wood wide web"): The Hidden Life of Trees.

That's a somewhat common joke in East Germany as well (at least it was in the 80s and 90s). Typically it is a buyer from West Germany though.

Thanks for the pointer, I wasn't aware of this! I was wondering what the problem is, because I use psycopg2-binary in production without problems for ages. It seems the danger of p…

Looks really nice. It is however funny to see what it does to road signs (black arrows suddenly turn blue or the orange "don't walk" hand of pedestrian traffic lights seems to disa…

I don't know, my grand parents (80+ years) get along well with Signal. We have been using it actively over the past years and they can text, call, videocall and share pictures with…