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I didn't think that there was something wrong with my git workflow, or that git was complicated. I switched from darcs as my primary VCS to git around 2007. I was skeptical about j…

I think there was a prop 65 warning on a box of kreg pocket screws (or was it the jig?).

> "they don't help us because they are racists" That is not what i meant when posting the poem. When someone asks "Why is every western government not warning Pakistan...", he is b…

Take up the White Man's burden— Send forth the best ye breed— Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild— Your new…

There is some life in Rails, but new greenfield rails projects are rare. It is mostly legacy stuff now. The ecosystem is slowly fading away. Big industrial libs are still good, but…

Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper? I mean 180+ commits, 3 month old, bold claims and already 8 releases on rubygems? There ought to be a vetting/voting process for packa…

All fungi are edible! Tho some you can eat only once.

Once i had an idea: instead of styrofoam or packing peanuts just use pop corn or puff rice. Thermal insulation, shock absorbent and biodegradable! Not sure about flame resistant. A…

Just licked mario + rabbids I got yesterday. Tastes ok.

A chapon is a castrated cock. That might offend animal rights activists!

We can always switch to Qeng Ho time units, since we all kind of already using them now anyway.

>> You used a lot of words to make a mundane, unsupported assertion sound profound. Well, that's the game, isn't it? Btw, like some of your music. Do you have finished tracks onlin…

One of my favorite zen koans is "Fire-poker Zen": "Hakuin used to tell his pupils about an old woman who had a teashop, praising her understanding of Zen. The pupils refused to bel…

I have been cooking for 20+ years, and i had to read that chicken parm recipe several times to make sense of it. I have been entertaining the idea of writing a cookbook, that is no…

"Mal." is likely Malayalam, a dravidic language from the indian subcontinent, not Malay (Austronesian language). My Latin is quite rusty, its been a long time since i studied it. B…

> is an ancient text where I can't even readily parse what language it is in. It is Hortus Malabaricus, it is in latin and its not really ancient, it was published in late 17-th ce…

For everybody using sqlite cli from a terminal window, check out litecli [1]. It has some nice features like syntax color, better completion and query editing etc. It is part of th…

Why wait? Buld your own from old and discarded tech. Get a 2008-era intel atom netbook, discard case, mod it, run OpenBSD. Strap to you wrist, run a powercable up your arm to the c…

That is exactly my experience with imperial in woodworking! I had no previous experience with imperial measurements, my country is metric for over a hundred years, but the majority…

You are right, I never used Matrix. I guess i have to check it out. Missed it. Usable client apps for martix are what, 1.5 years old? Signal seems to have been around for ages. OTP…

Paid app is the new perl script! I wonder why there are paid apps an NO, ZERO information on how to do it with a text editor, some copyaste and javac/xcode. Like DeCSS, from a more…

> Thoughts? Pick your adversaries and scale your opsec accordingly. Unless you are a person of interest in national security matters, just the fact that you communicated with someb…

And he is right. If you want e2e use signal, threema, or OTR/OMEMO. The majority of telegram users want convenient messaging, group chats, news channels and voice group calls. Thin…

> and WhatsApp makes this as easy as one click during setup. unless you switch platforms. then you lose it all

e2e does not prohibit it. But makes it hard or impossible even for an advanced user (i tried moving my whatsapp data from iphone to android once, not sure of the current status wit…