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Why is a 3d printer more dangerous than a CNC?

If someone said Sorry and just sat there expectantly in front of my bag, I would strongly have the urge to look and say "use your words..."

... thoughts arrive like butterflies Oh he don't know, so he chases them away Oh someday yet, he'll begin his life again Life again, life again

Why do rust compile times matter for a production deployment?

I got a keyboard.io when they first came out. On staggered layouts i was >85 wpm. But switching to ortholinear knocked me down to 25 wpm with excessive errors. It took several mont…

In database design typically it recommends giving out opaque natural keys, and keeping your monotonically increasing integer IDs secret and used internally.

On cars without the arrow they often follow the convention where the gas filler handle is depicted on the same side of the gas icon as the filler door is in the car.

Calling it the largest electric ship seems wrong or at least requires extra specificity compared to nuclear aircraft carriers.

I feel like this misses the biggest advantage of Result in rust. You must do something with it. Even if you want to ignore the error with unwrap() what you're really saying is "pan…

Independent thought and personal accountability are sadly lacking in the US. "I see a bunch of unreturned carts. I must follow and fit it. See im justified in not returning it." :-…

Kdenlive isnt bad

Seems like a better fit for Win 3.11.

I've seen Ken Shirriff do this. You mention him and suddenly he's there.

Isn't senior leadership choosing languages or core technology, doing things wrong? Shouldn't senior leadership focus on outlining the business opportunities, value case, and requir…

For this example id probably accumulate the score total in a local variable. Then once iterating over all the children i would call parent.add_score() with the accumulated total

I wonder what their reaction was when he discovered the malware. Did you confront them or just ghost?

If its a personal project then try each and see what you like. Work project then follow your company development guidelines.

Excellent write up and great real world review. You mentioned wanting to become a generalist. The missing applet for tuxedo-rs would be a great opportunity to "scratch an itch" and…

Even today in my day job I still spend 90% of my time in a No Machine NX session to a remote linux desktop where I do my work. We do it as an extreme form of access control. Our wo…

I think a lot of this distinction comes down to individual vs group focus. Being good at your own work makes you useful. However being strategic, thinking about the bigger picture,…

Simple: information is power. Why else would so many go so far to control it. Also librarians are some of the most overeducated and underpaid people out there. Thank you for what y…

I'm a bit surprised that they don't use the name "type state". Perhaps it wasn't in wide use when this post was originally written? The important ideas here are that each state is …

> That last bit -- addressing the path limitations -- is a big one. You know how you can write #include "mbedtls/aes.h", and the compiler will pull in code from the aes.h file that…

A blue light filter on my lenses helped reduce eye strain. Certainly worth considering and works better/less noticeably than the screen adjusting it's blue and red balance. I also …

That's great. Merely speak his name and he appears. Love the work you do Ken. Thank you.