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I don't keep anything on my phone anymore. I use gadzorp.

Yeah tuns (a word well known to homebrewers) is not as esoteric as yttria (a word known to.. chemists?)

> so hit play on sandstorm For a brief hopeful moment, I thought this was the .io kind of sandstorm

I'm feeling nostalgic for ~1998 when I ran xscreensaver hacks in the background on the root X window (so the "desktop" I guess)

There's a greentext that's been floating around for a while, I don't know the original author and can't remember the exact text to search for it, but it's along the lines of > my d…

The story for sensitive/proprietary repositories doesn't feel well-fleshed-out yet: > Radicle supports private repositories that are only shared among a trusted set of peers, not t…

My idea of the term "bleeding heart" is more like "painfully aware of the plight of people (and often wants to make sure you're also painfully aware of it)", whereas the author's t…

Tarsnap has you put money into a stored balance, and when that balance goes to zero (and after a grace period), they delete your backups. Not exactly a subscription since it's a st…

They might like to hear "Michael Jackson? Like the guy who wrote the book about scotch??" once in a while

Right, but you can use a different (codegen) model to make that code.

Thank you for posting this, I've been increasingly frustrated with ice recently and have been considering paying for bartender, now i won't.

Nearly every brand on the "approved" list is outerwear, hiking equipment, knives, tools, and "EDC" gear. Is this because of the Palantir / techbro culture that the author is immers…

> Most engineers do not know this number. How could they not ? When I penciled this out ~18 years ago, I included the amortized cost of all the interviews it took to hire a given e…

The clearest demonstration that the knife edge is dumb is that there isn't a similar sharp edge around the exterior.

I'm reminded by the caveman skill of the clipped writing style used in telegrams, and your post further reminded me of "standard" books of telegram abbreviations. Take a look at [0…

thither is one of the only words in the english language that has the ablative case marked on it https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ablative_case

When you're killing (C-u, C-k, C-w, etc) + yanking (C-y), you can also use yank-pop (bound to M-y in bash and zsh by default) to replace the thing you just yanked with the thing yo…

Answer it as if somebody had knocked on your front door: "who is it?"

( https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ken-lee )

Fork-then-thread works, does it not?

> The main downside of this was memory usage. You would have to load all of your code and libraries N types and in-process caches would become less effective. You can load modules …

I agree with you that they're more or less equal. I don't like the idea of my reverse proxy dealing with letsencrypt for me, personally, but that's just a preference. One tricky th…

Unexpectedly, I love the animated ascii diagrams, very cogmind-esque. Anybody know how they designed those?

I got a 4-pack of zigbee power plugs that report usage, and I have a home assistant automation that goes ding (or whatever) when the washer or dryer had been using electricity for …

> In saying “every point,” we obviously have to turn a continuous problem into a discrete problem, and the choice of what level of resolution to use is non-trivial. Right now, when…