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i'd not heard of Slowly; googled, etc. how sort of perversely lovely (i say it in an admiring manner), to meet in a gloriously old-fashioned manner on such a modern platform! love …

if this is Cloud Run for my home lab, i am SO in. first read looks good, excited to try.

powershell: Stop-Process -Id (Get-NetTCPConnection -LocalPort 1234).OwningProcess -Force

wow, i had no idea at all there was a Microcenter in Socal! not too far, i'll be visiting, thank you. i went to a Microcenter in Dallas decades ago and was blown away.

i would love to know more about this. i live in the largest city on the west coast of the USA and the only stores i've found where i can press keyboards is Office Depot and the lik…

is it just me or was the scrollbar purposefully hidden on this site? in chrome on windows, i found it very jarring and user-hostile to NOT know how far along i was in reading the a…

hi, this is why Solvang[0] exists. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvang,_California

this is exactly the same as people who drive their car into a river because google maps told them to.

Dave's Interesting People email list was a TRUE highlight of the early Internet.

i have been recently quite enamoured with using both the ChatGPT mobile app (specifically the Codex part) and the Github mobile app, along with Codex. with an appropriate workflow,…

thank you for this reply! i've got 6x CASIO watches and have struggled to the time on them synced for over a decade. a quick [small] purchase later and every single one of my CASIO…

25th year anniversary of hotornot.com[1] coming up! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_or_Not

this is great, and right up my alley. i built a customer support chatbot using a google sheet for our CS folks to input & structure their question/answer pairs. that is auto xforme…

shoutout fellow Mackem! not often spotted on HN!

you're right -- there SHOULD be!

still no Puzzles within Apple News or News+ in UK :-\

where i come from in the north east of England, a "divvy" is a "stupid person", a "moron" etc.

totally agree re: structured logging. my intro to that was w/GCP Logging and it changed my mind on when and what to log. proper structured logging and keying metrics/alerts from th…

> Sure, let's say that's true. The obvious implication is that these users actually don't care about whether they're running Windows 11 or not, and thus the Windows 11 TPM requirem…

i bought a Tello eSIM to use for my Rabbit R1, am in USA, was not required to provide any KYC, received a (213) LA area code number, recommend Tello so far.

re: EU central registry of assets, here is a Bloomberg Law piece from July 2024, detailing the chairman of the EU parliament's tax subcommittee's desire to get a "European registry…

i'm afraid ChatGPT was wrong about the asset registry. the EU parliament's tax subcommittee most definitely does want such a registry. here [1] is a feasibility study released by t…

i've used GCP GPU Cloud Run to build an on-demand/auto scaling livestream/HLS video translation --> subtitle generation pipeline with great success. [edit: sorry, not inference, bu…

sounds (at least at a high level) similar to EXO[1] [1] https://github.com/exo-explore/exo