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Most of that stuff isn't necessary just to replace Plex, the OP's saying them Jellyfin started them on a journey they're presumably enjoying, not that they needed everything there …

It's not that postgres can't handle large tables, it's more that many of the ways it uses system tables aren't particularly optimized for them being large, so you're operating outs…

The Little Schemer was what finally got me to internalize how to solve problems recursively. I'd taken a couple of college classes and could do it some already, but it took a lot m…

Postgres doesn't natively support multi-master. (Although there are a variety of open source/proprietary offerings that add support for it to various degrees.)

I think it's unfortunate the first/often only exposure people get to FP is a build-up-from-the-foundations approach that emphasizes recursion so much, I think it leaves most studen…

This is very reminiscent of Charlie Stross' Halting State/Rule 34

This is not the same thing, but you might be interested in taking a look at the excellent online Terra Mystica implementation ( https://terra.snellman.net/ ) if you haven't seen it…

Thanks for writing this! One nitpick: the guide says "If you're curious why it's important to not have a phone number on your account, see the security key FAQ", but the linked sec…

I use it on my laptop and am generally very happy with it, although I don't do all that much technical work there and certainly wouldn't want it to replace my primary workstation. …

You can have Goodreads do something like this, in the newsletters and other mail section you can check the 'send me the monthly new releases email', 'only send this to me if it inc…

"Back-end web understanding" seems oddly specific compared to everything else on that list. Why that and not something more general which might encompass other kinds of domain-spec…

I've had issues with chrome/xmonad not regaining focus properly that were fixed by adding the code mentioned in the 'usage' section of this page: http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmon…

Have you tried contacting the Gnome Accessibility folks? ( https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility/ ) It's not exactly on-topic for them, but I bet you'll find some people there with …

Finding out you spend all day in meetings still tells you something, especially with a few follow-up questions. Who do you spend your time meeting with? What about? How many people…

Note: after 25 minutes answering questions for a job you really want it’s kinda hard to shift to a question-asking mode. When I was looking for a job I found that it helped enormou…

I think you may be under-weighting the value of Python being a great exploratory tool a bit. For the (relatively small) amount of research I've done, the bulk of the time spent wor…