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Why is most of the substance of this post giant block quote links to his own Twitter? Clicking through to those is painful; it’s not like the author can’t afford to host some scree…

Look up that case. The victim suffered third-degree burns and required skin grafts. The myth that it’s a ridiculous, over-litigious case is just that: a myth. The coffee was absolu…

I would use Guix over Nix in a second if only Guix had support for ZFS. I don't even need root or /home on ZFS, which I admit can be tricky.

I question how important an extension is if there’s not enough incentive to port it to the new paradigm, at least eventually.

I've been subscribed to this for years, and it brings me joy every time an astronomical event pops up in my notifications. Big thanks to the author, Canton Becker, who clearly does…

As someone with just a touch of classical knowledge from high school band and such, I’ve truly enjoyed and learned a lot from the Classical Classroom podcast ( https://classicalcla…

I truly do not understand why this problem has gone on for so long. It's clear that many people think `.home.arpa` is ugly. It boggles my mind that the IETF and ICANN can't come up…

Just this week in Pittsburgh, I saw an official corporate poster up in a McDonald's advertising a "competitive starting wage" with an 8.5″x11″ sheet taped to it reading "STARTING R…

I think you'll find that the president who led America through WWII couldn't climb a flight of stairs on his own. Whether or not your assertion about Biden is true, it doesn't seem…

It’s a shock mount (probably [1]), meant to reduce noise transmitted from the table or the boom arm or whatever the microphone is attached to. [1] https://en-de.neumann.com/ea-87

The developer addressed this comment here https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon/issues/102#issuecomment-8...

In Rust, the signature of the function would be along the lines of `-> Result ` and you'd have no choice but to handle the Error case of the Result or to panic. Either way, not a s…

Keybase uses a concrete image of a hamburger[1] for their "etc." menu, which I assume is a nod to this name. It made me chuckle when it clicked for me. [1] https://i.imgur.com/uB5J…

All three of them “failed.” Impeachment is separate from conviction.

I see what you did there, I think. It’s interesting: I don’t mind capitalization and the a/an substitution here, although I could see the capitalization being confusing in another …

I use fish as my main shell. Sometimes I find its documentation a bit obtuse, but I love the sense of humor in its tag line: “a shell for the 90s.” It was first released in 2005.

What is the MAC-like construction for an OTP cipher?

Perhaps `shopt -s nullglob` has been set? “If set, Bash allows filename patterns which match no files to expand to a null string, rather than themselves.” [1] [1] https://www.gnu.o…

Just to help others searching for "confused lieutenant," I believe it's usually known as the "confused deputy problem," perhaps as a reference to Barney Fife. I do like the image o…

I had a friend in college named jane smith, capitalized as so—that is, not capitalized. She always entered it this way and it always appeared to be correct until the next nightly d…

If you hold down Alt/Option on the Fastmail security page you can enable 2FA without a phone number. Their helpful support person cautioned me to not lose my 2FA device or recovery…

This was still possible as of March of this year. I was instructed to hold down on Mac.