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It wasn't a laminates company, was it?

I'm embarrassed that I live in HMB and didn't recognize it. I should go to the harbor more.

I asked Gemini to format some URLs into an XML format. It got halfway through and gave up. I asked if it truncated the output, and it said yes and then told _me_ to write a python …

I have a yoga from 2016 that had its backlight supply rail blow up. Very lame.

You can do some pretty crazy stuff with pipes, if you want to do better than unix sockets.

I've spent several years optimizing a specialized IPC mechanism for a work project. I've spent time reviewing the Linux Kernel's unix socket source code to understand obscure edge …

There's definitely differences, whether or not it matters for most usages. I've worked on several IPC mechanisms that specifically benefited from one vs. the other.

A former coworker texted me out of the blue yesterday, saying he missed working on a " codebase". He specifically appreciated that "doing something simple things were kept simple."…

It's still mass, drag and cost.

It might work in so far as you'll get packets through. The performance would be abysmal, though. Modern Ethernet is built around switching.

The folk that made Crash Bandicoot were pretty clever. They figured out that the PlayStation could render untextured, shaded triangles a lot faster than textured triangles, so they…

I read the XML directly in my browser out of spite.

Crowded? No. Littered? Perhaps, depending on the altitude. The article you linked says the bulk of the existing debris is from a few isolated incidents. These satellites are genera…

I've gotten CEC to work in Linux on my desktop computer. The funny thing is that most GPU HDMI ports don't implement CEC, but do implement CEC over DisplayPort. You simply need to …

It's funny that it doesn't have the great lakes. I guess it doesn't have any internal bodies of water.

We're on a good employer plan, and weight loss meds are all out of pocket.

A more obscure use would be for loading multiple instances of a singleton library. This is especially helpful in something like a unit test suite, where you want each test case to …

In my experience, a culture of radical employee-driven compensation transparency can lead to toxicity. A subset of folk have a tendency to become obsessed, and increasingly more re…

Is email not customary? It seems like it would be fine as long as they respond in a timely manner, and provide access instructions. Also, in this situation it seems like that's exa…

Given that it's shared memory based, it seems like there has to be some degree of trust that the participants are well behaved. What do you mean by a malformed message, though? If …

I've also developed a strikingly similar low latency real-time IPC message bus for work. It also uses sockets with transparent shared memory optimization. In my case, it's the back…

I liked my Kobo, but it bricked itself after only about a year. I took it apart, and a voltage rail was shorted out. I didn't even finish the first book I put on it!

I'm friends with a small batch gelato maker. He mainly sells individual scoops, but he also sells pints. He started out using fully compostable pint containers, but their permeabil…

This is interesting. They're replacing the pacemaker's leads with optical fiber, with a tiny solar cell at the end. They send a pulse of light down the fiber optic cable, causing t…

As an embedded engineer with about 12 years of battery life, I've thought about this topic a fair amount. It would be neat to somehow integrate a super capacitor capable of powerin…