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Maybe? If you assume a cell can just disappear at a moment's notice, then I'm guessing you don't even try backing it up. Whatever goes into and out of the cell (request logs and re…

Yep. When did virtual screens come in? My last full time experience with X was with Xsun in the early 2000s under Solaris. There was a shared cursor, I thought you could drag windo…

This is pretty cool - especially that it's at the point where it can be used with a real window manager. I'm curious why multiple screens is considered legacy baggage and thus out …

This was one of the reasons given, at the time, for why Netflix created fast.com. It's served by the same infra that does their streaming, and is thus difficult for isps to game. T…

I mean ... step 1 is probably fixing the part where it lands in the ocean, falls over and explodes. Once they've done that and can get their hands on the tiles I'm guessing they ca…

It jumped out at me too, but because I wondered what it would look like in the AI version of this story. Having had it build the SQL version do you ... a) miss the leap because you…

That's true, but the human can do a much better job planning for the journey if they know what to expect along the way. One example, from the end of the journey: knowing in advance…

> When they want data about a school intersection in SF at a certain time of day, they just... synthetically generate it and simulate I think it's more about detecting changes to t…

I think he meant a very small (stub) MEMORY.md whose sole contents are something like "don't write here - write there".

If you consider say elevator music - music that's just there to fill space, rather than to be listened too - then I don't think there's that much difference between using AI to pro…

That's an anti pattern, at least the way we use it. If you need to add complexity, you define custom functions. If that's not enough, CEL probably isn't the right choice, and you'd…

Interesting. I made the same jump and noticed a huge increase in speed and decrease in memory pressure (the likelihood that iOS will kill an app I've switched away from). I miss th…

The alternative is not charging. JFK somehow manages. Yes there's traffic, but it keeps slowly moving.

I'm not normally a fan of tips, but this seems like a reasonable use of one to me. The picker isn't paid on the shininess of the apple they bring you -- they're paid to pick as qui…

They stopped building B2 bombers 25 years ago.

Fewer challenges, but no more space between them. They still come out daily starting December 1st. They just stop coming sooner.

Costs are a big thing, sure, but for me it's electrical reliability. For better or worse our heating oil and natural gas supply are both more reliable than our electricity supply. …

It depends on the item. Let's take this screw pitch gage: https://www.starrett.com/details?cat-no=155 Starrett doesn't really compete on price, as evidenced by the fact that this i…

TFA is a very short blog post that says you should go watch this YouTube video. Here's a direct link to the video: https://youtu.be/TBiFGhnXsh8?si=wra84H0R8fy2XCnd

Uphill both ways

The Children's Television Act didn't have anything to do with it? My understanding is that that's what brought in the E/I programming that fills (filled? it's been a few years sinc…

Nothing apart from Raspbian ... and Ubuntu https://ubuntu.com/certified/202310-32202

I'm not pinning anything. I'm commenting on why SpaceX failures get more press than SpaceX successes. If it bleeds it leads is the way it's always been. And I'd be remiss to point …

If it bleeds it leads. Also a bunch of people are cheering Musk's failures, so anything along those lines gets even more clicks.