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I got excited thinking maybe another one was going to be held, because it was a lot of fun to do! Oh well. If I put my submission up on github, is that considered unethical in the …

This sounds like fun, but I'm not sure how changing build systems fixes the vendor problem. They will just ship their proprietary blobs built on top of this new build system instea…

There's a relatively easy technological solution to mold: buy a dehumidifier. We bought two after moving to Ireland. Both have drainage hoses. One has a pump and empties into the k…

I'm not sure if I would have started using Linux but for buying an n800, so thanks for that. We never did get around to our funeral for Nokia, sadly.

It's great marketing! But yes. He considers it an error to specify "Use the same knife for the jelly" even though it's considered correct to state "Wipe the knife clean before usin…

Yes, the price is higher, maybe partially because it's not ad-subsidized. I was happy to pay it, this is what I bought: https://www.sharp.eu/sharp-nec-multisync-e868 There's histor…

I think this is partially restating "try smarter, not harder" with a lot more words. I also think it's unkind not to recognize that we have limited time and energy and it's simply …

With clothes, make it cheap so if you make the wrong decision it's not a big deal. Also recognize you're engaging in the sunk cost fallacy by keeping clothes you don't actually wan…

I am surprised to see it here too. I find it unkind. Not that you need to hear it from me, but you will be remembered and missed.

I'm not sure any party in office this last term could have won this election, given there was going to be significant inflation as a rebound from COVID.

The doctors had to be so certain that it was life threatening before acting that once they decided it was life-threatening, she was already going to die no matter what they did. An…

The way to do this is with MA3, not traditional AM: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/03/2020-25... "In addition, digital broadcasting allows visual and other metad…

Me and my partner exclusively charge at work.

https://zim-wiki.org/

We are a 2 EV household. We charge exclusively at work (for free) or at public chargers.

Yes this is Linux. At this time we don't know exactly how much is affected and what originally drew the attention of the attacker(s).

I wonder if there is anything else cmake related that should be looked at. Wasn't cmake support originally added to xz to use with Windows and MSVC?

My reading of the commit message is they're claiming the "data" should look random.

For bad-3-corrupt_lzma2.xz, the claim was that "the original files were generated with random local to my machine. To better reproduce these files in the future, a constant seed wa…

meta-conversation: why is this hacker news? What does it have to do with tech? I have enough places in my life where politics randomly intrudes.

This was a lot of fun! I believe I copied and pasted a buggy method for detecting the number of processors from stack overflow.

It could be that you aren't tired of coding but you're tired of coding with those languages, or for those given applications. I personally really like the embedded space or any oth…

What I have done, and will continue to recommend, is to not have all identical SSDs in a RAID - they should be a mix of part number or age.

Related: John Deere bought two agtech startups within the last few years (Bear Flag Robotics and Blue River Technology.) https://www.futurefarming.com/machinery/john-deere-acquires…

A todo list is not a plan to get things done. If you're serious about getting more done, tracking how you spend your all your time is worth trying as a starting point. It allows yo…