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I'm definitely going to use a variation of it for learning new programming languages.

Not everyone feels comfortable running third-party opaque code in their computers.

Honest question, as I've just recently started fiddling with Meshtastic: could it be that the mesh is not set up correctly for a dense environment? (e.g. using LongFast rather than…

You forgot to mention https://smolweb.org/

My wife and I tried to use Briar to communicate after we had been reallocated two seat rows apart in a flight. It didn't work at all. Messages arrived hours later, when they arrive…

In a recent project I was asked to create a user story classifier to identify whether stories were "new development" or "maintenance of existing features". I tried both approaches,…

Despite being theoretically possible, much of the signal directed at the Moon would be absorbed in the upper atmosphere at this wavelength. On the other hand, the 10-40m bands are …

I used that website everyday when I was prepping for my ham license upgrade and got reasonably good after a while, being 25 WPM my most comfortable speed. But then I learned that t…

Only after I've got my ham radio license that I learned how these USB switches are annoying sources of RFI, even the more expensive ones. KVM switches are fine though.

For the best part of my life I use a controlled set of tags[1] rather than hierarchical categories. This is mostly due to the fact that stuff can be a lot of things at the same tim…

> Anyone who has ever used IRC knows that there is nothing even remotely complicated about using it, but the terminology and the steps required to use one are ostensibly terrifying…

At least for this particular case it was not a matter of teaching journalists statistics or anything STEM-related. If it weren't for the leaked messages, we'd never hear about it. …

I understand that learning English may have not been that hard for you, and given that you come from a Scandinavian country, most likely you speak near-perfect English (I've been t…

I really like the typeface, but for some reason it looks "blurred" in comparison to all other mono fonts I have installed. Anyone noticed the same?

One of the most useful features on Twitter for me was the option to mute retweets. After doing this, my feed's signal-to-noise ratio skyrocketed.

Unsurprised to see Paul Graham's home page among the top 10 most similar websites to news.ycombinator.com, but a bit surprised about xkcd: https://explore2.marginalia.nu/search?dom…

For the record, I'm now interested in your note-taking system and would love to read more about it.

David Chapman, hands down. The kind of insights I get reading his pieces can't be found anywhere else on the internet: https://meaningness.com

What a pleasant piece by the way. I really enjoyed his style.

As others said, the fact is that scumbags exist everywhere, and Brazil is certainly not exempted from this. Another fact is that Brazil is obscenely huge. The country is almost the…

Once I had an argument with a PhD biologist at my university because she was doing a Fisher's exact test in the most insane way I had ever seen: taking floating point ratios instea…

I have a blast being a senior data scientist, and I've recently turned down a manager role precisely because of the points you raised, despite the better pay. Your comment made me …