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Yeah, I thought that was Intel's MO. Intel quit making RealSense only after a competitor (OAK-D from Luxonis) became viable. They just want to make chips. It's my impression that t…

An interesting, useful real-world example of this is Gitolite [0]. Gitolite requires no background daemons or anything -- just a normal unix/ssh environment. [0] https://gitolite.c…

Thank you for sharing this demo (and to the GP for the video with the metronomes). Very interesting; very cool.

I'm curious what your new bike is. I currently have a 12 year old (but well maintained) Trek 1000. I'd like to get some better derailleurs (I'm constantly having to adjust and clea…

I would definitely put it under my own name, if I were you. Like another commentor mentioned: if you leave the company, you still control your own repo. Also, whenever I interview …

There are good office jobs and there are bad office jobs. There are good employers and bad employers. The best jobs I've had usually have some basic deadlines (measurable goals and…

That area is prime real-estate in Tokyo. Developers have been itching to build shopping malls, etc, there for ages. It might be a parking lot during the Olympics, but afterwords it…

I third this. I've installed/maintained and used gitolite, gitlab and gitea. - gitolite: easiest to install and manage. But there's no web interface. Your entire workflow is with g…

I think that this is a more realistic/relevant example of "slowing down or stopping is not always the safest action": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWuK-fi-D_w

"... outrun ... the police" I doubt that this is a use-case that legal, for-profit companies will be pursuing. For the other use-cases, you can just say: Manual driving only.

In my entire life, I've never encountered the Trolley Problem, and I've never met anyone who has. Most safety problems in driving can be solved by slowing down . The problem with A…

I wanted to say something similar to this. But I think you articulated it much better than I could have. I think that now, today, Linus could afford to be less of an asshole. But I…

Haha, yeah, I just read through that entire list. I'd say that more than half of those seemed very reasonable and civilized to me. But the people complaining about penis.js seemed …

When I was in college, I was a systems administrator for a lab as a part-time student job. After I graduated, they wanted to hire me full-time. But it was a state university, so th…

The Yale rare books library[0] is a beautiful, amazing building to walk around in. Most of the books are off-limits for fear of damaging them, I think. (This is what originally spr…

Hmm, yeah, that's never happened to me, either. I've never been assaulted, either. I have been harassed by other foreigners though, but that's almost always in the "seedy" areas, l…

I'm an American living in Japan (about 12 years now). Most of the stuff he's talking about is totally true. But, like some other commenters have been saying, I feel like: you figur…

In college I had an econ friend who said that there's basically only three ways to grow an economy: more workers, better technology or more capital. If you look at technology, then…

Awhile ago I built a little hack that allows you to run your own Signal server: https://github.com/mfassler/pySignald

I imagine that's for use with POS terminals (ie cash registers). A lot of those still have serial-port barcode scanners or serial-port printers.

I made a hack that allows you to use Signal-Desktop on your own server using usernames: https://github.com/mfassler/pySignald (it's not integrated into the Signal network, though..…

I'm under the impression that this "backdoor" is the fact that these phones can download updates to the OS. The phone checks that the update is signed by Apple. If Apple can be tru…

There's an article in the New York Times which says that Apple has already been doing this [1], but they seem to have had a change of heart in the past few years. Each data-extract…

Oh, hey! That worked like a charm. Thank you.

I totally agree. I have un-followed a few people and now I only friend people that actually want to be friends with. I try to avoid posting political or technical things (mostly). …