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This is the best technical analysis I have seen, so far. https://insider.btcpp.dev/p/when-randombytes-runs-but-doesnt It doesn't appear that Coinkite, the company behind ColdCard p…

I'm a huge fan of Mathematica; I've been a subscriber for many years. There's much to love about the product, but its AI assistant isn't among them. Claude Caude is much better at …

The answer is going to be, both. With ease.

A16Z is deeply MAGA.

TextEdit pet peeve: closing an empty window prompts the save dialog. Always. An empty TexEdit window with a non-dirty buffer should just disappear upon close. But I'm ready to lear…

Nobody has yet mentioned how certificates induce and support churn. In 2025 it's not possible to create an app and release it into the world and have it work for years or decades, …

Bitcoin fixes this, too. And not in a lipstick-on-THIS-pig way.

Here's the url for that subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/VolvoEX90/ Edit: OMG!

At RustConf 2024 in Montreal, Cargo-mutants' creator Martin Pool's presentation was excellent. One of the best sessions of the conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjDHe-PkO…

What so many commentators here seem to under appreciate, so far, is the following: Financial power is a bad proxy for military power. Military power is ultimately a bad proxy for i…

Excuse me, but if you're ever called upon to enumerate badass solid individuals, remember Gene Kranz. Do you put him ahead of Neil Armstrong? History does, and always will, but I'm…

In Bartender 4, Right-click the "..." in the menu bar, then * Bartender Preferences... * Advanced * Uncheck "Check for Updates Automatically"

Mathematica's SolarEclipse[] function, introduced in v10 and seriously updated in v14, is a gem. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SolarEclipse

Dude wtf? Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, enlightened minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and small minds discuss other people. What you discuss is a choice. The idea that …

The disquisition would improve after an iteration to apply the following rule: one paragraph, one idea .

I am very worried about Evernote, and this is another clear sign that Evernote just doesn't "get" it. 50-notes is insufficient for any serious trial of Evernote, and clearly insuff…

This kid is alright. He’s going to do great. Keep doing what you’re doing kid.

Aristotle outlined two kinds of friendships: 1. Accidental friendships 2. Friendships of the highest order He separated Accidental friendships into two types: * friendship of utili…

I always wonder what really happened with TrueCrypt. What’s the inside story, there? I’m not interested in anybody’s guess. What happened? WTF actually happened?

Hi! I maintain that list and its variants. The list is for people who don't want to be tracked by third parties. That's who we serve, and that's why we do what we do. Based on this…

I just read the whole thread, and nobody has mentioned the culture of .NET. In .NET culture, few developers share, fork, or communally develop code, and you sit around waiting for …

I feel this is retrograde in several respects. Most notably due to wasted vertical space, there is now less information displayed than there was. This might be fine if you are a ve…

I am convinced that a good/great quality directional microphone with a pop-filter is a godsend for WFH. Here's why: * Directionality matters because extraneous sounds in a home can…

Postgres became over-the-top cool for me the moment I started to realize what pg-cli could do.

Cory Docotorow puts all this in proper light in all his recent articles and appearances about "enshitification". Michael Geist is well advised to consider those angles, and think a…