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Eh, they definitely aren't fit for major cultivation anymore, but you can still find them. I picked up a basket (with a bunch of other varieties) from miamifruit.org a while back. …

As a stopgap, you can use a URL redirector: Redirect: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/* to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$1

Note that each grid square is 1 mile by 1 mile. Long history of that, it is an interesting historical rabbit hole. An interesting historical note is that across much of the west, e…

Kinda-sorta related, you can pipe to a multivariable loop: paste read x y; do echo "$y -- $x"; done Kinda silly for this example, but very useful in things like `kubectl` pipelines…

I've always had trouble getting `for` loops to work predictably, so my common loop pattern is this: grep -l -r pattern /path/to/files | while read x; do echo $x; done or the like. …

This idiocy is killing people. Stop peddling it. Get the vaccine.

I'm fond of "Alex Trebek" including "Did you mean: Who is Alex Trebek." Nice homage. https://www.google.com/search?q=alex+trebek

Glass is still around and under active development, it just isn't a consumer product. It is in use by several enterprises, mostly factories and warehouses. My read on it is that it…

If you have access to a laser cutter you can make a pretty decent solder stencil by folding some clear package tape (so all adhesive is on the inside) and having it cut out the hol…

> Interestingly, there doesn't appear to be evidence that the CPU includes an integrated graphics processor - something that's listed in detail on the product page of the Coffee La…

Interesting question here: did Uber have authorization to operate automated in AZ? If not, and they had a human operator behind the wheel as a backup, is that human liable for mans…

And yet another: Dimethyl Sulfoxide can be used to (cheaply) treat a ton of different things, but has been blocked by the FDA for use in all but a very small number of cases (bladd…

"No child left behind" and similar initiatives that lead to perverted incentives that the teachers bear the brunt of. Also low pay and no respect.

If you use a standard sip port without filtering you will get a load of autocalls from people just portscanning and calling open IP addresses, probably looking to gain access to un…

So many edge cases. I prefer to just use perl if I am doing anything more complicated than making a wrapper for some other executable. Harder to screw up, easier to test, same expr…

nomorobo + nonstandard sip port + voip.ms has weporked pretty well here.

You can build it, but it is limited to the smallest device in the vdev, so the array will appear to only have three devices of 64m available. Though you can replace all smaller dis…

ZFS does support different sized drives, and you can add disks to a pool easily. It does not support different sized drives in a raidz (equivalent to an mdadm array), as far as I k…

I have the feeling that someone trying this in Atlanta would just get themselves shot. Hopefully nobody around here is inspired by this.

Being unable to stand looking at your computer for extended periods of time will probably do wonders for combating code bloat.

If I were using a 'real' shell, I'd probably be using Fish. However, since I pretty much live in emacs, I spent the time to configure eshell to do what I need and it works well eno…

I would add Zynga, FanDuel, Draft Kings. All three prey on people with addictive personality.

I don't think they intended to release explorer edition for consumer use at all; however, when the news hit and everyone was trying to get their hands on one they ended up trying t…

There is no technological equivalent for a dog's nose in reliability, form factor, and cost. That, and a Boston Dynamics type robot probably costs several orders of magnitude more …

Atlanta's situation is actually pretty interesting. Most of the water loss is caused by bad infrastructure (leaky pipes and sewers), and they have massively pissed off pretty much …