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Just wait until you learn about Smarties.

Only new submissions seem to be banned because Apple says there are too many. Clearly there are loads if you search the App Store. Gruber quotes and I re-quote: > Certain kinds of …

Oh yeah, emdashes are absolutely a tell, but I argue that they're nowhere near as abhorrent to read than the awkward phrasing that the frontier models like to use.

Bandwidth is still not free, if you cloud host. I had a client ask me to look into why their bill spiked 5x (admittedly not by much - from a few dollars to tens). They run a static…

Using AI to write blogs doesn’t bother me in principle, but I hate the prose that gets left in. Even if it’s not AI writing, being human doesn’t give you a pass for writing like a …

Yes, it’s been used for mixology (and other things like oils). Put ingredients in a whipping siphon, pressurize and then rapidly vent. https://culinary.isi.com/en-GB/culinary/appli…

They’re not that bad, but even a couple watts of power with no way to dissipate is going to get hot enough to burn you. Forced air cooling over a heatsink is really effective. 15W …

The “tired mechanic” is apocryphal at best. ASD was intended to be clear to non-native speakers. Here’s an example from another page: THE SYNTHETIC LUBRICATING OIL USED IN THIS ENG…

A custom domain and GitHub hosting has been fine for me. You pay the time cost of setting up a static site, but I’d take that over Wordpress. Writing articles is a markdown file an…

Steering/corrective instructions are now supposed to go into memories - which are non-portable? How do we manage these documents for team members without everyone repeating themsel…

It's the other way around due to poor framing, it would be much easier to compare if you [the repo] said 0.02 tps.

2 years ago, for sure. Every programming interview I had pulled problems from LC. Admittedly it’s quite hard to not , now the database is so big.

I’ve reset 2FA with a known password and it was pretty onerous. Had to provide a lot of info: username, full name on account, other domains, phone number, order number, email, invo…

Awards are also a product of their time, representing biases among the judges, literary preferences from the readership, and straight up nepotism/favoritisim/elitism. Look at the H…

Seems about the only kitchen things you can trust now are cast iron, carbon steel and sheet pans, because you can’t really do much to cheapen them in terms of materials except take…

There isn’t much need in the UK. Farmers use tractors or vehicles like the classic 4x4 Land Rover, Subarus, etc. None of the roads or the infrastructure are designed for American s…

Nevertheless this PoW is used by some conference venues now, in the case of a dispute against human authorship. NeurIPS does allow LLM use for "minor" polish like spelling, grammar…

This is also how Arduino emulates analog output, since most micros don’t have a hardware DAC https://docs.arduino.cc/language-reference/en/functions/anal...

Arguably these are different use cases. Cheap fast-charge cables are usually limited to full speed only (linked ones included). For that reason they don’t meet my criteria, as you …

Cost, really? A 2m USB4 cable from Belkin is $20 (eg INZ004bt2MBK). You don't save much going to 4 ft, sadly. I find their cables to be pretty good (the TB5/USB4). They're certainl…

I had a discussion with folks at work about what information is worth retaining in the face of AI doing everything for us. A lot of what we have in our heads to qualify as "domain …

The UK has de minimis for a while yet, and PCBs are 0% import duty. The only thing you might get shafted by is Royal Mail's handling fee if it gets checked by customs. We're talkin…

If you write Qt applications, Qt Creator is perfectly usable and as it's cross-platform you only need to be familiar with one IDE. It ships with its own deploy command which packag…

In the past if you didn't live in the US, OSHPark was a great option. Local fabs were very expensive, had big setup fees and even the "maker" places charged more and you'd only get…