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Looks nice, but... It doesn't appear to be set up to work without logging in to Steam first. That really reduces the portability.

If it's a book that's only available DRM, I buy it on the Kindle. I'm not fond of buying DRMed books, but most are only available that way, and Amazon is the most likely to still b…

Perhaps replace the time worked with time spent looking for another job. Despite having faced suicidal depression a time or two myself, I have no great advice to offer; but one of …

They use AWS for their DNS, so of course it's failing... Trying j.gtld-servers.net. parler.com. 172800 IN NS ns-8.awsdns-01.com. parler.com. 172800 IN NS ns-715.awsdns-25.net. parl…

Thank you. I think Nintendo's quote from that article is even funnier: "Nintendo does not talk about confidential discussions with other companies. In any event, nothing came of th…

Speed. I moved mostly to Ruby years ago, but when doing lots of text processing, a trivial script in Perl runs a lot faster than a similar trivial script in Ruby.

That doesn't work, unless you have an unusual Linux setup: $ tar -zxvf srs-epub.epub gzip: stdin has more than one entry--rest ignored tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error is no…

The part where your friend stopped playing you -- that's something that I just don't understand, on a fundamental level. My brother-in-law talked about chess for years, I finally a…

"A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes."

"They won't admit to this on their website"? I think it's more that they won't shut up about it. Their entire business model and their marketing is all based on the idea that most …

Baen Books https://www.baen.com/ They have always been very customer friendly. They have a "free library" section, too. (Often has such things as the first book in a series.) J Nov…

The date on the status page is 9:50 AM PDT, the original poster posted well before that. It isn't historically uncommon for AWS outage information to be posted and commented on her…

I had such a wonderful visual in my head, of drones with tiny machine guns doing night strafing runs on rats... Sigh. (Also was looking forward to the next article, about the rats …

The config files are for a game that was announced in 1999 and released in 2003.

Usually, that's because /bin/mv is just changing a link to the file, not moving the file itself. In cases where it's actually moving the file -- say across a file system boundary -…

Gel pens were amazing when I first tried one. My path went crappy pens -> Pilot ballpoint -> Pilot gel -> Pilot Metropolitan fountain pen. Not having to exert pressure makes such a…

The article mentions "promotional" pens, pens with logos on them. One of the things I never understood about promotional pens is how they're almost always really junky pens. So the…

Very interesting article. I recently visited New York and spent a day at the Met. As a tech-employed American who can afford to do things like fly to New York for a week, $25 dolla…

The Professor and the Madman is about him: https://www.amazon.com/Professor-Madman-Simon-Winchester/dp/... It also has some nice history on the OED.