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> I can't copy/paste in wezterm using the keyboard/vim keys because it is constantly drawing the screen and unselects my selection. Oh wow, that's bad. Copy/paste between terminals…

I just use small buffers. I don't know if that's technically JIT or not, but a smaller restricted buffer with high throughput works great for me. > keep everything flowing and acce…

> Japan is one of the only countries to have privatized parking. In Europe and North America, vast quantities of parking space is socialized: municipalities own the streets and all…

> For a while tourette syndrome was all the rage and the platform was filled with kids faking tics. Kind of like all those kids in Le Roy, NY who began experiencing involuntary tic…

https://archive.is/mJJOx

Once MD has a few 100k+ acre wildfires that the power utility is liable for, I’m sure your rate will go up too.

Rates are high because we’re paying for all the wildfires the electric utilities have started.

You’re a fire management expert? What did LA do wrong?

You’re comparing apples to oranges. A Santa Ana wind is extremely dry and this one hit 100kmh (not 50). And it hasn’t really rained for 8 months (since May 2024). And we had a very…

If you like at the skills of each class then it's pretty obvious that wizards, rangers, halflings, elves, dwarves, and orcs are modeled after Gandalf, Aragorn, the hobbits, etc. Ga…

What's the alternative? What do you use for your base "recovery account" email?

Reminds me a lot of Cal Newport's ideas re: Slow Productivity. He talks a lot about how Context shifts are death for knowledge work and that a lot of offices operate via a "hyper a…

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https://archive.ph/owhhT

> I have to say that I can't see how that would work. Isn't that exactly why this is a notable discovery?

There are e-ink license plates in California now. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/10/digital-license-plates-...

Reminds me of that old star wars ascii site. https://www.asciimation.co.nz

Sadly the article doesn't really answer the question as to why, but it's probably because they keep making bad movies that they don't think will perform well. To be extra clear, IM…

Regus has actually taken over a few WeWork leases in my town. Seems like they're picking up inventory for pennies on the dollar.

Reminds me of the adage of “solving the problem is the hard part, the hard part is figuring out the right problem to solve”. I always remember as “questions are harder than answers…

This is great advice for everyone but Theranos.