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For a Seiko, I'll also recommend https://www.theseikologist.com/ . As his name suggests, he specializes in Seikos and has a large stock of vintage Seiko parts which are hard to sou…

Have you had issues with the .jhw TLD on Apple devices? I have my own DNS for my homelab with CoreDNS with house.hill as my domain. My house is on a hill. But .hill is not a TLD, a…

Think of uv more as like npm or other thing like that. The new Python pyproject.toml is similar package.json. It defines the project description, list of dependencies, and other ho…

Equating a frustrating anti-pattern of websites with medical equipment failure is extremely disingenuous. An infusion pump failure can harm a person, and according to the article, …

Streams (FP in java) is slower than for loops for a couple reasons. A big one is java doesn't natively support real closures or lambdas. It does have syntax for them, but that is j…

I wasn't aware Bush was not part of the government in 2006. Thank you for the correction.

I believe the LLV line was only suppose to be in service for 20 years, but the government gonna government and not find a replacement till it's almost too late. So yes it was a lot…

According to Wikipedia[1]: > Four variants of the NGDV are expected to be in fleet use: both gasoline-powered and battery-electric, in either front wheel drive or all wheel drive. …

All the Jetbrains IDEs have their own custom linter. It's pretty good, but my complaint has always been the inability to use it in CI/CD and to generate reports. The way I read thi…

I spent a couple weeks planning a LFS install about 20 years ago. I then didn't have time to look at it all for about year, so I never went through with it. But I still learned a l…

I saw it years ago at the Printing Museum of Tokyo[1]. I think it was an original and part of their permanent collection, but I could be wrong. I know it was a woodblock print and …

There's several options depending on how simple to If you want it as a reference that gets thrown around, you could do a simple saddle stitch. This is commonly used for zines. But …

My first job out college was at PTC first in tech support for Windchill and then as a dev for Windchill. Windchill is PTC's PLM/VCS for CAD files. I never really touched CAD. I lau…

Because many of the people who want challengers and chargers want horsepower.

I think the biggest missing piece is find a local art store. Local indie places are amazing, but even a chain like Dick Blick is great. Even a craft store can work, but make that y…

> It's a sort of rationalist's advice in that it seeks to match a consensus bell curve. Much of it is good advice but there are lots of exceptions that ought to be tweaked through …

> It’s sometimes said this Alpine stuff is a premature optimization, but in most cases it’s not even an optimization. Not always. If you have thousands of containers running, the n…

I use to work at a place that included parking in rfid activated ramp. I always wanted to clone my badge into something sewn into the wrist of my motorcycle jacket so I didn't have…

I've heard that Ghost of Tsushima does this well with the direction of the wind. But I don't have a PS4/5 to play. I've also heard about of platformers giving a couple pixels after…

> Video games are a great example of simplified, intuitive interfaces which are often the polar opposite of calm. Video games are interesting in terms of usability. I thought a lot…

Just for reference, here are a couple breakdowns of how impressive the iPhone headphone jack is. It is impressive how good it is and how tiny it is. https://www.ifixit.com/News/844…

Does that matter? Is everyone suppose to be aware of this guy?

I'm an engineer at Backblaze. We do have extended version history that you can enable to have the files held for a longer time. https://www.backblaze.com/version-history.html

This idea already applied in some companies in regards to limiting legal risk. I use to work for a backup company and one customer was a very large software company. This customer …

Are you serious? I've seen several large legacy Java applications move to OpenJDK without a problem.