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Happy to share your AGENTS.md?

It's alive and well!

For desktop PCs, Rymdport (formerly wormhole-gui) may be suitable. It's cross-platform with pre-built binaries for FreeBSD, Linux, macOS and Windows on x86-64 and arm64: https://gi…

Wormhole William is available for Android devices: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.sanford.wor...

I'm the defacto maintainer of the Meteor MySQL integration. Since 2015, I've been involved in the design and maintenance of six different Meteor webapps for real-time geospatial ap…

Meteor is alive and well and actively maintained. It just doesn't get attention for some reason. Version 3.3.1 was released 4 days ago.

But does our universe obey Popek and Goldberg's virtualization requirements?

Base rate fallacy is a key part of many erroneous human decisions or judgements. This could easily be taught in high schools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy

Maybe "tragicomic" would be a better word.

It's not "strictly illegal" in Australia. Our anti-discrimination bodies across the country frequently grant exemptions to employers allowing sex-based or race-based discrimination…

I can also suggest Morefine. I bought a couple of AMD Ryzen 5900HX mini PCs from them: https://morefine.com/

I'm Aussie and I can't believe this Sun Cable project is being taken seriously by our government. The longest submarine power cable in the world - the Viking Link - is a mere 756 k…

ngxtop is also very useful for providing real-time metrics: https://github.com/lebinh/ngxtop

I'll never forget Bob Newhart's heartfelt eulogy for Krusty the Clown. It was better than some real life ones I heard! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTZ7lVT7b-Q

I wouldn't want to see this sort of post everyday, but I thought it was an interesting forensic exercise - kind of like carbon dating. Just for fun, I used ChatGPT 4o to answer the…

I'm surprised that you can't configure the pace or pitch of the voices. The Web Speech API, around for a long time, has that capability. I'd also love to have the option of Austral…

This software mitigation technique for Rowhammer could also be useful for improving the reliability of programs running on microcontrollers in high radiation environments, e.g. sat…

How long does a kernel recompile take?

You've hit the nail right on the head. In the late 19th century, New Zealand raised one of the greatest scientists of all time - Ernest Rutherford, a pioneer of atomic and nuclear …

I wonder how difficult it would be to enhance Redis to support FIFO with Lazy Promotion and Quick Demotion.

I am from Australia - a country with very high labour costs. Some years back, I trialed outsourcing programming tasks to developers based in India, only to consistently receive sho…

I remember I could play 128kbit MP3s in full quality using mpg123 running under Windows for Workgroups 3.11 ONLY when I overclocked my 486DX4-100 to 120Mhz.

There is also a MySQL integration with Meteor. I'm the defacto maintainer of this package and the Node.js package mysql-live-select. These implement pub/sub and reactive queries us…