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"Get your head examined. And get the fuck out of here with this shit." -- Kent Overstreet, bcachefs maintainer: https://lore.kernel.org/all/citv2v6f33hoidq75xd2spaqxf7nl5wb...

When I was learning Linux back in the day, one of the most beneficial thing I did was to go though the VIM tutorial and learn to use it properly. I'm no master at it but oh boy tha…

OSs need to stop letting applications have a free reign of all the files on the file system by default. Some apps come with apparmor/selinux profiles and firejail is also a solutio…

I was going to recommend that exact podcast episode but you beat me to it. Totally worth listening, especially if you're interested in software bugs. Another interesting fact menti…

All scandinavic countries have stopped shipment to USA due to this (except gifts valued < $100)

I've acquired so many tools like this, and I don't think I've ever looked at them at though I regretted the purchase. Many have enabled me to fix and make stuff down the line.

A bit like "There used to be a lot of corruption is politics. There still is, but there also used to be."

For me it's a combination of the nature of task, where I'm at and the nature and duration of the interruption. But usually an interruption causes a large amount of penalty points.

I apologize for the side question, but what are people using for Golang SQlite cipher/encryption combination?

We can argue if it's a feature feature creep and if it's the right choice of formatter. But let's appreciate that this will increase the use of formatters astronomically (or part t…

It's very tempting to assume what people will or are doing, and it's so, so easy to get it so wrong. Picture this. Guy comes home late at night. Outdoor light is on. He goes in and…

Very interesting article from the same guy where he reverse engineers the randomness of a flicker LED. https://cpldcpu.com/2013/12/08/hacking-a-candleflicker-led/

> pressured Maybe incentivized? $1000? $10000? Would be interesting to hear from the developer himself.

Have you heard results from it? How does it know for example, when there is a romantic scene in the book, which voice to read out as? It's definitely an exited voice, but is it rea…

The youtube link is suddenly not available any more (at least in the UK)

I wonder if it's going to have the same training data as the ordinary version?

Sounds very interesting but could we have examples please? All the examples are either not working on missing. It would also be good to have a link to examples very high up on the …

Can you meaningfully study advanced math without understanding algebra?

I have hitherto not timestamped or cryptographically signed my light sources, but that's something I'll be looking into.

Exactly. The enormously forceful craving you get for soda/beer/whatever drink will be wiped out 90%-100% by a quick chug of water. Your brain will tell you "no that won't work", bu…

The first athlete to be sanctioned for mechanical doping did exactly that. Inspectors found a bicycle in her pit with a hidden motor. Her excuse was "the bicycle was owned by a fri…

> into a file server This is underselling it by at least three orders of magnitude. This is astonishing tool, you have to watch the demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_-…

I remember when I discovered MDN. It was like sneaking into a wizard's sanctum and reading all the secret scrolls. Stellar work Mozilla!

Tim Harford mentions in his podcast "Cautionary Tales – A Fascination with Failure / Death on the Dance Floor" that checklists might have prevented the 1981 skywalk collapse in Kan…