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Can anyone attend these lectures? It's always been a dream to attend Knuth's Christmas lecture.

Of the 2 employers I've had who self-hosted, they both did this. I've also done this when self hosting, it's super easy. I guess there are probably no surveys of this though...

I really enjoyed this, it reminded me of early experimental sites like what hell dot com used to be...

That's really interesting. I've been considering moving back to my own mail server from gmail for a long time but have been worried about the security issues. This is one more thin…

It's not really changed. To be honest, I don't think it so much of an issue any more. I have a library of parts I use regularly and just design footprints for new parts. I'm my cas…

This is a really nice tutorial, not just on keyboard PCB design but Kicad in general. I also recommend the excellent "getting to blinky" videos: https://contextualelectronics.com/l…

An unrelated but interesting point he noted was that Apple are one of the only vendors that provide long term firmware updates (he mentioned 8 years). It's a shame nobody else real…

In summary: Coreboot+Linux as a bootloader I think I've seen this before in an HPC context. But they've build a firmware distribution called Heads. It boots using coreboot then fir…

Why do so many MongoDB installation lack a password on the Admin account? I tried search for me info, but could find anything. Was this the default? Procedure given in a popular tu…

Interesting idea. I use Ad-blockers but I'm not so sure I'd go so far as to encourage other people to use them, each to their own.

A Lenovo X200 running Debian which I paid 50USD for. I use a 128Gb SSD (which cost more than the laptop). My daily contracting rate is more than 10x the cost of the laptop, but thi…

It's clear that he was lucky to have a school teacher who inspired him from an early age and effected his world view significantly. I guess he got lucky, but as a parent I worry ab…

The hardware is google home. Software is less clear, someone said it was cleverbot.

I guess I was looking for a lower bound. I'll be surprised if they can manage to implement this on their cheapest products.

Looking through their site the cheapest home applicances that LG sells are microwaves. They cost on the order of 100USD for the cheapest models. The cheapest Wifi "IoT" microcontro…

If I'm honest with myself I have to admit that a general purpose human level, strong AI would shake my world view significantly. For that reason, I find it difficult to have a comp…

Doesn't make it right, but doesn't seem worth mentioning if you're talking about specific issues with Google, rather than websites in general.

No, this is true. I wonder how hard that would be.

Check out w3m (which has some graphics support). There's also Netsurf, I've not used it but it. Looks awesome: http://www.netsurf-browser.org

Polifact: http://www.politifact.com Seems to be doing a pretty good job.

I don't think there are any hard and fast rules. If the new hires told you their salaries the difficulty is discussing it without revealing this fact. Management sometimes frowns o…

His reasoning that it uses "non-free JavaScript" seems a bit redundant these days (given that almost every site does). I always value Stallman's commitment, but it's often impracti…

I'd love it if the default was to use some very lightweight WebRTC app where you just created a new link for each conversation. I don't think it's likely to happen any time soon un…

I think the original question was querying if the runtime is statically or dynamically linked. It's also possibly a subtle dig at go, because unlike other languages go does not use…

Interesting. I can't see myself using it for work though, which the majority of my Skype calls tend to be.