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I do kinda similar. I have a node express swrver which has lots of little async jobs, throw it all into a promise.all, and if they're all good, send 200, if not sent 500 and the failing jobs. Then free uptime monitors check every few hours and will email me if "the site goes down"=some error. Kinda like a multiplexer to stay within their free monitoring limit and easy to add more tests

Also there are very cheap prescriptions sites online which ship. You can try different prescriptions, with varying power (magnification) and see which works for you for computer, reading. I found that the computer glasses prescribed were way to strong (all they do is subtract .25 from the first number on both eyes, often). But if I only subtract .1 it was perfect, helpful for computer sessions but if I look up everything isn't blurry

Also look at a doctor specializing in small prisms. Sometimes your eyes don't perfectly align at their resting state so one eye is constantly constantly using muscles to pull it centered. For me, that means when I get tired and those small muscles can't keep up, I get headaches and it gets worse. Neurovisual places can give very tiny prism additions so your eyes don't have to move but the light is "shifted" over.

I'll look later if this is allowed but I would love love an rstudio like interface in Jupyter. Being able to control enter to run a block of code (not line) in the accompanying repl is huge for iterating and building new things

As an example I love jupyterlab's "open console for notebook" but can't find a way of sending copied text to it, or switching focus with a keyboard shortcut

It's a big reason I can't do vscode Jupiters implementation

You can use rclone mount, depends on how much you're flipping through files or actually doing lots of IO

I wouldn't want to host fastqs or something and use this for alignment, but for spot checking raw fastqs it could be nice

Not quite the same but very useful for me. Sometimes small patches to programs have big usability wins. In nix you can still update automatically, it adds your patch, automatically downloads the programs needed to compile (but still can be garbage collected afterwards), compiles and done

Maybe not great for production but for personal use, since I guess this patch could break. But in exchange for a few times it breaks, I get automatic patched updated

(Except for emacs where takes 40 minutes to compile, but schedule updated for night)

Yes me too! This is amazing for reading glasses -> computer glasses. Converting a normal distance -> reading means adding 1.15 to one column of numbers. But it was too strong for me, so I used eye buy direct to try a sweep from 100%, .66%, and .33% and each are great for different situations

.33 of 1.15 was amazing for computers, comfortable but I can still look at distance somewhat

I guess I wish it was still open but want to reiterate how appreciative I am for the public free search. It's so amazingly useful while doing CS research to search through all of github with regez that way

Yeah it's pretty sad because I can imagine if this database was made public it could be built upon and parsed for many languages. Presumably they paid multiple people to do all this work but it's so expensive for a casual user

Wolfram on the cloud for free is good, especially for derivatives and simplification I use it a lot

They tried with it free on raspberry pis but who's going to boot a pi to do academic work

Meteogram from meteoblue is not the same, but plots thd output of different models. Even for slightly technical users, I find weather so underwhelming in how it's presented

Just high and low numbers not graphs, no sense of variance (time or intensity). Without dark sky hard to get minutely predictions, even with large error bars

oh my bad, this is pretty similar. But you don't need an extension on firfox or chrome, just inspecting the networks tab. I can find my notes if other are interested to find the exact URL, but I think it was a gstorageapi url. If you clear the log right before you press download, there aren't that many network requests

The past few weeks it won't work repeatedly, I don't understand

Also a trick to download which avoids using wifi is to rent a tiny VPS. Then do takeout -> email link (not google drive). When you go to download it, open chrome devtools -> networks tab. Click "download" and find the networks row which is for that download (is preceded by a 301 redirect). Right click -> "Copy as cURL" and then can copy into that VPS

It's a way of spoofing the connection with cookies and everything so you download over the fast VPS connection. Then can use `rclone sync` or whatever to copy to a backup place

How do people feel about using docker as a way of avoiding 0 day vulnerability

It's all for personal use and maybe I'm just cosplaying as a sysadmin but I have apache proxy-pass ing to sets of docker containers. So as long as apache and ssh are kept up to date (on nixos), even if all my services are 0 day'd, they have to also escape the docker containment

I do more research, one-off ,code and being able to align equals signs or successive lines which do similar things both makes me happy and makes it easier to skim. I think the Linux kernel does it too. Emacs has a way of aligning by common separators (=/, as well as quick regex)

I guess I've never gotten into an actual serious debate with someone over formatting so I don't know what I'm avoiding, but sometimes auto formatted code makes it harder to skim

I was going to say too, I love literate-calc in org mode but it's all pretty niche and not a well developed set of sofwtare https://github.com/sulami/literate-calc-mode.el

Are there other messaging apps which are equally bot friendly. Telegram bots are just so nice and scriptable, I don't use it for anything else, just a personal bot (so maybe all this bloat and sketchiness doesn't matter) but I'd be happier to use another scriptable platform

Even being able to have bot custom keyboards/buttons is pretty great

I use yabai pretty heavily, for the past 5 macos versions without disabling SIP on a work computer. I really like it, the tiling is flaky only maybe once every few days (I am doing yabai commands probably once a minute at least) so I bound a keystroke to `yabai --restart-service` and it always comes back immediately

So I find it really pretty reliable and pretty great. Multimonitor is hard and I don't use it much, but having stacks and fast 'full-screen' to minimize is so great

On some version upgrades, work antivirus thinks it's a virus so disables it for 24 hours, and I hate using my computer those days, it feels so clunky and sad

My favorite recent one I read was encoding it in the http packet delays. So the content of the server is innocuous but you measure the timings

I wonder how many packet sniffers record exact extremely-accurate timestamps, maybe you could even use synchronized gps clocks so even if the saved a millisecond (or better?) timestamp, you send enough packets with enough exact timings that you need to have saved higher resolution

I remember ministry from the future book where they mention drilling down and pumping the seawater to prevent the freshwater intrusion to stop it melting

I wonder why it's not being discussed. As he said in the book, at the cost of practically all coastal cities going under, even small collections of real estate magnates would be invested enough to help privately fund at least some of it

Cool thanks (not linked to within the website source code, so I didn't see)

Also since I saw jdecourval here, no pressure but if you made an rss feed for your articles I would happily subscribe. I don't see one

Really great article

No buyers remorse but also look at Lenovo outlet. Unclear if certified refurbished is as good as Apple's but they have "new" labeled laptops which are way cheaper than the similar ones on main lenovo.com. Don't focus on the percent off label, if I tried to buy a Thinkpad t16 gen 2 "new" from the outlet it says it's 20% off 1k=800, but if I tried to buy it from lenovo.com it starts at 1.4k base

I go through a lot of emails and what I love recently is being able to sort by sender - then all the emails from the same person are together and it's easier to skim through ("yup, all these are uneeded except this unusual one")

Annoyingly thunderbird allow but not gmail, so I wanted to use thunderbird. But it doesn't easily allow archive-ing, like GMail does.

Contrived but still easy solution: tag all your inbox you want to go through with two labels SetA and SetB. Open SetA in thunderbird, using `a` to remove emails from SetA as if you archived. Then in GMail, use the search `label:setB - label:SetA` and it gives all the emails you wanted to archive. Archive those and done

Another example which I once posed to a regulator, is satellite information as public permitted insider trading. There are firms who buy satellites imagery (only available commerically, or even paying for a satellite to go to certain locations) to look at the shadows oil storage containers. You can see the relative levels of oil storage to predict the oil market. This is vaguely solvable by adding a false ceiling

But more pernicious, check target parking lots to see how full they are, to predict approximate target's profit before their quarterly releases.

Nominally this is totally public knowledge, but unless you can afford to pay for commercial imagery (or rent where it points) you would never know. Is that really a public market with globally relatively-equivalent knowledge

Much smaller scale but don't forget about https://freesewing.dev/ , written in javascript. Instead of designing from scratch, they have parametric models where you give your measurements and get a pdf output. Really nice community too

Not that many models but you can also design your own with more experience

Yeah I'm with you. Actually what I read it as was like a jazz musician who is so deeply into the music he just improvises and puts it out into the world immediately. Diamond age was so well crafted it felt like he agonized over every scene, termination shock felt like he had an outline and just did it in one shot. I didn't like it either although some scenes were fun

Same as Dodge: fall in hell, it's so much longer than necessary, the metaphors were so drawn out. And yet there are enough good parts I'll read it, just not reread

Then it was taken up 7 years later and a bug fixed, found by afl. I wonder if it's in the kernel git so it was run automatically, or someone ran afl specifically on it

beeline readers works on kobo? Via colorizing a pdf -> kobo, or is this is just something planned?

I've never done that many but rclone is famous (imo reliable) and very cross platform. It also supports an encryption layer it controls over top of generic cloud providers

So I've been enjoying b2 (as an example, you can Fuse mount to browse the files without downloading). But just for backup don't Amazon glacier or Google cloud archive is so so cheap. If you wanted to be paranoid you could do both separately

I haven't independently audited rclone's encryption layer

I'm just happy if I can do some basic W|A without it being so slow. Things like dates or solving simple equations with unit conversion work great but is so slow on W|A. The actual wolfram language is fast, I just find their website feels slow (it's probably only 30 seconds)