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Glad to see Dan Luu endorsing the idea of a 10x programmer

aVx1uyD5pYWWon Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W die shots

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/supply-chain-shortages-and-...

aVx1uyD5pYWWon Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python

It would be cool if there was a way to use this tool in a shell pipeline, e.g.:

cat sound.wav | distortion | reverb | aplay

aVx1uyD5pYWWon Red delicious apples weren’t always horrible

I find that red delicious actually tastes quite good if you manage to eat it before it becomes mealy. Sweet, juicy, crisp bite. The problem is just that they become mealy relatively quickly.

aVx1uyD5pYWWon OpenHD - HD video, UAV telemetry, audio, and RC control

>Instead, Open.HD configures the Wi-Fi adapter in a way that is closer to a simple broadcast, much like analog video transmission hardware you may be using already.

Would this be able to broadcast a video which multiple clients could playback in sync? In the 90s, when you were watching TV, if you had a TV in the kitchen and a TV in the living room, if both were tuned to the same channel, they'd play back exactly in sync. Would this project enable something similar?

aVx1uyD5pYWWon ShellCheck: Finds bugs in your shell scripts

Unfortunately, last I checked, shellcheck is not compatible with M1 macs yet. I love the tool so much that I while I wait for compatibility, I manually check my shell scripts at the web UI.

aVx1uyD5pYWWon Full text search on 400M US court cases

How did you do that? Did you have to implement a scraper for each county?

aVx1uyD5pYWWon Full text search on 400M US court cases

how was this data acquired? did you scrape government websites for this data?

aVx1uyD5pYWWon Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission

That type of exception is explicitly stated in the CEOs blog post:

>We focus minimally on causes not directly related to the mission

>Policy decisions: If there is a bill introduced around crypto, we may engage here, but we normally wouldn’t engage in policy decisions around healthcare or education for example.

https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-a-mission-focused-comp...

aVx1uyD5pYWWon Why most doctors don't wash their hands

I enjoyed this article. It also included links to other studies indicating how often doctors and nurses wash their hands and studies about the effectiveness of hand washing.

aVx1uyD5pYWWon Netgear 0-day vulnerability analysis and exploit

Is there any mitigation for this? AFAICT netgear has not released a patched firmware for this bug yet. Anything else that can be done?

aVx1uyD5pYWWon I'm booting my Raspberry Pi 4 from a USB SSD

Yes, just yesterday I debugged an issue with my raspberry pi. It would randomly reboot itself about half of the time I ran a certain workload on it.

After swapping out the SD card with a new one, it appears to be fixed. This was hard to diagnose as there was nothing in system logs / error messages about what might have went wrong.

aVx1uyD5pYWWon Newsrooms, let’s talk about G Suite

>For a fun example, administrators have the choice to keep draft copies of emails, even after the email is removed from the draft folder. These drafts can even be ported into Vault minute by minute. In other words, administrators have the ability to read your draft emails live, or replay them after the fact.

wow.

aVx1uyD5pYWWon Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers from Seeing Job Ads

ProPublica, and in particular this reporter, has been doing a lot of original research on facebook's abuses in the past few years.

For instance, they started this project to collect facebook ads: https://projects.propublica.org/facebook-ads/

See also this joint investigation by the New York Times and ProPublica: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/business/facebook-job-ads...

aVx1uyD5pYWWon Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment

>This leads to Stripe’s Negative Emissions Commitment. We will seek to purchase negative CO2 emissions at any price per tCO2, starting immediately. We expect that the best price will initially be very high: almost certainly more than $100 per tCO2, as compared to the $8 per tCO2 we pay for offsets. We don’t expect to be able to sequester all of our carbon emissions, both because the relevant technologies are not yet operating at sufficient scale, and because it would be financially infeasible for Stripe. And so we commit to spending at least twice as much on sequestration as we do on offsets, with a floor of at least $1M per year.

What is the difference between sequestration and offsets?

aVx1uyD5pYWWon Chinese authorities install app on phones of people entering Xinjiang

From the article:

>Apple devices were not spared scrutiny. Visitors’ iPhones were unlocked and connected via a USB cable to a hand-held device, the journalist said. What the device did could not be determined.

aVx1uyD5pYWWon Great Divide in How Americans Commute to Work

Their maps use percentage (rather than absolute numbers) of people in the area commuting with a given transportation mode. So it is a good usage of these maps imo.

aVx1uyD5pYWWon Haruki Murakami Introduces the Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

Check out For the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki. It has magical realism elements, and half of it takes place in Japan. It definitely reminded me of Murakami.