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How quickly we forget the glue factories in between the pre-industrialisation and post industrialisation.

hn really is more reddit-like with each passing day.

Roaches are notoriously hard to get rid for a reason. If you don't call an exterminator with the proper poison almost any effort you make will be moot.

I can tell you from firsthand experience that roaches will move with you. My partner's old apartment had roaches and even though we took great care to clean and separate everything, keep all of her kitchen stuff in tubs and slowly sort through it they still managed to come to the new apartment.

The author lacks self-reflection if they truely thing each brand new place suddenly gets roaches.

moleskine doesn't even make good notebooks anymore. for a premium price you can get a notebook with paper that bleeds with a ballpoint pen. they've spent any goodwill they may've generated at one point or another and now its a dead brand.

crazy level of eye damage from the flashing effects. Turns something cute into something painful, so thanks for that.

>The pouches are available for free in Palantir’s offices for employees and guests over the age of 21, a Palantir spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal. Palantir, which did not respond to requests for comment, pays to stock the products.

Is the article wrong in this statement?

You are disgusting, you publicly share generated child porn on mastadon? Get help.

arduino's response to the discourse is here:

https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/11/21/the-arduino-terms-of-serv...

funny result of this is that GPT5 doesn't understand the modern meaning of Vibe Coding (maximising llm code generation), it thinks it "a state where coding feels effortless, playful, and visually satisfying" and offers more content around adjusting IDE settings, and templating.

Maybe this is a weird thing to focus on but the chart they show on their device how on earth is server costs their top expense as a company?

that's probably a problem with your dimmer switch, not the bulbs.

I recently picked up a monitor light and the change is huge, I wish I did it sooner. My rule of thumb is that I obviously don't point lights in my eyes, only on camera. no overhead light, but lamps are great because they direct light away from you and bounce it around the surfaces of the room.

Do you get many people thinking this product is snakeoil?

I've almost never cared about learning about rss before but seeing the response it alsways gets, I decided I'd try feedly on my phone and add this blog to it.

Feedly asks for a url, this site makes me download a .bin file. It doesn't make sense how this is my first user experience. I can assume I'm supposed to copy the url in the link? But it is a nav item on the site.

Call me nieve or whatever you like but with ux like this I can start to see how this technology has become less popular.

You know that is not in the spirit of the website. They were taken advantage of.

I don't think this means it has no value as an item, it may be totally useless in 10 years but collectors would want it, but there is humour in the idea that a $17 000 watch could be totally repairable by the people who made it.

As far as the android app goes I disagree. While there are minor improvements, there are major steps backwards in offline playing, library management and account management. An entirely frustrating experience trying to use the app.

Wow that SO post is really good, I'm 100% keeping it in my tool belt for dropping niche articles on unsuspecting co-workers. Thanks for sharing.

I think I'd be interested in this as well. Maybe leave me with a set of powerful macros for generating some of the boiler plate code and I'd probably be quite happy. Maybe a flag to add to zen mode, zen++, I don't know.

an aside to this, I've been playing with copilot recently and its inline additions are usually so distracting while I'm trying to write some really simple conditional. When it usually doesn't read my mind, its more of an annoyance and I only really want it when I explicitly want to invoke it, which I don't think is a feature outside of enabling and disabling it.

Hey! I love your search engine, it helps me remind myself of the originality that still exists ands is yet to be found out on the web.

> My favorite usage. No more ffmpeg Googling

I was using chatGPT for a couple hours last night trying to finetune some FFMPEG commands. I'll have to give this a shot, clearly I'm a target user.

Thanks, for the repo link! The build/release process for the rp2040 and package management is actually what drew me to rust for embedded initially, super quick turn around to writing to fiddling with the hardware.

I think you're right about it being new to rust, and I recognise my folly in learning both embedded and rust in parallel. I wish I could go back and un-burn myself on it.

I'll give it a look over and see if I can get a blinky.toit going.

In general I'm not mad, the learning curve of both combined was a lot and beat me down, and the rp-hal library is still beta and ironing out its kinks. I experienced a lot of frustration (and still do) around USB HID implementations. Simple things I thought would be given, eg sharing an rp-hal I2C bus was made tedious by rust's ownership rules.

I think the matter of embedded programming being difficult was just exacerbated by this. I'm just a hobbyist in the embedded world, and I really find it fun and interesting, but as a hobbyist I only have limited time to be working on my project and I want something to show for my time, besides rustc messages about my unsafe code.

I've been working on some rust code for the rp2040 mcu as my entry into rust and embedded programming and I think it has killed my enthusiasm for both rust, and embedded. I want to work on an esp project but I feel so burned right now that I am just thinking of dropping rust all together.

I'm actually really happy to see Espressif progress on this, I just want to throw how I'm feeling the void.

I did the vue2 - vue3 upgrade, while I see what you're saying and actually agree, I have no idea why you had change your build tool from webpack to Vite. I'm still on webpack, for better or worse.

Same thing on my asrock MB, nothing worked until I did the classic usb flashback. Its frustrating really, considering the delicate nature of bios updates.

Hah I was literally just complaining about applications not following the XDG directory spec today.

there's a non-exhaustive list of applications on the archwiki [0] that put their config/data in dotfiles in the home directory. surprisingly, there's also lots of pushback from maintainers of projects who don't want to change this, for whatever excuse they can produce. a Reddit thread has some list of issues where the change is brought up [1].

Anyway, I'll look forward to testing this out.

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/971m0z/im_tired_of_f...

  usb hid specification
  The USB Human Input Device (HID) Specification is a way to transfer data between your computer and different devices such as a keyboard, mouse, and game controller. The USB HID Specification works by having your computer send out messages telling the device how to behave and the device then responds with its current state. The messages sent by the computer can be things such as: “Hey mouse, move to the left” or “Hey game controller, press the X button”. The device will then interpret the messages, perform the action and send back information to the computer, such as “I moved the mouse to the left” or “I pressed the X button". This way the computer and device can communicate with each other and the computer can understand what the device is trying to do.

hum that doesn't seem right.

well honestly that's just wasted compute becuase of the design limitation of the M1 and its cooling. It runs full tilt to a thermal limit and then stays below it, thermally throttling the CPU. Makes me want to see a benchmark comparison with some custom cooling solution on an m1 vs stock. The whole laptop form-factor for these cpu's feels so limiting to their potential.