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Probably, it's a cover of a Four Lads song written by Simon & Kennedy in the 50's.

For the sake of Ubuntu users, it’s ‘apt install fd-find’. You’ll need an alias fd=fdfind too.

You do not have (or write programs for) filesystems that contain loads of ancient mp3 and wma files.

It is the bane of my existence, but many programs support all the Latin-1 and other file name encodings that are incompatible with UTF-8, so users expect _your_ programs to work too.

Now if you want me to actually _display_ them all correctly, tough turds...

Since it can be commonly viewed from literal sea level (like the shoreline of the ocean or San Francisco Bay), it’s more apropos.

Yes and no.

Ask Hyundai / KIA owners about the oil consumption in their brand-new engines. Or even 2012-2015 Prius owners about the new head gaskets they will eventually all need.

Even brand-new ICE cars are not without their risks.

True for consumers (houses), not true for industrial applications where motors are in the >100HP range.

Because generators -- where virtually _all_ AC power is created -- start running slower with high demand. They catch up, via increased power input through governors, but changes in load will necessarily have some impact on speed.

Do you have a counter example, or is this just your assumption?

Good advice, but I'll add that there are many bad things smokeping won't detect.

My favorites are APs/range extenders/meshes that don't do multicast properly (mDNS in particular, breaking lots of LAN-based apps), and also ones that seem to semi-randomly isolate devices (i.e., prevent devices connected to the AP from reaching devices that are not connected to it, except the gateway).

There are a huge number of these devices (I'm looking at you, Netgear). Sometimes ICMP will work, but not TCP. It's nightmarish to debug, because it often seems to be some table-size issue in the AP, so devices will work for a while, and then some new device connects and the old ones break.

Thanks so very much!

Interesting - Anyone know if this problem affects QT5 under Linux?

I’ll have to do some digging to find out, but curious if anyone else has seen this on Qt.

I too get pretty consistent response and answers from Alexa these days. There has been some vague decline in the quality of answers (I think sometime back they removed the ability to ask for Wikipedia data), but have no trouble with timers and the few linked wemo switches I have.

I’m also the author of an Alexa skill for a music player (basic “transport” control mostly) that i use every day, and it still works the same as it always did.

Occasionally I’ll get some freakout answer or abject failure to reply, but it’s fairly rare. I did notice it was down for a whole weekend once; that’s surely related to staffing or priorities.

You might need a horizontal tank.

Liquid Propane requires surface space to “gasify”, and more space the lower the temp. That’s (one reason) why propane “pigs” are horizontal cylinders.

Unfortunately, there aren’t many small horizontal tanks.

How is performance?

We found the native Go SSL libraries (as used in, e.g. the http package natively) to add many ms to web api calls. We eventually substituted OpenSSL (despite not really wanting to). It significantly sped up the app.

YMMV, this is for ARM 32-bit targets.

Good short video about the Roseville yard explosion by Fascinating Horror:

https://youtu.be/fyzw-1yuUB0

FWIW, same experience here. Replaced it with a quiet KitchenAid that has run for over 15 years, only requiring new tray slides once (and hey were not expensive).

Most of the course in link[1] is available on YouTube as well.

It’s hard, but my best advice for Saas builders who get crazy feature requests from non-customers is simple:

Don’t reply.

You have to judge which requests are “crazy” of course, which isn’t always easy. “If you could just do this one thing, I would gladly pay for a subscription” has to be weighed with how much work it would be, and whether you think it would apply to other potential or existing customers.

But a reply explaining your rationale for politely saying “no” simply gives the potential customer a reason to stay engaged, often leading to indignation when the inevitably feel dissatisfied with your reasoning. After all, they don’t care about your other customers, they just want their problem solved.

Many, many prospective customer inquiries don’t deserve answers, and you’ll find yourself buried in unproductive back-and-forth if you don’t do the simplest thing of ignoring them.

Another example related to the current action of the user, but outside the scope of the currently-viewed screen: inserting a USB stick, or some other hardware-related function.

There is no context for this, and often an action is required. And even if not, it is certainly useful to confirm with the user that their action was detected.

Yeah, I don't know who labelled a CDC 6500 a "supercomputer".

My first college course used a 6600, and there was nothing "super" about it, except the time you waited for your job to run.

You can put a temporary un-freeze on your record, sometimes for a number of hours or days.

I think Transunion is the only one that allows you to do this simply with your Transunion login; Equifax and Experian make it much harder.

My favorite Larry Tesler contribution is Tesler’s Law or the Law of Conservation of Complexity[1].

It answers the question “why does this have to be so complicated?”, which I have found to be useful in countless numbers of UI discussions.

“We need it to do this, that, and this other thing, but in an uncomplicated way.”

Well, it can’t be less complicated than any one of those things then.

https://medium.com/kubo/teslers-law-designing-for-inevitable...

Cryptography is meant to preserve secrecy. Are you implying that cryptography is evil? Or that some other kind of secrecy (like keeping cryptographic algorithms secret) is evil?

Nor would it perform well during compilation, which is very well discussed in the thread. C++ compilation is slow, like the macro expansion of the C versions of min and max.

It’s all in the thread, I don’t know how GP missed it.

I get 5-10 SMS messages a day filtered by Verizon’s anti-spam (still get notices for each though).

These days they are mostly political pleas, which are, ironically, in some semi-protected gray area. Haven’t noticed any USPS-related ones lately, but a few have gotten through in the last few months.

Read the LWN comments.

Anyone want my pile of CHiP SBCs?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-wor...

Especially, college radio and other free-form community radio stations.

People who feel they have a calling to be a DJ sometimes actually do.

I have a reasonable list of TuneIn stations (mostly US) that provide my favorite “discovery”.

Indeed. The Music Genome Project never got beyond ~250k songs IIRC.

“16 times quieter” is not 4 bits.

“Half volume” is subjective, and for music is typically between 6 and 10dB (most US audio engineering classes use 10dB).