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diegoperini··on Let us now praise tiny ants
We burn cinnamon roots (is that what they are called?) in small bowls to avoid this problem during summer. Might be worth giving a shot. The smoke coming out of the bow, if it doesn't fly away immediately, will hide the pheromones. It also help us reduce mosquitos as well, but I don't know why that works.
diegoperini··on The Product-Minded Software Engineer (2019)
> 6 minutes read.

Here is a browser extension idea: inject this disclaimer into the article by estimating it from the length. How can we achieve this without the ugly

    Access your data for all websites
    Access browser tabs
permissions?
diegoperini··on The patent troll that won a $308M jury trial against Apple
I believe most of the time 1 and 3 applies to the same company (if it is big enough) simultaneously because companies want to be one move ahead of their competitors.
diegoperini··on Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more magnetic than predicted
> ...will that make a difference in the world today?

It will make a huge difference, and no difference at all. It will probably help us solve all of our current problems. And then it will also introduce a whole new brand of problems which will be sources of crises that generation will deal with. What you read on news will change, but the human emotional response to those news will be very similar to today's.

diegoperini··on Chinese engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully upgrade RAM and SSD
That too. Those words sound similar when translated after all.
diegoperini··on Chinese engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully upgrade RAM and SSD
In Turkey, the national meme is (for unknown reasons) "Scottish scientists...".
diegoperini··on The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
I trust Troy more than I trust Facebook. His incentives are aligned with staying honest.
diegoperini··on The case for, and against, the still-unseen Planet 9
It's not reversing those, it's reversing the forward.
diegoperini··on Is Philosophy an Art?
Philosophy feels like a sport. Is sports art?
diegoperini··on Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers?
> People get MBAs to make personal money, not to make world-changing products.

I disagree. Any major in any field may or may not pursue making personal money, build wold-changing products or have nothing planned for their future. I think you are projecting your own anecdotal experience to the general case.

diegoperini··on Why are tar.xz files 15x smaller when using Python's tar compared to macOS tar?
Simple but time consuming to detect I presume.
diegoperini··on M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari's experimental WebGPU
Thank you so much for telling me this!
diegoperini··on M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari's experimental WebGPU
> - Docker: I've had no issue with arm64 containers so far. Most of my x86 containers appear to work fine (albeit noticeably slower) under QEMU, except none of the MySQL containers start for some reason. They crash out with a Go error, so I feel like it's a Docker issue rather than a QEMU issue?

Do you run Docker under QEMU or QEMU under Docker? How does that work exactly?

diegoperini··on Every $1 of BTC value responsible for $0.49 in health and climate damages in US
What's special about today and increasing frequency of these posts?
diegoperini··on M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari's experimental WebGPU
Dear developers with M1 Airs,

How does your dev tools behave with this device?

Docker, entire Android toolchain (this one important), XCode, qemu, VirtualBox, you name it.

(I'm planning to get one)

diegoperini··on Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece from documentation
The piece starts with:

> .. This introduction is an Easter egg and is not intended to be taken seriously.

> .. Please don't remove it :)

So sad we take people seriously when they make jokes but ignore their sincere, non-joke comments when it actually matters. I hope the change actually helps solving the problem, if it really exists.

diegoperini··on Why isn't Godot an ECS-based game engine?
Overwatch is done with ECS, there are GDC talks from the devs explaining the tech behind it.
diegoperini··on I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
Is there a testimony of someone who went through such surgery? What's the mindset of a person who really needs his/her limbs removed because of such urges?
diegoperini··on I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
It doesn't look like an advice but a simple, neutral observation of the pluses. Of course there are also minuses but this quote doesn't seem it rejects those.
diegoperini··on Bitcoin’s Overnight Collapse Probability Is About 50%
The OP can be a victim of the original article's author as well. I agree with your intention though.
diegoperini··on Closed loophole confirms the unreality of the quantum world (2018)
> What would be needed to make physicists search for such an explanation?

I'd say confirmation of a failed prediction by QM is what's needed.

diegoperini··on Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future
In places (such as here, Turkey) where local currency has much less value than the USD, Western Union is simply beyond affordable.
diegoperini··on Turkey imposes advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest
Correction: Actual upper limit is 90% bandwidth reduction, not 95%.
diegoperini··on Can't uninstall Adobe apps without an account (2018)
Krita has been a good PS replacement for me.
diegoperini··on Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys
Step 1: Gather timings of key presses from a lot of kids.

2: Use ML to learn how to simulate it.

3: Sell it as a service, labeling it KaaS.

4: Profit, then go to jail because of a misunderstanding.

But seriously, is there such a tool to automate this?

diegoperini··on Turkey imposes advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest
The rumor is it is the magic number that gives you a good enough page load times as long as there is no video content.
diegoperini··on Turkey imposes advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest
History for the curious reader:

The law passed months ago and all major providers are given notice last year. Any social media provider, local or foreign, with at least 1M daily user activity is required to assign a legal representative in Turkey now. Internet bandwith of non-obliging companies will be reduced up to 95% incrementally.

Until recently, most social networks including Facebook were silent to this request. They now have representatives as well, alongside Microsoft and a few others.

diegoperini··on UK and EU agree Brexit trade deal
Can you please explain? I'm not from any of the islands.
diegoperini··on Windows 10 20H2: ChkDsk damages filesystem on SSDs with KB4592438 installed
I'd do the same and for me, the reason would probably be trust.
diegoperini··on Windows 10 20H2: ChkDsk damages filesystem on SSDs with KB4592438 installed
> "detect if the drive is an SSD and do something slightly different" way, which IMHO is not good behaviour in general as it is leaking the abstraction.

I'd argue the opposite. Thin or leaking abstractions are how operating systems and video games harness the full potential of the hardware. Trade-offs are ugly nonetheless.

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