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Sharing what I learned trying to find a dumb TV:

It appears that the two main options for 4K, non-networked TVs are 'business-grade' panels (e.g. [0]) and Sceptre[1], which are always out of stock.

I haven't bought either yet (my dumb 1080p panel was working just fine until this week,) but I am planning on upgrading soon.

[0]: https://www.sharpnecdisplays.us/products/displays

[1]: https://www.sceptre.com/

I kind of like my gray hairs.

I first noticed them (and assumed they were from stress) the summer after high school -- back then, it was a single, stark-white hair that popped up. I was certainly stressed in undergrad and then grad school, but I didn't feel horribly so while going through it, though I do have more than one now. :)

I understand the vanity aspect of dying them away, but that never resonated with me -- it seems like one of the few dignified parts of aging.

“… on $401 billion of their wealth.”

Got a link to the Emacs Amazon stuff?

> the code that's running actually from the source code I'm looking at

Super common when working with Clojure(script)! Bites me in the ass all the time.

This hasn't affected me at all; thankfully I use tree style tabs[0] with some CSS a friend shared:

    /*Collapse in default state and add transition*/
    #sidebar-box[sidebarcommand="treestyletab_piro_sakura_ne_jp-sidebar-action"] {
        overflow: hidden;
        min-width: 40px;
        max-width: 40px;
        transition: all 0.2s ease;
        border-right: 1px solid #0c0c0d;
        position: absolute;
        left: 0px;
        z-index: 20;
    }

    /*Expand to 260px on hover*/
    #sidebar-box[sidebarcommand="treestyletab_piro_sakura_ne_jp-sidebar-action"]:hover,
    #sidebar-box[sidebarcommand="treestyletab_piro_sakura_ne_jp-sidebar-action"] #sidebar {
        min-width: 260px !important;
        max-width: 260px !important;
        margin-right: -220px;
    }

    #sidebar-box[sidebarcommand="treestyletab_piro_sakura_ne_jp-sidebar-action"] + #sidebar-splitter {
        display: none;
    }

    #sidebar-box[sidebarcommand="treestyletab_piro_sakura_ne_jp-sidebar-action"] > #sidebar-header {
    visibility: collapse;
    }

    /* hides the native tabs */
    #TabsToolbar {
        visibility: collapse;
    }
    #titlebar {
        visibility: collapse;
    }

This provides the benefits of tree-style tabs without constantly taking up horizontal space.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

> It's really hard to trust google...

I feel the same way; very little chance Google stops this unless it doesn't affect them at all (either by having determined these identifiers aren't particularly effective, or by having cooked up some new scheme.)

Congratulations to Jonas and the whole team! Magit is a joy to use and has made me feel supremely comfortable with advanced git work.

That sounds horrible. :(

Back when I was a pre-med, my first summer research internship was in a cancer lab. After a couple of weeks of cell culture and autoclaving stuff, they let me start working with the mice. They were inducing lung cancer in them to test some novel compound that was supposed to cure the cancer. Every day, I'd have to go to the mice room, swap in fresh water and food, and then bag all the dead mice individually in rubber gloves, and leave them on my supervisor's desk. Really opened my eyes.

I wish them all the best; this is an exciting, welcome offering in this space.

I wish I could find the use for one, but I'm stuck with Apple's laptops for as long as I work in app development.

I do the same using `stow`, and like it a lot.

I'm not sure if it's fundamentally different, but maybe you're just (like I am) more inclined to perceive Amazon as a "bad" company. Costco has a lot of goodwill with the public.

A good example that I see at my local grocery store all the time is Coca-Cola.

I wish I knew why they tickle my fancy so much! I've spent far too much time on them.

Warning: will waste your time like few other things if you're the sort to get addicted to clicker games.

It would probably have to be a separate application with the same features and internals to really work.

[I don't use either layout and don't have much wrist strain / any RSI]

I wonder how much of the benefit from using these alternate layouts is due solely to the layout, as opposed to some combination of the layout and better awareness of correct ergonomics, using stretching and warmup techniques, etc.

Hard to quantify of course. Would love to hear from anyone that switched to one of these layouts but didn't make any other changes in their wrist health otherwise.

> I hear AirPods work great outside of Apple's ecosystem, too.

I worked as a "technical expert" at apple during school (recently), and I can say this is not exactly true. The biggest problems with airpods were invariably customers trying to use them with non-Apple devices. As far as I understand, airpods are unable to update their own firmware without being paired to an Apple device. Pairing was also much, much more difficult with airpods than standard bluetooth headsets.

maybe rsync.net? I don’t use them (yet) but they seem cool.

+1 for Doom. I tried spacemacs for a while but didn't find it enjoyable. Doom was exactly what I needed and now I don't use anything else.

Location: Miami, FL

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C, C++, Python, LLVM, Postgres, Clojure/script

Résumé/CV: https://laratelli.com/resume.pdf

Web CV: https://laratelli.com/

Email: Luciano@Laratelli.com

I’m graduating with my Masters in CS in May. I only have one course until graduation; with online classes, I am mostly free for full time work. I have three years’ worth of research experience in computational chemistry, am proficient in software development on Linux computers and clusters, and have been focusing on compiler work during my Masters. I've taken electives in database theory and implementation, CUDA, MPI, and compilers, among others.

This is really insightful, thanks for sharing this! I think I'm going to adopt this for myself.

Pretty disgusting and completely unsurprising. Most of us (sadly) can't avoid if our companies use AWS, but a significant fraction can absolutely do without the "convenience" of Amazon, shopping at Whole Foods, etc.

I'm lucky enough to be able-bodied enough that I don't need package delivery, so I haven't used Amazon in a few years. I don't miss it, doubly so when articles like this come out.

Location: Miami, FL

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C, C++, Python, LLVM, Postgres, Clojure (novice)

Résumé/CV: https://laratelli.com/resume.pdf

Web CV: https://laratelli.com/

Email: Luciano@Laratelli.com

I’m graduating with my Masters in CS in May. I only have one course until graduation; with online classes, I am mostly free for full time work. I have three years’ worth of research experience in computational chemistry, am proficient in software development on Linux computers and clusters, and have been focusing on compiler work during my Masters. I've taken electives in database theory and implementation, CUDA, MPI, and compilers, among others.

Location: Miami, FL

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C, C++, Python, LLVM, Postgres

Résumé/CV:

Web CV: https://laratelli.com/

Résumé [PDF]: https://laratelli.com/resume.pdf

Email: Luciano [at] Laratelli [dot] com

I’m graduating with my Masters in May. I only have one course until graduation so I am mostly free for full time work. I have three years’ worth of research experience in computational chemistry, am proficient in software development on Linux computers and clusters, and have been focusing on compiler work during my Masters.

Hey, I use Arch as a daily driver and on my personal server. I’m a former Ubuntu user as well. A few months in, I deleted my Windows partition. I’m not running a crazy custom config or anything; I use Gnome and don’t mess with it too much beyond that, though I did uninstall many Gnome packages I don’t use. I am exceedingly happy using it this way. Everything Just Works. I make a point of updating packages whenever I boot the machine (I really like informant [0], which helps prevent catastrophes by checking arch news for you) and haven’t had any issues. For reference, I’ve got a Ryzen CPU and an Nvidia card.

I also use it on my MacBook Pro, but I did have an issue with an update which broke my install. Reinstalling was a little hairier (some kernel flags needed) than on my desktop but now it’s quite stable.

[0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/informant/

I used LLVM for a small compiler; not for C, but for a Java-like language: https://github.com/LucianoLaratelli/dj2ll-public All the API calls are contained within codegen.cpp.

Maybe something like an iPad Mini? Small enough to be portable but big enough that holding it for long periods of time as one would a phone is impractical.

+1 for matomo. Very easy to set up a self-hosted instance, good documentation, and works well. NB: My site is pretty low-traffic.