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Downshifting, if your AWD vehicle is equipped with three pedals

It’s akin to a qi charger, but also securely attaches to the phone magnetically.

Disagree. If one has physical access to your machine, they also have physical access to you. Practically everyone is vulnerable to rubber hose cryptanalysis.

It would fail, too. ‘CON’ has been a reserved name since the days of DOS (actually CP/M, though that doesn’t have direct lineage to Windows) where it acted as a device name for the console. You can still use it that way. In a CMD window:

`type CON > file.txt`, then type some stuff and press CTRL+Z.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/namin...

China gets to project and grow their leadership in the EV space outside the Mainland while increasing their importance in a country that’s part of the US’s sphere of influence. Big win.

Seveneves is the only Stephenson book I haven’t reread, and it’s because I don’t want to encounter that event again.

I suppose I understand why he made that choice, but I don’t have to like it.

Do you want to catch a chair to the side of the head? Because this is how you catch a chair to the side of the head.

It feels that way because it is. Depending on the age of your partner’s Sportage, it’s a Hyundai Elantra or Sonata in a fatsuit.

Even worse, many times SUVs are built on the same chassis as cars. Honda builds both the HR-V and CR-V on the Civic chassis, the Toyota RAV-4 is a Corolla underneath, and the Ford Escape is built on the Focus. This means many mid-sized SUVs are just tall cars.

It has to do with the fact that “[a]t $2.5 billion per mile, construction costs for the 1.8-mile Phase 1 of the Second Avenue Subway were 8 to 12 times more expensive than similar subway projects in Italy, Istanbul, Sweden, Paris, Berlin and Spain”[0], repeated for every activity they undertake.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-23/in-nyc-su...

Matryoshka virtualization

Sockets remap pages without moving any data while pipes have to copy the data between fds.

What is dead may never die!

It’s not revenue, it’s prestige. Except in Texas, where it’s both.

The year of Linux on the laptop has yet to arrive for most of us. Windows and MacOS both offer better battery life, if for no other reason (and there are usually other reasons, like suspend/wake issues, graphics driver woes, etc.)

I believe they mean ACME provisioning and renewal isn't baked into nginx, i.e. you have to install certbot separately and run it daily from a cron job or systemd timer, whereas traefik and caddy handle this for you without additional software or configuration.

There was some licensing drama[0] around BSD’s Broadcom bcm43xx driver. No idea if another driver was ever implemented as I’m not a BSD user.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20070405163434.GA18477@gollum.na...

Those boxes of brand new Gillette razors are worth a fair amount too!

WhatsApp though?

I was given a 3rd gen dot at a conference and haven’t even set it up. It’s yours if you want it.

> Guess how useful this knowledge is today...

But today, the useful bit is the process you learned to obtain that level of mastery.

It’s not that your audio is being amplified, it’s that the VAD classifier is poorly tuned. The noise should never even reach the recognition stage. Whisper’s hallucinations are pretty severe, but are improved by adding VAD to its pipeline.

IIRC you could use pirated games on the PS1 by first booting it off an audio CD with a lot of tracks, then swapping the disk at a certain point in the boot process.

Me too. My outbound video always looks like crap, even with hardware acceleration on and nothing else open.

Great point. With the baseboards off, you can even look inside the wall (e.g. with a phone camera) for clear stud bays and power cables, potentially finding easier runs.

A flexible drill bit[1] can be used to pass a horizontal member within a wall. You can enter the wall through an outlet hole or use the length of the bit to drill straight up through bottom of the wall, if you’re able to access it from a basement. They usually have a hole in the tip to pull twine along with the head of the bit.

[1] similar to https://www.kleintools.com/catalog/flex-bit-accessories/flex...

A plastic bag tied to pulling twine works really well and is less likely to get stuck than a ball or plunger. I always leave a length of twine in my conduits so I only have to use the vacuum method once.

UDM Pro can do it, but can't do dual NICs yet. Still.

I'm dyslexic. Because of that, I've spent a bit of time thinking about this for practical reasons. I prefer heavier sans-serif fonts with no character ligatures, but I like symbol ligatures and glyphs; they're not deal breakers. I've been using Cascadia Code, and find it usable, don't like the dotted 0 (the fact that the top and bottom of the 8 round in sharply helps offset this) or the few serifs it has. I've used Ubuntu Mono (spacing is too tight) and Source Code Pro (lines are too light) in the past.

What I look for is legibility between things like ({}), l1!|I, Oo08, mwnu, tl bpdq, ecoa, and being able to distinguish repetitio and symbols like --, ==, !!, "'`, :;, _-, and even ,.. (Something's going to try to parse that and absolutely shit itself)

I just grabbed B612 Mono.

n.b. I hadn't actually assembled those thoughts into one place before now. I apparently have Opinions about this!

a<>b is the preferred syntax in SQL. I'm pretty sure a!=b works everywhere these days, but that hasn't always been the case.

(eta: didn't finish the thought - I'd assume SQL influenced Excel, since it's older.)