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by edraferi 6y ago
I’ve tried several different audio solutions, including nice wired headphones + mod mic wireless. Ultimately people think I sound best just using my laptop’s internal microphone array and bookshelf speakers. The whole process was a frustrat
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by edraferi 6y ago
>The test suite is down, and has been for at least a year Yeah, that's lame. According to the Github issue it's been down since March 2019 [0] OP wrote an unofficial Activity Streams test suite [1] to fill the gap [2]. [0] htt
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by edraferi 6y ago
“IA.BAK has been broken and unmaintained since about December 2016. The above status page is not accurate as of December 2019.”
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by edraferi 6y ago
I was outraged for two seconds, then remembered I switched to wireless charging anyway.
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by edraferi 6y ago
House Democrats just proposed $100B to fund last mile fiber. The bill includes thinks like a "Dig Once" provision and supersedes state laws against municipal fiber. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020&#x2
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$100B “universal fiber” plan proposed by Democrats in Congress(arstechnica.com)
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by edraferi 6y ago
heh I had this problem with the inane music my kids listen to. Those plays poisoned my recommendations and I only noticed when my annual retrospective playlist popped up full of disney garbage. Solution: use separate streaming service for t
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by edraferi 6y ago
Qualified Immunity is fascinating. Nobody ever passed a law for it, it just evolved. Really weird. Need new laws to remove it.
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by edraferi 6y ago
That's a really interesting point. For years I got my best work done between 11pm and 2am. Maybe this is why.
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by edraferi 6y ago
This is why some governments raise speed limits. Faster traffic -> more energy required per mile -> more gas consumed -> more gas tax revenue
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by edraferi 6y ago
This article spills a lot of ink to say that you should focus on your Sleep, Diet, Exercise, Stress, and Drugs in that order. It provides a few tips for each topic: 1) Sleep Tip: "my biggest pro-tip [...] wake up every morning at the s
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by edraferi 6y ago
Navigation satellites are inherently geo limited. Can the Chinese system be used outside the Chinese mainland?
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by edraferi 6y ago
I like Unsplash, but I don't understand their business model. What makes it sustainable?
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by edraferi 6y ago
Any idea where I can get data on POSIX utilities ranked by use/importance?
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by edraferi 6y ago
Heh totally want to install this on a PineBook and give it to elementary school kids as their first personal computer.
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by edraferi 6y ago
Looks useful, but it depends on PipelineDB, a PostgreSQL extension for streaming data. Unfortunately PipelineDB hasn't been updated since May 2019 [0] when they were acquired by Confluent [1]. The former PipelineDB team appears to be f
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by edraferi 6y ago
Looks good, but needs additional specificity / testability. > No hidden costs What is a "hidden cost"? Sometimes pricing is complicated. For example, shipping and sales taxes vary based on the customer's location. &gt
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by edraferi 6y ago
Can you provide a more detailed critique of Django’s “Fat Models” recommendation? How would you prefer to manage this logic?
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by edraferi 6y ago
I’m just getting started with Nix, with the explicit goal of making my entire system defined in a private , remote git repo. I want to be able to rapidly re-provision my entire user environment on a new machine, including applications, pref
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by edraferi 6y ago
> I just wish I could buy a Zen 2 chip in a laptop that doesn't look like it was made for a fourteen year old (no offense to any fourteen year olds). I heard someone say the lack of 4k and more professional style laptops could be I
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by edraferi 6y ago
These technologies could be used to create a valuable network of low-distraction reference resources. They might dodge the Eternal September problem simply due to the the high barrier to entry and win mindshare among sophisticated users by
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by edraferi 6y ago
Also: * Write clearly & concisely * Use good headers and provide a table of contents Here are some useful resources for writing better: https://www.plainlanguage.gov/ http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
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by edraferi 6y ago
I'd much rather have a clear record of the assumptions made & rational for them than have to discover them later when problems crop up.
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by edraferi 6y ago
Very cool! Intake [0] is another package that might help here. It organizes a set of data sources into (1) plugins that actually connect to the data source and map the data to standard Python data structures like Data Frames (2) catalogs th
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by edraferi 6y ago
I wonder if we’ll get a fully open source release of the Keybase server out of this. It would be so awesome as a federated ecosystem...
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by edraferi 6y ago
Github CodeSpaces is explicitly VS Code. Their tagline is "Get the full Visual Studio Code experience without leaving GitHub."
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by edraferi 6y ago
Maybe you should switch to a different programming domain. For example, embedded systems and security software tends to value correctness a lot more than e-commerce does.
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by edraferi 6y ago
Activities give you an excuse to be together. It reduces the pressure to perform socially and thus lets things happen more naturally. For example, think about dating. It can be exhausting to just meet somebody new for dinner. You have to ke
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by edraferi 6y ago
I completely agree. I view this as a competitive advantage personally. Like any skill, practice is the most important thing. Training helps, especially grammar & structure coaching. That said, tools can help: - Hemmingway[0] has been u
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by edraferi 6y ago
The article says Lithium Ion batteries deliver 1/15 the power per pound of traditional aviation fuel. That leaves a lot of room for improvement...

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