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by oftenwrong 3d ago
The cheap alternative I use is based on a USB switch hub and a monitor that has enough inputs for all of the computers I want to switch between. The hub is a very simple and inexpensive device that essentially just lets you change USB devic
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by oftenwrong 3d ago
At the beginning of my career, it was typical to have servers in the office, either in a server closet, or in a proper server room. Even if we had servers off-site, the development infrastructure was often still local. It was typical for e
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by oftenwrong 14d ago
The greatest weakness of Google Photos is that it has no real incremental, automated backup features. If it could incrementally sync over to other services, it would be much better. The closest is to manually use Google Takeout to export sp
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by oftenwrong 14d ago
That's me in a nutshell. I have close to 300GiB in Google Photos, mostly photos and videos of my children. I take a lot of photographs because getting a good shot, for me, is mostly a matter of luck. I don't delete that many photo
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Can an Engineer Speak Out for Reform?(strongtowns.org)
2 points by oftenwrong 16d ago|0 comments
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I Built My Own Alaska to Argentina Bike. How Did It Do? [video](youtube.com)
2 points by oftenwrong 2mo ago|0 comments
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Pressurizing a Chicken Coop to Clean it [video](youtube.com)
2 points by oftenwrong 2mo ago|0 comments
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by oftenwrong 2mo ago
I am anticipating a move away from git-style version control entirely. One possible shape is something like unison-lang's CAS AST model: https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/the-big-idea/ This model has some sign
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by oftenwrong 3mo ago
Seems that it is already supported: https://docs.memcached.org/features/flashstorage/
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by oftenwrong 3mo ago
Somewhat similar: https://github.com/facebook/dotslash
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by oftenwrong 4mo ago
I still have my copy of Learning Perl. Mostly because it represents a milestone in my learning. I have kept and obtained a number of other books simply because they are antiquated, special and/or classics that are interesting to read e
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Hello TinyTree(tinytree.dev)
2 points by oftenwrong 4mo ago|1 comments
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Apartments Are the Climate Solution Hiding in Plain Sight(sightline.org)
3 points by oftenwrong 4mo ago|0 comments
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by oftenwrong 5mo ago
I have long used underscores for _emphasis_, but I never made the connection that it was meant to resemble an underline until now.
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by oftenwrong 6mo ago
I might be missing your sarcasm, but this is a common approach for large scale builds. Virtual filesystems are used to provide a pre-computed tree hash as a xattr. In a more typical case, you can read the git tree hash.
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by oftenwrong 6mo ago
Surely the school streets are a great benefit for families, yes? That seems as pro-child as public space allocation could be.
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Traffic safety improvements frequently die by popular vote(fastcompany.com)
5 points by oftenwrong 6mo ago|1 comments
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Adding Up What Urban Highways Cost(bloomberg.com)
1 points by oftenwrong 6mo ago|1 comments
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by oftenwrong 7mo ago
>The browser extension doesn’t work half the time. In addition to being frustrating, that makes it a less secure system, as one of the benefits is that it only fills the password on the specified domain. A lack of reliability of the exte
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by oftenwrong 7mo ago
I have used savevers.vim for many years as a way to recover old versions of files. https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=89 It is comparatively unsophisticated, but I need it so infrequently that it has been
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by oftenwrong 7mo ago
https://github.com/mikehaertel/minrx
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by oftenwrong 7mo ago
#!/usr/bin/env java --source 25 void main() { IO.println("Hello, World!"); }
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by oftenwrong 7mo ago
Seems that the Google-style approach would be a good fit: mostly one codebase with a well-defined dependency graph, and build/test infrastructure that supports fast and comprehensive validation. This would seem to obviate the need for
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The NIMBY Buyout Plan (2025)(substack.com)
4 points by oftenwrong 7mo ago|0 comments
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by oftenwrong 7mo ago
This is one of the main problems I have banging my head on for the past decade, and many of the things mentioned, like Buf, Unison, and more, I only stumbled upon randomly on my own. It's refreshing to read an article on this subject s
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by oftenwrong 7mo ago
This is perhaps a bit different, but Fossil supports storing more types of written company artifacts in the repo: >One notable feature of Fossil is that it bundles bug tracking, wiki, forum, chat, and technotes with distributed version c
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by oftenwrong 8mo ago
I have been doing this for decades. My files are in a sub-directory of $HOME. It also makes it very obvious when a piece of software does not treat your $HOME with respect.
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by oftenwrong 8mo ago
What is the benefit of having this be a standard? Can't an agent follow a guide just as easily in document with similar content in a different structure?
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by oftenwrong 8mo ago
I don't think it's meant to be a point against abstraction or a point against complexity. I think it's widely understood that abstraction is part of how advancement is made in our practice, as well as in other disciplines. I
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by oftenwrong 9mo ago
You can do better now: #!/usr/bin/env java --source 25 void main() { IO.println("Hello, World!"); } https://openjdk.org/jeps/330 https://openjdk.org/jep

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