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I second this -- I much prefer build123d to OpenSCAD.

Are you really suggesting that the choice to use Typescript wasn't a deliberate one?

IMO -- it makes total sense within the existing Cloudflare tooling ecosystem.

This -- with the M5 Max MBP is running flat out, you'll go from full battery to empty in under two hours.

While it is wild to have this much power in a take-it-anywhere laptop form factor, I sort of regret not just going for a Mac Studio + base M5 MBP.

Are you really making the argument that human flight hasn’t been effectively achieved at this point?

I actually kind of love this comparison — it demonstrates the point that just like “human flight”, “true AGI” isn’t a single point in time, it’s a many-decade (multi-century?) process of refinement and evolution.

Scholars a millennia from now will be debating about when each of these were actually “truly” achieved.

Second hand electronic shelf labels are a lot of fun to tinker with as well.

Check out OpenEPaperLink if it’s something you’re curious about: https://github.com/OpenEPaperLink/OpenEPaperLink

I’m still annoyed by the little things — like the fact they switched from a very native looking 1Password toolbar icon in Safari to the ugly full color icon.

https://1password.community/discussion/128524/add-options-to...

Seriously, this is the kind of thing that an intern could knock out in a week. I don’t understand why it hasn’t been addressed.

Octal on iOS also handles it correctly.

I’ll be honest, this was around 2005-2008 — it was a long time ago and at the time I really enjoyed the ritual of it all.

The main advice I can give you is to use ripping software that integrates with AccurateRip (XLD, EAC, etc) and use a widely supported lossless format (like FLAC).

Also — I can’t remember all the details, but there’s a way to store a CUE file, along with some metadata alongside your rip such that you can recreate an exact copy of the original physical media.

At least for now, I’ve moved on to streaming services, but I’m happy to know that I have a large library of music that I ripped myself to fall back to using instead, should I ever choose to.

Not the same as what you are talking about, but your comment reminded me of AccurateRip [1] which I used to make extensive use of back when I was ripping hundreds of CDs every year.

1: http://www.accuraterip.com/

Maybe think about going with the cheap table saw and spending the remainder of the money to get a nice track saw.

Of course, there are some things that you really do need a table saw for, but track saws are amazing and inherently safer in comparison to a table saw.

Particularly for sheet goods, I’ll never use anything but a track saw at this point.

Not sure about Android, but on iOS a three finger tap will bring up a contextual menu which allows undo and redo, among other actions.

They have been quite good in my experience. I particularly like the T5 4.7 and 2.13 which include integrated e-paper displays.

I guess the risk involved isn't substantially different from eBay, but I've had pretty good luck selling Apple hardware and phones via Swappa: https://swappa.com

The beauty of something like this is that its easily battery powered. It won’t be the fastest or most powerful option, but it’s an awesome tool to have on hand for repairs that aren’t easily done at a desk.

The headline misses the mark here IMO. This actually seems really great, and critically it appears to make it very easy to help fix errors in ISP provided data.

For my location, the data generally seems accurate. I will be following up with a local provider that claims to offer 1 gig fiber — that’s definitely news to me.

Those advertisements do universally have a disclaimer at the bottom of the screen along the lines of "Professional driver, closed course, do not attempt", at least in the US.

I really miss the simplicity of Rancher and their Cattle orchestrator circa 2016 or so.

Kubernetes is way, way to much for many teams to be able to operate properly. It can be done the right way, and it absolutely has it’s use cases, but I see so many people using it that really shouldn’t be.

Wikipedia link for some background — I hadn’t heard of this before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms

Tangential (and not my area of expertise), but I do know that the Ingenuity helicopter uses an off-the-shelf Snapdragon 801 SoC. As I understand it that is very unusual for any projects like this, let alone something like the JWST.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)#Design

Science / Electronics

  - AlphaPhoenix: https://youtube.com/c/AlphaPhoenixChannel
  - Andreas Spiess: https://youtube.com/c/AndreasSpiess
  - Marco Reps: https://youtube.com/c/MarcoReps

Fixing and Building Things

  - Mike Patey: https://youtube.com/c/MikePatey
  - Deboss Garage: https://youtube.com/c/DEBOSSGARAGE
  - Twoodfrd: https://youtube.com/user/twoodfrd
  - Foureyes Furniture: https://youtube.com/c/ChrisSalomone1
  - Jennies Garage: https://youtube.com/user/jenniesgarage

Automotive (and related)

  - SavageGeese: https://youtube.com/c/savagegeese
  - FortNine: https://youtube.com/c/FortNine

3D Printing

  - CNCKitchen: https://youtube.com/c/CNCKitchen
  - Thomas Sanladerer: https://youtube.com/user/ThomasSanladerer

Food

  - Adam Ragusea: https://youtube.com/user/aragusea
  - Joshua Weissman: https://youtube.com/c/JoshuaWeissman

Outdoors / Homestead

  - Learn Your Land: https://youtube.com/c/LearnYourLand

The feature isn’t “locked” — it’s just a configuration option on one of the control modules in the car based on the original build configuration. Keep in mind that a specific module might be used on many different models of car.

Why not just have the rear speaker outputs enabled at all times even on vehicles that do t have rear speakers? I suspect it’s as simple as VW not wanting to show the front/rear fader control for a vehicle where it isn’t applicable.

FWIW, this absolutely can be done yourself using VCDS or OBD 11 to update the module settings.

I suspect in this case the dealer wasn’t telling you the entire truth — it may be as simple as them not having an established procedure for this in house and wanting to just get you to go away.

Funny — I get more spam from LinkedIn than anywhere else.

So in practice, to exploit this someone would have needed to have been connected to the same local network at some point in time.

Yes, it’s still a vulnerability and Wyze should have actually responded in a reasonable period of time, but this really doesn’t seem like something to lose sleep over.

I get what you are saying, but long lived, highly destructive tornados like this one are downright terrifying.

Initial reports are that this tornado was three-quarters of a mile wide and traveled more than two hundred miles. That’s 150 square miles of near total devastation.

How did they manage to get so many basic facts wrong in one article? Anyone whose used a lithium ion battery in bellow freezing temperatures knows that it has a huge impact on the battery capacity.

There is nothing special about the brakes on a b5 Passat and there are tons of aftermarket and OEM spec replacements available on the market.

The labor for a replacement clutch replacement is typically pretty high. I think the book time for the clutch job on a b5 is really long, something like 10 hours.

I'm really surprised at just how much I like my Apple TV. I (wrongly) assumed it was a bit of a joke of a product for many years.

The latest 4k model is ridiculously fast (despite using an 'old' A12 SoC). Across the board it just works better than any Android TV, Fire TV or Roku I've ever used.

I really don’t understand the distaste that many Europeans seem to have for wood. It’s an incredible natural composite material and trees are basically the ultimate renewable resource.

Particularly when combined with modern building science, there is absolutely no reason that a modern stick built house cannot last for hundreds of years and be energy efficient.

If you've made it to your third year at a prestigious university you're clearly not lacking intelligence or ability.

For what it's worth, I ended up dropping out of my second year at a prestigious university in the US and ultimately still ended up getting my degree and finding a path to a successful professional career. I spent a very long time trying to go "against the grain" by focusing on dual degrees in Physics and Art rather than just focusing in on purely CS degree because programming was my "hobby" and I didn't want my hobby to become my career.

Have you considered if Data Science really suits your natural inclinations / drive? There are so many areas of software development that you can be wildly successful in without being a mathematician or memorizing algorithms.

Spend some time thinking about what you've been doing in personal projects and how you can use that to focus in on what what actually drove you to want to build them. Additionally - there are many organizations who do not utilize the whiteboarding type interview format that you're struggling with and will be FAR more interested in hearing you speak to your personal projects and how you've built them.

USB-C is simply the connector format -- which can then be used as either USB 4 or Thunderbolt 3. The highest speed USB 4 devices are effectively the same as Thunderbolt 3 from what I understand.

I really do sympathize with any consumer who has to try to make sense of what a given port is actually capable of these days.