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Re:USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021) on Friday July 18, 2025 @12:28AM (#44601205)
I’m not sure if it’s a USB-PD hub but Jeff Geerling posted a video about a USB-C charger that doesn’t suffer from the renegotiation issue https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dG2v4FHwJjE
I don’t use meta products. Photos of me are on the camera rolls of people who do.
Re:Show HN: Berlin Swapfest, electronics flea market on Saturday March 01, 2025 @09:06PM (#43226408)
I started going to these last year and they’re great. People selling rackmount servers off the beds of pickups, bins full of spinning rust HDDs, everything you need to make a garbage homelab.

The first one of 2025 is on March 9th.

Re:Pi-hole v6 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:03PM (#43094328)
meta and X are both heavily censored so I guess it's censors all the way down?
Re:Better Dotfiles on Friday September 06, 2024 @06:20PM (#41470134)
I switched to this method after using symlinks for years. This guide was helpful: https://queensidecastle.com/guides/tracking-your-home-direct...
Re:It's true. Your devices are listening to you on Monday November 13, 2023 @04:52PM (#38255877)
~Where is their CCPA request form?~ Nowhere in California is listed under "Markets"
Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight on Thursday September 28, 2023 @01:53PM (#37693171)
Just make sure to never send a PATCH request
Your entire digital life stored by clouds you have no control over is the norm. Being able to keep a local copy should be a fundamental right.
Re:WebContainer API on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @07:33PM (#34798374)
Enterprise firewall
Re:Polyglot Makefiles on Friday May 15, 2020 @03:24PM (#23196297)
I didn't generate any files in the examples for simplicity. But you could imagine a workflow where Python generates some data and then you use R to plot it + run some statistical tool.
Re:Polyglot Makefiles on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:55PM (#23195163)
I didn't know about private. Thanks for the tip.
Re:Polyglot Makefiles on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:52PM (#23195108)
The shell is specific to each target. So doing `make ruby bash python docker` works. It even works in parallel if you do `make -j`.

Edit: I'm the author.

I love this tool. Here is the script I wrote to show how many ec2 instances I have running (so I remember to turn them off):

https://github.com/audy/bitbars/blob/master/ec2

One of the things that drew me to Macs as I started to learn programming in '05 was that I could simply open any macbook and type python/ruby/perl and write some code.
Re:Google Earth for live radios on Sunday November 11, 2018 @11:52PM (#18430665)
This is one of my favorite internet radio ~stations~ websites. My only beef is that I wish there was a more permanent way to bookmark stations. The current implementation uses cookies or something that doesn't allow me to sync between browsers.
Pivot Bio (http://pivotbio.com/) is testing nitrogen-fixing microbes on corn this year.

And we are hiring: http://pivotbio.com/careers

How is it extra work if you have to do it anyway? If anything, it's slightly less work to go through it all at once.
I have a gmail filter that sends all emails with the word 'unsubscribe' to a special folder. I check the unsubscribe folder about once a week to make sure I didn't miss anything important. It doesn't completely solve the problem of spammy emails but it causes them to not be a distraction when I'm trying to process emails written by actual humans.
Re:A basic Lisp interpreter in R on Monday July 17, 2017 @06:34PM (#14792806)
One of the point's is that you can use R's functions in a LISP-like language.
There is an option/plugin for Jekyll for finding similar blog posts. https://jekyllrb.com/docs/configuration/
Re:How to prepare your fresh Mac for software development on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @11:02AM (#12218411)
I like homebrew-bundle [1]. It lets me list all of the apps I use in a text file and install them with a single command.

You can also run `brew bundle --cleanup` to purge your system of apps that you no longer need (as long as you installed them with homebrew/homebrew-bundle in the first place).

- [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle

Re:Proof that Apple is deleting MP3 files on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @05:11PM (#11810274)
One could settle this by reproducibly demonstrating the bug with a pirated mp3.
Re:Managing dotfiles with GNU Stow on Monday April 18, 2016 @02:25AM (#11518028)
You're right. I forgot to mention that this only happens if you haven't initiated a new git repository in the directory you're working in.
Re:Managing dotfiles with GNU Stow on Sunday April 17, 2016 @02:45PM (#11515677)
I tried this but git uses ~/.git for any subdirectory of $HOME. For example, if you type `git add .` while in ~/code/some-project, you will add it to your dotfiles repository. It's easy to undo but still kind of annoying.
Re:Mammalian diving reflex on Sunday March 27, 2016 @04:09PM (#11371321)
Or perform the vagal maneuver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagal_maneuver.
You should post some examples of highlighted literature to see if different writing styles look different because of the syntax highlighting.

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