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Poiesis··on Using an iPad as the main display for a Mac Mini
I'm actually interested in using an iPad as an occasional display for a Linux box (with hardware dongle for better performance). Any plans to support this? Is it already possible and I just haven't heard of it?
Poiesis··on Ok Google – it's time you discovered cyclists
Works for me on iOS 13.4. Even have 1Blocker installed; didn't have to disable.

Edit: This looks pretty great, but I should probably point out that it turned my 5.5 mile commute into a 8.5 mile one. Realize it's probably trying to avoid larger streets; Hope this is or becomes configurable.

Poiesis··on Developers don't need ping-pong tables
I'll add to this: for me, the office game was (eventually, after many years) a gateway into more serious playing at the club.

Yeah, I'm now a better player than most at work, but I wouldn't say work games aren't interesting to me. I have so many fundamentals to work on! It can be a challenge for me to even consistently hit a ball back in a way that a novice can continue the rally (especially when dealing with a trickier shot).

I definitely think the higher level games are crucial for success, too; I just find that I get some value out of almost any game (if I look for it).

Poiesis··on iOS First Impressions (2018)
> anything that lets you into my phone when I'm dead or otherwise incapacitated is generally off limits.

I don't know if the gaze detection can be fooled by a corpse with its eyes open, but supposedly Face ID checks for body temperature as well.

Poiesis··on Show HN: Open-source app to turn headless Chrome into a normal browser
Ichabod
Poiesis··on Pocket Popcorn Computer: Linux in Your Pocket
The TextBlade from WayTools (https://waytools.com) looks promising but they never seem to ship anything. I've been waiting for most of a year.
Poiesis··on Ubuntu ZFS support in 19.10: ZFS on root
Also the article is light on details and mostly just links to this blog post: https://didrocks.fr/2019/10/11/ubuntu-zfs-support-in-19.10-z...
Poiesis··on Firefly III – Self-hosted financial manager
If you're still monitoring and have the time @JC5, I was just curious about your data model.

I see that there tags, categories, and budgets. I understand the differences between these, and why they are presented as different concepts. How did these different features evolve? Did you have budgets first, then categories/tags? Did you ever consider implementing categories as tags and not having a separate category concept?

Just wondering if what you have now evolved from a simpler model (at least fewer concepts—maybe not simpler implementation or mental model), and if so why/how.

Poiesis··on Locked Tesla stolen in 30 seconds in London with fob relay trick
Is this script publicly available?
Poiesis··on Red Hat Universal Base Image
What are the differences between this and the previous rhel and rhel-minimal images? Distribution terms (and some subset of packages with different licensing) only? That's no small thing, but I want to make sure I'm not missing something.
Poiesis··on I made a smart watch from scratch
To save folks a click, copy, and paste, the GitHub project is https://github.com/S-March/smarchWatch_PUBLIC
Poiesis··on Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe
I commented earlier about buying a used Leaf instead of the car in the article. I just wanted to mention that it's a great bicycle alternative for me too. Used to bike to work before I had four kids going different places.
Poiesis··on Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe
Like the other commenter, I've never heard of a battery lease. Just bought it outright.

For what it's worth I had the choice to pay a bit more to get a different Leaf that had a new battery (replacement under warranty). Given that I don't drive much (6 mile commute), I figured a slightly healthier battery is probably not going to be as useful to me, and the car/battery will deteriorate from age before mileage is as much a factor.

Poiesis··on Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe
At that price point I'd enthusiastically recommend a three year old Nissan Leaf; that's about what I paid and it's served me well.
Poiesis··on Canadian researcher behind one-minute workout has a shorter option
Hey, didn't know about Streaks Workout but I do love Streaks so I'll be giving that a shot.

I noticed when reading the reviews that what seemed to be a common complaint was that the randomization would repeat an exercise type too often. Now, I know you've fixed this because I just spent five minutes reading the release notes for every release in the last year--but if you used the ability that Apple added to reply to these reviews, then someone wouldn't have to do that in order to figure out if the issue was addressed.

Poiesis··on For the Love of Pipes
In my opinion, it's perfectly fine either way unless you're worried about performance. I personally tend to try to use the more performant option when there's a choice, but a lot of times it just doesn't matter.

That said, I suspect the example would be much faster if you didn't use the pipeline, because a single tool could do it all (I'm leaving in the substitution and column print that are actually unused in the result):

    awk '/^x/{gsub("a","b");print $2; count++}END{print NR}' foo.txt
Poiesis··on Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store
The readme used to say that ansible-container was no longer in active development (https://github.com/ansible/ansible-container/commit/2fa778a7...), but it appears to not be the case now.
Poiesis··on TMobile confirms they store passwords in plaintext, don't see why it's a problem
I can’t fault a low-level employee too much for enthusiastically defending their company. I can’t expect someone at that level to know about sound development practices.

What’s often lacking though is a clear path for reporting security issues to people such as this representative. They don’t have a process to flag something for the security team.

Poiesis··on TMobile confirms they store passwords in plaintext, don't see why it's a problem
One possibility could be that they store only the first four characters plaintext, and keep a hash of the whole password (which is also bad).

I wonder how this feature came to be? What were those meetings like?

Poiesis··on The Uncanny Resurrection of Dungeons and Dragons
If you have any, I’d love tips for running a game for kids. (I’ve never DM’ed or played but am pretty familiar from many podcasts)
Poiesis··on Show HN: Bitcoin investing using Dollar Cost Averaging strategy
Am I reading this right? It seems to be advocating “Buy high, sell low”.
Poiesis··on Introducing Transfer Appliance: Sneakernet for the cloud era
Anyone know what's inside the box?
Poiesis··on Ask HN: What habits make a programmer great?
Something more habit-like that I am still trying to cultivate: log what you do. It's really useful to be able to look up what you did when. It helps with reviews/invoices, and it helps you get better at estimating how long it takes you to do things, which is essential.
Poiesis··on Ask HN: What habits make a programmer great?
Make it easy to verify what you have written works. This can be done in several ways, and which ones to use depends on the people you're working with and what access to the production code you have. Debug log levels are a popular way to do this.

* Always make a way to examine the data that's coming in (over network, arguments, whatever) to make sure your code is receiving the input it expects, and to be able to predict output/state changes.

* Similarly, have a way to see the data/state changes produced by what you wrote.

* Don't log all this by default.

* ...except for unexpected outcomes. By all means, check your inputs and loudly complain if they are garbage in a way that's unrecoverable.

* Be judicious about how much of this you normally expose to a user; don't overwhelm a user with unactionable noise.

Poiesis··on Sorting 2 Tons of Lego, Many Questions, Results
Technics and larger wheels are useful for Lego robotics (FLL) teams everywhere; certainly useful for our team.

Edit: this is in response to your asking for feedback about categories/demand.

Poiesis··on Sorting 2 Tons of Lego, Many Questions, Results
Palm sanders are frequently used to vibrate stuff like concrete forms (There are also specialized tools).
Poiesis··on Launch HN: Sudden Coffee (YC W17) – Instant coffee that doesn't suck
I will likely never be a subscriber, since I don't like coffee. I'd love to have a good instant option to offer to guests without having to own a coffeemaker that I'll never use otherwise, have to store, etc.
Poiesis··on Differences between Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal, Black Metal, and Death Metal
Do you have some references for this (I was afraid this was a problem but hadn't looked into it)? Been wanting to talk to my son about that. He loves the music, he's seemingly not racist, but repeated exposure to that crap is not good.
Poiesis··on Dd is not a disk writing tool (2015)
In my experience dd is great for binary data. Yes, pretty much everything on Unix operates on files, as does dd. But so many utilities are either line based or don't handle null bytes, and it's a pain to have determine how a given program handles binary data when I know dd will at least not mess with it.
Poiesis··on Trolling My Kids with Google Home [video]
I wish it weren't so, but depending on what you/your kids look like, not being afraid of contacting the police could be fatal for you or your kids.
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