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Spotify is full of those UI frustrations. There have been many times where I've thought "Just give me 'select * from songs where artist = % order by listen_count'".

I started slowly moving myself away from online streaming services for my daily listening. I ripped all my CDs (to FLAC so I can re-encode to whatever I want in the future) and started buying albums from new artists off of Bandcamp, 7digital and HDTracks. I've even bought a few new CDs from local record stores and ripped them. I still use streaming services for discovery but I'm moving back to blogs (Pitchfork, Stereogum, etc), aggregators (Anydecentmusic) and forums for more of that discovery.

I'm really fascinated about why so many infrastructure-as-code tools are actually infrastructure-as-markup. Many of them seem to "evolve" until they're awkward attempts at bolting full programming language semantics onto that markup language. I imagine it started out as wanting to keep a simple configuration-style format for infrastructure but fell apart when people's stacks grew large and complex.

Projects like Pulumi and CDK seem to be much better approaches, but don't seem to have much traction compared to TF, Cloudformation, etc.

Overly complicated, color QR codes.

This is great. I did something very similar with a laser printer and a scanner many years ago. I wrote a script that generated pages of colored blocks and spent some time figuring out how much redundancy I needed on each page to account for the scanner's resolution. I think I saw something similar here or on github a few years ago.

Will that be less of an issue when a larger portion of their satellite fleet have laser interconnects? I think I read somewhere that the required ground stations are a limitation of the initial launches without laser connections...

I'm aware that they expect one of their customers to be stock market companies where lower latency is highly important. Are you referring to that or something else?

I've often wondered how much overlap there is on people who live in an HOA and people who are opposed to government regulation. I realize government regulation isn't quite the same as HOA regulations, but it's amusing to me how extreme some HOAs are (grass a certain length, no service vehicles, etc) and how the people that live in them are often politically conservative.

> Growing vegetables on what should be a lawn is verboten in many locations, if not by the government than by private association bylaws.

I'm aware that some HOAs limit (sometimes to what seems like an extreme) what can be done with the yard and lawn, but I wasn't aware of any governments that ban growing vegetables. Is that more common in water-restricted municipalities? (I live in midwestern US, where backyard gardens are very common.)

I've really wanted a server-side uBlock Origin like this for a while now for devices that can't run uBlock (mobile, etc) or where uBlock is limited in functionality (Chrome). This looks like a great start.

The project seems pretty cool, and it seems like it'd be fun to add to my homelab, but I just don't have a need for it. I have a little server running Proxmox, so I can create as many hosts as need to play with things like k8s. I'm still tempted to buy one though for the novelty factor.

Which episode of Futurama is that from? ;)

I wouldn't go so far as to call the OP-1 a toy. The interface is definitely limiting but it's also whimsical. I use mine as a kind of stress relief tool. It's small, self-contained design means I can put my laptop away and focus on playing around and creating music.

I've been frustrated with Spotify's UI for so long now. It just seems so full of dark... or at least dim(?) user patterns. I started buying albums from bands I like off Bandcamp and loading them into Plexamp. (I really hope Epic doesn't destroy Bandcamp, it's one of the few remaining sources of high-quality (FLAC) downloadable music.)

I worked at Monsanto for a few years. I won't get into the ethics of the company on this forum, but as a software engineer it was a pretty great place to work. Good engineering culture, lots of very dedicated and smart people and some really fun challenges to work on.

Along the lines of piaware, also checkout https://liveatc.net. If you live near an airport that's not currently served by the site you can set one up moderately easy.

Many years ago I worked as a contractor at a financial institution that was a little full of themselves. I had to be escorted from the entrance, through the main office, to a smaller, "less secure" room inside the main office. The bathrooms were a short walk away from the less secure room through the main office so I had to have an escort to go to the bathroom. The escort would wait outside the bathroom for me and escort me back to my desk. While annoying and inconvenient (and ridiculous) it wasn't really a big deal until I came out of the bathroom one day to find the escort had disappeared. (I later found out he had someone kind of family emergency and had to run home, I guess dire enough that he didn't have time to inform me.) I asked around the office where my escort had gone but no one knew so I walked back to my desk on my own.

The next day the CTO called me into his office and said he should have me fired right then and there for violating security protocols. I explained what had happened but he didn't care because it looked bad for him. Apparently I should have had someone call security to escort me back to my desk.

Two months later they started construction on the room I was in to provide a path to an exit that didn't go through the main office. To use the bathroom I had to go through that exit and leave the building, walk outside to the main entrance and use the "non-secure" bathroom and then be escorted back to my desk through the office.

About twenty years ago I had a boss that was a submariner, one of the guys that operated the reactor (I think they call themselves "nukes"?). He was quite odd but wickedly smart and it always seemed like he could engineer his way out of any situation, which I greatly admired. But yes, this guy was very down to earth, some odd combination of prepper and nature-loving hippie. Great guy to work for, I knew he always had my back.

A few years ago I worked with another reactor operator and saw some similar personality traits. Exceedingly calm, independent and quirky with an engineering/problem solving-oriented mind.

I've always been fascinated by submarines and knowing both of those people only deepened the fascination.

Is there any manufacturer with plans to come out with an Apple Silicon-level ARM chip (in terms of performance and efficiency)? Ever since the first benchmarks for the M1 chips started appearing I've been kinda dreaming of a Raspberry-Pi style system with a high performance ARM chip.

I actually find it easy to read since the format requires users to break things up in to what feels like shorter, bite-sized pieces.

I started signing up for privacy.com, right up until the point where they asked for my username and password for my bank. Why can't they just do electronic funds transfer like Paypal? Seems like a strange user experience.

There's a few YouTube channels that provide live feeds of LAX. They operate a few times a week, usually during the late morning to early evening hours pacific time.

Airline Videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/AIRLINEVIDEOS LA Flights: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7WAqB7dyv1t8jKunD-8krA

There's also ones at ORD, ATL and occasionally other US airports. I've seen a few popup in other countries too, but can't seem to find them in you YouTube history.

So instead of trying to limit the number of bots on this new social network, we'll encourage them!

Don't most of the more popular aircraft have STCs that allow them to run on automotive gas?

I'm guessing the goal is to lock down git's security for any potential future vulnerability. If some security issue was discovered with git that could be exploited with a malicious .git directory structure, requiring git directories to be owned by the logged-in user will reduce the impact.

"Live long and prosper through fair market practices"?

At a job many, many years ago I asked a developer on a different team (across town) to email me an XML file I needed for a feature I was working on. After a few hours of not getting anything I checked with him and he said the file was too large and the email server wasn't allowing him to send it to me. It was a few hundred kilobytes, it shouldn't have been a problem but I didn't care too much, I just wanted the file so I asked him to zip it up to reduce the size. A few minutes later he said the email server was still rejecting it, even as a zip file. Getting frustrated, I grabbed my laptop and drove to the other office. He showed me the XML file... which was a Word document with screenshots of the XML document opened in an editor.

Exasperated, I asked him why he couldn't just send me the raw XML file instead of putting screenshots in a Word document. Turns out the document was on another system he had to remote into (with Citrix, I think? I don't remember what was used back then) and he wasn't "allowed" to copy files off that machine.

They have to get you to click the link to find the name so they can get the ad impressions. However, you saved me a click!

And I love how sparingly classic MacOS used colors.

"Kent. Wake up Kent. I'm talking to you, Kent. This is Jesus, Kent, and you've been a very naughty boy."

If you'd like to listen to the broadcast over shortwave but don't have a radio at home, there are many SDR receivers online throughout the world. I've had good luck with this map https://rx-tx.info/map-sdr-points