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Case in point: minidisc :)

Recording was the killer feature for me. I recorded thousands of hours of band rehearsals with their stereo omni mics and the media quality.

Planning wood, expect during kezuroukai, is annoying because knots are hard and deform the thin edge; most often still wet enough to oxydize the thin edge; finally full of abrasive silicium to abrade the thin edge.

Meanwhile, lake erie toolworks is creating powder metallurgy CPM magnacut blades for western style planes, which seemingly never gets dull because of corrosion resistance, wear resistance and hardness.

France. I know my city workers use them to clean the streets in autumn. Wet leaves are slipery. Then people mostly use rakes AFAIK, or the lawn mower.

Though I know some tools, such as branch shredders are regulated in some residential areas, but I don't frequent those.

You can find all the problems of Software in Woodworking, except that sometimes, using an axe is a legal and well-suited move.

I don't know, my experience with mega SLOC projects were Java, so verbosity was also a thing.

Go's verbosity is usually found in multiples (if err), not in long forms (int[] arrayOfIntegersWithValuesOneToFive = new ArrayFactory().createArrayWithSize(5).populateWithValues(1, 2, 3, 4, 5); ).

Some google meet features are chrome only (background blur, picture in picture).

I can't say I have noticed much else, so I use chrome for gsuite and firefox for everything else ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

To be fair, most million plus LOC projects match “misfortune” and “nightmare”.

Early 2024 :/

> selective plan breeding Even picking seeds out seems dangerous with this one.

> Yet the guys that have services running 24/7 for years without a hiccup will be the first ones on the chopping block when finances get tight.

Not really my experience, as long as the stable services costs of operation are good. I have witnessed more chopping on the R&D side, where things are never "stable and reliable", but innovative and expensive.

No need to change or outsource something that works technically and financially. Until it becomes irrelevant.

Very common in France if you ever drive by. Usually sold as a small 30cm^3 plant which will probably grown up to 1.5m in diameter the first year. I used to have 7 in 12m2. It’s also possible to grow from seeds, which you can buy online. It will require some dedication.

IME a very easy perennial, if you can prevent drought. Plant and forget. Like artichokes.

The brought-in-for-some-purpose, escape-to-bush, become-feral, become-pest worked also for cats, dogs, horses ... up-to camels. I am not aware of Australian Feral Elephants but it may exist.

> Without shooting yourself in the foot, learning lacks motivation. Complexity without reason is really confusing.

Interestingly not my experience.

I usually start something uselessly complex, with more passion than reason, to learn or brag, then halfway I indeed shoot shoot myself in the foot trying to be clever or lazy.

I would not recommend to look for footguns, they are already looking at you :)

Nice one.

There have been so many nice CLI tools these last 10 years. Quality of life kind of nice. ag/rg, fzf, entr, up, lf...

Go and rust have been appreciated enablers, even though ruby/python/js demonstrated the concepts, with somewhat poor performances and UX.

... then however, how do you feel about tech debt with Rust? My feeling was that go, rust and such left a lighter burden on the future than say ruby.

Do you think you will need a major rewrite soon?

> I find it a disgrace that french and us companies are allowed to make and sell some tasteless cheese called gruyere and emmental when they are not originating from Gruyères (a Swiss village and area) or the valley of Emmen (again in Switzerland).

Same goes for brie, camembert, feta, mozzarella, ... The "real" thing is as great as the fakes are terrible.

Maybe 15 years ago or so, I wrote the original “useless gaps” patch for dwm, because it felt packed, especially between different window styles (terminal, web browser, file manager for instance). The concept was new to tiling managers but quite common anywhere in photography, typography or web design.

At the time, I spent a minute or two on the patch (the code is simple, and the patch is a hack), ten minutes on documentation Ascii art and zero minute on choosing a name for it. “Useless” made it sound like a casus forki, and “gap” could probably been just “margin” as in css.

“Mal nommer un objet, c’est ajouter aux malheurs du monde” — Albert Camus ~”misnaming an object is adding to the world misery”

Happy merging anyway!

Yes and yes. A simple naturally aspirated engine takes bio-ethanol/e85 just fine, though the benefits seem limited to fewer fine particles, with comparable carbon emissions but a much larger agro impact.

Hmm. Between Finagle and Hanson, I chose Hanlon. It would have been a shame for this coffee to go stale. Oh, “roasted in July”, so Finagle then.

Kernel parameters are usually documented in the kernel-parameters.txt file in the source. See https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...:

  hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
    reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
    Default is 1.

The way to get from the error "No bus number available for hot-added bridge" at https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/pci/pr... to this specific kernel param is still a bit involved.

I live in Paris, went to Wales this summer, found the relative lack of roadsigns very nice, came back to Paris, found the overabundance of roadsigns uglier than before, went to Prague, found the overabundance of signs, large roads and cars within the city ugly, came back to Paris, found it a bit prettier.

Ugliness, envy and jealousy, inextricably mixed.

Apple has deep pockets and good lawyers. High reward, low probability.

A judge may decide whether malice or stupidity led to the release of such commoditized trackers.

I feel like it’s legitimate.

> Wider open aperture, more light on the sensor, more blur outside of the focus area.

/ shallower depth of field

As much as I like e-ink and DIY projects, those "weather displays" or "smart mirrors" always feel like a wasteful solution to a non-problem. Fun hacks in 2022 should be bottom drawer first? Sustainably powered? It could just be my brain compensating for my own e-waste guilt.

> There’s technique, equipment and essence.

A nice pyramid way to phrase it. As for any other thing, people may have an innate fit for a certain position within, but my belief if that people usually develop in all dimensions. Not everyone will need to develop their film or buy a medium format digital camera though.

Font legibility and point size are quite crucial for me. I can work with light on dark if using a non blurry pixmap font, terminus being my favorite.

I tend to use monochrome on dark backgrounds, I prefer white on blue to the usual light grey on black.

During the day, I like the rather colorful light Emacs leuven theme: https://github.com/fniessen/emacs-leuven-theme.

For some reason, I find the default acme editor very nice to use, from a legibility and information density POV.

> We want the automation to do what a human pilot would do. And that works with eyes.

Humans can’t really turn senses off, so they have coffee when driving. Touch and hearing are quite important to “read the road”. Equilibrium too.

> Advantages of pen and paper:

- you can put many pages side by side

- it works great with rulers

- it can be thrown at the cat to play with

I thought Linux was often times annoying with Bluetooth connection issues, sleep related bugs … I enjoy how boring stable it is on thinkpad.

Then I bought a Mac m1 second hand for photo related needs and it doesn’t wake up the external monitor on resume from suspend, doesn’t auto switch Bluetooth mic, doesn’t provide volume mixer for hdmi external monitor, can’t manage wifi&Ethernet at the same time …

I stopped worrying and am using both happily, with their flaws.

Anticlimactically boils down to 100 words on a page.