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"How to befriend crows", also known as "how to get away with a murder".

I've always hated the phrase "boy racer". So condescending...

Apparently the one app requires permissions for "an overview of your exact location, the ability to make direct calls via your phone and the ability to disable your screen lock."

I've never heard of any app being able to make calls or disable the lock screen. Is that even possible? I suspect maybe on Android?

Not when you factor in equipment, travel, keeping the lights on, etc.

Because Jeff Geerling is an internet personality and uses opportunities like this for publicity.

With a good chunk of that money being allocated to getting young Americans killed (i.e. military spending).

Reminds me of the 8-bit guy's device he created for manually programming character lcd displays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZRL8luuPb8

It demonstrates how technology we take for granted obfuscates how complex basic tasks can be.

"This is a keyboard that is sure to provoke controversy."

I miss this sort of drama...

It would be nice if I got to see how I did against other players.

Up. Politics is a major detriment to NASA's efficiency.

It's weird they don't say what year its from. (AFAIK this keyboard mouse combo appeared in 1981).

No one likes a non runny white.

You must be fun at parties.

Edit: :P

That retro looking CLI gui is pretty slick.

This is simultaneously interesting and useless.

Hang in there, man. I can totally relate. I too find myself getting tired out at the three year mark at companies, and switching things up has always helped. Although it's easier to not burn the bridge when you switch positions internally rather than start a completely different company (since often that other company can be the main competitor to the one you are leaving).

Github has always had a bad history graph. I've always wondered why we can't just have a live Github history graph like in Sourcetree.

Good point. V8 gave us Node.js, right? Also I've been out of the loop for a while now about Firefox. My understanding was Firefox had a pretty bad memory leak for a long time. Was that ever resolved?

Edit: Saw your edit. Glad the firefox memory problem was resolved.

Crazy thing is Mozilla was heavily funded by Google for years before Chrome came out.

Thanks for posting. What are the use cases for Firezone exactly? Is the intention to simplify networking configuration in data centers? (as opposed to the zero config nature of Tailscale devices that could be anywhere on the internet?)

How did Chrome become so popular instead of Firefox in the first place? Was it purely Google's advertising of their browser? Brand recognition is so important to typical consumers.

The main perpetrator I've come across (in, I'll admit, my limited experience with scraping) was Google services. It seemed somewhat obvious to me initially while playing around with Beautiful Soup, the most valuable resource I could use for scraping was Google search, followed by Gmail and Google Finance. I had no luck using BS with any of these services.

Largely this taught me to be creative with my data sources. For example, I built a virtual weather vane powered by a Raspberry Pi that would scrape my local airport's website to get wind direction data, then turn the vane via a servo to the correct direction. So my takeaway from this project was scraping isn't as straight forward as one would thing, there's more of an art to it in order to figuring out where to get the information you want.

This is a very valuable resource. My only constructive criticism would be maybe providing multiple point of views for each step because it's not always obvious what the step requires to the laymen when showing 2d images.

It can be frustrating learning web scraping with Python when so many sites actively block scraping.

... and largely, when American companies set up shop in Canada, they create a wholly owned subsidiary that is a Canadian company. I.e. McDonald's Canada and General Motors Canada are separate entities from their parent organizations.

Fun fact posted here before: The McDonald's locations that were recently shuttered in Russia were specifically founded by McDonald's Canada.

This is a great, tangible example of how quickly computing has progressed over the last 40 years. Makes me wonder what sort of crazy, fun things we will be able to do in the future when today's technology becomes "retro".

Really cool video. I love it when people teach concepts through using the concepts themselves (like how he shows himself in an accurate Gameboy display matrix and even "fades" the video of himself as he explains how fading worked).

I don't think this image is helping your case.

Good time to buy Coinbase stock maybe? They can't possibly go the same way as MTGOX...