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For me seems to be. I keep it in my front shirt pocket, pull it out to read all the time. I've gone through 8 books on it so far this year. That's 7 more books than I read on my Kobo by this time last year given how convenient it is to take it everywhere. Granted I'm usually a paper book reader so my Kobo was always just a travel device, but the Xteink makes it so easy to squeeze reading in everywhere.

First time hearing about ifMud despite being someone who spent a lot of time on MUDs and MUSHs in the past, hacking on various ones. Seems like a neat community and would love to hear more about it.

I've been really curious about pi and have been following it but haven't seen a reason to switch yet outside anecdotes. What makes it a better daily driver out of the box compared to Claude or Codex? What did you end up needing to add to get your workflow to be "now capable to write its own extensions"? Just trying to see what the benefit would be if I hop into a new tool.

Just setup my personal blog again after a four years hiatus using Astro (loved the good docs). Kind of disappointed, but given how simple static site generators are, probably something Claude could crank out easily with parity of features I actually use then wouldn't be beholden to any project's creators.

https://piffey.net - Only content from 2020, has been down the last ~4 years due to job, but redesigned and got it up again in the last month and have lots of writing planned.

Outside of what has been mentioned here (thanks folks for some new brands) I've found clusters in Canada and Portugal of great clothing brands making quality products with good materials:

Canada - Anian (https://anianmfg.com/) for wool products. - Reigning Champ (https://reigningchamp.com/) for cotton tees.

Portugal - La Paz (https://lapaz.pt/) - Isto (https://isto.pt/) - Portugese Flannel (https://www.portugueseflannel.com/)

I also like this site No Man Walks Alone to find quality brands. It is about learning how to spot quality though in stitching and fabrics. Wish there was more educational materials out there on this.

Take a look at the REMNux reverse engineering page for PDF documents (https://docs.remnux.org/discover-the-tools/analyze+documents...). Lots of tools here for looking at malicious PDFs that can be used to inspect/understand even non-malicious documents.

Love this. Can't tell you how many times I've screenshotted maps then drawn on directions for family/friends. Great idea.

Doesn't always work. I've got old Agfa negatives I developed from my grandpa in Korea in the 50s. Developed them after finding them in his attic maybe 10 years ago now. They sat between two panes of glass for 5 years with volumes of books on top, not a single change toward flat. I finally gave up and just put them in the archival sleeves and in the binder with the curve.

I'll give this a go. My second TL is Lithuanian which is very difficult to find content in outside of state TV stuff.

Just kicked off my third language after reaching B2/C1ish in my second (~5 years in), we'll see what the C1 test determines this fall, and Anki has been the consistent thing that stayed through all the other learning experiments. It's amazing just investing in Anki right out the bat how much quicker I'm moving on the new language. Especially considering it's way harder as it's not like any language I know (rich declension system, etc).

GenAI also been a big helper when I run out of content. "Write me an essay involving [subject I want to learn about]. In my response after reading, any word I've written separated by a comma generate a CSV of the format "that word, english definiton"." I'll then just dump those new words into Anki.

Scarecrow Video does this in Seattle. Their library is amazing.

https://scarecrowvideo.org/rent-by-mail

Seems easy to defeat. I shake your car to make the alarm go off, hide, wait for you to pick up your keys to disable the alarm when you see no one there, use RF extender while your keys are active to unlock and steal the car.

Succeeding as a bad manager maybe. I’ve had the pleasure of working for three fantastic managers, one being now, over my career. The second I began asking for leadership advice as I was contemplating making the transition at the time. He gave me a bunch of sage books to read but summarized it in one quote from General Dwight D. Eisenhower:

“Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.”

This has been an easy gauge for sussing out whether a new manager deserves my praise or not in the roles that came after. Leaders that embody that have, in my experience, always maintained a loyal, productive, non toxic team where individuals move up more rapidly, as well as the leader, due to the momentum that comes from not having constant turnover and a team that respects and enjoys their mission and mandate.

Don’t see this as any different than amateur programmers releasing another framework. Already established norms, will very likely never take off, but a great way for a person to learn a hobby with real world experience —- in this case radio instead of a programming language.

There’s definitely those “when shit hits the fan” prepper types but outside rural US hams it’s not the norm worldwide. They’re a certainly deluded group.

Few people do drive to the island. Over 60% of workers in Manhattan take mass transit to work versus 21% driving. https://www.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/planning-le...

And mass transit adoption keeps growing for the workforce. Because sitting in a car in traffic sucks that much. So we make self driving cars and all those people pile into personal vehicles? That only exacerbates the problem.

There are over 30 US cities with trains to the airport. Another half dozen on the way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airport_rail_link_syst...

US also has almost 350 miles of high speed rail, not 0. The Northeast is where it’s all concentrated with Acela being the fastest.

If you live in a major city in the States it’s often way easier and faster to take rail. In Seattle for instance you can beat a driver to the airport every time during traffic. Hell even the LAX station in Los Angeles of all places will be available end of 2024 and that’s the most notorious car centric city in this country. The subway in LA keeps seeing ridership growth. I don’t even rent a car when I visit anymore. Everywhere I want to go is serviced.

Lastly NYC is one of the most serviced by transit areas in the world? Are you living in an alternate universe?

Mass transit is the solution. It’s vastly cheaper to build, moves more people, and far safer. I’ve got a highway interchange by my house that’s taken a decade to finish while they’ve ran rail and built four stations in that time. That’s a perfectly fine pace given our slow building system with environmental review and the like.

Honestly with Curb in NYC have been more than happy with taxis. Wish it would be adopted in more cities.

Proprietary tools means passive DNS.

Electricity moving between boxes is not equivalent to physical spaces in reality.

Cities need to be enacting high tax rates on non-primary residences, luxury residences, and investment properties. If I remember right, Italy does this well with little to no tax on your primary residence, then if you choose to purchase a vacation home or a luxury property like a villa your tax rate soars. Going into the climate crisis this will enable cities to take those high property taxes on unnecessary housing and apply it to affordable public housing.

Easy: drop the public commentary portion of development. Random old people with nothing to do all day shouldn't be allowed to delay a project by months because they want to complain about the orientation of a window on a project. If you don't own the land, weren't democratically elected, and aren't funding the property you shouldn't get a say in local land use. Ridiculous that we've even set up these systems.

Go do a year in IR if you want some inside perspective -- and to shave a few years off your existence. Sounds about normal for a large telecommunications firm. These large firms don't have 30+ person IR teams on round the clock shifts distributed worldwide because nothing ever happens. T-Mobile just has some transparency and likely actual monitoring in place to detect these breaches instead of them just floating by until some threat actor sells the data somewhere public.

Sorry didn't see this reply or would've commented sooner. So you certainly would need some sort of structured instructions. And there are specific methods for teaching specific languages to people from certain languages. Where the rapid compounding happens is in listening to the native tutor speak. The speaking/listening comprehension portion of language learning is the hardest. When you do pattern matching with Duolingo you're missing out on some of that vital ear training that happens listening to native speakers -- that's why immersion works so well.

So I find it's still best to find someone who is a native speaker, has a language teaching certificate/degree, and to go from there. They'll spot your weaknesses and help you navigate them all while providing a customized ramp, for your learning speed, of all the language's components. Duolingo might spend two weeks on a verb tense that you understood right away or fly over some pronouns that you struggled integrating. This whole time you'll be picking up word choice, intonation, rhythm of speaking from the native tutor that will expedite your usage of the language conversationally.

What I learned in a year on Duolingo I picked up in a month of in-person non-native tutor sessions. What I learned in a year of non-native tutor sessions I picked up in a month of conversations with natives through apps like preply/italki. I wish I would've just started with preply/italki and been thrown to the wolves. Likely would've been speaking (not fluently) the languages I've learned in months instead of years.

I am pretty sure apps can do this as well. Have noticed hotel apps doing it in Las Vegas and elsewhere. Adding in a Wi-Fi network that is to aid in connecting. Threw me for a loop when I was there last.

I adore that book. I finally got to read it in Italian this year and was so happy to find that the English translation I'd initially read so well conveyed Calvino's playfulness in that book.

Italo Calvino was a part of Oulipo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo), a group of French and Italian writers and mathematicians who would purposefully invent constrained writing techniques for fun. One was that you could only use the language from McDonald's ads to tell a story. Another was an entire 300 page novel written without the letter e. They very much were having a laugh and enjoying the playfulness of language as a group.

Actually yes it does. 3rd party app stores is where the majority of Android malware comes from. The vast majority of mobile malware is all Android for this reason. Whenever I need low hanging fruit for mobile malware analysis it’s always start at a third party Android App Store. It’s a dumpster fire.

iOS’ advantage is it’s walled garden. It’s a place where a lot of trust is curated for the nontechnical. This evaporates that.

What appears good for the highly technical is not always good for the user.

We can’t be expecting grandmothers to check signatures, ensure an app has certificates pinned, trust that a company won’t let its update domains lapse, and understand public key crypto to set up their GPG keys for a messaging alternative much less handle them properly. Hell I’ve had senior engineers send me their private GPG key when requesting their public key.

Golang binaries are had to analyze (or rather were, new tooling, etc). Assume vendors and automation are 5 years behind everyone else actually doing malware analysis by hand. Most of this blocking is probably running off of signatures and not behavior.