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postoplust··on Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
Categorization and taxonomy for "little thingies": The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group - A Database of Synthetic Taxonomy <https://www.horg.com/horg/?page_id=2936>
postoplust··on Europe's fires are just the start
http://archive.today/o61rE
postoplust··on A Written Language for the Cherokee So Efficient It Was Thought to Be Magic
> Eventually, he hit on 86 syllables that expressed specific sounds, each syllable represented by symbols borrowed from Greek, Hebrew and English. Later reduced to 85 symbols...

Maybe the symbols themselves aren't new.

postoplust··on Eat Real Food
Indeed, chickpeas don't supply sufficient essential amino acids[1]. But sesame is[2] and goes well with chickpea! See falafel or hummus.

[1]: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114512000797

[2]: https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14194079

postoplust··on Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones
Site seems down, try https://archive.is/gW1rO
postoplust··on Why 90s Movies Feel More Alive Than Anything on Netflix
https://www.pcmag.com/news/netflix-is-telling-writers-to-dum... (https://archive.is/RE0pz)

> Amid a push to perfect 'casual viewing,' creatives say streaming execs are requiring them to remove nuance and visual cues, and do things like announce when characters enter a room.

postoplust··on CLI tool to check the Git status of multiple projects
Also see https://github.com/fboender/multi-git-status which I've used happily for a few years.

It's a shell script (#!sh) and therefore easy as copy/paste to install.

postoplust··on Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last forever
For example: IPFS URI's are content addresses

https://docs.ipfs.tech/

postoplust··on Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline
If TikTok turned out to be State sponsored spyware, would you reconsider?

I support your slippery slope argument. I wonder where your red line is relative to "state sponsored spyware" and "typical advertising ID tracking" or "cool new app from company influenced by an adversarial super power".

postoplust··on Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers
mid-block crosswalks exist[1] and can placed where people already "jaywalk". To me it's like installing sidewalks on the desire paths[2].

[1]: https://sustainablecitycode.org/brief/mid-block-pedestrian-c...

[2]: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/least-resistance-desi...

postoplust··on Debugging Python with VS Code
this is timely and useful to me -- thanks for sharing

debugging with this method is much nicer than my previously methods: lots of `logging.debug(f"{my_list}")` and parsing pytest output

postoplust··on Diátaxis – A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring
I use and highly recommend this framework as the starting point for any technical documentation. It helped me learn how to keep the detailed technical explanations out of the how-to documents. Before I learned of Diataxis, my how-to docs were much longer and hard to follow when things go right (because I had lots of, "if this doesn't work, investigate A, B, C...").
postoplust··on Yes, it ‘looks like a duck,’ but carriers like the new USPS mail truck
The seat height in the banner image looks too tall for the mailboxes. I wonder how the seat height in the NGDV compares to the Grumman LLV.
postoplust··on Poisoning the Day
(not OP) Yes, the quoted strategy is from The 4-Hour Workweek (Ferriss 2007)
postoplust··on How the square root of 2 became a number
That's also the definition given in the article, attributed to Richard Dedekind.
postoplust··on Tom 7: Badness 0 (Three ways)
> Hard Mode: Any revealed hints must be used in subsequent guesses

As implemented, hard mode doesn't count gray letters (letters nowhere in the solution) as hints. You're allowed to reuse gray letters, but true hard mode should prevent that.

postoplust··on Introducing Lock and Key: A New Measure to Secure Subscriber Accounts
> Lock & Key references stolen username/password lists shared publicly on the internet and cross checks them against your account.

Does this mean they don't salt stored passwords, or they're testing compromised passwords with all stored salts?