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Why not just use a large ramdisk as fake drive space? Plenty of commodity servers can handle over 256gb of ram

Yes - sorry to be clear she had already transitioned before working at the company

Interestingly I once hired a trans person who, had converted to the other gender, sorry I don't really know the terminology. She was extremely proficient at her job (CSS/JS/Frontend) an…

Well, that's a weird take on things for being a member of a voluntary group activity at school. I certainly wouldn't want someone to be banned from school, expelled or given detention based …

100 years ago there were many routes! I hate that the rails have failed, taking a train between Philly, Reading, Allentown, and Scranton makes so much sense!

Yeah obd was standardized by like, 97? However there were multiple diagnostic systems that predated it. OBD will send data, all sorts, as its used primarily for pulling codes and doing emissions testi…

> I think it's fair to say cars today are packed with more and more full blown cpus since 2010 onwards ISO standardized the CANbus, which is a networked message-based protocol for components t…

That's an extremely bad take. Cars have had and shared ICs since they became mainstream. Bosch shared electronics between Volvo, Saab, Porsche even BMW bikes as far back as the 80s. Often times p…

You're gonna be shocked when you find out McCarthy was actually right about a bunch of infiltrators...

Or different styles of learning! Some languages are really good in situ for debugging and solving problems, some are more opaque and require looking things up. Also 'brown' languages being o…

I got knock off ones. Yeah, they nice. I lost them in about 3 weeks. First one bud, then the other. Shame but I'm 5 years into my Bose over ears and I don't think I'll lose them.

You might want a newer model flash board, I think they're pretty reliable these days I want (which does exist) A classic, with a 2T drive, with a supersized battery (10x the original) and bluetoo…

aren't these things just dehumidifiers?

I do see this more often in UTF8 native platforms. arr1 and arr2 might use subscripts for 1 and 2 with no side effect on plan9. Why use "delta" when writing a delta symbol is so easy?

Just wondering, do you think automatic machine guns are easy to acquire in the states?

fortunate son plays over the sound of helicopters Narrator: we were In Country, 1972....

Buy old laptops and routinely test on them. We keep a lot of old devices around solely as test devices

Crypto exists because bad actors exist. The same reason Americans own guns.

Fastmail is not for sending bulk newsletter email. There is a pretty sweet product we have called Topicbox which is a take on mailing lists for organizations, but for bulk sending I would recommend ta…

On recent droids this works surprisingly well. I have a keyboard in my bag instead of my laptop now.

Most cost is producing content, not hosting.

Firefox does support no script on mobile! It's great

alias undo=mv $2 $1

By the time you check if the image is 1x1, you've already downloaded it. The alternative expensive solution is to download EVERY image a user receives and store it indefinitely. That way the trac…

As a Unix person, aren't dates just number? Why is sort complex? Just parse input and render timestamps

Sometimes. In Philly there's a LOT of land. Let's get more rehabbed neighborhoods and less new condos near nice areas.

How about the treasure trove that was geocities?

yes, she does