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This has me thinking that fiber optic drones using this technology might be able to discover the location of signal-jamming equipment. But only for the good guys.

This does look better! :)

Not that the author needs my defense, but that image says to me, 'hey, I'm just a guy who wrote a book and there's no budget for art' -- which fits a DIY aesthetic in 2026

I bought an N100 mini that looks just like the Ars picture, but it's branded from Beelink as an S12Pro -- it does all of this and more. Mine is in the living room with the HDMI attached to my TV, but I RDP into it for most things. I installed WSL and and initially ran Plex from Docker, but switched to Windows native as it is simpler to setup and maintain.

Middle class is shrinking; people in tighter economic situations can't afford hobbies?

It's an interesting history, better explained here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_equal_temperament but in short, prior tuning systems were more mathematically correct, but an instrument would be tuned for a particular key and playing in other keys would sound (to us, anyway) like the instrument was out of tune.

Seems possible from the technical side, but not so sure about the money part. if I'm following you correctly, XYZ.com would have shown an ad on their site and received, say 1 cent. With your service running, you visit XYZ.com, ad is replaced by a white box, and they receive, let's say 2 cents? If so, seems like efficient microtransactions will be a challenge.

There's a way to work in such an environment and not go crazy, but it will take time to get used to it. Think of it system with big asynchronous methods. You need to arrange your work to put in the slow running requests early, then focus on other things while waiting.

My nicer one is in the living room for end of the day games and such, but my older one is an always-on weather display.

I see agile as the problem here. Before agile, I would essentially 'own' pieces of the code, so I was committed to making it maintainable. Now, it's all just pieces and parts, and I'm not responsible for nearly as much, which make me fungible, and in general is dispiriting.

As a side note, I question the author's appeal to Marx as an authority.

Well, it's 8 bigger, isn't it?

I would have though SAG-AFTRA require all on-screen talent to be paid.

Age of the infected population?

Do you have some reason to believe that meat is healthier, or is this speculation?

The article provided some good examples of times when code readability can be increased without a bulky switch statement. However, there are times when I find the switch statement most closely communicates the idea of what needs to occur to some developer in the future.

tldr: legalizing video gambling has brought in additional revenue, but not as much as expected. Illinois borrowed money in advance based on the expected rates.

I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

There's no one-size-fits-all for programming. FWIW, I can recall a project where one piece was built visually (SSIS) and I enjoyed working with it.

I would be in favor of software that makes it easy to pre-vote. Then, when I go to my polling place I could quickly print, review and submit my votes. Where I vote the process is tediously manual. If we could get, say half the voters in and out quickly, there would be more time for the election commissioners to assist everyone else.

Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT2EiLG4Mrg

Someone correct me here, but as I understand it, the torrent file itself is not the content. It is metadata about the content, and thus it can be shared without copyright violation. Using the torrent file, on the other hand, might very well be illegal.

When friends try to pitch me on their million-dollar ideas, I feel that I have a much better ability to estimate the size and scope. So instead of starting construction, I'm more likely to say something like '3 full-time devs working 6 months for a solid prototype, another 6 months for something that could be released' -- who's paying for all of this?

YouTube video that includes a trial run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwCPeIwumgc

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Have you tried 'hypermiling'? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy-efficient_driving

Trello -- I keep a list for all active projects, and drop a card on each list when something changes. Allows for a quick scan to see where I'm with each of my projects.

Not a doctor either, but early stage cancers are characterized by local tumors, and are often treatable. Late stage cancers involve the cancer cells spreading throughout the body and many tumor in multiple organs.

They don't have to be perfect -- they just have to fail less often than current technology.

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As I understand it, these cars were designed with a simplified system for maintaining low emissions that used fewer parts. Evidently, software can allow the system to pass the emission test but at a significant loss of power.