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Any practical use cases come to mind? Could you actually interact from Excel cells with Linux userspace, e.g. running a cell's value through a bash script as if applying a formula?

Does it scale for large monorepos? That's where CMake hits its limits. With tremendous effort we switched to Bazel, which has brought down configure+build times to less than 1/10.

Haha, true. I just recently wanted to make a quick and dirty page that would calculate the middle point of a bunch of coordinates and then show it on a map. After contemplating how to get started I remembered that the server is running mod_php. 10 mins later and the (ugly as heck) page was working. The map stuff was client-side JavaScript from GitHub, the coordinate calculation were less than a screen page of PHP (of which most was HTML and CSS).

My little Xmas project: Using BOINC client, nvidia-smi and a little bit of Python to turn my PC into a space heater, putting "free" electricity to good use.

I had that working for the last year or so, for the exact same reason. But for a few weeks now my wine'd Chrome can no longer access any page, as if it can't access the network or something. Tried reinstalling it, but that didn't help either. Any ideas?

Internet is technology. It's a blurry line... When mine come up with creative ways to circumvent Internet access restrictions (e.g. use mobile phone as hotspot for the laptop, because for that I had set a limited time window in the router) I'm happy to see a future hacker on one hand, and really pissed on the other hand because I seem to have ended up in an arms race.

Love it so far, but I have some big questions regarding mobile experience and downsampling... maybe I'm just using it wrong?

I believe the introvert/extrovert divide also plays a role here. Some people in general can't be alone or they feel their energy is draining (extroverts), whereas others - I guess those who love to dine alone - feel their batteries recharged during alone time.

Looks like his not-a-journalist just tries to sell his book.

I like the article. The architecture bit I'm not so sure about though. I wish in my company the architects actually did more thinking and especially talking / negotiating with all the other architects of adjacent components. That would really help. Instead they work hard to fix minor problems and build walls in between the components... or yet another middleware-generator-middleware-wrapper.

Wow, it's still alive. I remember when, as a student, I ran the shared apartment's DSL Router with fli4l from a floppy disk in a Pentium 90 for a while. I think the Internet connection was 768kbit/s downlink and we considered it decently fast... 2003-ish.

I think this paper was actually written by a narcissistic bot.

Haha, the memories :D nicely done.

Jesus quotes Göring in English in relation to a Russian war. Globalization prevails.

Heh, I've grown up with exactly these racks... Countless of hours hanging clothes on these. ;)

Except when restarting the services that rely on the certificate doesn't work reliably... but yeah, needs to be automated.

Nice write-up :) I'll probably adopt some of these fancy new tools like nginx or munin (that you call old) some day... still running good old Apache + php, postfix, dovecot, irssi, ... I think my box (in its various reincarnations, first as dedicated server, then as VM on a bigger dedicated server that I shared with friends, and now as cloud VM) has been running since ~2005. Now I feel old ;)

It would be interesting to have an estimate of the energy consumed (globally) by this Chrome/Chromium feature...

I ordered more Nespresso capsules during the last four months than I had during the last four years.

A motorcycle. Gave/gives me tons of fun, quality "alone" time, new friends.

Take into account an overwhelmed health system and you will understand that the "spreading out over time" itself is in fact what is saving many lives.

Some true points mixed in with a load of bullshit.

Agreed. And just checked - my Samsung Galaxy S8 is vulnerable, no update available. Thanks Samsung!

This one will get nasty...

As a person who has lived in China for nearly a decade, I have experienced racism first hand there. But actually it was, 99% of the time, racism that favored my white skin. Wherever I (or any other white foreigner I know) went, I had instant respect and was admired, without having to do anything to earn that respect. Why does the article, which seems well-researched, not mention this phenomenon at all?

(Or maybe I've missed it, I've only read the summary and a few paragraphs that contained the term "white")

postfix (SMTP), dovecot (IMAP), davical (CardDAV for addresses, CalDAV for calendars) have been working well for me for more than five years.

I experienced blacklisting when I switched to a newer dedicated server hardware recently, which meant new IP addresses. The only mail server that didn't accept mails from my new addresses was Hotmail / Outlook.com though. It was fixed after filling in their form and waiting a day. Never had trouble with Gmail.

Volume up + T = Tab

Volume down + C = Ctrl-C

It's not ideal but works.

This is cool.

I guess with high density QR codes, a decent display and a good cam you could transfer a megabyte or more in a minute :D If both devices have front facing cameras, such as smartphones, you could even have a real-time back channel (duplex), and the receiving device could signal the sending device that a certain "frame" got lost and needs to be retransmitted.

This is great explaining, very neat, thanks! I'll definitely link to it from time to time when friends or colleagues don't grasp the basics of capturing images and colour processing.

Wikidata is a good example where "semantic web technology" is really useful, imo.

http://www.wikidata.org

Hmm, now it seems to no longer be working anymore. But about 3 hours ago I updated a couple of Apps from the Play Store on my Unicom 3G connection, and used Google at home on my China Telecom DSL. Probably some GFW admin wanted to update his Android phone, and then turned the lights off again...