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I appreciate the mention of FSNotes (and in turn textbundle). Somehow, despite trying tons of note taking apps and formats, I don't remember ever coming across mention of this format specifically.

http://textbundle.org/

My biggest beef with org mode and all of the markdown apps I've tried is the asset management problem. For me screenshots are almost as important as the text part of the note, and are usually strongly tied to a single note. I've taken to using apple notes at work just because it "solves" that well enough, but I'd really prefer to work in markdown/plain text (except for the images).

Interesting perspective.

Though, I'd argue it should be 18 years free by their math. They lump a subset of leisure activities into another category as if those are beyond your easy control.

Commuting, working, grooming, etc - sure, you could optimize those, but it's harder to deviate from the norm. But TV/video games? Doesn't seem like the same discussion.

This is a fun blast from the past. One of my first real programming experiences was working as a (the) programmer on a MUD and I remember learning about this technique somewhere (I think just reading about how forking worked) and then figuring out how to implement it on our MUD.

It felt absolutely magical to be able to hot deploy changes without kicking everyone off of the server - but felt even more magical to have gotten it to work.

The MUD community was a fun early introduction to open source. People (many of them probably "kids" like I was at the time) sharing various patches and features. It felt so cool to release something and have other people use it and provide feedback. Like the author says - at some point the MUD itself became a lot less interesting than the programming.

Smart Connections[0] plug-in for Obsidian is worth checking out.

It does a really good job of indexing (with local or OpenAI embeddings) and RAG allowing you to chat with various models about your notes. The chunking and context algorithms it uses seem to be well designed and find most/all relevant details for most things I try to discuss.

It's well implemented and provides useful and interesting discussions with my journal/notes.

0 - https://github.com/brianpetro/obsidian-smart-connections

Redirects to Pixel watch for Android user agents.

That has the problem of opening up an attack where the attacker requests the sign-in link, the person receiving the link blindly clicks it, and the attacker now has access.

People blindly click links all the time. It would have a low success rate, but would be more than 0%.

I can't tell yet if I'll actually end up using this in practice, but it's pretty well implemented.

The memo is stored as another email in the "Memos" folder as a reply to the message being memoed, so the data will be backed up naturally by any email backup and does show up, in a sort-of-awkward way, in other non-Fastmail mail clients.

In the Fastmail client, the memo shows up, highlighted, in the message list before the normal message snippet, and at the top of the message when you edit the message.

Seems pretty well thought-out.

It's just an anecdote, but from my one-time experience the 90 days restriction isn't a hard restriction with TMobile. Service worked fine for 5 months for a family member abroad (in a single country) with no issues or messaging from TMobile about an overstay - although this was on a family plan with other phones in the US for the majority of that time.

I'll absolutely reference an issue number in a comment (with some context comments as well) in cases where it makes sense.

Sometimes you need to go back and read through a lot of context understanding why a block of code does what it does, and it's a lot more efficient for the rest of the time to have a quick reference to the full explanation rather than pages of comments giving that context.

Thanks for the hint about `--intent-to-add` / `-N`.

There's constantly new things to learn about git. I use `git add -p` extensively, but never thought to check for an option like that.

Re: T-Mobile - On United you can just set your laptop user agent to a mobile one and sign on with your phone number. Works fine for both the short period and full flight options.

Looks to be this rider - Eugène Christophe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Christophe

I enjoyed this show about feeding the tour riders:

Eat. Race. Win. https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Race-Win-Season-1/dp/B086HVQ5RB

Related, Unchained (https://www.netflix.com/title/81153133) has been an interesting view into the race although food isn't discussed at all.

Before Eat. Race. Win. I had this entirely uninformed idea the food the riders ate would be incredibly streamlined and controlled - I was thinking something like Soylent and protein powder and supplements. To see them chowing down on "normal" food and drinking alcohol (at all) was surprising for me.

Your "join" page is a little UX uncomfortable. Middle click doesn't work for the description or apply link (just loads the whole join page again), and the apply expands/embeds the greenhouse.io page (in a narrow column) instead of opening it in a new window.

Related - this might be helpful to someone.

ImageMagick can do a visual PDF compare:

    magick compare -density "$DENSITY" -background white "$1[0]" "$2[0]" "$TMP"

You need to do some work to support multiple pages, so I use this script:

https://gist.github.com/mbafford/7e6f3bef20fc220f68e467589bb...

This also uses `imgcat` to show the difference directly in the terminal.

You can also use ImageMagick get a perceptual hash difference using something like:

    convert -metric phash "$1" null: "$2" -compose Difference -layers composite -format '%[fx:mean]\n' info:

    [diff "pdf"]
        command = ~/bin/git-diff-pdf

    *.pdf binary diff=pdf

To use this custom diff with `git show`, you need to add an extra argument (`git show --ext-diff`), but it uses it automatically if running `git diff`.

I use some custom tools for PDF comparison (visual, textual, and perceptual hash) for my personal records/accounting purposes.

A number of the financial and medical institutions I deal with re-generate PDFs every time you request them, but the content is 99-100% identical. Sometimes just a date changes. So I use a perceptual hash and content comparison to automate detecting truly new documents vs. ones that are only slightly changed.

Bolt will cool itself, but it does so more aggressively when plugged in (even if not actively charging). I always leave our EVs plugged in when it's over about 80F and below freezing because of that.

My 2021 is complaining loudly (running the cooling system) about the heat-wave today.

If you're using AWS ElasticBeanstalk Tomcat distribution, 21 isn't supported yet. I realize this isn't a huge segment of the market, but it's probably not the only example.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/platform...

21 is supported for Amazon Linux 2023 and the JavaSE ElasticBeanstalk offering, though.

They don't (on iTerm2), which makes this of fairly limited utility for me, since my next operation would be to copy the filename and act on it.

I mainly use a modified version of iTerm2's imgcat script for browsing images (remotely through SSH and locally) and knowing the filename.

This lsix tool is faster than my imgcat based script, though, so it looks like I have some room for tweaking/improving.

Mine (with Hammerspoon) are:

- Left half / right half - full vertical

- Move to monitor 1 or 2

- Bottom half / top half - full width

- Center 2/3 wide, full vertical (for the ultra-wide screen and reading)

Also have shortcuts for launching or switching to certain key applications (Firefox, IntelliJ, Terminal).

These + normal window switching keybinds are so integral to my workflow I definitely feel out of sorts if using a machine they aren't on.

I wish you could turn off auto-play when watching a video from a playlist. The general auto-play option doesn't have any impact on playlists.

Agreed. Google Sheets is a great scrappy option for a startup / small company.

I've used it for a lot of system data that needs to be modified by a few people at most. With a little bit of careful code and caching (I like validating and syncing to S3) you can easily use it as a crud frontend for important system data.

It also can make great adhoc dashboards - plug into APIs (even private ones if you add in custom Google Scripts code) or push data updates to the sheets. I've had rather large reports auto updated on a schedule with multiple views of the data (pivot tables, queries, lookups, etc). Fully focused customized views into the data needed to solve specific internal problems with really quick delivery times.

Sure, a custom developed option should be substantially better than Google Sheets, but you won't develop it quicker. By the time you actually need something bigger/better, you should be at a place where your needs are better defined and you can afford the resources to develop something better.

Not knocking the tool, just an alternative for people who might not be aware.

GNU date almost does the same as their examples:

    date -Is -ud 'today'    --> 2024-04-12T14:04:08+00:00
    date -Is -ud 'tomorrow' --> 2024-04-13T14:04:08+00:00
    date -Is -ud '2 day'    --> 2024-04-14T14:04:08+00:00
    date -Is -ud '9 week'   --> 2024-06-14T14:04:08+00:00
    date -Is -ud '1 month'  --> 2024-05-12T14:04:08+00:00

    date -Is -ud '2024-04-10T13:31:46+04:00'     --> 2024-04-10T09:31:46+00:00
    date -Is -ud 'Wed, 14 Feb 2024 23:16:09 GMT' --> 2024-02-14T23:16:09+00:00

    date -ud '1 month' +'%FT%TTZ' --> 2024-05-12T14:13:22TZ

By "atom boxes", are you referring to the ATOM Echo or something else?

https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/thirteen-usd-voi...

https://shop.m5stack.com/products/atom-echo-smart-speaker-de...

SimpleDB still works for my company's AWS account. There's been no announcement of a shutdown that I've seen (and I check occasionally since it's almost entirely disappeared from most of AWS's documentation).

I rented in 2015 and it was an experience.

I had to turn down the first car due to non-functioning wipers and a broken door handle.

Ended up with a Subaru Forester that had definitely seen a lot of miles and had its share of minor issues, but was a beast in the surprise blizzard.

Shame if they pivoted but their office was a pain to deal with and last thing you want after a red-eye is to be worried about the car maybe not actually working properly. Decided next time we'd just rent from a more established brand.

From their FAQ:

However, we decided to use the name to make it more memorable as our cars used to be older in the beginning but it's been many years since we stopped using old cars and now all our cars are new, or one or two years old

My understanding is the Bacillus cereus spores aren't guaranteed to be entirely killed off in typical rice cooking times (also, 30-45 minutes boiling seems long for cooking even 4 cups of rice in my rice cooker). If not killed, the remaining spores become a problem.

The contamination (spores) come in the rice you buy.

Convenience.

In our house plain rice is a staple eaten with almost every meal and often associated with non-time-intensive meal prep (like reheating leftovers or eaten with eggs and some other toppings). So we like being able to start the rice and walk away.

Using our rice cooker makes "making rice" a 1 minute labor effort with absolutely no monitoring needed. You can't burn it. You're welcome to forget about it. You can barely mess it up.

In our case the rice maker is a 25 year old simple magnet kind. Not one of the expensive pressure cookers. This style of rice maker can be bought for as little as ~$30 and is super-convenient if you eat a lot of rice. Just don't get the non-stick pots if you buy one - they aren't needed and they don't last for more than a couple of years.

I like the new UI as well. There's always a learning curve, but after using it for months I haven't found any reason to switch back.

ctrl+ctrl is "run anything" (I tend to use ctrl+alt+r for the different but similar run menu instead).

I think what you want is "Actions" - which is default to "shift shift" and then click on a tab, or (ctrl/cmd)+shift+a to jump directly to that tab.

For me, Perl hit me at exactly the right time in my development. One or more of the various O'Reilly Perl books caught my attention in the bookstore, the foreword and the writing style was unlike anything else I'd read in programming up to that point, and I read the book and just felt a strong connection to how the language was structured, the design concepts behind it, the power of regex being built in to the language, etc. The syntax favored easy to write programs without unnecessary scaffolding (of course, leading to the jokes of it being write-only - also the jokes I could make about me programming largely in Java today), and the standard functionality plus the library set available felt like magic to me at that point.

Learning Perl today would be a very different experience. I don't think it would catch me as readily as it did back then. But it doesn't matter - it's embedded into me at a deep level because I learned it through a strong drive of fascination and infatuation.

As for the regex themselves? It's powerful and solved a lot of the problems I was trying to solve, was built fundamentally into Perl as a language, so learning it was just an easy iterative process. It didn't hurt that the particular period of time when I learned Perl/regex the community was really big on "leetcode" style exercises, they just happened to be focused around Perl Golf, being clever in how you wrote solutions to arbitrary problems, and abusive levels of regex to solve problems. We were all playing and play is a great way to learn.