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Absolutely no-one: This capacitor manufacturer: β22nf? β¦ah, you must mean a Twenty Two Thousand Micro Micro Farad capacitorβ Seriously, if youβre able to print ¡¡F and three extra zeros, then just printing β22nFβ is well within your manufacturing capabilities.
pretty good, detailed article how to move on from "agile" and why: https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2019/08/28/agile-and-the-studio-model/#30c379b078de (his previous criticism was good too, argues strongly from what are you handling in your project aka not all software is the same)
βClimate changeβ tricks us into complacency by framing it as slow, diffuse, and maybe not even bad. Call it βclimate crisisβ instead. Reinforce that itβs already hurting everyone and must be addressed now. Use our brainβs flaws for good. Language matters!
This is the first time Iβve seen a suggestion like this appear on my @kdecommunity desktop.
Any sufficiently advanced financial instrument is indistinguishable from fraud. β xthlc, on MetaFilter
HP has a line of laptops named Spectre. I wonder if any of them have...... melted down.
Any sufficiently advanced financial instrument is indistinguishable from fraud. β xthlc, on MetaFilter
Well this is exciting, https://lobste.rs now supports sending webmentions! π¦ If someone submits one of your links, now you'll be immediately notified! Congrats on shipping! π https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/pull/535
Last summer I listened endlessly to Sia, and now the sound of her voice POWERFULLY invokes sunny Sarajevo; the feeling of hanging out by myself in my little flat, making flatbreads and waiting 4 hours for beans to cook in my half-assed kitchen, and feeling very very sad about something. If I'm feeling even a tiny bit fragile, just a couple of seconds of hearing her can make me burst into tears on the spot, from a combination of how I was feeling last summer, and a touch of Sarajevo-homesickness. Doesn't eveβ¦
Reading people arguing about decentralised social web stuff makes me 50-50 want to pick back up my own implementations and make them work, and leave computing forever to hide in a cave. The compromise between these tensions tends to be go back to my day job / pick up a book / go to the beach / make a sandwich.
Reading people arguing about decentralised social web stuff makes me 50-50 want to pick back up my own implementations and make them work, and leave computing forever to hide in a cave. The compromise between these tensions tends to be go back to my day job / pick up a book / go to the beach / make a sandwich.
dudes your settle down / have a family joke is not funny and maybe you didn't realise because you haven't been bombarded your whole life with the idea that this should be your sole purpose for existing but seriously shut the fuck up If at any point you feel like joking about settling down / having a family to someone you know expressly doesn't want to settle down / have a family then take a second and try just not.