I tried to hand-solder a Hirose .35-pitch connector onto a custom OSHPark board once. Let’s just say it was a humbling experience. Thanks to a generous friend, I learned the value of solder masks and owning a home reflow oven.

Respect to whoever can do this sort of thing, but life is too damn short and my eyesight and hands don’t need the abuse.

How you solder those without dropping a blob and causing a short is a mystery.

NFTs will keep their value forever…

Seeing all these comments on use of ACs… what happens if it cumulatively overloads the grid and you get blackouts?

Is there a Plan B?

'Last thing I remember

I was running for the door

I had to find the passage back to the place I was before

“Relax,” said the night man

"We are programmed to receive

You can check-out any time you like

But you can never leave!"’

On the Mac, I can run MacOS, BSD Unix, and via VMware, Windows and Ubuntu.

On phone/tablet, I can build an app that works on every mobile device of that class shipped in the last 6 years.

On Windows and Android, I have to test apps across a massive combination of features, and even then, there are some with strange configurations that will break the app.

They’re propping each other up.

All 418 error codes. We good.

Downloadable topo maps for a Mac? How are you supposed to view them while hiking? 🤔

Remembering ActiveX Controls, the Web’s Biggest Mistake: https://www.howtogeek.com/717016/remembering-activex-controls-the-webs-biggest-mistake/

That was amazing! Watched the video with my Trackmania-crazy kid. I’ve played it a few times but I’m total crap at it. We couldn’t peel our eyes off the action. The first external shot of the track shows how insanely difficult it was going to be.

This is as useful as polling relatives on whether a couple should go through with a divorce.

Trying to Sherlock 1Passwd a second time? They tried it with iCloud passwords and it didn’t work.

Live and learn, kids.

Edit: To be clear, 1Passwd survived by:

• Going cross-platform
• Family plan (including family-shared vaults)
• Enterprise
• Bundling and partnering (with the likes of Eero)

They had the know-how, people, and money to pull it off. Not every indie app getting Sherlocked can do that.

If using pyenv to support multiple python versions, when creating venvs, make sure to pass --copies to it.

% python3 -m venv venv --copies

Ordinarily, venv uses symbolic links back to the current version of the python binary. A lot of tools and IDEs don’t traverse symbolic links. That flag actually copies the real binaries over to the venv.

This avoids a metric ton of hard-to-diagnose misery later on.

When mathematicians switch to psychology.

That is actually kind of brilliant. Having to go through MFi and getting the Apple DRM chip into the manufacturing pipeline can be a real pain (and expensive).

With this scheme, they could also run all the wired on/off and volume control actions through Bluetooth AVRCP. Even have a Mic on the wire, so if a call comes in, switch to HFP to talk/manage the call.

Damn, that’s clever. Hats off to whoever came up with it.

Incidentally, there’s very little Apple can do to make this stop, unless they decide to break Bluetooth and third-party accessories.

“It also includes optimized support for Raspberry Pi SBCs to deliver enhanced performance and compatibility.”

How to give land more votes than people. Not long before election results are measured in number of acres.

Have you looked into the suid bit? You can set it on the file, then change the script owner to root and it runs in elevated mode: https://linuxhandbook.com/suid-sgid-sticky-bit/