I'm fully with you on this philosophy.

But the "make review easy" part is one where I'm failing (a bit) to keep up, I feel.

Also, what does "a final pass" look like to you? E.g. if a PR is 3000 lines... I'd guess one approach is enforce smaller PRs. I've opened a few, looked at the line count, and closed them, to be redone/broken into stacked PRs.

If I'm reviewing a PR that I'm familiar with the plan/work on, my "a final pass" is often just "read and suggest touch-ups of the docs". But that's really just the first step of a "full review" too, so it skips other stuff, and I know that isn't a proper review in the back of my head, but on to the next thing! :|

(Because of several factors including joining a much less mature org git-wise this year, I'm full of internal questions/dilemmas around PRs that I'm working on feasible solves for)

Are USB keyboard devices frequently pwnable?

I guess when we hypothetically get to devices having agents running on them that can figure out what the random attached hardware is, and craft "useful" takeover exploits for those, there will be some interesting adjustments to considerations.

It's a shady computer, assumed in the article to be malicious.

I'm curious if you can elaborate further? Would that make the comparison clearer, or is it just a side-note on your part?

Work (energy) is force times distance. Since we're talking about energy divided by distance, it's actually just average force.

Actually newtons are just a constant factor (3.6) compared to Wh per km, since there are 3600 seconds in a hour while there are 1000 watts in a kilowatt. For example 144 Wh/km (or 14.4 kWh/100 km) would simply be 518 N. This also means that pushing along a Tesla on the highway at constant speed is roughly as hard as holding a 50 kg weight, giving you an intuitive sense of how "hard" it is to keep things moving.

Of course, in everyday life, since we buy electricity from our utilities in kWh rather than joules, it's more convenient to talk about kWh per km (or per mile).

Thanks. Was there a particular reason I'm not grasping for noting that on the comment you replied to? Seems like a comment that could be stated about any comment tackling about energy/distance.

Actually, I guess the comment you replied to was also not really clear in it's point, so I'll blame that guy for maybe diverging from the topic somewhat :)

(not trying to be negative, really! but my brain is a bit fuzzy from being sick, so thus feeling a bit dimwitted as I ponder comments)

Guilty... but also, I think about article up/downvotes an order of magnitude less than I click the links. I wonder what fraction of users do voting without clicking links.

Up voting or down voting without even clicking the link just seems insane to me.

I think the stats on interactions across the board are probably ridiculous though.

I wish for a HN, reddit, etc, where you have to vote and comment to even be served more content.

I've been gradually reading the Digital Antiquarian's series of posts [0] about history of computer games. Many of these feature links to try out these games (I haven't yet gotten to games that were released after I was born)... with user setup required (take this disk image, run it in a Apple II emulator, etc). The history so far has heavily featured text based simple parser adventure games.

This might be the way in which I finally try one of these games out. Though, I'm betting my attention won't last long.

[0] https://www.filfre.net/the-digital-antiquarian-e-book-librar...

I finished all Infocom games during covid (and read all Digital Antiquarian articles since then). Despite being very interested in the games, I knew I wouldn't have energy to literally beat them. So I played with walkthroughs, stopping to examine things and enjoy the scenery, so to speak. There was no challenge, but I still had fun. Somewhat like visiting a museum.

I think Zarf's Visible Zorker implementation of Suspended is the best way to play it. He incorporated the map into the game itself, it's so good.

https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/suspended/

I assume there's NDAs in place with some vendors pre-release, since my understanding is some accessory vendors get the needed info before new models are released, so they can spin up their lines and have accessories ready to go when the new model hits the market.

(but I could be wrong; NDAs w/China? no idea what the time between announced/released/shipped is typically; I last bought Apple product in 2009...)

I've heard that they are busy bribing people in Apple's manufacturers for dimensions before products are released.

My main take in this area is that reading HN/Reddit actively makes it harder to get the business done. Certain phone games seem way better.

My more general hypothesis is that generally reading interesting stuff is too engaging, and the brain needs to relax "just right".

Me too, but there were some replacements that made me happy because they fixed some irk with google's version. (I think I used Commafeed?)

I eventually got away from subscribing to like 50 webcomics (all I used RSS for... most other stuff was too high-volume, and I liked reading everything in my feed, iirc) though and stopped using an RSS feed altogether.

I've been doing some of this too. It's great just messaging claude in discord when I want to make a new device's IP static. I also put my mikrotik config sans passwords in (local only) version control, just in case.

And perhaps it's significantly easier on other routers, but I would not have gotten VLANs working without claude doing it for me...

Regarding the button control, if others are looking for similar, I found that a bluetooth audio control device intended for mounting to motorcycle handlebars (so, water resistant, big buttons) works well while I'm doing dishes to manage audio going to my bluetooth hearing aids.

I'd wondered if something like this existed, wanted it on my last roadtrip. Thanks!