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My wife and I are headed to Japan for three weeks, roughly one week each in Tokyo/Kyoto/Osaka. As someone who loves to tinker on RPi/Arduino and who appreciates niche/quirky/vintage electronics, where do I need to “pay my respects”? Akihabara is on my radar of course but what shops in particular? The literal shrine to the electronics god in Kyoto is also on my radar.

I’ve been a relatively hard-core user of Emacs for a long time now. Recently, I’ve been playing with Neovim due to the great integration that it has with NixOS and for the performance/usability benefits that I perceive it to have in the terminal. I’ve been loving it thus far, but from my experience curating my Emacs configuration over 10 years, I know that there...

I’m in Hanoi for next few weeks. If anyone else is too, would be fun to chat about software, programming languages, philosophy - or jam 🎼 - over a salted coffee. To anyone else reading - I recommend a visit, it’s a fascinating and energetic place! And it has unbelievable numbers of nicely designed coffee shops, open late, to work on your projects.

Hello, Out of curiosity, who are your favorite tech youtubers. Since I love to learn a lot from YouTube.

I always hear from people that the practices and techniques you use to make a software library are different from those you use to make a software application, but I haven’t been able to find a good, comprehensive resource breaking down those differences. Any recs?

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What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.

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I know many of us here have side projects. I’m wondering if there’s a project that you never figured out how to finish. Maybe it requires an non-existent algorithm, or the scope is too large for one person. Despite the barrier, it continues to live rent-free in your brain and you return to it occasionally hoping that you’ll crack it this time. I’m curious...

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

Hi, I am planning a very simplified, domain-specific app serving platform. The deployment will be based on linux containers, but I want users to interact with the platform only via a software library (they don’t need to install docker or set up CI scripts or indeed follow the git flow). So my question to Lobsters is: Is there a service that can build containers...

(I thought I’d ask here rather than stackoverflow or reddit because I trust people here more, but I don’t know if this takes the community in an unwanted direction) My main browser has been Chrome ever since they released that video showing how fast it was (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCgQDjiotG0) (GOD THAT WAS 14 YEARS AGO). In a sudden bout of paranoia I decided to go back...

Why did you start programming, and why did you keep with it? (Promise this isn’t gonna be a regular thing!)

I’ve used Linux my whole life, but I’m still not very good at troubleshooting and recovering from system freezes, distro-specific bugs, and quirks with drivers and suspend. I know some of the basic stuff — Magic SysRq keys (REISUB), dropping to a virtual terminal with Ctrl+Alt+F3, killing processes if it’s an app that’s frozen, grepping dmesg, and purging and re-installing graphics drivers. But I...

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Looking to get advice and additional insights on hosting large language models. I have gathered some preliminary information about several options, including: Lambda Labs - Good for obtaining GPU virtual machines (VM) or purchasing bare metal, however it lacks certain features like automatic web endpoints setup. What are your thoughts on its reliability and suitability for production workloads? Vast AI - Similar to Lambda...

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Would love to hear about the most interesting automation you have created either at work or personal automation. Also what language did you use?