Guest Post from an Iranian The following guest post was written by a Shtetl-Optimized fan in Iran, who’s choosing to remain anonymous for obvious reasons. I’m in awe of the courage of this individual and the millions of other Iranians who’ve risked or, tragically, sacrificed their lives these past few weeks, to stand for something

Automatic programming In my YouTube channel, for some time now I started to refer to the process of writing software using AI assistance (soon to become just “the process of writing software”, I believe) with the term “Automatic Programming”. In case you didn’t notice, automatic programming produces vastly different results with the same

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Ode to the AA Battery Recently this post from @Merocle caught my eye: I’m fixing my iFixit soldering station. I haven’t used it for a long time and the battery has gone overdischarge. I hope it will come back to life. Unfortunately, there are no replacements available for sale at the moment. Devices with built-in rechargeable batteries

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Recapping My 5 Year Old Studio Monitors A few weeks ago, I started hearing a slight crackle at the loudest parts of whenever sound was playing through my PreSonus Eris E3.5 speakers. It was very faint, but quite annoying, especially when editing my YouTube videos. For a few days I thought it could be a hearing problem (at

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On thugs Those of us who tried to stop Trump from ever coming to power—and who then tried to stop his return to power—were accused of hysterics, of Trump Derangement Syndrome, when we talked about authoritarianism and the death of liberal democracy. Yet masked government agents summarily executing protesters in the street,

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