Your credit/debit cards use batteries?

Related: My European bank will ask if I actually need the plastic physical card, and unless I do, they'll just issue a virtual card to load into my phone/smartwatch.

There is a link to a product home page...

Is there? I scrolled through the readme 4 times looking for one and couldn't find it.

It is in the "About" section of the repo. https://shelf.nu

Looking at your comments it feels like your employer could identify you. A friendly reminder to be aware of that.

It's not just the thermal paste that goes. There are more parts that are affected by the constant heat. Capacitors in the first place

Yeah, electrolytic capacitors derate due to time under load, exponentialy accelerated by temperature increases.

I'm using this one [0] for quite some time. Works like a charm. Ideal for gaming/work stations switching. Quite expensive though.

[0] https://kvm-switch.de/de/AP-552PSK.html

There are a lot of projects that were handed to Apache to manage. Kafka for example was initially created by LinkedIn. So yeah, you are right, big corps are actually creating those tools, and in addition to this, giving it away as open source to public.

Best part is that the tools are put into production before being open-sourced. In other words, they actually work.

It is ticker symbols of their stocks in the market.

Oh help, you can't be serious that he uses those on purpose.

It's a neat trick: it emphasizes that they are amoral companies required to do nothing but make money, and simultaneously that they're only companies like the thousands of other gyrating tickers on the stock market. This same author frequently uses the term "Microsoft Github".

Thank you, it's framing. Now that makes sense.

It's a quite common practice to refer to companies by their ticker symbols. I see it all the time and it has never struck me as odd or noteworthy.

I've never seen it before.

Does that help create credibility in some circles?

Bisqwit is neither russian (afaik he is from Finland) nor long-haired

Yes, he is Finnish: https://bisqwit.iki.fi/cv.html

Does HN counts?

He said building from source, not using an already built version. For that you need babel.

You're right. Sorry I misunderstood.

Typescript is compiled with tsc, not Babel. The npm package includes built Js and original ts