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As the icons progress to the left, identification increasingly depends on colour and shape. Since there are a limited number of colours and shapes, they tend to get reused. This in…

The article contains no actual information. Complete waste of time.

Requires MacOS 15 or later, so it won't run on my machine. Does it really require MacOS 15, or have you just joined Apple in destroying the planet with relentless unnecessary upgra…

Well, just use your USB spectrometer, of course. ...you do have a USB spectrometer, don't you? I have mine in my bedside drawer. I use it almost as often as my multimeter.

I thought I was having a stroke while reading that, and then I realized it was just AI slop.

Not really from scratch if it uses the SDL2 library. I'd try it if I had the first clue how to resolve this dependency without obtaining a university degree in the subject. Or if t…

Can it do anything useful? From the prompts it looks like a learning exercise only that can generate nonsense for toddlers. I get that it is a learning exercise, but I find learnin…

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Segfault at start on 14.7.7.

Or, and follow me for a minute here, what if everything people tell each other without supporting evidence is just nonsense, particularly when it is self-aggrandizing and intended …

It won't run on a MacBook Air M1 running Sonoma. Only Tahoe. Come along with me! We'll destroy the planet so fast that we'll all be cinders before you know it. All we have to do is…

How unfortunate that the first line of that article contains a racial slur. Does the race of the pickpocket make any difference? You may not realize that the Romani were victimized…

Once again, this is fantastic news for mice!

Summary: Since we cannot possibly accept the actions of the pilot in the context of our worldview, we must find some alternative, no matter how improbable.

You can improve the effectiveness and professionalism of your communication by spelling out initialisms the first time you use them, like this: high-bandwidth memory (HBM). After y…

Because big-budget films and TV are increasingly fascist. They focus on the nuclear family as being qualitatively and quantitatively more important than anything else. Within that …

We got an entire article without a single video or photo of the "drones"? Great journalism there, Cowboy State Daily. The core problem here is that too many Americans believe that …

Not only the title, but the entire article, and every reference that pops up in a search, fails to explain the initialism "CTF". This is pure gatekeeping by immature little boys in…

The problem with the Karen Wetterhahn story is that we have no evidence to back up the exposure. Sure, months after the alleged event we have high mercury levels. But we only have …

I thought, "That sounds like an interesting book." And then I read the precis on Wikipedia. Humans. Everything has to be a fucking competition. Turned me right off reading it. This…

Tim Cook has been absolutely fantastic for Apple shareholders and absolutely awful for anyone else, particularly the customers. The walled garden has to end. There is no excuse for…

The association is undiminshed by their web server being down. Uh oh.

To all the parents defending this: you are responsible for your children and what they do. Passing laws that affect all of us because you are too lazy and ineffectual to raise your…

Oh, no! Not Cell Lung Cancer! Oh, No. It's Not-Small Cell lung cancer. Ya missed a bit. Title doesn't make the slightest amount of sense without it.

You can make your communication more professional by spelling out initialisms the first time you use them and then following them with the initialism in brackets. Like this: garbag…