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It seems to be one of those "pick any two" jokes, but those usually only have three items on the list. And yet pretty much everything on this list feels mutually exclusive.

"What special sauce do you expect Mozilla to implement that'll suddenly change their fortunes?" XUL extensions maybe? The reason I gave up on Firefox after literally decades of usi…

shrug perverse incentives. For a lot of college students, the actual learning or lack thereof, while still important, does not affect them directly. But getting a bad grade does. D…

"You should measure the satisfaction of the students" OK. Then how do you measure competency? Right now, a medical diploma indicates that the person took all the requisites and pas…

"The current re-emergence of Python as a machine learning/data science languages is basically a new trend" This new trend is about a decade old by now. Pandas was released in 2011,…

"It's elegant when writing but frustrating when reading" As a person who used to use Perl 5 rather extensively back in the day for all sorts of things, I fondly remember the joke t…

Web3 is not going to happen. The crypto economy is failing. The promise of crypto was (and still is among the devoted) to provide a viable alternative to government backed currency…

"This is why automotive UX is so hard. It’s the context and the severe consequences that make it far more impactful..." I see what you did there :)

DO NOT CLICK THE LINK Whatever document was there before have been vandalized.

So you prevent them from recording your conversations with friends by having no conversations and no friends.

Paid my $15. Great effort. A bit cryptic, but a nice deviation from a standard DAW experience. A bit weird how a lot of things you would expect to be separate modules are combined …

One of the specific features of DroidScript is that it is a remote IDE. That is, when you start DroidScript on your phone it will serve the IDE UI via HTTP and you can then connect…

It is cute that this is implemented in the browser, but to be honest, this does not sound any different from a whole load of generative modular synth patches out there.

I am very confused. I am using a Mac for work and I am using Windows at home. And after reading the readme, I am still not sure what this thing does. Can someone explain?

"It’s called surveillance capitalism and it’s certainly not about giving you a great user experience, it’s about making money" Well... it also happens to create a better (if not gr…

TL;DR; X11 (and X windows) is a standard and a protocol. X is a short term for X11 and X Windows Xorg is a specific implementation of X11 protocol under the GNU open source project…

"Embrace, extend and extinguish" ™ I might need to branch out into other languages.

Because Quest 2 is a stand-alone VR headset. It is not a display device for a computer, it is an all-in-one. So you install games on it to play them.

> Every laptop Apple has manufactured in the last ten years has an LED connected to the same circuit which powers up the camera It would be very helpful if you could provide some e…

"Whatever reason Apple had to design the camera system this way back in 2008, is probably still a valid reason" reading comprehension is an important skill to develop

I just did a google image search for "person". The first 5 images were of Greta Thunberg. She must be the most representative person ever. The next few images contained Donald Trum…

> People should fear being destitute its the natural human condition. People should die of diseases, its the natural human condition. Women should die in childbirth, its the natura…

> There is no free market of proposals Drivers are free to accept or decline any ride requests around them. How is that not a free market of proposals? Pretty much every driver I m…

Reddit seems like an odd choice, but there is the personal finance stack exchange site https://money.stackexchange.com/