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MiniDisc would have been an ideal successor to the floppy disk if only Sony had unclenched their fist just a little bit. USB sticks are higher capacity but there's utility in havin…

I don’t see why “truthful, nuanced, well reasoned” is the long-shot vs cagey and evasive.

There’s a Tumblr for that: https://www.tumblr.com/moviecode

Seems like this is even more reason to set a good example and follow the style guide.

Soccer is not destroying the planet and making basic computer hardware unaffordable.

I categorically do not love the timer. Timers should be a fixed-width typeface so the numbers don't jiggle.

This isn't the first time it's happened, either. It's a pretty frequently recurring issue, in fact: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16723 https://github.com/goog…

A couple of other comics with their own distinct personalities but an unmistakable C&H vibe: Cul de Sac ( https://www.gocomics.com/culdesac ) Wallace the Brave ( https://www.gocomi…

My pet theory about why the Minis sold poorly is that the 12 Mini was released just a few months after the SE 2; I suspect a lot of the would-be Mini purchasers had just bought an …

Something quite similar to this is a theme in Greg Egan's Diaspora [1]. Specifically the various "flesher" societies and "bridgers" who facilitate communication between vastly dive…

Similarly with 9.2, assignment using a walrus operator will also fail if the value is 0 (or anything falsy: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#truth-value-... )

I would love to have a bit more detail on why this is a non-starter, though I appreciate it’s likely that the answer is too complicated for a layperson to really understand.

> According to the bear's owners, the Cocaine Bear has the authority to officiate legally binding weddings in the mall where it is kept due to Kentucky's marriage laws. This claim …

Project Highrise is very much a spiritual successor to SimTower. https://store.steampowered.com/app/423580/Project_Highrise/

So why not incorporate blocks as a signal for the ranking algorithm? The simple version is every person that blocks $USER causes a - n modifier on all of $USER's content; more comp…

Go to Settings > Accessibility > Display, and scroll down to "Pointer". You can select the outline and fill colour separately. (At least on Ventura; I don't know which macOS versio…

You sure about that? https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

Subscriptions for simple usage only make sense for a true service with an ongoing cost to the provider; cloud storage, email, movie streaming, etc. A subscription for a general-pur…

This is exactly what we did. Our ‘television’ was never hooked up to actually receive broadcast signal, we’ve always just used it as a big screen for the media/gaming PC set up in …