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Pretty sure he just passed the torch off to someone else (without selling it) because he was tired of it, then continued development shortly aftwards as "ublock origin". uBlock its…

Sorry VSCoders. You just aren't griTTY enough.

> Pig ...was terrible, I wanted more screentime with that adorable pig...sorry Nic, you're in the shadow of a real star...

I've been looking for a short story I saw on Slashdot around 2003-2005 for a while now, and I was hoping somebody here might remember it and point me in the right direction. My goo…

Or I could rip my legally purchased* CDs and give the finger to the leeches and rent seekers that fuck us almost as hard as they do the artists. Yes I support corporate genocide. *…

> they eventually just gave me a beer and put a tally mark on a notepad oof

The second claim comes from something I heard mentioned the other day in relation to a New Yorker article about parents finding out during covid lockdowns that their elementary sch…

While I'm inclined to agree with your point and I do think that some languages really are just more difficult, I think it should be pointed out that something like 54% of adults in…

> SUV shaming is a lot like drink driver shaming. Are you drink?

This...was very informative. Thanks.

This is one of the big tragedies of Ramanujan. We have all these miraculous mathematics from him but we don't really know how he got there. A lot of this stuff we already knew, but…

I'm trying to think of where I've seen this in TV and movies. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (IIRC) and there was a TV show where some Asian man had a plasma gun embedded in his…

Can somebody explain the back story? What is Kiwi Farms?

You can get it at the hardware store, it'll break down tree stumps pretty quickly (and very inexpensively).

This is it, and holy hell it's worse than I remembered.

I can't find it now, but my favorite of TIWWW was this chemical that just smelled terrible and did so in exceedingly small quantities. Like, a stray drop of this gets the building …

Cast iron's real strength is the huge amount thermal mass and the relatively low rate of heat transmission. You preheat it, throw whatever you're cooking in it and the residual hea…

Say funding is a given, how do you attract the talent?

That wasn't clear to me

This comment causes me anxiety, I'll be reporting it to the authorities.

I'm a big fan of NetBSD. Great docs, clean design, it's just about ideal for "set it and forget it" projects. I hadn't used a BSD in over a decade but got it up and running in no t…