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I thought Wayland was supposed to save the Linux Phone, not the Linux Desktop?

Unicode was absolutely a good change, the burn was the execution

They kind of burned a breaking major version transition for no good reason with 2-to-3, now they are prefacing a major change with "it won't be like 2-to-3". It sounds like they ma…

I imagine they'll keep pushing this back until a) a catastrophic accident impacts many people or b) civilians are going to space in more significant numbers.

Getting press and attention, as seen here, for better or worse.

Aside, one of the best hacks for networking without a smartphone is a small notepad and a pen in your pocket. Write things down for yourself and others e.g. phone numbers, addresse…

People get along fine without accounts in FAANG. You don't even need an account to use many Google services.

Supplying the array length to such a summing function is not a big deal. The compiler is not likely to handle this poorly. Probably gets inlined. If the syntax is the problem, yeah…

A-10's replacement is drones, says the writing on the wall. A-10 was developed for a Fulda Gap Cold War escalation, when Soviet Union had many many tanks at its disposal. China doe…

Mindustry is like a PvP Factorio-lite

"Fixing" search is, at this point, to Google, "getting people to click on more ads"

Participating in class signaling is optional, starting with the choice of where to live. I can tell you from experience that if you find the right neighborhood, you can have good a…

I'll be tickled when they discover the AI is measuring the lens distortion of the camera or some other artifact of the signal chain.

All of my clients use Bazel now, so I've started using Bazel. I like it a lot, but there are some kludges when you get into any non-trivial chain of dependencies. First off, if you…