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Personally, I hope that nothing Elon Musk ever does for the rest of his life succeeds. Maybe that's just me though.

The truck is cool. The blank slate looks good. Every other "suggested" design looks insanely corny, in the Cybertruck sort of way.

Doesn't work at all for me. I keep jumping around and clipping through objects, can't even leave the first room without being stuck in the doorway to the elevator.

As someone living in Omaha, this has just a little bit of a conflict lmao.....

Wow! This guy knew a lot about working in an environmental/social/governance framework, AND he knows enough about money to have been an international central banker? I knew Carney …

Yes. "Other people do it" does not make it any less anti-foreigner.

https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/agency Click down into a federal account and then change the drop down over the chart to "Recipient".

https://www.usaspending.gov/ is another great website for this stuff. I suggest using the Budget explorer. Here's the map by function (e.g. national defense, healthcare): https://w…

Yeah, it's kind of annoying. But middle click scroll is something I use literally every single second of every single day on my web browser. It's a deal-breaker.

Even skipping the first step (which requires a second readme ) the next step involves opening a terminal. Instant fail. The entire point of an operating system is to make computers…

Company? Most of the time this stuff is years (sometimes DECADES) old. That's why it doesn't work on Linux in the first place.

The last time I tried to use Linux, I said "fuck this" when I had to open up a text editor for something so basic as making a shortcut with command line arguments. This is the easi…

Most people want a computer that works with their software. No, "learn the FOSS version" is not a solution. Especially because nearly everyone has some niche thing they like, some …

He actually died years ago. It just took until today for the Grim Reaper to work up the nerve.

This isn't what this is about, but I wonder if anyone has created a fully mechanized version of Conway's Game of Life. The fact that you only have to follow 4 rules, and each cell …

Are you serious? This is Apple, the same company that purposefully made their messaging service less compatible so that children would get bullied into buying their products. You r…

Disappointed to see that this is solitaire and not Riichi :( would love to see more implementations of actual mahjong

Riichi is the most fun one, in my opinion, but I would not go so far as to say "skill weights over luck". The absolute best Riichi players win less than 25% of hands.

The H-1B system is obviously flawed. For some reason, we've decided to tie the ability to live where you want and take advantage of your pursuit of happiness to having an employer.…

Unfortunately, their common sense has been rewarded by the stock tanking 15% in the past month including 4% just today alone. Dell shows why companies don't dare talk poorly of AI,…

To clarify, these are percentages for the sample of students taking the remedial Math 2 class, not generally. Two percent is still crazy low though, that's practically nothing.

By this logic, should we put east Asia on the top and have the less populated western hemisphere on the bottom? Why not have East be up?

The point of the rigidity and uniformity of school is not that it is the best way to get everyone to understand everything if they try. The point is that it forces all the kids to …

Land tax fixes this

I work on an air-gapped network. The most important thing that the words "air gap" communicate is that there is no connection, nothing at all, to anything outside the network. The …