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How so? Corporate and surveillance capitalism's infrastructure is built on copyleft software. The equivocation of license dogmatism with social good and sustainability that those m…

Like all AAA media in the age of supposedly social media, games became hostile to self-organizing communities that sustain themselves, because they want a push model for consumptio…

Pipenv quickly becomes unusably slow. As in half hour to change one dependency. Poetry is strictly better, and I say that believing poetry is not a great solution either. There are…

IF fits my natural appetite and is easy for me to adhere to. My problem with it is I've discovered eating a small breakfast (~250 cal) immediately when I wake up is the single grea…

The average gold plan in the US is $575 premium per person per month. For the average household that would be thousands. The average monthly healthcare cost across all "levels" is …

I didn't say margin, I said profit, and you can click a tab over on any of those pages and see overall gross profit is up in 2020. What kind of rational baseline is assuming that i…

At one point in 2020 a majority of insured Americans treated for COVID (>80%) had the majority of their COVID-related treatment waived by the insurer. However, most insurers have b…

The problem is not necessarily lunatics who deny the reality of AGW, but energy companies, industry, and their political agents who have known the reality for over half a century. …

The UX community seems to value rather than avoid breaking changes, and it's infuriating. Novelty and surprise are rarely usability virtues.

See also https://seatable.io/

I'm also very sensitive to UI lag, but flagship phones are more a cause than a solution. If you're on Android, enable developer options and disable animations. Not only is your pho…

Rust has plenty of momentum and non-Mozilla core team members and contributors, and has been in the process of finding or creating a foundation to organize under for some time. Of …

An international version of this was Oppenheimer's vision (both for peaceful nuclear applications and weapons) which he expressed in his personal writings and in the Acheson–Lilien…

I went through a 4-5 year period in my late 20s working 60 hour weeks while also doing grad school and independent research for 60 hours a week, not getting enough sleep or taking …

The vast majority of my bluetooth woes are not with bluetooth, but with the complete lack of configurability on Android and other devices. I end up pairing/unpairing my home speake…

> Describing is not the same as justifying. Nature is what created us as individuals. We have little means of empirically separating what is natural versus social construct (or eve…

> A utopia which purports to make everyone happy (shouldn't they all?) is one that assumes all people are the same or it endeavours to make them so. So the contrapositive is that b…

I had a G200 and recall having random lines scattered over the screen in games courtesy of the OpenGL-via-Direct3D wrapper.

Matrox and S3 were also competitive in the consumer space before convergence on the big two.

Evernote is guilty of this. They don't create the password field until you've typed in your username, breaking every login manager. This along with their synchronization getting wo…

Yeah, I don't buy the justification versus Julia because of community size either, given most of Swift's community has little to do with data science. The document even says as muc…

16:10 is great, although I did briefly trial run a Surface Book 2 and loved the 3:2 screen, as well as the rest of the hardware. Only decided against it because of the amount of co…

I split my development time between a 2015 rMBP and a Precision 5530 (pro model of the XPS 15). I still can not switch fully to the Dell because of a few issues: - The touchpad is …

PBS SpaceTime's excellent coverage of Loeb's paper: 'Oumuamua Is Not Aliens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wICOlaQOpM0