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When you say "dig up," do you recommend the remaster or the original?

I used to be able to stick to precise language in my professional communication. After I got thrown into fields I was less familiar with, I had to do the circling-around-the-point …

I'm unfamiliar with Italian piracy laws and surveillance but I can tell you that accessing torrent sites for me was a simple matter of choosing a proper DNS provider.

Sawing the first shot, I thought the LED candle on the coffee table was the device. That would have also been cool, having flickering affected not by wind, as with real candles, bu…

The question is about systemic solutions: - Invest in 3rd places: · Zoning that allows small businesses and cafés to be near where people live. · Invest heavily in public libraries…

> Having content you want to hide? This has some use cases. Besides, keeping content from users was already present in HTML through the practice of not sending it to the user.

I have lamented the fact that download buttons can be hard to find on software home pages sometimes. But having just a download button and a "more" button on your landing page seem…

"This technology will radically transform the way our world works and soon replace all knowledge-based jobs. Do not trust anything it says: Entertainment purposes only."

I like to imagine a world, a worse one, where programming languages were localised. This might initially have been a versioning nightmare, with different compiler binaries for each…

Not to mention they have to store the data after they download it. In theory storing garbage data is costly to them. However I have a nagging feeling that the attitude of these scr…

Although this is objectively an advantage, it means I've spent just as much of my time mucking about with customisation in Typst, as I have in LaTeX :p

Way back when, my prof was using his Linux machine to demonstrate how to use GCC. He called the end result .exe but that might have been for the benefit of the Windows users in the…

Maybe using VLC Media Player from an early age has left me with too high expectations. But if I have a program designed to view or edit a certain class of file, and it doesn't supp…

Never mind quality - how can you achieve the same reach as someone with an advertising budget?

I slammed the reader-mode button, which unfortunately killed the videos. Not having looping/procedural animations in your articles is an accessibility feature. People with ADHD sim…

My thoughts immediately go to all the queer kids in rural areas who stand to be cut off from the only support networks they have.

My goal is explicitly to publish, and I have the impression this is the case on a national level.

I don't want to speculate why this is the case, but tech enthusiasts rarely have the social capital that it takes to move friend groups or local forums over to specific platforms. …

I can see many benefits to this approach, but there is one area where I'm sceptical: The article mentions moderation in different cultures several times, and this made me curious –…

Interesting! I was wondering what in the world you could do with a computer inside a toothbrush. From the product page[1]: - Zone reminder for uncleaned aread - Intense pressure re…

Hahah I'm in formal methods, not graphics, so I'm picturing a literal green glowing fog. But what I'm gathering is polygons partitioned into cube chunks. This is of course not incl…

Wow! What am I even looking at here? Polygons, voxels, or something else entirely? How were the benchmarks recorded?

The use of AI and voice recognition seems mostly designed to make the result seem more sensational than it actually is. Does any computation actually happen in the "organoid" part?…

Good of a platform to stand up for their users against DMCA abuse. Obviously Shopify relies on credibility if they are to handle the business transactions of their customers, so it…