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I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned the "magic unlimited magazine" yet, especially with fully-automatic weapons. It's distracting to watch the hero shoot and shoot and shoot an…

They would make an excellent Beowulf cluster.

I would get one of these in a hot minute except that my HP-16C that I got sometime in the '80's is still going strong! I rarely use it anymore but a couple of years back I was work…

It's difficult to take an announcement like this seriously when it's posted on Twitter.

Everything he quoted is a fact, which can be proven or falsified. Taken together (and if true) they're pretty damning. You responded with an ad-hominem attack. If you can offer a r…

Also "couch lock", i.e., reduced physical activity.

The real serverless horror isn't the occasional mistake that leads to a single huge bill, it's the monthly creep. It's so easy to spin up a resource and leave it running. It's just…

> I made an honest mistake; I expect companies to reject candidates who make honest mistakes during interviews. Follow-up: do you expect companies to fire employees who make mistak…

I recently received an AI-slop bug report for a small open source project (PureLB) that I maintain, and the slop was generated by DeepWiki. It was very incorrect, but I didn't know…

> At what point do these things stop being Amigas? Ah, the classic "Ship of Tramiel" gedankenexperiment.

I use Firefox but donate to Ladybird and Servo. Mozilla Corp is too far gone but hopefully the next generation of browsers will have less corporate baggage.

The main link returns a 404 - maybe a griefer deleted example1?

I'll defer to Stringer Bell: > Is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy? "Normal CEO things" don't include committing crimes, and they are only a "huge self-own" when t…

I'm curious about the pros and cons of Cloudflare pages versus GitHub pages. Given that you're using GH as a repo, would it be simpler to also use it to serve pages?

You control the trackball with the fingers of your right hand, and there's a scroll wheel and right and left buttons under your right thumb.

Windshield washer fluid is just liberal tears, after all.

They did, and this is what they got.

No discussion of LibreOffice would be complete without a reminder that the Apache Foundation continues to harm the open source community by pretending that Apache OpenOffice isn't …

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It's worse than that. VistA is a world-class open source EMR that the VA has been trying to kill for decades.

What ads? https://ublockorigin.com/

I worked for a company that was acquired by LU/Bell Labs in the '90's and their IP notebooks were excellent: hardbound with a sturdy cloth binding and thick, high-quality graph pap…

Yup! And before that they were in the basement of the Dedham Community Theater.

I'm not sure that you meant to say "Shit of Theseus" but if you did: bravo!

I would imagine that the Archive Team would be interested in these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive_Team