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The same author also made Fidget, similar in concept and made with rust: https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/fidget/

How does Bluesky compare to Mastodon?

I do think it's interesting that recent submissions use nearly the entire 50 hours. I wonder how much better people could do if faster hardware was allowed.

I wonder how long it will take for plastics to become biodegradable. Sort of like how wood was around for millions of years before microorganisms could break it down, maybe the lan…

This so cool and weird, almost like I'm in a room with other people.

I don't know everything about nuclear fusion so I have to ask: Is it actually renewable? In other words, are the byproducts able to form back into the "fuel" at a reasonable rate w…

The traditional way to play melee is local multiplayer only, so players most players are used to the incredibly fast response of a CRT. This and the muscle memory required to play …

My first thought was, "why does everything have to be so politicized." I then thought about the picture from the birds perspective and realized it tells a story about much more tha…

I have always wondered, is heat->steam->turbine->generator efficient? In my mind it just doesn't seem like it would be efficient at all. Surely there must be other ways to convert …

Aren't diamonds heavily used to improve cutting tools? I know they are not worth as much in that context, but it's still a productive use case.

For me, Wikipedia was my first realization that RTL webpages exist. If you switch to an Arabic or Hebrew article you'll see what I mean. Even the Wikipedia globe graphic goes to th…

I think its cool TI has added Python support to their graphing calculators, but let's not forget the fact that they've removed assembly program support. I think its a great shame. …

Even though Signal does seem like a step in the right direction, the fact that Signal is still a centralized platform makes it less trustworthy than say, Element. I must say this n…

For me it was the practical understanding. I understood the concept of a pointer, but I wasn't confident in writing code that used that used them or (more importantly) reading code…

> It’s especially insidious because once you grok pointers, they’re suddenly easy. But up until that moment, they’re slippery eels. I'm sort of a C beginner myself. I understand po…

As true as it is to say that missions to Mars and helping Earth can be done at the same time, this website does resonate with me. Even if we stopped all emissions right this second…

My goodness, It’s as if [the bundling part of] this post speaks directly to me. I use Gentoo as my daily driver, and school forces us to use Zoom for classes. Like most other propr…

This does seem quite worrying. I have always loved the Gentoo project because it lets you try to install anything on any architecture (not that it's guaranteed to compile though). …

Well I don't think waiting for better hardware take any less time than improving the software that these phones run. In the video, you can see that these phones are still running d…