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I vividly remember the months after AMD64 came out when tech companies were dumping their specialty RISC server hardware (mostly Sun, but some other stuff too) and replacing them w…

Interestingly, this device uses a totally different mechanism than classic trackpoints. Where true trackpoints use a network of strain gauges on the PCB, this is a 3D hall effect s…

Yes, but on the other hand, there's https://www.reddit.com/r/ididnthaveeggs/ , which collects cases of home cooks making inadvisable recipe substitutions and then complaining to th…

It's funny that they call it "reverse game theory", like it's a new thing, when it's actually just regular game theory.

Amazon developers use similar devboxes. I think it is mostly so that developers can use a production-like Linux environment with integrated Amazon dev tooling. You're not required …

"Everybody on earth knowing that beauty is beautiful makes ugliness." That resonates with so much of the discussion on this site. We're all trying to make good technology that help…

But your friend is wrong. She does know at least one person who comments on online forums. I bet she knows more too.

DankLinux provides packages for the Niri scrolling Wayland compositor and related tools, targeting popular mainstream distros: Fedora, openSUSE, Debian, and Ubuntu. Niri and relate…

There's more than one way to do it, but the very normal UX is that you can just scroll through the diff file-by-file and stage/stash/drop each hunk individually by placing your cur…

I played the map mode and got a map, with labels!

Anyone interested in zippers, or, more significantly for this website, how new technologies are invented, adopted, and mature, should read "Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty" by Ro…

I did something like this for Python [1]. The application I worked on at the time had a feature allowing users to import and export their data as a JSON document, and users often h…

I had a surprising interaction with Gemini 2.5 Pro that this project reminds me of. I was asking the LLM for help using an online CAS system to solve a system of equations, and the…

I also switched from PaperWM to niri, and I was reluctant to do it, because I really liked not having to configure several different little apps to get a working desktop environmen…

The reason to use a factory instead of 'new' is that a factory can vary the return type, unlike a plain constructor. You need a factory when, based on the constructor parameters or…

Outside of maybe NYC, taxi service in the U.S. was totally unreliable before Uber/Lyft. It's not even a matter of price. It's so much easier to get a ride now in most of the countr…

Part of the answer to this puzzle is that your dishwasher itself is a robot that washes dishes, and has had enormous impact on blue collar jobs since its invention and widespread d…

I added oklab to emacs's color module. I initially intended to use it to make better procedural themes, but I haven't gotten to that yet. In any case, emacs version 30 has color-ok…

This approach is, arguably, more readable because it relies on a simple left-to-right evaluation. Programmers don't have to recall the complex, though often familiar, rules of oper…

That doesn't explain why there's a market for "Yes". For "No" to be worth 3% instead of 0%, there must be people who think "Yes" will in some way be worth 3% or more.

Right! The explanation in the article -- that "no" holders will need to sell to buy other things before the market resolves, pushing the price up -- doesn't make sense to me. Sure,…

Any of those "AI companion" apps can do this very well, or so I have read!