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You underestimate the average American teenager’s shell-buying game (honed for decades by our asinine alcohol laws.) I’m sure kids elsewhere would pick it up pretty fast too. Plus,…

> Are there other good ways of doing it? I'm working on an ESP32 project right now, and Espressif provides shrink-wrapped toolchains for C/++ and Rust. The latter even comes with a…

> Many people already use non-portable SIMD for the 1-3 targets they care about, instead. This is something a lot of people (myself included) have gotten tripped up by. Non-portabl…

You don't need years to look around and see that (unlike much of the US) there are no homeless addicts, fare evaders, or vandals on the transit in Singapore. (Or, for that matter, …

After spending a summer working in Singapore, I fully support introducing corporal punishment to America (and accelerated capital punishment for drug trafficking offenses.) It turn…

Deficient cortisol levels, I'd think. I've seen it bring out quite the attitude in otherwise relaxed people.

macOS kinda gets there. I've (grudgingly) come to admit that it has by far the best security story of any desktop operating system. Apps require explicit user consent to access the…

Meanwhile, (checks mattress tag) Pottery Barn has had 100.0% uptime for the past two years!

To be fair, Vim and Curl are almost certainly dynamically linked, so they get to "cheat" a little. 10 megs is entirely reasonable for a statically linked utility intended to "just …

Insufferable r/atheism-tier behavior. I'm glad I don't rely on F-Droid for anything critical.

Honestly, as someone who just purchased his first MacBook, Liquid Glass is... fine? The control center could use a little more opacity, but besides that, my opinion tends to range …

My dude, before HTTPS, anyone could go to a Starbucks and skim every customer's Facebook session with a free Firefox extension. That's not an "edge case."

> Sedans, coupes, or anything with less mass will be ... more capable I beg to differ. They may be safer and more efficient, but they get those advantages by trading off cargo and …

> Yet every car is converging on an unholy child of a minivan and a small crossover SUV Because it's a local maximum of utility. Most people don't care that their car "lacks person…

Cool - now let's see how much it costs in compute to generate a single clip. (Also, notice how no individual scene is longer than a handful of seconds?)

There's also an LSP (Tinymist.) My Typst workflow is all local in VSCode, with the source markup in the left pane and a live preview on the right.

Another stamp of approval for Typst here. It's simple enough that I can easily typeset CS theory homework (with all the fancy notation that entails) without having to subject mysel…

If this means that I no longer have to wait around for five minutes to have a supermarket employee unlock the laundry detergent, then I approve. Yes, there are privacy concerns, bu…

> if you're popping in and out expansion cards all the time eventually the ports are going to fail which seems like a really weird design choice Anecdotally, I've developed a bad h…

Minority report: I will likely just switch to an iPhone, despite my typical gripes with Apple. I've always seen my smartphone as a tool that doesn't do "much" (compared to a "real"…

Quoting myself from elsewhere, but I would like to make a legislation proposal: all natural gems must be marketed as "crude" due to impurities not present in their synthetic counte…

Epic has offered self-publishing tools for a while. They do involve a human review step, but one look at the piles of NFT shovelware available shows that the bar is in Hell. (Grant…

It's extremely telling that nobody (developer or consumer) takes the Epic Games store seriously, in spite of their effort to undercut Steam on this front (0% on the first mil, and …

This isn't "hacking the system", though - this is an open-and-shut violation of a license with a strong legal pedigree.

Yeah, I'm generally aware of that - but I needed them fast, and decided it was worth taking a gamble. (I did at least get a return/refund, so there's that.)