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Honesty? Sounds like investor hype to me.

Yeah. Try comparing texts written in Old English and Old Norse. It's basically the same language. (I'm not surprised at all that Beowulf takes place in Scandinavia.) But I think th…

There are strong indications that Half Life 3 (or at least a Half Life game) is coming soon. Of course, Valve might decide to pan the project, but I wouldn't be surprised seeing an…

I have good news for you: if you prefer running a PWA in your browser of choice, you can. Nothing forces you to install the PWA.

How? Do I need to configure something in uBlock Origin? If I go to, e.g., Reddit I still see the annoying "Open app" button.

I am very much interested in local-first/only (backend-less) PWAs, and have built a couple of them myself. Unfortunately, I don't think I have any use for a time-boxing app. Nice w…

Nifty. I've long wanted a scrollable/zoomable desktop, with a minimap that shows the overall layout. Think the UI of an RTS game, where instead of units you move around and resize …

No, I think you misunderstand how it works. The problem is that task 4, as you call it, runs after the navigation triggered by the redirect value. The the author expects the side-e…

> Russia has attacked Ukraine. Not Europe. Ukraine is most definitely a part of Europe.

> the politicians do a 180 once they get voted to power or forget about them because political promises are worthless and non-binding, meaning they lied themselves into power. Why …

How is red meat connected to it?

Agreed. After starting my new job and coming back to Python after many years I was happy to see that they had added `match` to the language. Then I was immediately disappointed as …

If a child is, e.g., two standard deviations below the norm, it is cruel to expect it to keep up with the pace of other students. Education can be better adapted to the child's nee…

> I'm fine with data collection as long as it doesn't land in the hands of bad people or special interests. The only way to guarantee this is to ensure that nobody can collect your…

Cute, didn't know it was a thing in Chicago! I suppose wormwood is an acquired taste, but it's one I happen to like. They still put it in many different bitters here in Sweden.

Verbing weirds language. https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25

I immediately realized what "Chesterton's menace" alluded to, but you lost me at 'Tamarians' (thanks for the explanation!) I guess I could start calling such a situation "HPsquared…

From the README: > Currently, Asterinas only supports x86-64 VMs. However, our aim for 2024 is to make Asterinas production-ready on x86-64 VMs. I'm confused.

I think that might be quite common. In Swedish we have morbror/farbror (literally mother-brother/father-brother) and moster/faster (mother's sister/father's sister). It's similar f…

When I was in the army I switched to holding my assault rifle right handed because I was near sighted on my left eye. (Not getting the casings ejected onto my right arm when they l…

> that doesn’t change the fact that morally and ethically we value human lives equally. Do we? I can think of many counter examples, and I'm sure you can as well. How is this a fac…

What makes Skyrim not work well at all for you? I haven't tried that game, but I know for a fact that Fallout 4 works quite well, and it -- like Skyrim -- has a gold status on prot…

1. Companies are amoral entities, and given the opportunity have few qualms about screwing people over if they can profit from it. Why do you expect people to behave ethically towa…

Piracy has never been theft, regardless of what lies the public has been fed. It's copyright infringement.

I am a Firefox diehard. Also a web dev. As such I agree that Firefox refusing to implement things like WebSerial and WebHID is shooting themselves in the foot, and will only drive …