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His instagram account ( https://www.instagram.com/crime_pays_but_botany_doesnt ) is up there with Chuck Tingle in terms of subscribing to little bits of life-affirming joy in a dif…

Torturer Class ROU CVE-2026-LGTM would absolutely be a member of the Interesting Times Gang.

For DB, this type of outage is referred to as "Tuesday".

Yes: Premodern and Legacy. Personally I like Modern and don't mind having things shaken up fairly regularly, but if you want more stability play Legacy and if you want ultimate sta…

GSD has a reputation for being a token burner compared to something like Superpowers. Has that changed lately? Always open to revisiting things as they improve.

We make art because humans are compelled to express themselves. That's it. That's the whole thing. It's not stack ranked. Humans make art because, in the words of Pile, "I want ans…

Strudel is dope and a ton of fun, but every single piece of its interface seems determined to confuse people who already know music theory and composition. That's not really a poin…

I vividly remember the first time a friend showed me PHP in the late 90s. You're saying I can just write a script that generates HTML and throw it in /foo/index.php and that's the …

Awesome, thanks for the clarification. So are the rumors around Cheetah being based on a Grok model just straight up untrue? I want to try Composer but have a pretty strict no X/Gr…

Is it true that Cheetah is Grok Code Fast 2? Does this mean that the new Cursor model is also based on Grok?

Good old "sketch-resistant materials". If a tweaker can't get through your lock/chain before the cops (might) show up, you're probably fine. When all else fails, drummers are the b…

If only there were some way to take all that work of pedaling and efficiently translate it into torque on the rear wheel, right?

> I assume there'd be a big single rectangular bounding box or sphere, and only once a projectile is in that range, then animations occur. Now that's a fun one to think about. Hits…

> You'll annoy the hell out of some people, and thats fine. Some of those people sign my paycheck though.

This kind of exploratory/creative programming is bar none the most fun you can have as a software engineer. I love reading write-ups about projects like this because you can practi…

Plus the translation issues, where you can have an absolute sledgehammer of a haiku that would need to be watered down in order fit the "correct" meter in English: in kyoto / heari…

Until the scenery gains an appreciation for them, you might say.

It's amazing how much fuck-you-and-fuck-who-you-fuck-with Russell managed to fit into a few ink smudges on a piece of paper.

Don't forget to implement the crucially important "no returnsies" security algo on top of it, or you'll be vulnerable to rubber-glue attacks.

Anyone got a recommendation for a replacement? I'm currently using Warp and the history/context-aware autocomplete-on-meth is nice, but I don't use any of the new agentic features.…

I love that (and I say this with zero shade intended) you can never really tell which "Use Emacs for x" posts are goofs and which ones are serious.

> ...and farm labor has been limited in recent years. "Train routes across Germany have been a bit congested recently."

I remember that as well, but only because it's mentioned in book 8 of The Expanse.

I don't know if this is the official term for it, but that just sounds like metagaming[1], i.e. incorporating knowledge of the opposing player (or of trends among a group of opposi…

There should be a whole checklist of "Things that were still a hard problem in The Expanse" that any space-related startup has to answer.