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Thank you for sharing! This is inspiring. Cooking is this sort of an activity that is simple enough to not be overwhelming but also complex enough to be very interesting. Both in p…

And in case you are elsewhere... In Poland it's on the 26th, so hey buy some appropriate flowers or other gift while you have the time!

Great through-history write-up! Thank you. > That is one of the great ironies of modern Open Source. The distributed version control system won, and then the world standardized on …

> The example is supposed to illuminate the limits of ppp or gdp adjustment. ... Yes, but that's like exemplifying the value of an actual slice of bread vs bitcoin to someone who i…

As much as the notion of "Purchasing Power" is economic, thus perhaps having a greater chance of being related to reality, I've been wondering if - and how - could these long-term …

The most interesting is the realization that if the LLM's input is only the output of a professional (human), then by definition the LLM cannot mimic the process the (human) profes…

Pro-tip I only realized later when making much bigger ones: it's worth to pay attention to the "grain", that is the orientation of the corrugations. Find it hard to describe, but t…

I do a lot of free-standing "holders" from industrial (5 ply) cardboard and hot glue. Surprisingly sturdy! Made a video about this too: https://youtu.be/s-aNW3h15K0 - all of these …

Thanks for the nightmare fuel! ... These things should have a warning label.

Yes. In fact I even made a video about them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdbfPa1L6JQ (shameless self-plug, yes).

An approach very close to one I've been thinking about lately. My three cents: compact the journal when its size exceeds the actual data size. With thresholds or other knobs; with …

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As a sysadmin I'm very familiar with `makepkg`, its config file and the fact that sooner or later one will need both `clang` and `gcc`, because they're equivalent only in theory ;-…

> The ALPM project arose from the need for more clearly specifying the interfaces, as well as providing bindings and tools in a memory-safe programming language. Whose need? As an …

Because doing all the driving, decoding and serial comms pretty much required a computer anyway, so the most sensible approach was to use what they already had in supply. Also, fin…

As someone who grew up with Amiga... I find it amazing these boards still keep coming (X1000, X5000... anyone?) - they have always been insanely expensive for specs that are decade…

Lers of Spoil: this is about a NES game ;-) Pretty cool still, especially if one's into reverse engineering.

The point is that we should acknowledged those "cheats" came with their reasons and that they did improve performance etc. But, they also did come with a cost (Meltdown, Spectre an…

Instruction pipelining and this is exactly why I wish we still have the time to go back to "it is exactly as it is", think the 6502 or any architecture that does not pretend/map/ta…

False alarm.

Very clever, and playable! Thanks.

Thanks for the replies! Will note the UE5 specificity.

> It's no wonder UE5 games have the reputation of being poorly optimized Care to exemplify? I find UE games to be not only the most optimized, but also capable of running everywher…

This being the UK... Perhaps better to establish The Office of Permission, then ban everything except requesting a permission form the new office... And thus create a whole permiss…

> No amount of expressive design will beat basic functionality. ...I am very afraid this will sacrifice a lot of (basic) functionality in the name of looking different. May only ho…