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Funny that you mention IKEA. I have 4 very old IKEA glasses that were made by Duralex. I just love the fact that they're about as old as I am (40 next year) and we're able to survi…

I remain sceptical about the "Planet Tracker"-task. The task was to debunk claims about historical positions of Jupiter and Saturn. If the task was to find those planets were NOT i…

A rather extensive video that explains in detail scheduling tasks ion an embedded device (the microbit) and explains while updating incrementally the ideas of async Rust.

Just one thing (maybe the author reads this): The nicest way to avoid the "oh a lot of boilerplate!"-problem with implementing "Add" for a custom type is by using the "derive-more"…

https://youtu.be/wx68Q_6omAo?si=gY_p3P80LPGnmOsu --> Switch on captions. This is a small segment of a weekly program that is broadcast on the french-german tv station "arte". The p…

That would be interesting in VR to have syntax highlighting that moves variable names towards the viewer, or puts context menus with possible methods of some object above. Would pr…

Hm.... I've spent a lot of waiting time in this station (Rosenthaler Platz) over the years. And these tiles (in different colors though) are in a considerable amount of Berlin subw…

we should! We have laws against oil spills, we should have laws that prohibit languages with the singular purpose of making me point a gun to my foot and pull the trigger repeatedl…

In my opinion hn is still here because it is still only text. I was a very happy Reddit user way back when most of the content was links to other sites and/or pure text posts. Toda…

Would this open-source alternative "mycroft" be capable of replacing the functions Alexa is currently relegated to?

I highly recommend french comics - or "bande dessinée / BD" as they are called there. I believe France has the biggest and most interesting culture when it comes to comics - so man…

Current status of the attempt at getting AVS (Advanced Visualization Studio - a Winamp Plugin) to compile with GCC and make it cross platform.

Is there a Rust library that also takes "turns" (or cycles or something similar) that I can use? I have been wondering (very low-key-ish) about this problem for some years and now …

that makes a lot of sense.

Hi! this is fantastic article! Years ago I was able to visit the "Wendelstein 7X" stelarator-type fusion reactor in greifswald (Germany) when it was still assembled. It was so cool…