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Sure. I can live for a day on those five bucks. You wouldn't believe what people in low income countries go through to save a bit of money: I've seen people I know (but couldn't st…

They used to give 5-10 bucks of credit to new users a few years ago. Real credits, I very carefully compared prices from different IPs. So I would register a new account for each o…

Because your motherboard only supports HDMI. The last three I used had HDMI, and sometimes VGA.

They're already busy doing precisely that: https://lwn.net/Articles/1078942

I don't care about either X, but that guy's name is in this release, and judging purely by the number of commits (since I lack X expertise to judge any other way), he seems to be t…

As a long time desktop and server user, why do I look at changelogs... New filesystems and major changes to existing ones (large performance improvements, new features like adding …

Recent MySQL comes with a rewritten optimizer (which they call "hypergraph") that will soon become the default, but you can already use if you want to. One application I'm working …

They use US customary, not imperial, they're slightly different sets of units. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units

git rerere will resolve repeated conflicts for you automatically, you just need to enable it. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rerere

The only game hack I've ever discovered by myself (by being too cowardly to proceed through the main route when I was little, wasting time instead on the unatco base, and mindlessl…

I am in Asia, this means nothing, it's the largest continent on earth. I don't pay as much for shipping as the author does, but his struggles are nevertheless relatable: most selle…

They were significantly more expensive for coding compared to DeepSeek's offering because of much higher cost of cache reads and lower cache hit rate. Now, after the price jump, th…

Thank you for bringing that up, such a rarity for this place to remember the other 80% of the world. As someone from just such a country, DeepSeek 0731 was the first time I serious…