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In retrospect, it makes a lot of sense. Genesis was huge in NA/Europe, but it was considered somewhat of a failure in Japan. Sega has always floundered with its home consoles — the…

2010: All this pump is fake. Sell! 2014: All this pump is fake. Sell! 2018: All this pump is fake. Sell! 2022: All this pump is fake. Sell! See, you can time the market.

Mostly anecdotal opinion as a Chicagoan — Our tech scene has been largely driven by fintech and a few unicorns. And our unicorns tend to be much more bust than boom — Groupon being…

How would GPL help? It doesn't stop hostile forks. Pretty sure the ask isn't the Zen source.

Lifecycles map closer to how the underlying UI layer works, but not to developer expectations. I've lost countless hours to desynced implementations such as failing to account for …

The Zig language doesn't need libc, but because it also includes a fully functional C compiler, it ships with musl source and glibc headers for better crossplatform support.

WeWork would like a chat.

There's a task to rename UB to illegal behavior: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2402 As well as some followups to see if Zig can detect all of these errors: * https://github…

Is he seriously using Javascript as an example of non-OOP language?

Li-ion cells provides 3.6V, which makes them incompatible with traditional alkaline or NiMH. I don't think we've invented a standard for Li-ion batteries yet.

Most compilers for 8-bit and 16-bit CPUs, e.g. Z80 or 80286.

A corollary to this is: the code should match the problem domain. If the business problem is complicated, trying to further simplify the code usually makes it awkwardly abstracted …

Zig has wasm as a built-in compile target — derived from LLVM 8 so Clang has the same functionality. The link to Dom/OpenGL is still a manual process but there’s some efforts gener…

Much worse than that: their (pre-market) valuation is 44B and takeovers require shareholder agreement, usually at least 20% premium to the market — I'd wager the ask price would be…

https://github.com/niw/HapticKey

Funnily enough, the listed MSRP usually much higher than actual dealership price.

Mole was just redefined as exactly 6.02214076e23 — the number of Si-28 atoms in a perfect 1 kg sphere. This was an intentionally check against the kibble balance measurement. More …

tar actually makes sense with a little mnemonic: tar xzf $file - xtract - ze (actually gzip but fake-accent "the" is more memorable) - file

There’s an OS reason: the only way to detect if there’s an incoming or ongoing phone cal is by having full phone permissions.

Pretty strong refutation to his version: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-says-1-000-fraudu...

Stay-at-home dads explains 2 million of this article's main statistic. So even if the remaining 5 million of the "needs work", the employment number is closer to 89%. Edit: there's…

Just concat using a semicolon instead of just a new line.