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Just another reminder of the absolutely massive public benefit that the Internet Archive represents. Just wish they'd make the metadata crowd-sourced, maybe a tie-up with Wikidata.…

> Great, now calm down and go build stuff, and show me the stuff. Also sounds like Reddit where there are whole communities around what seem like part of the process - keyboards, k…

Returning the sample would be flexier and moving onto a comet afterward more so.

> it should be to break them into smaller pieces so they actually have to compete with each other. I wonder what the world would look like if you just prohibited any single organis…

They were right that economics is a dismal science, but to me these days it's not only about the ugly Moloch-like consequences, but also because these utter wierdos are in charge o…

How is that extension compared to, say, DS4 via OpenRouter and the usual VSCode Copilot panel?

For the reader, Kobos are a solid choice that can run open source software (and the software exists, it's not theoretical). My problem with physical books is mostly the physical st…

Also if you can get away with it, all drug traffickers would soon have an online order for their package so if stopped they can just say they're an innocent courier.

You can also SSH into it because it's just running Linux. So you could even just git push.

I remember when Google promised Gmail storage would increase (quote) "forever". A mind blowing at the time 1GB at launch in 2004 to 2GB only a year later. Then 4 GB in 2007. This w…

This is where China has it right. You can pay 1 yuan by WeChat no problem. Scan the QR code, enter "1", the shop terminal says "1 yuan paid" out loud, job done. And yes some things…

I really don't know why EVs necessitate a new software platform. Car makers are shit at software. Actually nearly everyone is shit at software. I know they want to turn their cars …

He's talking about schematic editor though. Personally I don't drag single parts with the mouse because it's two clicks for the same thing, so it's irrelevant which action that doe…

Drag with connections is the default in KiCad 9?

Binary Cadence import is a big one. You no longer need Allegro Viewer for looking at dev board design files and no more license for exporting either.

Chobukubashi would make being left-handed decidedly annoying.

Quite. It will in fact make a lot of problems for you if it gets attacked as then you need to decide if you've just had war declared on you and have to decide what to do about that…

As the UK chief of defense staff commented drily: "we have an aircraft carrier, it's called Cyprus".

I suppose in a way it's like saying diesel engines killed passions for sailing. A career sailor on a sailing ship who finds meaning in rigging a ship just so with a team of shipmat…

But what are they actually pushing for? Like, what does the UK spiralling into a right-wing basket case actually provide to these people? Is it simply that they reckon they can be …

It's also incredibly annoying that Amazon slurped up AbeBooks way back in 2008.

The disappearance of real metal Meccano is really crazy. I know metal is expensive, but also bulk processing of it has never been cheaper or faster. It's also a shame because it's …

In terms of creativity of model options, the Chinese compatibles are stomping them. You can even get a model of post-explosion Chernobyl. Not to mention all the sci-fi tie in from …

Indeed, the people who would like to spend hours and hours hanging out in the digital world like something out of Snow Crash are not generally the kind of people to want to hang ou…