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I had the exact opposite experience. It doesn't teach the basics needed to even solve the first puzzle. Which language are we even writing in? Clicking help explains what exactly t…

You mean un-uninstallable crapware? This has at least a technical reason: Preloaded apps are part of the read-only system image and cannot be removed. "Disabling" should be equival…

Mobile browsers are assuming you're looking at a legacy page optimized for desktops (widescreen) and have a relatively large virtual screen size by default. They expect you to manu…

The image gets de-saturated but the noise that's mixed in is colored. This looks like a mistake. I think the noise is also way too 'soft'. At high frequencies it just becomes near-…

Firefox on Android can override this via a toggle in the Accessibility settings. Maybe other browsers have something similar?

The perspective shifts so that the up-down direction becomes the hidden dimension. So the ceiling and floor disappear (and you have trouble avoiding lava) and you only see the wall…

I wish TERM would contain a list of terminal types in decreasing order of specificity, like 'ghostty:xterm-256color', so a system that doesn't know what ghostty is would fall back …

To be clear, walking backwards (away from the target) reduced your bullet velocity relative to the target, reducing the damage you were doing and leading to you needing more shots.…

The bad tutorial at least has some narrative justification. It's just a filter for people who are already useful as shock troops with minimal training.

The only wrong thing I've been throwing is the SOS Beacon instead of a Reinforce, which is just annoying, and not just once. It makes the game public if it was friends-only and giv…

The game logic is also weird. It seems like they started with at attempt at a realistic combat simulator which then had lots of unrealistic mechanics added on top in an attempt to …

Which codegen backend the building compiler uses is independent of which codegen backend(s) the built compiler uses. Similarly, you can build Clang using itself or using GCC. The r…

The "about" does a lot of heavy lifting in this example. Dividing 10,000,000_10 by the number of grains that fit into one universe doesn't change it much. The 10,000,000 would get …

Different access rules, I guess. Or maybe they wanted some separation from the existing org so the custom automation has no chance of doing collateral damage.

MSYS2 is basically Cygwin with Pacman for package management, plus several other environments with either GCC or Clang and different Windows-Native C and C++ runtimes. It's nice, b…

Pretty much. AFAIK you're waiting for Windows Defender and other hooks to run.

I think the implication was that they're pointers to objects that own resources (like containing FILE handles) and need to be "freed" with a custom function, not just "free". void …

No, it also covers the data. As long as you don't delete the rollback subvolume, all the original data should still be there, uncorrupted. Even if you disable copy-on-write, as lon…

All of it. With a checksums-of-checksums scheme like a Merkele tree, you can effectively and efficiently checksum all the data and keep incremental changes cheap. You only need to …

When people "donate their body to science", they don't usually expect their parts getting sold to the public. But that's the reality of it.

Because it's an incredibly complex mess that will allow sandbox escape if it isn't implemented exactly right. Also, it's still in draft status. Not that that means much.

No, they're talking about the local connections that are covered by the ticket. They're that bad. I've had similar experiences commuting into Cologne where it's 40 minutes by car o…

The main reason they picked Arch is the rolling release model with updates from upstream projects they work with landing quickly and continuously. So yes, TH's speculation is just …

I'm not sure how this gets rendered, but the lack of hinting makes it a strain to read. What irony that an article about progress in text rendering has such awful rendering quality…

I don't know about power stations, but it's a common feature in medical devices. E.g. keyboards have a flat or nearly-flat surface so they can be easily cleaned by wiping without l…