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Is there an easy way to “reverse” the effects here? For example, on the “Jelly Button” I don’t want the part I press on to get bigger. I want it to get smaller and “inflate” the ot…

Its zeitgeist appeal has been stuck for like 20 years. The problem with it is that unlike sell-side mortgage fraud, self-driving cars, crypto, and current AI… quantum computing doe…

I’m annoyed that games I play use BattleEye and the use of BattleEye prevents me from being able to switch over to CachyOS on our family gaming PC+TV setup in the play room. Doubly…

Apparently it takes $17M and a whole team full of people to do what one guy with a chip on his shoulder could do for free.

This makes absolutely no sense as a policy. First, there have been huge numbers of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. that Americans simply didn’t want to do, so adding more manufactur…

I meant the other way. I would switch over to playing something like Destiny on Steam on my PC and just use the Windows Xbox app for joining chat parties with my friends, but if I …

The controller design/feel and the more seamless/intuitive online play & party handling kept me on the Xbox side of the fence for a looooooong time. That said, if I didn’t have to …

> When I teach programming, some students, when stuck, will start flailing around - deleting random lines of code, changing call order, adding more functions, etc - and just hoping…

I often consider how many total human lifetimes must have been spent on nothing other than dealing with and/or mitigating something as seemingly banal as Python versioning & depend…

The later PowerCenter Pro’s could run with a 60 MHz FSB whereas the PowerTower Pro’s were usually 45-50 MHz FSB. There are a variety of tasks where my PowerCenter Pro 240 outruns m…

Nah, the whole second-Earth, terraforming nonsense is pure rationalization for whatever they want to do. If they weren’t using that as a post hoc justification, they’d just land on…

Never denied eh? Interesting. I had an MRI denied for a partial pectoral rupture. Which was a routine diagnostic as a precursor to open shoulder surgery to determine the extent and…

This helps with the denials how exactly? You can pay a lot of money in premiums, have a $0 deductible, and now OoP maximum, and still end up having claims denied.

I'm not making a statement about what should be done with guns. I'm making a statement about a person experiencing the consequences of their stated position. If he'd staked out a p…

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The Bicyclopedia seems to think that the frame is the most expensive part of the bicycle. The infernal suspension forks on 3 out of 4 of the bikes in my garage would beg to differ,…

I think people are ideologically aligned with the mission today. It's just that grifting off yet-another-hype-cycle is the mission.

That stinks. I'm sorry. The founders could have taken part of the proceeds to at least adjust your upside with a transaction bonus. It's pretty easy to do.

Erlang's BEAM, assuming no chicanery of NIFs, will use reduction counting to eventually yield a scheduler to make sure other Erlang processes get execution time. This gives you kin…

Sweet baby Jesus, please make it rain potatoes!

I replaced it with insatiable yearning. It's not as good, but it's all I've got.

Both the single header and the zero-allocation callouts can be desirable qualities for something used in an embedded (as in classical MCU-shaped) context. edit: Seeing that it's al…

"passionate about aviation" and "passionate about nice UX" definitely described Noah and the rest of the team! Honestly, I don't remember Re: NSDate. It was many jobs and Dante's l…

Hey! I used to work for the company that makes that logbook software. That was a great job. The CEO was an amateur pilot himself and really, really loved software product design. I…

Bitcask, now there's a blast from the Basho past. It always bugged me that no good secondary indexing strategy was built to make using Bitcask viable for more use cases. Everyone a…