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>Where is... the vibecoded OS This perhaps isn't an issue at any meaningful industry as I think there is little room in the space for a new OS to take off, but within hobbyist circ…

I haven't tested this myself, but verifying with a driver's license should be supported [1]. Anecdotally, I've heard you have to fail the automatic Apple Wallet credit card verific…

This drove me insane a little while ago. Every single "personalised" Spotify playlist that got shovelled my way had a bunch of songs on it from Olivia Rodrigo's latest album, regar…

What's a computer?

This might be wrong, but based on my own experience of Ubuntu effectively uninstalling itself when I tried to remove a single package. I think most of the default software gets ins…

I've wondered whether this is connected to the olfactory system. Real books have a discernible smell about them, especially older books, and smell is said to be one of the best sen…

>Posts of unknown authorship have a disclaimer at the top of the page. Problem is, the posts can contain elements. So it's easy to just write a little JavaScript that removes the d…

>The universe is infinite. Whether or not this is true, it's somewhat irrelevant, as the observable universe is finite, meaning there's a finite amount of "stuff" that can causally…

>I have a mighty need for something that can quickly render frames of arbitrary pixels. Ideally a line at a time for smoothness. Dependent on the complexity of your application and…

Not sure if this is the same product, but in my job I've met one of the researchers working on this tech. The screens they were able to produce had refresh rates high enough to wat…

I find it amusing that the table published a conservative cutoff year and an optimistic cutoff year. Based on the trends I've seen, most non-critical software would probably have m…

Not the original commenter, but Go programs are all statically-compiled, with everything needed at run time bundled into the executable. Go does use a runtime, but that's incorpora…

Because Microsoft almost have a monopoly on the OS market. Pretty much the only alternative for users who aren't tech savvy enough to comfortably use Linux is to buy a Mac, which w…

Alas this has now been fixed

I've used LibreOffice Calc for plenty number crunching, with a lot of conditional formatting, dropdown data entry, complex cross-sheet formulae, etc. and I've never run into any is…

iOS does not allow notifications by default. Apps must display a system pop-up to request permission to display notifications, and the option is there to deny permission. Whether u…

I remember when I first heard about 5D storage back in 2013 [1][2]. The concept isn't at all new; in fact, there's a 5D storage device floating around in a Tesla in space, and Musk…

>People have expectations going into a game, that it won't be a movie... As a counter-example, we have series like Metal Gear Solid, which are renowned for the huge use of cutscene…

It's got to a point where in games like Skyrim I generally just sell the majority of potions and whatnot, because I know when I get down to it I'll always be thinking there's a bet…

This is depressingly true. Whenever ITV were hosting the match, I generally just resigned myself to not being able to watch it. Besides that, when it did work, the commentary was a…

Reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warnin... Far less than 10,000 years ago, humans likely would've written similar messages on things of imp…

I for one am pretty excited about this. I took a module in medical imaging at university and went looking for real data that I could use in order to experiment with the reconstruct…

Perhaps not automatically, but many cars do save GPS data in their diagnostic data, which could easily be accessed if a case was brought against you.

Don't most messaging apps these days automatically save all photos by default? I believe this is the default setting on WhatsApp and even Telegram. Even if the photo won't be saved…

Amazon in the pursuit of Alexa quality control has most recordings manually reviewed by real people to see whether the response was appropriate. This includes any accidental trigge…