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The VCR became widespread during the 1980s > The industry boomed in the 1980s as more and more customers bought VCRs. By 1982, 10% of households in the United Kingdom owned a VCR. …

I wish you could disable fullscreen (enable the navigation bar) on Android though :-(

> Where unsigned does benefit here is when these are used as indices into an array. The signed behavior will almost certainly produce invalid indices which leads to memory unsafety…

Also in French, different similarity, av2il hav2e Slightly worse in English, av2age mav2ick

I believe this is the most common scenario, yes. If you're used to actively pushing and pulling from the same branche as your colleagues, you need to learn how to manipulate diverg…

I intuitively feel like more realistic games could be more fun, and that I might just have fondness for Space Cadet from growing up with it; but the more I played other pinball gam…

To those who do not know about this subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Moldova_and_Rom... (My external barely informed understanding is that proponents of unific…

Even just the plain etch-a-sketch using motion sensing is cool enough. I suppose this might have been done already?

I was not aware of Radicle; it's a truly peer-to-peer Git forge which aims to guarantee commits are signed by current maintainers (among, I suppose, other goals). The article menti…

After a quick search, there is an NFC web API, but with no general support https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_NFC_API

Sounds like they might have been working the gigs? Maybe a sounds engineer

Yeah, this screamed US date format to me! (Though there's no year in this clock)

I like the Trosh game

Similarly I've used it for technical interviews.

To my surprise, this graph [0] shows that even when taking into account vaping, it seems that smoking has truly gone down in the US. [0]: https://ecigone.com/featured/vaping-statis…

Your instinctive reaction matches with scientific consensus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing > Each historical invention of writing emerged from systems of proto-w…

The dedicated term GPGPU [0] didn't catch on. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_g...

These rely on undoing within a game's constrained environment. There isn't a way to magically undo any possible procedure with side effects.

I appreciate the fact that they waited two months to check their results before sharing them publicly. However, this feels like there should be a hypothesis for explaining the diff…

A vimmer*

His crusade is in part about how pods are overdosed which can reduce their effectiveness (and be super wasteful)

The game looks fun and pretty, but am I the only one to get triggered by the “replaced” naming? All of these eager claims to replace humans feel violently antisocial. (And in many …

Is this bait? The whole context is malicious software being installed en masse via NPM micro dependencies.

It's equivalent to xargs -I {} rm {} -I replace-str Replace occurrences of replace-str in the initial-arguments with names read from standard input. Also, unquoted blanks do not te…

"[name-redacted]" is quite distinct and searchable imo