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Coding _as a job_ stopped being fun a long time ago and I think it has a strong effect on my hobby choices. After a day of dealing with issue trackers, AI-generated accessibility r…

Everything in Blade Runner is amazing.

There have been lots of civilisations before. Some that we know of and maybe some that we don't know of yet.

There are lots of portable cassette players on the market, starting at 20€ or less.

Or you can learn to use Vim directly in Vim with :help user-manual.

Parent said "impartial", which rules out both The Economist ("pro") and Jacobin ("anti").

Group policy sadly doesn't like newly registered domains so I can't check this one out right now but it immediately reminded me of this one, that I favorited 4 years ago: https://y…

Well, debugging is the only intellectually stimulating part left in my job so I enjoy it, a lot, while it lasts. To each their own, I guess.

hjkl AND the cursor keys equally suck for moving the cursor because they only move by one line or by one character. jjjllllljjh is just as bad as . There are much better ways to mo…

jkl; are (on QWERTY keyboards). hjkl are not.

hjkl are more of a cult/status thing anyway because they are not _that_ touch-typing-friendly to begin with, and they suck just as much as the cursor keys for moving the cursor aro…

Happy birthday!

Capitals are good. Use capitals.

The entirety of 1999 and 2000 was a nightmare. "No, buddy, we won't change millenium next january." "Nope. We are still in the 20th century." And so on... I think that's more or le…

What's the problem, here?

ext in tonga

When will that "dashboard with tacked-on tablets" trend stop? It can somehow be excused in cheap models because new versions are generally incremental evolutions, which would make …

That would be a third track since the current Web is already (at least) "two-track": humans and search engines.

The world goes on.

A bunch of William Gibsons. Philip K. Dick's Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, and Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said. Clifford D. Simak's City. Classics.

I was 11 when I started roleplaying with gamebooks. I vaguely remember L'œil Noir as a classic among "Livres dont vous êtes le héros". The same year I saw the older kids play a ful…

Not sure what's the most surprising to me. That an attack on ANTS happened or that the Entrevue rag still exists. Also, for what it's worth: https://ants.gouv.fr/toute-l-actualite/…

> Do you separate the product from the founder? Yes… if the founder does. I don't care on which side of which ring they are as long as they keep me out of their pointless fights.

FWIW, you don't have to do any of that to enter China.

The problem is that compositors typically don't have the notion of 3D scene. It's all just a stack of layers, one window per layer. There is no shadow to speak of, only a mask arou…