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> woah 4 years is considered obsolete? No, this device was only discontinued this year, you can still buy accessories and it still receives software updates. It just turns out thei…

It's https://rachelbythebay.com/ and doesn't seem to be down.

While I understand and perhaps even agree with the semantic argument, the reality of the web is that this will be abused. A sane implementation for a browser would be for an action…

SBCL works fine on Windows. It used to display a warning about fragility at startup, but that was removed in version 2.0.3, 6 years ago, after already being obsolete for quite a wh…

Have you tried podman with the crun OCI runtime and `--annotation=run.oci.handler=krun`?

Yeah that seems like a weird way to end an article that includes this paragraph: > Fly Machines and our Platform As A Service features aren’t going anywhere. But Sprites was the pr…

> As far as Jellyfin is concerned, your files must include a tag of the form S__E__ somewhere in the filename. Being located in a folder called "Season 2" with names like "11 - nam…

> There is meta-programming with annotations: There is, but your example is not valid. You can't use short function syntax in constant expressions, it has to be an explicit `static…

> So what happens if we look only at small carts, where the entire order is just 2 or 3 items? How is this the last thing in the article? The sole example given of a "funny" combin…

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> Blank the page immediately with "document.body.innerHTML=''" before the page replacement That's what the "document.body.style.opacity = 0;" is for. Though I agree emptying out th…

> Every post about programming languages seems to mention Rust. Even C++ articles bring up Rust, and Zig articles bring up Rust. "Even C++" makes no sense. That's exactly where you…

> Anyway, let's try to discuss something more technical: I'll note that this is followed by an entirely non-technical statement of opinion.

The company seems to be primarily in Germany (Aachen), with headquarters/holding company just across the border in The Netherlands (10km away in Lemiers, right on the border). That…

You call it "boring advertising on consumer apps", but that's exactly where all the shady stuff keeps happening.

A private company doing DARPA-funded research.

There's really only a conflict between A and the rest, and that's because A is a lie. It's not a good thing, if it were they wouldn't have to say B and C. They can try to do better…

Yes, that is exactly what a reasonable outcome looks like when the seller doesn't want to increase the price to levels their target customers can't afford. Some people won't be abl…

It doesn't work on bus, metro or tram, which GVB operates, but it does work on trains from all operators, not just NS.

Sourcehut supports Mercurial, if the email workflow is your cup of tea. There's also Heptapod, which I believe is a fork of GitLab with added Mercurial support. I'm not aware of an…

> I rent their 20GB VRAM instance GEX44, for which they now ask a 500 euro one-time setup fee Along with the increase in monthly prices they've dropped setup fees back to more appr…

Hetzner doesn't offer dedicated servers in the US. They operate two of their own data centers in Germany and one in Finland. In the US and Singapore they offer only cloud servers, …

Packages in the AUR have some number of maintainers. When a maintainer no longer wants to maintain the package they can disown it, and when all maintainers do so the package become…

> Guess I'll be switching to a new OS this weekend across multiple machines. This is a bit of an odd response. Arch very explicitly separates the AUR from everything else and doesn…

It's a bit buried, but it does: > In contrast to conventional radial flux motors, the electromagnetic flux in an axial flux motor runs parallel to the axis of rotation. The key com…