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OpenType specification is Turing complete, its hinting engine does math during rasterization and its GSUB (Glyph Substitution, a layout and shaping engine) does glyph stacking, QR …

No wonder Magnus lost 4 times in a row.

In Japan there's a karaoke chain that rents sewing machine.

China already produced their first graphic card that got Microsoft WHQL certification. Is it competitive enough? Probably no. Is there a software ecosystem for Chinese hardware yet…

With Chinese robotics capabilities and silicone doll capabilities they can be the forefront in the humanoid robotics if everything converge.

ugghh, benchmarks?

Another case of brain efficiency : jumping spiders. They have less than half of ant's neurons, but instead of bruteforcing computing power they have a different specialized wirings…

Chat, give me information about using copyrighted material in taxonomy.

And the implication is they can modify tomato's DNA to produce nicotine, just like Tomacco from The Simpsons. The Simpsons always predict everything.

So, Google Zanzibar propagation is up to 23 minutes?

Even nitrocellulose for ammunition is produced in Xinjiang. So still depends on China.

I took Lotus 1-2-3 course along with Wordstar and dBase when I was in elementary school. Good times.

The fact that someone can access production database without approved privilege escalation is totally the organization's fault. Not a Cursor failure, nor a Railway failure, nor a b…

Seedance just launched, but they nerfed it. I guess so it can't generate things with preexisting IP.

Are the commands fully compatible with Redis? We use a lot of commands like TTL PTTL EXPIRE PEXPIRE to create various rate limiters.

Eh, China's route is around 15 times more expansive and longer, similar punctuality, and way cheaper ticket per km, about 10-15 times cheaper. The only thing annoying for China's H…

All rendering without real photo is off-putting.

Will binky79 makes a comeback?

They just debuted in house DDR5 2 days ago: https://wccftech.com/cxmt-debuts-domestically-produced-ddr5-...

So Christmas is near the corner then.

I just memorized curl like a lunatic.

You can if you're local. Either IC card or credit card or payment app. I helped developed Merpay, one of the local payment app. These days I almost never use cash. In China it's ev…

Newer DJI drones can see cable down to 4mm using LIDAR and other methods. So yeah, Amazon has some catching up to do.

There are a couple dozens of companies trying to do space cleaning. Let's see if some can succeed.

Isn't Skia controlled by Google?