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SOTA = state of the art

...and off-by-one errors!

> As I wrote, it does not work at all for concurrent access - I mentioned Google Docs & Co for this. Indeed Google Docs is much better - we also used that - but it's still a WYSIWY…

> Why? It has comments, tracking etc. Concurrent edition i impossible, though (even when MS says it is possible). For that Google Docs is great (or some self-hosted systems) It doe…

> Also, the Steam client has to be one of the most stagnant applications I ever had the pleasure of using, not sure that makes Valve super efficient. If said software is fit for pu…

I think parent refers to Codespaces and vscode.dev, not VSCode proper. These can indeed become gradually more locked down since they are completely online and out of the user's con…

They appear to use this library: https://developers.google.com/blockly/

IC design for behemoths like Intel/AMD/Nvidia. AFAIK none of those is gonna let you anywhere near their multibillion-dollar design without being at the top of the field or having l…

The same way Microsoft was forced to change to Chromium for Edge - Google forcing Chromium-specific features through the standardization process at a rate exhausting for Microsoft …

Lead wrapping thick enough to sufficiently protect against radiation damage is very, very heavy. Beyond LEO, excessive weight is still ridiculously expensive.

>Used to roam my neighborhood trying to beige box into junction boxes for the bell of it . I'd be very surprised if this wasn't accidental given the character of this site, but hol…

Hmm, a similar scheme we used at a previous workplace - lots of references to ancient Greek philosophers, historians and of course deities.

>Uplink Woah. I haven't heard about this game in like a decade! Thanks for the nostalgia.

Greece has other, deeper problems to fix before it makes any attempts in creating any form of industry. The "pissing money away" happened because of internal problems, which can be…

> It’s not as endemic as you make it out to be or there would be a public outcry. It's a matter of time. Even if it's not endemic in the US (which I severely doubt) it's endemic el…

>Ask them to use something else, or get an exception by explaining that you were banned. It isn’t endemic and there are always options Good luck if it's a business or public org. W…

It's much more than that. The homepage hasn't been updated in ages. Recently they had the first fully playable game (Wonderputt): https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/577928 , wi…

Seconding Poetry. IMO it should have been the standard package manager - it just works (TM)

Hah, I've reached 12 too and I'm currently stuck there with no idea how to move forward....

Not my intent to offend anyone and plus I'm not American so I might not know your culture well enough, but please don't. Why should we insert race in technology when 1) it's not us…

This would be true if the world were not as highly interconnected as it is. Nobody wants to risk this "failure" being broadcasted and possibly following them through virality. Peop…

>and the stigma/weirdness has completely gone away. Well, not completely - anecdata but plenty of places on this planet (in the West too) where online dating = you are too desperat…

AFAICS Steve wants to ensure that none of the members of the Foundation have more influence than the others. He seems to suggest that Amazon has taken over a significant portion of…

The new Roundcube is pretty good these days

yep - that's /pol/ - it stands for Politically Incorrect 4chan's indeed a cesspool, and /pol/, /b/, among some others are the worst. In fact, they're called "containment boards" fo…