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The religious have managed to make every YouTuber say "gosh" though.

Not per se, but indirectly penalizing modest people is not OK.

I had the same problem initially. It's sometimes easier on the command line, since piping file and directory objects to commands generally binds their PSPath to LiteralPath using a…

Marquee, blink, i, b... Older people like me remember the old "innocent" days of the internet. It's probably nostalgia, but the modern web doesn't seem exciting anymore...

IANAL, but they either have to honor the verbal contract (pour an additional cup AND pay $20) OR the contract is void and therefore they can be sued for assault. Of course, the "ca…

That's a great point about stripping authorship. It would be nice if there was some sort of blockchain linking every bit of knowledge to its source. Some people at least would like…

You are using LLMs to summarize bloated articles probably generated by LLMs. Maybe stop paying attention to such "articles" and cut the middleman?

I'm also not a fan of overly-funny writing, but I just wanted to say that I found your style quite enjoyable. Maybe it's because a can relate somewhat to your situation... :b

If A can die from sesame seeds and B can't and the A-to-B ratio is something like 1:1e+6, doesn't it make more sense for A to bake their own bread instead?

The Wikipedia entry on text-based user interfaces uses IT as an example of a text-mode program featuring a pixel-accurate mouse pointer. The "citation-needed" had always been annoy…

I think it was a rhetorical question. I wasn't a big fan of the SS series, but those damn kamikaze still echo in my mind. I've even had nightmares about them...

You could then fix the inverted x axis by using the mouse on the underside of the table. Works fine with optical mice, but a ball mouse might require fiddling with gravity (or magn…

I still prefer it the way it was when I started using computers with DOS 6.x and Windows 3.1: underline in console, bar in GUIs, block in both with overwrite mode. Always blinking …

That's like a programming language with 0.5-based array indexing.

David Crane, the creator of Pitfall, explains it all very nicely in a GDC Classic Game Postmortem [1]. I'm linking at the relevant timestamp, but the whole video is pure Atari 2600…

Although they're the same glyph, they are different codepoints in Unicode. There's an old joke about replacing semicolons with Greek question marks in JavaScript and baffling your …

And that the semicolon was used as a PRINT statement terminator when you wanted to suppress the implicit newline at the end.

I "solved" that by using two assembling passes. The first had dummy jump/call addresses in order to determine the code offsets of labels. Then I would resolve the relative offsets,…

Wouldn't that cause positive feedback in the analytics? Firefox usage is already below the magic 5%. If we start hiding, we may soon join IE5 in unsupported land.

An X-Mouse mode was available since at least Win98SE [1]. It was hidden and you had to enable it in the Registry [2], typically via Tweak UI. That mode would move the input focus w…

There's MMCE†, the spiritual successor of Marble Marcher. I've only played the original some years ago and it was pretty awesome. You simply have to move a ball across a 3D fractal…

I would pay much more for YouTube if they offered proper search and filtering tools. There's so much interesting stuff hidden behind light years of fluff. Ymmv, of course.

For future DaaS perhaps. Everything is becoming a service, why not decoration...

I also skipped that, but we won't have to worry about it anymore. They started enabling it by default. Recently got a toast notification that I barely got to read. Soon they'll pro…

Known as myriads to many ancient civilizations. Fun fact: in modern Greek a million is called "ekatommyrio", which means 100 (ekató) myriads.