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I switched from Apple Watch to a Garmin Fenix 7, for much longer battery life (advertised as ~14 days, in practice 10-12), durability (they're very tough), better biometrics, and s…

one thing to note (I didn't see it in the article or the comments as of this moment) but a thing that happened a lot with eg LL Bean was, people were buying old Bean stuff from yar…

can you perhaps elaborate on which companies and in what capacity?

Sad to not see "dart" in there, I assumed from Letterkenny that it was a regular Canadianism. Perhaps it's too new?

the point is not that firefox is "not doing much worse than chromium browsers". the point is that they were founded upon principles of not doing that

I think for the average user it's more of a remnant of NeXTStep. It is galling that Little Snitch doesn't let you use a supported feature; but I think Apple doesn't really care abo…

on Sequoia, it's already separated. Apps shipped as part of the OS live in /System/Applications, and stuff you install (however you do it) are in /Applications.

Foamed glass gravel was invented in the early 20th century, by the Soviets no less, and started being used more in the 80s. It is a "boring" technology. (Source: https://www.glavel…

my head canon is that in the Dune universe, their response to the Butlerian Jihad was to develop better and better mechanical computers; specifically, via miniaturization, down to …

It is a "cultural fit" test, a cousin of "how many golf balls can you put in a manhole cover" or whatever. The question aims to figure out if you're going to take on certain tasks,…

Only thing I can't hide yet is the "sign in" in the upper-right.

Now see, I'm the opposite. I would like to pay a reasonable fee to drive a silver-and-oaken stake through the heart of the collab features. I will pay real money to just make it al…

According to Script Debugger, hardly the massive powerhouse that may end humanity like GPT-4, it's the "bounds" property of a window, specifically the 3rd element.

From what I've seen so far, the best writers (and, I suppose, the best _editors_) tend to get the best results from ChatGPT. I have seen some examples of people whose writing I alr…

One of the Xeelee Sequence novels deals with this problem specifically: a pilot in an FTL space fighter uses multiple hops to defeat an enemy, and ends up back before he left. It's…

One of the last things I remember about Atom was that by the time they’d figured out all the stuff they needed to fix, VSCode had come in and stolen all the eyeballs, so to speak. …

If we're collecting scifi references to water planets, "Neptune's Brood" by Charlie Stross features a very large water world, and the problems of certain minerals (like uranium) di…

So do you only work for companies who have 100% open source and whose business model or product is a public benefit? Eg, "I value my freedom" is a perfectly acceptable position, un…

It's really nice having the National Radio Quiet Zone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Q... in very close driving distance. Camping trips are always very,…

Can you be more specific? We’re evaluating them now and it’s been fine.

The remote ssh/container stuff is closed, as is Pylance.

Those actually created big parts of the SW EU! Stuff that was written for those games got authorized into canon. Star Wars also produced a ton of new material for its EU. It was a …

My annoyance with this is, you can pretty much run a "Blade Runner" TTRPG with any suitable system. You barely need to do any prep: we know there's guns, space ships, FTL, extremel…

Neuromancer had the "Turing police" monitoring AIs. Watts Blindsight universe has the "Cloudkillers", who turn off AI that gets too smart. It's becoming a more common trope in sci-…

if memory serves, it was early after launch. I follow a few playlists and their profile photos are usually cartoons (eg Lofi Girl).