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Been there. The place is tiny, but very well curated, and packed floor to ceiling with interesting gadgets, some of which you are even allowed to touch. They also sometimes organiz…

Soccer is hard because it's competitive though. Kicking a ball around and putting it between two posts is easy enough, but it gets hard as soon as you have someone trying to do the…

Very nice project! That browser tab is staying open for days. I found a small mistake, the Argentina 2000 list [1] shows "Babasónicos - Ella usó mi cabeza como un revolver", but th…

This Rails commit from May 2010 mentions gitkeeps and it's a few months older than your SO post, so it seems you're absolved from guilt: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/78549…

I entered plankton, which technically isn't an animal and so it rejected it like any other random word, but then after I lost it offered me a link to the Wikipedia article on plank…

It pulls its data from Wikidata, which is very thorough, so I'd be more surprised if you managed to enter an animal it didn't know.

Perhaps the key word is "wooden"? Which is not to say much older wooden tools didn't exist, but it's likely extremely rare that they would be preserved this long.

Hokkaido got some back in November: https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16155623

https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/comparison-to-asdf.html > mise can be used as a drop-in replacement for asdf. It supports the same .tool-versions files that you may have used with a…

Why into Word specifically?

> You might have noticed that there aren’t any vowels in the alphabet Then in the next table: > 𓄿 is pronounced “ah” as in “yacht” > 𓇋 is pronounced “ee” as in “feet” > 𓅱 𓏲 is …

I'm also still a FF user, but I'm eyeing Waterfox [1] and Floorp [2], both FF forks. Waterfox has the stronger privacy focus out of the two, but Floorp doesn't strike me as being a…

That's awesome, what size did you print it? Are the random sparse Chinese characters floating around the main spiral a natural part of Unicode, or did you put them there for effect…

Weird, I had no issues playing it on FF.

It looks pretty but it's so low resolution I can barely make out any words. Found a higher res version though (embedded in a PDF, page 7): https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/…

If you want to compare it against other languages you could look at The Computer Language Benchmarks Game [1], which is an ongoing comparison of various programs written in various…

I get a 403 error. Any mirrors?

It was a legislative election, Milei's party won 26 new seats between senators and deputies, which compared against the next most popular party (peronists) which had a net loss of …

Also Ruby doesn't have triple quotation marks (""") string literals.

Last I heard they were planning to move to Swift [1] partly because of the safety features. Apparently there are still some blockers [2] preventing that move though. 1: https://x.c…

This more than doubles the usefulness of Blender for video editing, glad they finally got around implementing it.

Many youtubers have sponsorships though, and their viewership stats come into play when negotiating with potential sponsors. I guess if everyone was hit equally across the board th…

This is tangential, but I recommend Katsushiro Otomo's (of Akira fame) dystopian take on large-scale automated construction, the short movie Construction Cancellation Order, part o…

Yeah, I too think that's likely the direction we're heading, and I'd be fine with either option as long as it was consistently used, this transitional phase is just painful.

Spanish uses the long scale, but lately I've been noticing people mistakenly using the short scale in Spanish more and more, likely due to the influence of English and the internet…