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As a society we find violence or harm against children to be extremely shocking and tragic. As a society we would do almost anything to prevent it. Giving children the kinds of fre…

Maybe I'm an idiot, but I was really struggling to understand how this worked from the website, which seems to have no photos or video of it actually operating. I searched youtube …

The author addresses this in the post. "I'm not interested in temporary sheep like those that get driven over Southwark Bridge in September or shorn at the Lambeth Country Show in …

I think this is kind of a bad take. There have been plenty of "monster catching game"/"pokemon with the serial numbers filed off" games that have been somewhat successful, but no s…

My biggest question is "why would I buy this and not Aseprite?". Aseprite is very well established in this space and this new tool doesn't seem like it has anythign unique to offer…

I recently tried Literate Programming and I've found that it has some downsides not commonly discussed by its advocates. (It also has upsides which are valid, this post may come ac…

I recognized the Reservoir Dogs example just from my brain. To the site author, if you're going to list unknown images like this it would be nice if there was a way to give you fee…

The github page has screen grabs of all the fonts in each stack: https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks

That's only for the telemetry that happens during the install process (if I've read the link correctly). Seems quite reasonable as long as we accept them sending telemetry during i…

In Magic, cards come in one of 5 colours* - white, blue, black, red, and green. Each colour has specific mechanics associated with it as well as a general play style. Magic players…

It's not just you. There's a community on reddit called "mechanicalheadpens" centered around the overlapping interests in mechanical keyboards, audiophile headphones, and fountain …

I believe that they would have written the manuscript, probably by hand but possibly aided by a typewriter, and then given it to a typographer (probably one with experience working…

Interestingly named package given that it's clearly using quite a few non-ascii characters which will break non-unicode aware consoles. Also that the description, Node page, and gi…

In general I prefer languages to be small and simple - like Go and C. This doesn't seem to be a design goal for Rust, which puts me off. Some specifics: Trying to do anything non-t…

I think this may be exactly what I've been looking for. I've been wanting a "Better C" type of language, but all the existing candidates fall down on some point like - too complica…

Mind if I steal this idea? I've been meaning to learn some elisp for a while and games revolving around fictional computer interfaces appeal to me.

It appears to be a standard 6 axis robot arm equipped with a specialist end effector designed to pick, mortar, and place bricks. It's possibly on a linear track to drive up and dow…

This is only idle speculation but: A web cam resembles an eye staring at you all the time. This makes people feel weird, like something is staring at them. The threat to privacy is…