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I'm not sure how I feel about "Entangled Life" on the first page of books in "science". Isn't that slop? I mean, it's pop-science bullshit, and it's based on feelgood extrapolation…

I was asking myself: Why? Isn't this in bad taste? Isn't this continuing a meme long after it has turned from funny to sad? I am sure the answer is just because we can, just for fu…

hand-held laser speed measuring

Wayland will stop sucking when distros and Wayland developers stop dismissing these concerns by comparing them to people who didn't want to adopt systemd. The worst part of this mi…

It's really hard to figure out how the system differs from PeopleMover. Is this new tech, or just a new vendor for basically the same design they have at Disney? Wait, is this a Ma…

Gnome is the worst of the wayland compositors in terms of spec compliance. KDE and sway are much better in this regard. What good is having protocol specifications when the referen…

Open source is the "development model", free software is the license. I thought this was common knowledge.

There is a difference between free software and open source, and this may be the former, but is not the latter

This might be controversial, but I honestly think it's important to recognise and counteract his in content moderation. When people deliberately give bad info they should be banned…

But if you want to move the heat away from a CPU, wouldn't you want to pump more electricity into the Peliter element to move heat away faster?

Yeah, this is the version that is not true

I have tried to find the roots of this "pizza effect" myth, but all I could find is somebody making a point about mindfulness meditation and yoga, and I am not even sure how it hol…

No, it's not about the "optimal way", it's about the oft-cited the factoid "90% of people are haptic learners, 30% are visual learners, 15% are auditory learners, 25% are text-base…

I want this guy to duke it out with the developers of chicken scheme

People who say "electric cars are good enough now, the median distance driven is just 20km anyway" act as if that's a good thing. If you use an electric car only for a commute, why…

Is this a parody? Is this deliberately designed flame bait? It reminds me of adequacy.org back in the day. I don't think I should discuss this post on its merits, because (I suspec…

Canon? Isn't Turing being canonised the problem in the first place?

I use json schema. I used to understand what it is and what it does. Now I don't.

The last time I evaluated these for use in my app, I found that the "consistent" and "minimalist" visual style makes it really difficult to recognise object/plant/food emoji from o…

That doesn't seem right. Does that mean when I buy any proprietary software and then reverse engineer and leak the source code, they can't sue me?

It would not be correct in German either (source: Native speaker, went to Grammar School). This is just another instance of North Americans (I haven't really seen this in British E…

Sometimes I think anti-recommendations (e.g. asyncio) are far more useful. You don't learn a lot from many open source libraries or standard library modules if you try to imitate t…

This comes to mind: https://store.steampowered.com/app/951360

pygame team member here There's an important caveat: We provide an API for the SDL2 render system, and some functionality for up-scaling pixel art games on the GPU, but existing py…

It's true. Source: I benchmarked some PyGame pixel pushing. HPy might alleviate that in the future, but C extensions need to switch to HPy for that.