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This actually happened to me, but fortunately I never actually used the domain. I registered tweed.dev intending to use robert.tweed.dev as a personal blog. It wasn't classed as a …

Alone in the Dark was notable at the time for using Gouraud shading [1]. You can see the effect on some of the polygons here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsGaVrMr9N8&t=480s The…

I'd be fine with shorts if they didn't disable the normal player controls.

It feels like an example of Betteridge's law of headlines, despite not being a question.

Ah, I only skimmed the article and missed that. The BBC RSS feed was the main example I referred back to while I was learning XSLT around 2010-ish. AFAIK it's the only major implem…

If anyone is looking for a real-world example, the BBC does it: http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml

How is it in terms of heat & condensation build-up? Is there a certain amount of time after which it starts getting uncomfortable? Also, is passthrough good enough for things like …

I'm definitely taking my UV torch to the supermarket next time. However, most good olive oils come in dark glass bottles, so I don't think it will be possible to check those. Might…

I don't have a green laser, but I just tried shining a 365nm UV torch on the various bottles of oil in my kitchen. My good EV olive oil in a glass bottle goes a sort of pinkish col…

Why not just a scanner app for your phone? They work pretty well. I have a flatbed scanner that I keep stored away most of the time, until I need to scan a bunch of stuff quickly. …

I always (and only) use named colours for debugging. For example border: 1px solid red; around some element that isn't rendering as expected. This makes it hard to accidentally for…

I'm not sure if there's a list, but a notable example of this is Day of the Tentacle, the sequel to Maniac Mansion. In the game there is a computer, which if you interact with it, …

A glass eye filled with tritium would probably give enough light to read with, continuously, with a half-life of 10 years. It might get a bit annoying when you want to go to sleep …

Yes, same here. It's not just "I'm hungry". It's more "I cannot think about anything other than food". I'm not sure it has anything to do with burning fat stores though, because I …

More anecdata, but I find it depends on the type of exercise. An hour of cardio equals several hours of appetite suppression. An hour of heavy weight training equals several hours …

I think the conclusion here is back-to-front. Code that never needs to be touched is fine. Although the odds are that such code is either completely trivial or subtly wrong (or bot…

It's also possible that copyright does not apply to this kind of image, because it lacks the creative element required for copyright to apply.

The Toshiba HX-10 MSX came with 2 plugs and a screwdriver. This was considered important enough to include a picture on the box, never mind the manual. https://www.msx.org/wiki/Tos…

It even claims to parse ls output correctly (see caveat): https://kellyjonbrazil.github.io/jc/docs/parsers/ls

For a few seconds I thought it was Lite-On, best known for their cheapo CD/DVD drives. Seems to be completely unconnected though.

This is a separate problem Amazon needs to sort out. Far too many duplicate products with a different ASIN. They could easily fix that with manual inventory checking, but they don'…

Adversarial reviews. The problem isn't just fake positive reviews. The other problem is fake negative reviews left by competitors, which is already a problem on Amazon. Most 1-star…

There is a valid reason, which is custom configuration for each application. How you want a tablet to act in Blender is likely not the same as you would want in Photoshop. A lot of…

Some of these could exist if we just start using them. The best one I've found: tootbox toot·box a place where something, especially music, plays "do you need a tootbox in your bed…