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Wow, the list of missing features exactly matches the list of things I don't want and often behaved like pop-up ads on my desktop. Thanks!

Have you played flappy bird before? You keep pressing the button to get it to flap and stay aloft.

> it puts tension into the spring Well it certainly put tension into the scene! Thanks.

Is there guaranteed to be a solution that encloses the cherry? Is Day 8 the first day to have a cherry?

The Verge's article here is the least compelling. They report it with the same confidence and style as their original article when the Reddit post first made waves. I recommend rea…

That is probably not true if you are transferring from a community college after two years. It's entering as a freshman direct from high school that has all the barriers.

A line I always remember (from Babylon 5) is: "When I clean my place, all I've done is clean my place. But when I help you clean your place, I'm _helping you_." tl;dr you should as…

sqlite does not have native support for a vector-like column type. Extensions like this and sqlite-vec build on the BLOB column type, and provide additional functions to let you ef…

I believe it's free.

It's been really fun following the development of this, Miguel et al have been really open about the design process. A really cool journey for both the UX and the backend. I recomm…

Gmail was also announced on April Fools'...

I just had to fix this for my kid over the weekend. https://steamcommunity.com/app/2767030/discussions/0/5962604... was very helpful: You can also skip the UAC prompt without editi…

This was really useful when looking for product support, as companies regularly pull down or move around pages on their website. Seeing the version of a page at the time google ass…

Watery, yes, that's definitely a component of it!

Yup, that's completely true. But as somebody who typically prefers to buy "cheap" brands, and is usually completely satisfied by them, the fact that I experience such a wide gulf b…

Compared to other brands available in the supermarket, my family finds that Boar's Head deli meats consistently taste better. There is something "cheap" that I find hard to quantif…

Yes, exactly! I'd seen an episode of B5 here and there, but it was hard to know what was going on. My family moved states when TNT bought the show and started airing the series in …

This was the most important web destination for me in high school, so glad it's still up!

Have you never read a blog by an open source nerd? Hell, most nerds I know have written their own blogging software at some point.

Or the battery :P

In some parts of the world, wired lightning headphones are actually cheap bluetooth headphones that only use the lightning port for power (to avoid Apple licensing fees). For the a…

Yeah, that was really cool. A couple of years before that, Harvey Danger (yes, the Flagpole Sitta band) literally released their album Little by Little on BitTorrent. I loved that …

> Advice for myself around leisure activities.

Was going to say the same, I'll bet it's listed as an example question in the prompt or something like that. Seems unlikely to be a hallucination since multiple people got the exac…

Historically, it was designed to resemble C#, yet transpile to GNOME-like GObject-based C code, to provide an alternative way for GNOME developers to get higher level language synt…