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Yeah, I was wondering (I haven't updated, patiently waiting for the next major). But here's a great piece about them: https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

IIRC, the Kinect was supposed to be an integral part of the XB1 package, but was made optional to compete (price-wise) with the PlayStation 4. Pretty unfortunate.

I know that Canada (where I live) has introduced the Air Passenger Protection Regulations[1] in 2019 (and making it better since then), which does have "tarmac delays" clauses[2]. …

Rocky IV always comes to mind as a (the?) prime example of this in film.

I have my LaTeX resumé on GitHub, and I have a GitHub Action that rebuilds it on a PR, allowing me to see a "staging" version of it. Then it gets deployed to its final destination …

> It's easy to forget that 10-15 years ago, the most common dev/ops model was "toss it over the fence" 15 years ago it was often still I without the C, integration that wasn't cont…

It is! It actually verifies the link on the Mastodon side, by adding a 'rel="me"' to the link: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/#verification

I don't know if that's everywhere in Japan but in 2014 I was in Tokyo having lunch outside when suddenly this fast alert (ie. not a slow siren) started blaring, 5 seconds later the…

I did some consulting work for a big Canadian telco, a project to monetize their cell tower data. It was obviously all tokenized. Not sure if there was any restrictions on who coul…

> but the anti-NFT crowd doesn't seem to get it and that is just as frustrating I don't hate on NFT themselves, but the artificial scarcity bizzaro ponzi pump-and-dump cult aura ar…

Prime use-case for HTTP 418!

Calculators are still distraction-free. They're a purpose-build device. Our exams in engineering school took into account we could solve 5 equations/unknowns problems with our TI-9…

The Game Boy Advanced SP had a reflective screen and it played better in full sunlight. It was quite a remarkable display.

At this point it's like if AWS services are spread so thin so they can come up with new names (and sub-sub names, see: SageMaker). i.e. https://twitter.com/wrongservices

It ended up being more like 5[0], but still a crazy crunch. [0] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2008/03/06Apple-Announces-iPh...

> If you get covid as a healthy young person you have about a 1 in 10,000 chance of dying COVID is not just about death though, there's proven lingering neurological and cardiovasc…

> Its journey continued to Ellesmere Island in Canada, where it arrived on 1 July Can't miss Canada Day celebrations

The FDB Record Layer white paper [0], section 8.1, does open with: > 8.1 New CloudKit Capabilities > CloudKit was initially implemented using Cassandra as the underlying storage en…

I'll add Debuggex to the list that does a visual representation of a Regex and can be a god-send. https://www.debuggex.com