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That's only true if the engineers are not allowed to copy/steal from existing designs. There are plenty that are better than GIMP (e.g. Photoshop, Krita, ...). If nothing else, mak…

They didn't say "reality must be wrong". They said that their initial hypothesis (that significant changes would be observed after 21 days) is probably wrong, so they implicitly pr…

The author of that post wrote "difftastic", which is "a structural diff that understands syntax" using treesitter. https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/ https://github.com/Wilfred/diff…

Will making (non-)computer viruses illegal sanitize the world of them?

A few years ago, the main advantage was merely that "Sidebery is far less buggy and much more performant than Tree Style Tab". Nowadays, the gap has... widened. The little details …

A very interesting property: Knights have odd-even parity, i.e., they attack only opposite colored squares. Pop quiz: How many knights can you place on a board so that they don't a…

Personally, I would prefer the conventional Latin Modern math font instead of Palatino math. Latin Modern is used by: - Wikipedia. - Math.StackExchange. - Nearly all papers, includ…

How would an AGI gain access to an unlimited credit card that immediately gives it remote access to all GPUs in the world?

It's also quite silly that society often credits one guy at the top who supposedly has "incredible vision" and yet would likely fail at explaining even the most basic technical det…

See "concert earplugs" that try to reduce the volume with minimal distortion.

64k tokens ought to be enough for anybody.

`jj split -i` gives: > error: unexpected argument '-i' found Actually, maybe I'm just a complete git, but I couldn't figure out how to `git reset HEAD~` my accidental commits, `git…

Neat tricks. Beyond BufWriter (which I'm already using) and multthreading, I'm guessing there's not much to be done to improve my "frece" (a simple CLI frecency-indexed database) t…

Technically impossible since queens cannot materialize out of thin air, except in crazyhouse. Also Rg1+ is a rather pretty attraction/clearance sacrifice/double check/mate-in-2.

Nearly no one inhabits Greenland and Antarctica, which might help explain why the only visible relative increase in Arctic/Antarctic nationalism comes from enthusiastic polar bears…

The issue isn't possible bias on the part of educated cartographers and differential geometers. It's the bias of the majority, i.e. everyone else, that matters. A vast majority of …

From a non-expert's standpoint, Vulkan feels quite unusable and complex.

Ideally, arrays should start at 0.5 -- that is the best compromise. Or maybe start with 0.25, since starting with 0 is three times better than starting with 1.

The main thing I miss in these vi-like browsers is a tab tree sidebar like Sidebery.

I guess JIT type specialization / "monomorphization" might be one way to do it, but I expect that it would be bottlenecked by all the surrounding CPython interpreter stuff. /amateu…

Replication does not help in managing completely. That's why we use abstractions, even with the problems they have.

For example, it only took 20 years (!!) to stop Ctrl+Q from quitting Firefox on Linux. :) IIRC, a couple of patches did get submitted, but never accepted for unknown reasons.

This happens on Linux too. I was wondering if the weird CPU-hogging flickering was a bug in my compositor (picom) or window manager (i3) or browser (Firefox). Turns out to be a "fe…

The "average color" (or whatever it is) could have been pre-computed server-side rather than tiring out the poor innocent client CPUs.