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There's some space for improvement, but really... not a lot? Result is a pretty basic type, sure, but needing to choose a dependency to get a nicer abstraction is not generally con…

Physical thank you cards are pretty dead. I don't even keep track of mailing addresses for a number of my friends (and a couple siblings, come to think of it) - how would I send th…

There are legitimate criticisms that AI is harming creative endeavours. AI output is sort of by definition not particularly innovative. By flooding spaces with repetitive AI work, …

There's a difference between contempt (i.e. "users are stupid") and realism, though. And realism can range from "users don't want to troubleshoot" to "some users are near-violently…

Also, as a Vancouverite... 5-6 stories, cheaper to live there, AND more comfortable? Dunno about that. I've got doubts about cheaper, and 5-6 story buildings in Vancouver always se…

> You can see plenty of other skyscapers, some looking similar height or nearly as tall. Just not any on the side of the river the Squamish are planning on building. That's kind of…

More importantly, knowing and caring are two different things. I know that Velcro/Kleenex/Google are specific brands, but I don't really care - the common usage is so far gone that…

Eh. Military aircraft would also have a transponder, they just wouldn't necessarily have active broadcasts. Civilian aircraft do broadcast actively (ADS-B). But they also respond t…

This still doesn't explain why the language of the compiler matters. I could write a C compiler in Pony-lang targeting a 30-year-old MCU were I so inclined. The available compilers…

The point is that you limit where you're doing that. Like just as an example - I can write an allocator and toggle register bits etc. All of that requires unsafe code, raw pointers…

Sometimes the reviews are about the game, but they're being left because that's the thing to do according to the internet that day. So a legitimate grievance but blown of proportio…

Apparently it's just moving that to runtime, which is kind of terrifying and misses the point. "If the owned value is dropped but references to it still exist, a panic is produced …

You can see the sun? All I see is grey smoke slowly settling down on us. It's going to suck for a couple days, I think.

I mean, I'd love to just for the space savings alone. Multiple monitors take up quite a bit of space. If I could repurpose the space for other things without losing functionality t…

It's not an artificial distinction at all, but it is subtle. 2, 4, even 256 sockets exchanging data can be worked with concurrently on a single thread and gain performance vs block…

Semi-relevant, I've recently realised that fear of wildlife is actually cultural - large parts of the world are taught to fear/avoid smaller wildlife like snakes or insects, for po…

You don't even have to go north, really. Just driving a few nights on a quiet, dark road outside the big cities late at night will convince you that deer 1) basically teleport 2) a…

I can't recall for certain, but I think the Hue lights are brighter than IKEA's Tradfri lights. Certainly the newer 1100 lumen (max) ones should be. There's also the issue that the…

I think 2D tilemaps is a great example of how quickly Godot can fall over terribly, though. And that's (as has been mentioned elsewhere) mostly an issue of polish. Godot can do the…

I usually charge my watch while sleeping and grab it in the morning along with my phone, but I'd assume a second watch would work? It's an expensive route with the watch, but it's …

I'm not sure wind and weather are solved. Planes, ships, and to a lesser extent cars/trains are still lost to weather quite frequently. Yes, we can track it better, but people stil…

You're technically correct (the best kind!) but in practice one can largely ignore server state in some applications. I've got a side project where the data is stored server side. …

Looks like standard machines and not really servers, but there's nothing wrong there. Fairly clean wiring, no random cables, etc etc. HDD testing is a little sketchy, but they need…

For some ratio of cost to weight, with consideration as to where on the ship it is... if you have time to calculate such things. In this case they probably do, if they really care …

In my case, at least, GH actions is the only place with all the secrets necessary to deploy my (small) webapp. Sure, I can generate alternative tokens and pull some things out of 1…