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Mountain Lion dropped support for 32 bit kernel. I only know this because Apple didn’t provide a patch for first generation Mac Pro users, even though the CPUs were 64 bit and coul…

The former Japan license-holder for Pyrex still makes it as Iwaki

> As a software developer, I am used to finding and fixing the underlying problem instead of relying on the quick fixes these doctors were offering me. Your body isn't a piece of s…

Teenagers learning how to have a couple of beers with a meal would be an improvement on them turning 18/20/21 and going and getting hammered on shots

They don’t call the designer Steve “The King” Ritchie for nothing!

> And would they risk it just because? Look up the reasons for both blocs in the Cold War withdrawing all of their (numerous) tactical nuclear weapons systems by the 1980s. TL;DR: …

> I feel like there’s some lesson here in building to the lowest common denominator, and giving people products rather than tools (tools are more dangerous, but more useful), but m…

Yes, Nintendo have themselves to blame for the next-gen OoT hype train. In fans' eyes, they promised but didn't deliver.

The computer player would always target your nothern-most structure for airstrikes or nuclear weapons. This persisted to at least Generals Zero Hour (I never played the campaign of…

Bullying a car displaying any of the symbols displayed in the article is a ticketable offense in Japan* *I've never seen or heard of someone getting a ticket for merely inconsidera…

VLC has the best UX in the world. Yes It Will Play That Video! It has a ton of cryptic options, but at least it lets you mess around with them and maybe get something usable, where…

Convenience stores changed a lot around 2010 when they started real time tracking Every Damn Thing. Even in the mid 00s staff ate, took home, or gave away whatever they wanted to f…

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Ukraine is "receiving money from others"? We are benefactors of the Ukrainians' bravery and sacrifices. How much money could we have not spent if Hitler had been stopped in Czechos…

From a photographer's perspective, using cel scans as a reference could be a fool's errand because they are biased by the white color of the scanner light and scanning software. Th…

Now is bad too, but my recollection is that the iPhone 3G-era task killer was EXTREMELY aggressive and required "tricks" to keep your state in the one app you could run

Maggot Brain begins with on-the-nose apocalyptic imagery, but ends with a release and rebirth. One day, the fighting stops.

I did this and considered it the easy way of installing an OS on a Mac circa 2011 vs. DVD then messing around updating that ... > Plug USB stick into target Mac, copy installer to …

Being good at driving doesn’t fix the huge blind spot you have behind your car

Valve updates HL1 every few years so it runs on contemporary platforms. DOS was ancient history by the time HL came out, you might be getting it mixed up with Quake1

a lot of the changes and updates to articles since Sheldon Brown died are controversial, I recommend checking out an old version on the Wayback machine

It’s not too shabby for an abandoned 20+ year old game The source code release changes everything, but they used to play on a mod (GenTool) with the ruleset from the final retail r…

> Also happy to see this classic RTS is still being played and even developed by the community. I'd be curious to know what the age of people this invested into the game is, if it'…

It was just called the Half-Life engine then. It was developed in parallel with Q2, and in general has feature parity with Q2, with a few huge features that they were able to add b…