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What does a pencil have over a mechanical pencil? Mechanical pencils never need sharpening, infinite supply of lead of various type and and they seem more environmentally friendly …

There are no Five Eyes country in the EU.

Reminds me of Niven/Pournelle's "The Mote in God’s Eye" where the aliens have a very pragmatic/Jury-rigged approach to technology and everything is more or less improvised. I have …

RIP @cImport.

You forgot an important quote: “We want the iTunes Music Store to have every piece of music ever recorded. Even if it’s discontinued or not selling much, we want it all.” It seems …

Is it possible that people who don't care about short term profitability but still want a strategic ownership of the company bought at a high price on IPO day and now that the day …

So I don't necessarily disagree with you but people way more rugged than we are and who didn't even knew what a paved road was decided to get rid of wolves a long time ago. Moreove…

Reminds me of Deepness in the Sky (Vernor Vinge) where a guy maintains a ship by doing software archeology. He is the only guy who knows what the Unix epoch is.

And personally, I prefer doing ./game, rather than having to install a bunch of stuff and see my system cluttered by hidden folders.

here you go: https://www.swissmicros.com/en/products/r47

You URL seems KO, an alternative I found: https://x.com/chessMan786/status/1879092981892067383/photo/1

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever"

My recent experience shows that eSCL is way behind in terms of functionality. If I want lossless scanning from by Brother scanner, I need the proprietary drivers.

Does it mean that instead of depending on the Visa/Mastercard duopoly you now depend on the Google/Apple duopoly?

Yes but they are also a quick win to replace humans because they don't need accommodation or specific R&D. Any job by a human that has no been automated yet is because the ROI was …

After a few fixes, it builds on a debian-13. You just need to install a few dependencies (glew, SDL, curl). The real problem here is the tooling. New versions of automake and C++ c…

A remake, in video games, is usually a rewrite on a more powerful platform. You get better resolution, better music and event better gameplay. A demake is a rewrite on a less power…

> a French gambler and intellectual socialite enlisted the help Imagine Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat teaming together to solve your problem.

Any plan for a 75% keyboard?

75% keyboard?

Note that they did not "publish" the picture. They shared it in a private group. This is 1984 kind of stuff. This will hurt Dubai's brand way more than any kinetic attack from Iran…

You can tweak the current Ghidra MCP to work in headless mode. It makes things much easier.