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A couple hundred lines of regex for a full email validation might disagree with you there.

I hope to see these seemingly mundane unknown unknowns raised in space travel centered hard science fiction. I think The Martian and Seveneves almost captured these but not quite.

> the guy who makes one watch a month That's the thing, though. Most people alive today will never be able to possess such an object, no matter how prized and beloved it is. Still,…

There are still free as in freedom software hardliner folks out there. The idea that every piece of revoked source code is an affront to computing rights might be less applicable i…

Club Penguin always held a special place in my heart but I never reflected on why. I'm sure part of it is a yearning for simpler times and a childhood unawareness of the nature of …

Agreed, I really prefer using my reMarkable 2. I see it less like an iPad and more like a bottomless pit of scratch paper and printouts that I can carry more conveniently than indi…

A lot of lower division math and computer science courses now presuppose iPads or other digital pen devices for working through handouts during lecture. Printed handouts are often …

David Huffman too, made some very complex paper folding models from relatively abstract mathematics, although apparently did not like them being likened to origami.

I would disagree that a smartphone without a working camera is perfectly usable. A lot of the world — especially in developing countries — runs on QR Codes for everything from rest…

comma.ai is an autonomous driving add-on (fully open source software and hardware IIRC) for cars that don't have (full) autonomous driving but do have hardware like radar cruise co…

Thank you, this was a fun rabbit hole to dive down. That blog also has a well-argued article about Zero Interest Rate Policy which relates to the doordash story: https://www.readma…

The remarkable 2, especially if you downgrade the OS to the older 2.x versions, is very hackable. It runs full Linux, I followed a blog post about setting up FDE on it using go and…

Currently that feature is unsupported or I just can't figure out how to do it. With the latest compiler version 0.14 any .typ file I try to compile will incur warnings about skippi…

Seconding this, I've used alternatives like Amethyst, and I can't disable S.I.P for yabai, but Aerospace fills in that missing aspect from Linux when I am in want of it.

This might be (relatively) easily achieved by networking a couple of Raspberry Pi Zero 2's together under the Pi 500+ keyboard shell.

It might not be Ubuntu but Asahi Linux runs Fedora pretty well on M2 Pro and older Apple Silicon Mac Minis: https://asahilinux.org/fedora/#device-support

That is one of the possible outcomes right? Producers have an incentive to collude and not compete with one another. They could create a consortium to fix prices, and use tactics s…

'rsync' used via a terminal emulator like Termux or Android's own Linux VM is also good for resuming partial file transfers.

My biggest peeve with the forced push towards apps is that you're often forced to fork over permissions to access valuable data that they couldn't otherwise gleam glean from a brow…

It is my experience that this is what Google does with their Pixel phones. It is really quite simple to unlock the bootloader and do whatever you want on a Google Pixel you own (i.…

Isn't flutter (especially including the flutter rust bridge), achieving that? You do need Android Studio and XCode installed on your machine but you don't have to interact with the…

That feature is available, albeit clunky. The latest Pixel phones have a developer option "Force Desktop Mode" which gives you Desktop-esque Windowing on an external monitor.

From my understanding, they are somehow able to intercept DoH and block queries to restricted domains. Perhaps it is through unencrypted Server Name Indication, hard IP blocking, o…

If you feel this way about the works of Neal Stephenson, might I suggest Cixin Liu? Though well-done in it's own right, the 3-Body Problem Netflix series does not quite do justice …