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> The right to bear arms is critical... The governmental structure of the US is so good... Not sure many outside the US would agree with these statements. > People should own a gun…

This Red Blob Games blog post would be accessible to a wider group of readers if it spent just a few sentences up front on motivation and terminology. If you don't already know exa…

Speaking as a European, current foreign policy is not "reducing trust in America as a reliable and stable partner". It has already reduced trust to rock bottom. It's hard to see ho…

why do you want your watch to manage a grocery list? seriously

Lots of fossil fuel infrastructure was built in formerly nice places that now you'd never go to voluntarily...

Maybe that's a fair price for the externalities of fossil fuels.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists

"3x the price" means 3x the Chinese price. Crucial missing context from the truncated headline!

By the way, I'm in the UK. I bought it on eBay UK from a guy named "Reliable Trove" who imports them and reflashes them with CrossPoint. I know it's not hard to do, but I needed it…

I got an Xteink X4 a month ago. It's perfect: none of the distractions of a phone, battery life measured in weeks, small enough to carry everywhere, cheap enough that I don't worry…

"retaining lineage"

I'm not sure that follows. I stopped making open source contributions when I switched from mature companies to startups. Now all my "non-work" time is spent on startup work. And no…

I don't buy into this critique at all... I live in two cities in Europe. I like our size of houses. I like not needing to own a car. I like that in both of the cities I live in the…

... 20 years of not remembering that I only ever want to see distances in km

Which is why NTSC was often said to mean Never Twice the Same Color!

And mine is a Commodore Vic-20 circa 1981, with 3583 bytes of free RAM. Programmed in 6502 assembler. Can't get much closer to the CPU than that.

What would your alternative look like?

There's a great article on the Ptolemaic dynasty in the latest issue of the London Review of Books. Tons of fascinating detail. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n09/robert-cioff…

I'd never heard of it either. A comment further down suggests it is Japanese. Digging deeper, the kyu -- or Q for quarter millimeter -- is apparently a foundational distance measur…

- KeePass files synced between laptop and phone on OneDrive, DropBox, etc - KeePassXC on Windows and Mac - Keepass2Android mobile client - Browser integration on mobile. - On lapto…

It is if your country isn't in the US and (a) GDPR requires data residency in UK/EU; (b) you're concerned about capricious actions by the US govt cutting off access to US-controlle…

There was an article in the FT back in March [1] with the headline "NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform while also advising company". Amusingly, the person…

As opposed to premature deaths from fossil fuel emissions, deaths of rooftop solar installers (surprisingly common), wars in the Middle East involving oil interests, drowning and e…

Also, need to bear in mind that 25-30 years ago, laptops were 10x more expensive than today. For my postdoc in 1995, my industry sponsor bought me a then top-of-the range Dell Lati…

That's only true for spot pricing, right? Longer term supply contracts can embody more "strategic" criteria.