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Everything needs limits otherwise someone will figure out how to or accidentally break it.

This is the best. I use it for work as well.

Where's the Era 500? :(

Veritasium covered this story recently. https://youtu.be/Q56PMJbCFXQ?si=GmVD26JBJlot-dff

I do the same thing with friends who use IP TV that gets it's from a friend of a friend of a friend.

The room of my house that I use as an office did not receive much sunlight from the window that faces a brick wall. I recently had a skylight installed and wow, it's been life chan…

I'm a web dev by day so playing around with Unity has been really fun. Having to consider time, i.e. what does everything like at time t=0, t=1, etc., adds a new dimension I don't …

It most certainly is. I worked at Wal-Mart in Canada for seven years when I was younger and during the summer, when I worked more hours, I would see the department managers and the…

I've been puzzled by this myself. Maybe it's to discourage people from holding up their phones and observing the event through their phones.

Incredible stuff. I could use a few new joints myself.

Only that kind of person would want to live off the grid...

I saw this tool mentioned recently along with the release of https://github.com/ExOK/Celeste64 . It's mentioned as a tool that was used during Celeste64's development so it's clear…

You should try the Jackbox party games. They require a certain level of engagement and are quite fun.

Actually, if the attacker is determined enough they can use enough IPs and make it really hard to detect and defend against. I work on combating credential stuffing on a regular ba…

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Microsoft Surface laptops are pretty close to MBPs.

I tried enabling this recently and I immediately noticed that websites started appearing in light mode instead of copying my system settings and displaying in dark mode. It seems l…

This has been the trend lately for games that are multiplatform. It's better than making 100M copies that contain the PC version, 100M copies that contain the Xbox version, etc. an…

Last.fm has a special place in my life since I actually met someone I was quite fond of through the site. I kept seeing her profile pop up as someone with similar musical tastes. I…

My friends and I have had a LAN party every year for the last 20+ years. Usually around Christmas or early the following year. Since the pandemic hit we moved them to be online ove…

Keep in mind that if the user doesn't speak English natively they may be coming across more aggressively than they actually mean to.

Beanie babies are actually a tangible object though. :)

This is very interesting to hear. In 2014, my wife and I went on a vacation in Germany and I found that it was cheaper and more convenient to rent a car than it was to use trains a…