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It depends a lot on the config language. Gradle has the uncanny ability to be a "worst of both worlds" option, where there are not many upsides to its using a full language for its…

Isn't the shader stuttering an issue with games refusing to compile shaders ahead of time?

I also lived in Madrid. 1h15 means you were not in Madrid, but in one of the surrounding towns. 30 minutes in a car is enough to get from any point in Madrid to any other (assuming…

Because public transit, done well, is the fastest way to move around. It gets you everywhere, even to places personal vehicles can't reach. It's a lot cheaper. It generates hubs of…

Gnutella fell in popularity before Youtube existed. The big reason the decentralized P2P file sharing networks went away was their vulnerability to spoofing. Downloads were slow so…

Their own greed is causing their issues. They could be doing a million different things to reduce demand, but they don't want to dampen their current growth and have opted to conti…

The behavior of the iOS keyboard also showcases how there must not be many decision-making people who communicate in multiple languages.

I have a Emacs + Spacemacs setup only for Magit. The base Spacemacs config works well, so I never had the need to tinker with it. Nowadays I don't care much about the rest of Emacs…

The free rectangle area is a 16:10 screen, the space around the notch is a freebie.

A high end amp+speaker system from 50 years ago will still sound good. The tradeoffs back then were size, price, and power consumption. Same as now. Lower spec speakers have become…

Compiler errors got a lot better during the Scala 2.12 era.

Avoid making memories. Keep your brain pristine.

This is not an issue with Java and the other JVM languages, it's simple to use GraalVM and package a static binary.

The screen size advertised by Apple measures the "full screen" area, the undisturbed 16:10 rectangle of pixels. I just took measures on both a 14 and a 16 inch Macbook Pro. The scr…

Reader mode.

Funny that the language famous for enforcing standard formatting allows freedom for this one particular thing.

The Spain blackout was caused by a multitude of reasons. Lack of stability was one of the factors, but there were other causes, such as energy generation facilities disconnecting w…

It's important to note that the infamous Dropbox comment was not just misguided. It was wrong . The proof is that multiple competitor products have been launched since, and all of …

This is impossible by design. Decades ago there were some distributions that had this as a goal (e.g. Mandrake, Suse), they included an application similar to the Windows Control P…

From the FAQ: > Each time the Leta application is restarted (due to an upgrade, or new version) server side, a new secret hash is generated, meaning that all previous search querie…

This is literally the case. Pirated streams keep working, while a good chunk of the internet is rendered inoperative during weekends.

No problems here, both the normal view and reader mode seem to work well.

For anyone not familiar with previous designs, each component in https://m3.material.io/components has a "comparison with Material v2" section.

For everyday use, wireless headphones offer a superior experience simply due to the lack of a cable, and for the cases where an audio output is desired, it should be easy to connec…

Bisecting with --first-parent takes care of this.