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Thanks for posting this -- I hadn't heard of the Librem 5, and it's fascinating.

It could have other interesting implications. Like, no more grinding labels off of chips so a customer has a fighting chance of replacing things. That would be a nice world to live…

I'm serious enough about libre principles, though, that I'd be happy to buy weird europhones if I knew I had more control of my technology.

If your immune system develops an antibody based on epitopes that differ in the second strain, I would think you could contract it again. Two people who overcome a virus may ultima…

Per [1], it was a special toilet designed to support flushing at depth (I guess it makes sense that it's a tough problem to solve when the sub is under pressure). I guess previous …

I was going to reply and complain that it was pancreatic cancer. But after fact-checking a bit, I see that fruits and fruit juices seem to have been linked to pancreatic cancer[1],…

This comes about because people can't get past the idea that art is a natural gift, whereas it is in most part a learnable skill. My thinking on this changed after watching the Gre…

I think this "different language" concept is in many ways either revisionist history or scope creep. Originally, Larry said he wanted to remove historical warts, clean up the langu…

Hey! I take exception to that. I've been writing shellcode all week. C is uncomfortably high level for writing low level routines!

Ah, I checked there seems to be an extension that lets you write macros in a JSON file: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=geddski.... But there seems to have been…

I kind of put vscode in the same category as notepad++. Actually, as a text editor, I think N++ has some nice features that vscode doesn't (like macros, I think).

Some scientists are religious, so ritual may be meaningful and sensible to them.