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Popcap was originally named Sexy Action Cool. The name was probably from that era or a callback at the very least.

What are your thoughts on ATproto after implementing a client?

> And I agree with you that younger generations, probably at large due to social media, are not patient enough to get rich by saving. Speaking as someone in a younger generation, t…

I feel like this would be better if they rotoscope Mark so that the background doesn't move.

Much like GPLv3 was written to counter tivoization, I’d love a GPLv4 to kill what RedHat is doing before they do irreparable the entire free software ecosystem.

No, Tesla is prior art

Quite to the contrary, the clock is set by the Science and Security Board which seems much more focused on geopolitical questions instead of scientific. The Science and Security Bo…

> Problem is they have to keep moving it closer to midnight or they won't get any media attention. It was last moved in 2020 and doesn't appear to move every year. Moreover, it has…

Modernist Cuisine is one I highly recommend.

The four materials mentioned in the article are cement, steel, plastics, and ammonia.

I don't think Telegram should really be seen as an alternative to Signal. It doesn't use E2E encryption by default.

For those interested, the beta version of dwitter.net has an option to show the uncompressed copy of the code https://beta.dwitter.net/d/25497

At least to my eyes there is a huge difference visually between Ted Lasso and Slow Horses.

Good image quality can tell you very little regarding when an image was taken so long as the image has been properly preserved and digitized.

I don't know, it seems to me they just all moved over to Tik Tok, which doesn't seem much better.

Could they though? If Firefox started having giant ad images on the new tab page, sending ad notifications and pushing crypto scams, the users would be outraged.

As a senior dev, I don't see the problem with that. If anything the number is a bit lower than it should be.

Would increasing the RAM really make that big a difference in terms of kernel compilation time? It feels to me that 16GB should be plenty for any sort of caching that will speed th…

> There is no record that he attempted to use internal channels From the beginning of the Snowden quote: > I could not legally go to the official channels that direct NSA employees…

Regarding trying internal channels, Snowden says he tried this > despite the fact that I could not legally go to the official channels that direct NSA employees have available to t…

Maybe I'm missing something obvious but all I see is the source amalgamation, not the files used to generate the giant source code file. Did they take the SQLite source amalgamatio…