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by TACD 2mo ago
MiniDisc would have been an ideal successor to the floppy disk if only Sony had unclenched their fist just a little bit. USB sticks are higher capacity but there's utility in having media you don't have to keep track of; especiall
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by TACD 3mo ago
I don’t see why “truthful, nuanced, well reasoned” is the long-shot vs cagey and evasive.
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by TACD 3mo ago
There’s a Tumblr for that: https://www.tumblr.com/moviecode
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by TACD 4mo ago
Seems like this is even more reason to set a good example and follow the style guide.
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by TACD 6mo ago
Soccer is not destroying the planet and making basic computer hardware unaffordable.
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by TACD 7mo ago
I categorically do not love the timer. Timers should be a fixed-width typeface so the numbers don't jiggle.
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by TACD 8mo ago
This isn't the first time it's happened, either. It's a pretty frequently recurring issue, in fact: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16723 https://github.com/g
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by TACD 10mo ago
A couple of other comics with their own distinct personalities but an unmistakable C&H vibe: Cul de Sac ( https://www.gocomics.com/culdesac ) Wallace the Brave ( https://www.gocomics.com/wallace-the-brave )
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by TACD 1y ago
My pet theory about why the Minis sold poorly is that the 12 Mini was released just a few months after the SE 2; I suspect a lot of the would-be Mini purchasers had just bought an SE 2 instead (not knowing the Mini was just around the corne
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by TACD 1y ago
Something quite similar to this is a theme in Greg Egan's Diaspora [1]. Specifically the various "flesher" societies and "bridgers" who facilitate communication between vastly divergent groups. [1] https:/&#x
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by TACD 1y ago
Similarly with 9.2, assignment using a walrus operator will also fail if the value is 0 (or anything falsy: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#truth-value-... )
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by TACD 2y ago
I would love to have a bit more detail on why this is a non-starter, though I appreciate it’s likely that the answer is too complicated for a layperson to really understand.
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by TACD 3y ago
> According to the bear's owners, the Cocaine Bear has the authority to officiate legally binding weddings in the mall where it is kept due to Kentucky's marriage laws. This claim is only partly true; the bear does not have the
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by TACD 3y ago
Project Highrise is very much a spiritual successor to SimTower. https://store.steampowered.com/app/423580/Project_Highrise/
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by TACD 3y ago
So why not incorporate blocks as a signal for the ranking algorithm? The simple version is every person that blocks $USER causes a - n modifier on all of $USER's content; more complex versions could scale the modifier with the number
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by TACD 3y ago
Go to Settings > Accessibility > Display, and scroll down to "Pointer". You can select the outline and fill colour separately. (At least on Ventura; I don't know which macOS version first introduced this option.) As an
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by TACD 3y ago
You sure about that? https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
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by TACD 4y ago
Subscriptions for simple usage only make sense for a true service with an ongoing cost to the provider; cloud storage, email, movie streaming, etc. A subscription for a general-purpose application is incongruous; you’re purchasing a finishe
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by TACD 4y ago
This is exactly what we did. Our ‘television’ was never hooked up to actually receive broadcast signal, we’ve always just used it as a big screen for the media/gaming PC set up in the lounge, and at some point I realised if I’m going t