spcebar

7 ms·

1.
by spcebar 2mo ago
Picked up Mint this summer and it has been a joy to use. The progress they've made in the last three years is astounding and opposed to every other time I've used Linux there have been zero moments of needing to run ten terminal c
2.
by spcebar 3mo ago
Exactly. It's less important if customers are turned off by it. It's not signaling for consumers, it's signaling for the market.
3.
by spcebar 3mo ago
Being transgender represents a misalignment between your internal sense of self and the sex you were born with. Sometimes this is about societal expectations and pressure to conform to gender ideals, sometimes it is about the physical body
4.
by spcebar 3mo ago
The article is talking about the effects of these chemicals on infants breastfeeding and the effects on newborns. While these are endocrine disrupting chemicals, people aren't transgender because their hormones are imbalanced. The reas
5.
by spcebar 6mo ago
What do you feel, as someone who likes VR, were Meta's big pitfalls, and what do you like about VRChat that you feel like Meta missed?
6.
by spcebar 7mo ago
I wrote a blog post about exactly this in 2021 when the US was shutting down their 3G networks. https://benergize.com/2021/07/16/were-shutting-down-our-3g-n... I had a OnePlus 3T and really didn't want t
7.
by spcebar 8mo ago
These are super funny, I hope you continue doing them. Clearly a deep understanding and appreciation of the culture here goes into it.
8.
by spcebar 8mo ago
It's getting very hard. At this point, lyrics are the biggest giveaway. AI generated lyrics are always awful and the delivery feels very stilted.
9.
by spcebar 8mo ago
A fun little functional language where everything is a parameter in a glorious cascade of functions from a parent function. It's called OAF (Oops All Functions).
10.
by spcebar 9mo ago
Tangentially, if you enjoy The Great Gatsby, you might also enjoy All The King's Men, which is a work of fiction that I think similarly richly described a swath of the American experience. As for Gatsby, I think it's a great piece
11.
by spcebar 9mo ago
A hobby language called OAF (Oops All Functions). Everything is an argument of a parent function PROGRAM. It's very cursed but it's now fully competent as a general purpose language.
12.
by spcebar 11mo ago
The exciting AI ending. When all the companies selling boondoggles fire their employees, who is left with money to buy the boondoggles?
13.
by spcebar 11mo ago
I believe they are saying that this update will remove the ability to decide if you want to install it and will require developers to register and pay for their applications to be installable at all. It's been several years since I dev
14.
by spcebar 11mo ago
If you're interested in learning morse, there's a great app for Android, "Morse Mania: Learn Morse Code" from which I learned. It's surprisingly easy to pick up the basics but requires a good bit of practice to be a
15.
by spcebar 11mo ago
I would imagine not very much? The people buying vinyl are buying as a collectors item or because of its audio qualities. It's very easy to accidentally listen to something that's AI generated, you have to very actively purchase a
16.
by spcebar 1y ago
I should start by saying that I find ads incredibly irritating in any form. That said, Miele and DeLonghi are both more than a hundred year old companies. Maybe they don't need to advertise because they have such solidly establish bran
17.
by spcebar 1y ago
Having worked in the world of e-commerce, there are genuinely good companies run by good people making genuinely good products that no one knows about, and one of the ways they try and get people to know about their products is advertising.
18.
by spcebar 1y ago
I nearly gave up on Din Don Dan, but if you're on Android you can use media controls to skip to the end of the song and you'll only have to get a few notes right. I thoroughly enjoyed this, and it's ironic that for many CAPTC
19.
by spcebar 1y ago
It's very weirdly worded. Clearer would be: A type of frog which was once used as pregnancy test escaped and colonoised Wales for 50 years.
20.
by spcebar 1y ago
Direct link to the CDC page with a list of eligible underlying conditions, (as linked in the article): https://www.cdc.gov/covid/risk-factors/index.html
21.
by spcebar 1y ago
They describe the ban in the article. Kids put their phone in pouches at the start of school and get them back at the end of the day. They say they're magnetic, I assume that describes some kind of lock or means to prevent use.
22.
by spcebar 1y ago
Nature is healing. Glad to see this. I was in high school when smart phones really became widespread, and was personally still on a flip phone most of the way through. I think there's something healthy to the boredom the kids describe,
23.
by spcebar 1y ago
At least in the world of web, cursive is a typographic term referring to fonts that aren't sans or sans serif and are typically used for decorative purposes.
24.
by spcebar 1y ago
The world gets hotter, political control of nations continues to flip back and forth between conservative and progressive ideologies, Koreas don't unify, water shortages intensify, year of the Linux desktop.
25.
by spcebar 1y ago
It definitely depends on what you're looking for. I'm very happy with extremely low-key, cozy, and quiet. There are trains that have lectures and good meals (the trans Canadian railway!) but not Amtrak as far as I'm aware.
26.
by spcebar 1y ago
Rail is my favorite way to travel. Going to sleep at night with the country going by is one of the finest feelings imaginable in life, little towns with lights on in empty public squares, just one of my absolute favorite things. And you wak
27.
by spcebar 1y ago
I recently took a trip from Chicago to LA and saw some folks doing just this! They had a restored Pullman sleeping car and a kitchen/bar car behind it with crystal chandeliers. Maybe the single most luxurious way to travel. Every stop
28.
by spcebar 1y ago
My take is the reckoning will come for the billion businesses that offer B2B AI solutions that don't offer any meaningful value. "Analyze customer intent and improve conversion with XYZ AI!" The tools of the AI revolution wil
29.
by spcebar 1y ago
Presumably a reference to the river in Lord of the Rings or the WoW character, though the relation to either is somewhat lost on me. It is a cool name though. Edit: or I'm dumb and the author's name is Anduin.
30.
by spcebar 1y ago
Having engineers specialized in a specific stack learn on the job for the sake of/while working on a project is a great way to end up with really funky code and poor user experiences. I speak as a developer tasked with doing exactly th

More ›