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til (some?) intel cpus will pretend that the system has overheated if you press the power button for 4 seconds

robotgirl coded

robotgirl with a JTAG port vs robotgirl with a SWD port

(they’re kissing)

intentionally causing a relationship to sink, call it scuttling

I did break into tears at one point during my first play session, phenomenally moving

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Me trying learning about polyamory in a date and finding out about metamours: "Wait, so in a polyamorous relationship your relationships aren't a transitive closure over all members?"

Her: "a transitive what?"

I fear programming has cooked my brain

TIL that in the UK the police encourage preventing crime by making places so miserable, nobody will want to go there in the first place.

The human eye doesn't move smoothly, but in short quick moves with pauses between them.

The reason is to prevent the CGA snow that would result if the VRAM was being accessed at the same time as the image is drawn

HUH. I don't think I've ever seen a site with a warning like this. That's well-considered and quite kind. (From lobste.rs)

I love computing

I love to compute on the computer

I hate the companies that have made computing on the computer miserable as they try to squeeze us all through their product lifecycles

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Wow. Facebook is not just announcing that they're walking back moderation of hate speech, but gleefully giving explicit examples of particular forms of hate speech they now allow. 😲 🤬

Inside you there are two wolves. One is active, the other one is on hot standby and becomes active if the first one fails or is taken down for maintenance. Add more wolves as necessary for increased redundancy load balancing. A quorum badger can be added for environments with multiple active wolves.

I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning

I created an open source library on GitHub called AquaUI, which I am hoping others will contribute to and build on.

github.com/jonsterling/AquaUI

> AquaUI is a love letter to the Macintosh of the Aqua era—with its uncompromising attention to detail, futuristic design, and “lickable” visual style.

> The goal is not necessarily to recreate 2000s-era Aqua visuals pixel by pixel: instead, we aim to imagine how the Aqua design language could have evolved if it had been allowed to do so.

/cc @marioguzman @tuomas_h

Someone should make a browser like "The Old Safari", where there is a damn titlebar that shows the whole title of the website. I am so tired of these "compact" layouts that are completely unnecessary on today's high density displays.

I think the appealing thing about the universe of Dune is 10,000 years of no IT problems whatsoever.

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