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  • Please don't implement the text version of OpenTTD

  • I can tell you immediately why, just looking at the photo.

    Shiny stone knap knap, my spear is shinier than yours.

  • With Meta it very much looks like overhiring. What are those 8000 workers even doing, designing CSS for each individual ad on Facebook?

  • Samsung pretty much controls Android market, Google is afraid to fart sideways in their presence.

  • “Eh, they can recover from yesterday,” he said, referring to daily database backups.

    But did they recover from backups? Don't leave the most juicy intrigue out of the story.

  • scanf gives me shivers. Please use -Werror=format compiler flag to catch dumb errors that will make your code crash in mysterious ways.

  • Most web browsers will have a hard limit on WASM apps that will be around 200-300 MB of binary size, and your RAM will be limited too.

    Try opening a full-featured WASM game on iPad and weep.

    Source: I've ported an open-source game to WASM. Worked fine on my PC, not so well anywhere else.

  • SDL provides you a framebuffer with 640x480 pixels and 24-bit color, with a delicious pixel-perfect 8x12 monospace font, on every OS and every device, and this is everything you will ever need. Titlebar? Close button? Your app is perfect, it needs no close button. It will be running 24/7 in a fullscreen mode, and the user will be happy! Other apps? Pah! Let them run on a second, smaller monitor!

  • Try saying Tibet on a bus stop, and watch your ass getting hauled to the nearest police station in like 30 seconds.

  • Who would benefit from disrupting Ubuntu sofrware updates? Seems related to the recently discovered kernel vulnerability. Some state-funded cybercrime unit needs a bit more time to infect your servers before you update them.

  • It comes with a copy of Internet Explorer, and a copy of MS-DOS.

  • Wow, that was an intense self-diacovery.

    They do use radioactive decay in archeology to measure time, but the precision is within a thousand years.

  • I'm not falling asleep, my laptop is falling asleep.

    The problem is that it never wakes up. The solution is to disable every low-power option in system settings, and pretend that my laptop is very critical server, because Debian is made for servers.

  • Never heard of such clock. You'll also need to regularly recalibrate your radioactive sample, because it decreases in weight over time. And you need a Geiger counter to measure that radiation, which is also not super precise.

    A regular crystal oscillator seems better.

  • Nope. Quantum events are random. A clock requires precise periodic events, it cannot use random noise.

  • I grieved when I bought a used laptop with Windows pre-installed. I immediately performed a ritual of Debian purification.

    Windows, or any other corporate MICROS~1 product dying is a cause for celebration.

  • Wow cool, gonna try it.

  • Discomfort with new modem technology shapes frustration as no modern terminal application has ZModem support.