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i don't have much to say on the analysis, but i am one of those who "widely consider" drop7 to be one of the best puzzle games of all time. looking forward to playing this again. would love to see it packaged up as an android app again!
Re:Why Common Lisp Is Now the Best Programming Language on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @03:59PM (#49983272)
LLMs can't balance parens to save their life, unfortunately.
Re:DMS 1.5 "The Wolverine" Released on Monday July 13, 2026 @11:22AM (#48894108)
despite how cringe everything about this is, i'll support anything that gets young people using linux
great name following the NESticle lineage
Re:Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi on Thursday June 18, 2026 @02:17PM (#48589299)
i feel like using GNU stow to manage your dotfiles has always been a hack.. has it ever been a supported usecase?

stow is an indispensable tool for me to manage /usr/local for manually installed software. my workflow goes:

  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/myapp
  make && make install
  stow myapp
now, myapp and all its supporting files are in the right place in /usr/local. if i want to "uninstall", i just run

  stow -D myapp
Re:At long last, InfoWars is ours on Monday April 20, 2026 @01:58PM (#47838138)
heidecker has been honing this persona for years now in the On Cinema universe. looking forward to this quite a bit
Re:Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @10:56AM (#47794047)
so even with a new tokenizer that can map to more tokens than before, their answer is still just "you're not managing your context well enough"

"Opus 4.7 uses an updated tokenizer that [...] can map to more tokens—roughly 1.0–1.35× depending on the content type.

[...]

Users can control token usage in various ways: by using the effort parameter, adjusting their task budgets, or prompting the model to be more concise."

Re:Cursor 3 on Thursday April 02, 2026 @03:37PM (#47619162)
so just like how every chat app has to look like slack, every ide has to look like vscode, now every agent workspace has to look like the codex app? codex app, antigravity, and now this all have the exact same UI design...
Re:Cure Dolly's Japanese Grammar Lessons on Sunday June 15, 2025 @07:14PM (#44285575)
i randomly stumbled upon the connection as well while reading about the St. Bride's School. such a random connection between two completely different interests of mine that i joked the universe is a simulation with limited RAM and reuses assets

Cure Dolly has _some_ connection to this group which, to me, just adds even more mystique to an already fascinating story[1]

[1] https://if50.substack.com/p/1992-silverwolf

Re:Stop Killing Games – Almost at 160k signatures on Monday August 05, 2024 @10:11AM (#41161529)
the flimsy, breakable part is on the cable rather than the expensive device
Re:CrowdStrike's impact on aviation on Monday July 29, 2024 @05:45PM (#41104100)
since nothing will happen to them except a slap on the wrist, and all our employers will continue to force this crapware on our machines, i think we should make a point to start using their name as a pejorative (similar to the 'santorum' neologism). any when they inevitably try to rebrand, use that term too
poptimism was a movement to end the critical dismissal of "pop" music in and of itself. that is, music CRITICS and writers not fans. its goal wasn't to kill or devalue rock, it was to recognize and appreciate so-called "low art" of pop music. it won and that's a good thing.

what we have now is not poptimism, because that already won and pop music has been re-evaluated critically. with the internet having more or less killed real music criticism, all that's left is clickbait reviews/articles that attract the most eyeballs. unsurprisingly, the stuff that attracts the most eyeballs is the most popular music and the stuff with the most money behind it.

i don't have a problem with pop music, i quite like pop music. i have a problem with the uncritical acceptance of all pop music being necessarily "good". i like to say i'm not a rockist, i'm a popessimist

Re:Notepad Tab on Monday May 27, 2024 @07:55PM (#40495966)
so... apache?
Re:Proving Immediate Mode GUIs Are Performant on Thursday May 02, 2024 @11:30AM (#40237380)
yeah... i thought the article was revealing itself to be satire when it showed which applications were chosen.
it's unbelievable how the X just isn't there on the android version, probably the most user hostile/disrespectful dark pattern i've ever personally encountered.

that said, i'm surprised that it's available on the desktop version. i wonder if it's some sort of malicious compliance?

Re:Zooming User Interface (ZUI) on Monday April 15, 2024 @04:08PM (#40045010)
i don't know, miro and figma seem to be pretty popular applications using a ZUI
Re:Go's Error Handling Is Perfect on Friday April 05, 2024 @12:12PM (#39944155)
my post was mostly facetious, but it is as you say: possible but probably not something anyone would want to use
Re:Go's Error Handling Is Perfect on Friday April 05, 2024 @11:55AM (#39943954)
java:

    Optional<String> result = returnsAnOptional();
    if (result.isPresent()) {
        log.info("result is {}", result.get());
    }

    // and

    returnsAnOptional().map(r -> log.info("result is {}", r);
Re:Mirantis K8s Lens closed its source on Sunday March 24, 2024 @11:22PM (#39812592)
i saw that and thought that it was probably a top contender for "worst commit message of all time"
on a mac when i'm in mouse and keyboard mode my left thumb is resting on CMD with my index finger on W (CMD+W, close window), middle on 1 (it'll reach down to do CMD+Q), and ` (CMD+`, cycle through windows)

when i'm in programming mode, i'm in emacs on the homerow

Re:Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) on Saturday March 02, 2024 @08:01PM (#39577364)
ei wada is immensely talented, see also his open reel ensemble[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-6WfT8RAh4

Re:The Second Golden Age of Emacs on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @05:40PM (#39531161)
> Killer “Apps” ... What would you add to this list?

use-package, hands down. my decades old rat's nest of a config actually became organized and emacs starts instantly now

similarly, being able to configure emacs with a real programming language was a game changer compared to vim with vimscript. this is not so much an issue now with neovim, but i still prefer elisp :P

Re:Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018) on Saturday February 24, 2024 @03:04PM (#39494709)
> My working theory is one of culture...

my theory is that because most of the bands are writing lyrics in english and it's not their native language, they don't quite grasp just HOW ridiculous their lyrics tend to be.

please don't take this as a negative, because to me it's a positive. they sing those ridiculous lyrics with full passion without a hint of irony-- and that's why i love them. american power metal is a bit too wink-wink-nudge-nudge-amirite-guys?

i know real mexican people in cdmx that use latinx. but i guess they must've been brainwashed by the white wokes
Re:YouTube's search function is atrocious now [video] on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @09:16PM (#39449449)
same. i even reported the video but it appears to be perennial
Re:YouTube's search function is atrocious now [video] on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @09:15PM (#39449448)
you get what you pay for, right folks? surely with a youtube premium account you get the premium search experience.
Re:Stable-Audio-Demo on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @01:05AM (#39354979)
the AI designs and controls the effects chain and mastering too
Re:Fedora Atomic Desktops on Friday February 09, 2024 @05:10PM (#39321103)

    AS incomprehensible && \
       as nix can be && \
       i would take it && \
       any day over && \
       configuring a desktop OS && \
       with the horrible && \
       Dockerfile syntax
Re:Gemini Ultra Released on Thursday February 08, 2024 @12:51PM (#39305093)
> iPhone 15, 15 Pro, 15 max, iPhone 15 Pro Max.

it's actually 15 Plus rather than 15 Max, which i'm sure you now see is a bit confusing

Re:Command Line Interface Guidelines on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @11:43AM (#39276582)
> Use symbols and emoji where it makes things clearer.

for the love of god please don't. the yubikey-agent example provided exemplifies everything i dislike about github READMEs and whimsical user interfaces.

on the technical side, symbols and emojis can render inconsistently among terminals, leading to potentially confusing messaging. on the artistic side, personal tolerances towards whimsy and playfulness vary wildly and should only be used very sparingly and ONLY if you know what you're doing (if you have to ask, you probably don't)

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