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They still are, they're still references in durability/quality for motorcycles as well (together with the other Japanese manufacturers).
On a self-balancing motorcycle
Re:The Grug Brained Developer (2022) on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @05:04AM (#44308048)
There's a time and place for everything, and an escalation of tooling/environmental context for me.

1. Printing vars in unit tests may be the fastest first approach. If i know where the bug may be.

2. When that fails i usually bring in debuggers to unit tests.

3. When these aren't helping, you need debuggers on the entire binary.

4. Still stuck? Use a debugger in production.

Re:Why Twitter is such a big deal (2009) on Monday January 20, 2025 @08:55AM (#42768756)
Twitter reached critical mass way before politics infected every post
I know a lot of American tourists have historically had issues in Sweden with credit cards not having NFC chips.

Is that still the case?

If not, I would just prepare my phone/smart watch with apple/google pay. Hopefully ATMs won't swallow those.

Re:Jazz Kissa on Thursday November 28, 2024 @11:34AM (#42266580)
As a Swede, this is a pretty interesting name. Jazz means what you expect it to mean in Swedish, but Kissa = to pee. Jazz cigarette is an old slang for a joint, thought it had some connection.
Was just about to see if someone mentioned this video. Really good explanation comparing JPEG XL vs AVIF.
Re:Quake in 13kb (2021) on Monday June 03, 2024 @04:59AM (#40560622)
Heard the project has < 100 billion stars on github.galaxy though, basically dead by this point.
Re:Quake in 13kb (2021) on Monday June 03, 2024 @04:26AM (#40560461)
The Farbrausch demo and a talk by Will Wright on the (originally planned) procedurally generated design of Spore lives rent free in my brain every time I see the list of 100's of gigabytes of queued game updates in Steam nowadays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofA6YWVTURU&t=100s

Re: on Friday May 31, 2024 @10:26AM (#40535621)
> As a consequence of Go's mediocre type system, Go has very bad support for generic programming.

How old is this?

This, and it kind of bothers me that that is my first thought on the internet these days. I get enough unsolicited mail/phone calls from recruiters as it is.
Re:Deepfaked Tom Cruise and Paris Hilton on Friday January 27, 2023 @03:36AM (#34543956)
The amount of work needed to fake a photo vs the uncanny valley of animated human faces.
Re:Deepfaked Tom Cruise and Paris Hilton on Friday January 27, 2023 @03:34AM (#34543944)
Video evidence may not be trusted as evidence in court in the future. Will we require something more perhaps? Or will the word of AI keen on spotting something's off be what we trust?
Hey Duder! Hope you're doing well these days. Thanks for all you did at Whiskey Media, and thank you for dark mode in Kibana!
I recognize some old Whiskey Media companies on that list. Have not followed them much after the CBS acquisition and Ryan Davis' passing.

Hope they're all doing well over there.

Re:WireGuard Servers Running from RAM on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @12:40AM (#32646697)
I may be wrong. But OVPN is the only one I know that has actually been proven in court not to store any user activity.

https://www.ovpn.com/en/blog/ovpn-wins-court-order

It's already started in developing countries https://twitter.com/HODLneverSODL/status/1518134911244320769
Re:In defense of cryptocurrency on Friday June 10, 2022 @02:49AM (#31690882)
> but that is not really important for all of us non-billionaires. For smaller amounts, the fixed cost of a bitcoin transaction can make it a significant amount of the total. L2 networks would be nice, but "work is being done" for years now so let's wait to see if they ever get that working

You gotta get up to speed with these things then. A lot has been happening the past year.

Lightning in it self is used all over the world by small vendors in developing and western countries. And it's a mix of using a service provider for using this (usually in the west) to self custodian where they cannot motivate the cost.

It was one of the big things needed before El Salvador's legal tender roll out.

I can give you more examples if you want.

https://twitter.com/HODLneverSODL/status/1518134911244320769...

https://twitter.com/CoinCornerMolly/status/15323143997629480...

Re:The problem with Bitcoin miners on Sunday May 15, 2022 @03:45PM (#31390400)
> This reached almost $100 in the 2017 rush.

Ethereum, with a bigger blocksize had transaction fees going up to $3,500 a couple of weeks ago. A larger blocksize is not the answer.

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=popular-nft-mint-spikes-eth...

Re:Welcome to the era of the hyper-surveilled office on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @09:29AM (#31326881)
I simply uninstalled ours. IT couldn't understand why. Very thankful I have an understanding manager.
Re:Go will use pdqsort in next release on Thursday April 21, 2022 @07:17AM (#31108030)
Go on...
Re:Oggify: Download Songs Directly from Spotify on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @04:21AM (#31080770)
DJ's should be paying for the music they're playing. There are streaming options for them to use nowadays aswell. Take Beatport Link as an example: https://link.beatport.com/
Re:Finland and Sweden set to join NATO as soon as summer on Monday April 11, 2022 @12:56PM (#30991597)
Without context, that quote means nothing.

I would be very careful making statements like this as if you knew how to interpret that quote from that exact person and party he represents.

Re:Finland and Sweden set to join NATO as soon as summer on Monday April 11, 2022 @12:49PM (#30991475)
I believe the reddit post linked to Reuters.

Edit: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/finland-sweden-set-join...

Re:Elon has decided not to join our board on Monday April 11, 2022 @07:15AM (#30987128)
Enough people want the feature, whether you see the point or not.
Re:Elon has decided not to join our board on Monday April 11, 2022 @04:51AM (#30986238)
Why not both? If you want to edit posts after the initial deadline, that could be the next step.
Just look at how the recent news in how big gaming publishers have announced large NFT / Crypto projects. The latest one being Ubisoft.

The reactions from the broader gaming community has been nothing but pure hatred.

Re:Elon has decided not to join our board on Monday April 11, 2022 @02:21AM (#30985321)
There are fixes to this though.

Limit the time the tweet is editable, and postpone publishing tweets until that timer has run out.

Or show a history of what the post has looked like.

Not really sure if you're joking here or not.
Re:Zas Editor on Friday April 08, 2022 @04:10AM (#30954546)
Understandable, let us know when it's up!

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