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From my understanding Europe send a lot of plastic to Asia for recycling. Perhaps US does as well.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of that plastic ends up in the ocean.

Sam Chamoun explains that the Bible doesn't say that Christians have to support Israel (or any other country, for that matter):

https://youtu.be/GKlT-hhZXoM?si=SNWNWTsswy2e5QT2

Re:How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 on Thursday August 06, 2026 @07:52AM (#49195415)
I'm a bit of an old-timer now (almost 45), but I enjoy a lot of the classics on GOG. And at a price that can't be beat. Totally no interest in playing modern games.
Re:Git rebase -I is not that scary on Sunday July 26, 2026 @09:18AM (#49057941)
In case of many commits with also many complex merge conflicts, I often find it easier to just:

1. Abort rebase.

2. Squash all my commits into a single commit.

3. Rebase on target branch again.

Re:Petals: Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @10:59PM (#49016336)
Seems a bit like GNUS [0].

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[0]: https://www.gnus.ai/

Re:An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop on Monday July 13, 2026 @09:16AM (#48892208)
I read on Twitter this week that someone made such an interface on top of GIMP.

https://github.com/Diolinux/Photogimp

Re:Making Graphics Like it's 1993 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @11:14AM (#48462203)
Unreal actually also has a female protagonist.

https://unrealarchive.org/wikis/the-liandri-archives/Prisone...

No, for a long time I never clicked. But since I keep seeing the freaking ads, I decided to click on them, because from what I understand they have to pay money for each ad click.
> The AI product rollouts in the last two years have been some of the most aggressive and user hostile product rollouts in my entire life.

I’m getting extremely annoyed by the Base44 ads I see on YouTube every other video.

First I pressed skip all the time, but the ads keep popping up. So now, every time I see it, I click on the ad and then immediately close the site. At least I can make their aggressive ad strategy a bit more expensive.

Re:Your hex editor should color-code bytes on Friday April 24, 2026 @01:34AM (#47885993)
There's apps that can simulate color blindness, which can be used for testing purposes.

This is such an app for iOS / macOS: https://michelf.ca/projects/sim-daltonism/

Re:Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning? on Sunday March 22, 2026 @09:30AM (#47477364)
Seems in Libanon the IDF is currently targeting hospitals and first responders [0]. Sometimes people are just evil.

Regarding the USA-Iran war, the president of the USA has threatened to destroy essential infrastructure (e.g. electricity) if Iran doesn't surrender in 48 hours. Which, from my understanding, is a war crime. I think Trump is perfectly ok with bombing schools and hospitals.

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[0]: https://x.com/haaretzcom/status/2035545687006298392?s=20

At least AI seems very useful to quickly write unit tests for the stuff I work with these days, like Angular & C#.

P.S.: I loved Glider and Glypha, great games!

On iOS I have seen ads with very small close buttons, so clearly intended to cause people to miss-click. Buttons should be 44x44 pixels, it’s recommended in the human interface guidelines [0].

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[0]: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

Another one would be Bastion - code is even open source [0].

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[0]: https://www.supergiantgames.com/blog/bastions-open-source-br...

Re:T-Ruby is Ruby with syntax for types on Friday December 26, 2025 @08:47PM (#46398355)
In the context of Lua, I’ve taken a liking to LuaLS (Lua Language Server). You can just write your Lua scripts with annotations (where needed) and the language server can help auto-complete and verify type usage. No compilation step needed.

I never tried “typed Lua” variants (such as MoonScript IIRC), but I believe those do require a compilation step.

Re:Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 on Monday December 15, 2025 @09:07PM (#46283868)
Luckily I haven't had any emergencies. But in Thailand recently there's been flooding in the south, many people stuck. And in eastern part many people have been evacuated due to border tensions with Cambodia.

I live in the north-west Thailand, close to the border with Myanmar. An area known as the Golden Triangle [0].

About once a month or so we don't have electricity for a about 10-12 hours or so.

I also experienced a quite big earthquake here about a year ago.

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Triangle_(Southeast_Asi...

Re:Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 on Monday December 15, 2025 @08:06PM (#46283402)
I'm just a Dutch guy that emigrated to Thailand, but I'd never trade my Toyota Hilux diesel for an electric truck. I don't want to have to rely on electric to be able to drive my car. A hybrid could be ok though.

The nice thing about diesel, in case of emergency is you can have a couple of filled jerrycans around so you can always move if needed. I like the reliability, it feels more anti-fragile, if that makes sense.

I wonder if the Gibraltar company that produces Toyota trucks for UN [0] is going fully electric anytime soon, if ever.

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[0]: https://www.offgridweb.com/transportation/toyota-gibraltar-t...

Re:Switching from Synchronous to Asynchronous Mode of Coding on Monday November 10, 2025 @01:56AM (#45873171)
Is this style of coding possible using VS Code and free Copilot?
Re:Game design is simple on Friday November 07, 2025 @07:16AM (#45845642)
I loved World of Warcraft for many years, but kind of stopped playing during Cataclysm.

And it's kind of weird, but I preferred the old-style questing (many repeated quests and perhaps less streamlined experience) compared to what came afterwards.

In Cataclysm they tried to improve the quest experience, add more variety, but somehow the game lost a bit of its magic - at least from my point of view.

Re:We Programmers Need "Results" on Friday October 31, 2025 @11:02AM (#45772745)
I'm also not a fan. Due to your point regarding code branches, but also because I just don't find the code very readable.

I think Result<T> has its use, but I don't think this is a particular great example.

Re:One-man spam campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @09:04PM (#45522329)
I haven't checked the Guardian in dept, but I believe they towed the same messaging during COVID as any other major Western publication and the same regarding the Russia / Ukraine situation right now.

Alternative voices are to be found on tight corners of the internet, like an individual on Twitter for example.

You can setup a private VPN with Digital Ocean and a PiHole droplet. I guess it's a little bit less likely to be a honeypot. It also seems cheaper than any public VPN offering.
Re:All British adults to require a digital ID 'Brit Card' on Friday September 26, 2025 @12:53AM (#45382795)
Of course a digital id doesn’t prevent illegal immigration.

Proper border checks prevent illegal immigration.

The digital ids are introduced for other reasons - this is something Tony Blair has been pushing for a long time.

Re:Configuration files are user interfaces on Thursday September 18, 2025 @08:23PM (#45296607)
Just something like an INI file might be fine for most use-cases as well and is easier to reason about.
Re:macOS Tahoe on Monday September 15, 2025 @10:42PM (#45257456)
I don't think you can expect any major UI changes in Tahoe at this point. Maybe the next version of macOS will return to its desktop roots a bit more.
Re:Chat Control Must Be Stopped, Act Now on Monday September 08, 2025 @08:20PM (#45175863)
> ... The 'Unofficial' boss of European Union is Germany. ...

I disagree with this sentence. The unofficial bosses are both Germany and France. Which is also the reason why the people in the richer EU countries will suffer economically when the upcoming bailout for France /will/ happen.

Re:Claude Sonnet Will Ship in Xcode on Friday August 29, 2025 @08:42AM (#45063353)
Yeah, my experience with LÖVR [0] and LLM (ChatGPT) has been quite horrible. Since it's very niche and quite recently quite a big API change has happened, which I guess the model wasn't trained on. So it's kind of useless for that purpose.

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[0]: https://lovr.org

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