For the topic of the thread I’ll throw in “toilets that are so bad at flushing that you need to keep a plunger next to them”

The only time I’ve owned a plunger was in a house with a broken clay sewer pipe that was about to kick the bucket.

Wordless instructions make the world a more equitable place by making everyone equally frustrated

+1. BinaryEye is far more reliable than the QR code reader in my camera.

It also has support for a large number of QRlike and barcode formats, and generation as mentioned.

Radeon Open Compute Mplatform

Making fake rocks with concrete

I already hate them for access gating based on unnecessary labour, and deliberately making access more cumbersome for people not using chrome and using VPNs

But what really peeves me off, even though it’s much less important, is that they don’t localise them.

Where are the crosswalks? What the hell is a crosswalk. How many trolleys in this picture? None, that’s a picture of a tram!

…Why is the Department of Energy responsible for nuclear weapons?

With that set up you could install Ark twice!

Upvoting a news article does not remotely imply celebration of the news

I will explain what this means in a moment, but first: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Yes, although admittedly I only know it from Umberto Eco’s Ur-Fascism

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/openai-is-losing-money-on-its-pricey-chatgpt-pro-plan-ceo-sam-altman-says/

Edit: on further inspection this is covered in the article

C99 has a proper boolean (_Bool), C23 makes true and false booleans (and properly gives _Bool the name bool without the macro)

Microsoft Frontpage?

Neat! I look forward to giving it a crack.

Are you aware of Waistline, and are there any points of differentiation you’re after?

What does “abstraction” mean in this context

“We leveraged the fact that many people know about the world and story of the original Final Fantasy VII when we designed the remakes,” Hamaguchi told me during the leadup to Rebirth’s release. “In this title, our general framework follows the original storyline, but at the same time we incorporated elements clearly not included in the original, such as the Whispers and Zack.” This creates a unique opportunity for a remake: uncertainty. “That sort of thrill is very important for this title as a piece of entertainment.”

We have a name for that, “reboot”. Or more cynically, “cash grab”

I love that the replies to you are half saying that it’s an impossible problem, and half linking to existing solutions.

This maneuver may sound simple, but it involves an entirely new and unique code for which the researchers have sought a patent.

How to make your discovery worthless in a single, idiotic move.