I read through it for the details.

It was net negative, requiring 2MW of power to maintain hydrogen plasma in a state analogous to fusion. The major achievement of this particular experiment was doing so without energies equivalent to a fusion reaction damaging the containing assembly.

It was purely a test/demonstration of the containment of fusion-like conditions.

Tell that to the person who implemented Tetris in Postgresql.

https://github.com/nuno-faria/tetris-sql

For modest definitions of “beefy”. There are budget friendly options that will work just fine with a B-series Arc card, like an i5-12400.

You checked on that recently? The B series is much, much better.

Ads on a service I directly paid for was the line for me as well. I have no tolerance for that nonsense and it boggles my mind that anyone else does either.

If even a tenth of the subscriber base for any of these services cancelled because of ads they’d be gone so fast you’d get whiplash, and yet most people just put up with it.

For what it’s worth, in that specific example at least JSON parsing has been available as part of the base .NET libraries since .NET 3.

I’ve been using LibreOffice and before that OpenOffice for as long as I’ve known about them being options. It’s honestly baffling to me that any home user would ever pay for MS Office. What on Earth does it offer that any home user could conceivably need?

That’s exactly what we ended up doing. Every story has now become one Fibonacci step higher than it would have been before.

Management where I work finally unbent and admitted that story points were time.

…but also want to continue raising velocity in each sprint.

Exactly this. I had a character go to a brothel in a campaign I ran. I just said okay, you go to the brothel and have whatever you consider a good time. No further detail or RP was requested or required.

C# .NET using reflection, integer underflow, and a touch of LINQ. Should work for all integer types. (edit: also works with char values)

// this increments i
private static T Increment<T>(T i)
{
    var valType = typeof(T);
    var maxField = valType.GetField("MaxValue");
    var minField = valType.GetField("MinValue");
    if (maxField != null)
    {
        T maxValue = (T)maxField.GetValue(i);
        T minValue = (T)minField.GetValue(i);

        var methods = valType.GetTypeInfo().DeclaredMethods;
        var subMethod = methods.Where(m => m.Name.EndsWith("op_Subtraction")).First();
               
        T interim = (T)subMethod.Invoke(
            null,
            [i, maxValue]);

        return (T)subMethod.Invoke(
            null, 
            [interim, minValue]);
    }
    throw new ArgumentException("Not incrementable.");
}

“Observable universe” isn’t how much we can see, rather how much it is theoretically possible to observe by any physical means.

I also don’t think that water drop fact is correct. The estimated number of stars in the observable universe is 10^24, which is about an order of magnitude more than 1 mol, and 1 mol of water is about 18g, which is quite a bit more than 10 drops.

I’m the primary developer for a third party tool for Elite Dangerous and this is basically my entire thought process when I want to work on it.

I could work on Observatory…

Or I could play some Elite…

Or I could just stare at my screen ineffectually for several hours.

Staring at the screen wins frighteningly often.

Half Life Alyx, Lone Echo, and Asgard’s Wrath are all incredible experiences that actually feel like “real games” that made meaningful and justifiable use of VR.

Beat Saber and Robo Recall get honorable mentions from me as well because while neither is groundbreaking, both execute their particular niche more or less perfectly.

Browsing various VR software storefronts now you find basically nothing like any of the above. Everything seems to be trying to mimic the mobile game “quick distraction” approach and shovel out as much garbage as possible rather than creating anything engaging. For anyone who believes that VR has genuine potential for exciting new experiences, as I do, it’s incredibly disheartening.

I’m looking at the one for my OLED deck right now and it’s labelled as 45W (20V 2.25A).

Definitely did not expect Konsi doing a Street Fighter 6 Cammy cosplay.

Hence the thicker gauge wire.

The Steam Deck charger is 45W.

“Dumb” power cords have thicker gauge wire than USB-C cables and much larger contacts.

When I initially set up my media server I went with Jellyfin over Plex mostly because the idea of having to create an account on an external service to use software I was hosting myself rubbed me the wrong way. Since then the more learn about Plex the more baffled I am that anyone chooses to use it at all.