chihuahua

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Comment · 5 hours ago
Sure, but the Japanese brands can deliver this for $100, not $10,000.
Comment · 1 day ago
GTA6 will have a special 8-bit pixel art edition for France.
Comment · 2 days ago
No it does not mean that. It's not "shameful joy". It's joy at someone else's misfortune.

"Schaden" means literally "harm". "Schamfreude" or "Beschaemende Freute" would be "shameful joy", but that's not a word or expression that anyone uses.

Comment · 5 days ago
The most advanced form of Oxygen and Nitrogen ever seen. Steve Jobs himself invented the precise mixture of isotopes.
Comment · 8 days ago
I question the wisdom of "Modern Standby." When I put my laptop in sleep mode, I want it to sleep. I don't want it to be using the network, checking for updates, fetching email, etc. It can do all of those things when I wake it up.

All of the hotbagging nonsense where a laptop cooks itself in a bag seems to be caused by Windows trying to be clever and deciding there's some really important stuff it needs to do, so it wakes up the machine, does a bunch of stuff, and doesn't get back to sleep.

Windows, you're not as clever as you think you are. None of this work is urgent. Just stay asleep until I wake you up. Seriously, just don't.

Comment · 9 days ago
The team was unable to agree on another single-digit number to use in place of 4.
Comment · 9 days ago
I'm not at all concerned with how easy it is to move the mouse to the menu. It's about looking at a window in one place, and having to look up and to the left by more than a foot to focus on the menu bar.

Resizing windows already requires moving the mouse with single-pixel precision. In comparison, hitting the menu bar is very easy.

Comment · 9 days ago
They could switch to a different mechanism for app stores every month. Force app stores to be rewritten every month to use a procedurally generated new API, developers have to re-apply every month, and users have to go through the laborious setup process every month. And every time, present it with a cheerful message: "To bring a childlike sense of wonder to our customers, today we launch the new improved 3rd party app store API"
Comment · 9 days ago
I think the median screen size today is closer to 30" than 9".
Comment · 9 days ago
Isn't that like saying "Georgia is full of amazing people. For example, Stalin and Beria."

Or is that how you meant it?

Comment · 9 days ago
> But that was in a different millennium.

Exactly. There may have been a reason for the single menu bar back in 1984 when the Mac had a 9-inch screen. But it doesn't work very well on my 43-inch screen where the menu bar may be a few feet away from a small window in the lower right hand corner.

Comment · 9 days ago
When the appeals reach the Supreme Court, if the S.C. should rule against Meta, Zuck will probably remember "wait a minute, I wiped my ass with $25B this morning, I'll just pay the fine, who cares."
Comment · 11 days ago
Iranian Fatwas enforced/carried out by American courts, that could get interesting.

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