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Had to log in to my rarely-used HN account to mention that I had played Biolab Disaster over and over again years back but lost track of it and forgot the name. Kinda wild to find it again by sheer luck!

Remember when the primary purpose of flatpak's shared runtimes was so that libraries like libwebp are not actually bundled per-application? libwebp in the runtimes has been patched with a fix for over a week.

These docs are a bit sparse and more for debugging some very specific things. If all you want is a stack trace:

- You can use `flatpak install --include-sdk --include-debug THE-APP` to install the SDK and debug info for an app - Then `flatpak-coredumpctl -m MATCH THE-APP` will use coredumpctl to open the matching coredump inside the corresponding SDK's gdb

Chrome tends to be built with a rather slow and stringent set of optimization extras like PGO that people tend to leave off in Chromium builds.

I want to point out that Lima also works on Linux, and it's super useful there for development scenarios where a container just doesn't cut it.

This gets mentioned basically every time. The gist is that:

- OpenGL is a much easier target to support, in terms of having a functional desktop. Remember, hardware-accelerated apps have been runnable on Asahi for months now, while Vulkan support is still a while away. - Most of the work being done is common to OpenGL and Vulkan, so it's not exactly a ton of wasted effort.

Yes, because Brave is the model of ethics! Oh, wait a sec...

This falls apart a bit when you consider that several larger banks did try to prop up First Republic for a bit, specifically because:

> the FDIC is funded by banks and receives no appropriations from Congress

So banks going down can certainly cause other banks money, too.

That being said, the "significant discount" is usually because, when you acquire the assets, you also acquire the bank's liabilities, and AIUI roughly speaking you're paying the difference between what you gain and what you lose in the process. More specifically, the FDIC helped fund JP Morgan's acquisition of First Republic because, if JP Morgan simply acquired the assets & liabilities directly, they would not be enough liquidity for it to be safe.

I.e. acquiring a smaller bank has some advantages but also some downsides, and it also destroys trust in the system which hurts the big banks too...so it's not really something that's exclusively beneficial and definitely not worth trying to trigger intentionally.

I feel like the hard part is that, if you dive in early on with imperative-style code, it's really easy to try and do everything else the imperative "style" too...until you can't, or you run into some weird behavior stemming from how IO works, at which point you just end up super confused.

Starting without IO makes sure that you actually start to "get" how the language functions, so that once you jump into IO, the weird parts and how to mix it in with the logic written elsewhere makes a lot more sense.

Worth noting that, from what I gathered, a lot of dislike towards Ventura's new UI is often less the style and more just various inconsistencies / strange behavior in their execution of it.

There should certainly be more tooling around finding these things out, but one thing worth noting is that you can `flatpak uninstall --unused` to remove old, unused runtimes (the runtime environments for apps).