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Comment · 2 days ago
Apple's Terminal and iTerm2 restores the terminal scrollback buffer on OS reboot.
Comment · 2 months ago
There is a startup called Unspun that wants to make many types of clothing production fully automated by weaving the complete end product in place. Similar to how socks are woven today.
Comment · 1 year ago
The latter has also been less of a vitriolic edgelord on Twitter since he started working on Infiniminer.
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Comment · 1 year ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIWzK9IOzuU

According to this video some areas in Malibu have burned 9 times in the past 90 years

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Modern versions of macOS don't support subpixel rendering, what Windows calls ClearType, so that is why macOS will always look worse on low resolution displays.

Using BetterDisplay to force a "2x" resolution will give you better rendering but at the cost of lower usable/effective resolution.

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Comment · 2 years ago
I have newerish phone and I still run Kiwi Browser with the uBlock Origin extension for this very reason.
Comment · 2 years ago
>(1) cheaper methods work too well for now to even bother with sophisticated approaches

Pig butchering scams uses all forms of kidnapping, human trafficking, and slave labor

Comment · 2 years ago
Putin wanted to visit South Africa for the BRICS summit. South Africa warned him that they would be obligated to attempt an arrest if he did.
Comment · 2 years ago
I have a cheap Casio watch that has both Spanish and English days
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Comment · 2 years ago
How does China ban Facebook?

Rhetoric aside, it will be done through blocking commercial activity on US soil. The US government can seize tiktok.com for example.

Comment · 2 years ago
What if the cop wants to ruin the lives of a large group of people? How about if it's a group people living in the next town over, can he get away with it? If he does manage to ruin the lives of people, will he get voted out or dismissed?

Bill Gates improved the lives of countless people around the world. He could as easily made the lives of countless worse if he wanted to or as an unintended consequence of his projects.

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