Malgas

Oh wow, they really nailed the visual presentation. If you presented those screenshots as being from a lost Impressions city builder I’d have believed it.

That’s not true. I care very deeply about avoiding them.

This feels like an exercise in Goodhart’s Law: Any measure that becomes a target ceases to be a useful measure.

2048 is a suspiciously round number (it’s 2¹¹) to the point that I came into the article expecting to read about an error affecting some subset of the records. But no, that’s the exact number of votes cast using the system, out of a larger and less round pool of potential voters.

So apparently it’s a coincidence, but it’s making my brain itch.

Congrats.

I gave it a go just now and noticed an issue in the unit one vocab. You can get the prompt “to open” with both 開く and 開ける as options. Only one of these will be considered correct, and it’s a coin toss which one.

Also I got achievements for mastering all (N5-N1) kanji with 80% accuracy when I ended the session.

Another that comes to mind, Colossus is…well, not this exact scenario, but relevant.

There’s an argument that BSD would have been dominant in that case. It was bogged down in lawsuits claiming that it was pirated Bell Unix at the time, but they were dismissed not long after.

The arrival of Linux also slowed development of the GNU Hurd kernel, so that’s another possible contender.

In the sense that PC stands for “personal computer”, yes.

But PC has historically been a shortening of “IBM PC compatible”, which makes certain assertions about system architecture. In this sense, x86 Macs are PCs, but others are not.

The only times I’ve ever used Discord are for things that really should have been on a forum, issue tracker, or something like a lemmy community in the first place.

I hope this causes a return to sanity, but I’m not holding my breath.

Well obviously she needs to know how to defeat the demon core.

Ubuntu circa 2008 it is, then.

Nintendo still makes hanafuda cards.

No, no we don’t need more anti-Nazi slop. We need the real gourmet shit; anti-Nazi fine dining.

I have a pair of Bluetooth earbuds that I sometimes use with my laptop. The actual BT connection goes smoothly in the KDE ui, but they don’t show up as an audio device until I restart the audio service in the terminal.

I’ve had some system updates lately that reduced disk usage.

It’s difficult to imagine that ever happening on Windows.

It’s not even neon!

I think the most obvious example is loop unrolling. An unrolled loop can be many times more code, but runs faster because you’re not updating a counter or doing conditional jumps.

More respondents use Ubuntu than Linux

wat.

In general it seems odd that they’ve got Windows and Mac as monoliths, while the various distros are broken out individually but “Linux” is apparently not an aggregate.

I’m sufficiently unfamiliar with New York that I had to look it up, but Rochester and Tribeca appear to be at opposite ends of the state and are presumably not served by the same physical Target store. Displaying the actual price at a location near you seems completely reasonable to me, if that’s what they’re doing.

But yes, there should be a mandate to explain what data is being used and how.

Not enough. Omega, ADoM, Angband, Crawl, and Nethack are roguelikes. Nearly every game mentioned in this article is a roguelite.