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Is there any evidence that handwriting in cursive is better than handwriting normally? The Van der Meer study only compared cursive to typing or drawing, not handwriting.

It's rather suspicious to leave normal handwriting out of the study, and makes me suspect bad faith.

How does scanning the barcode with your phone log you into the computer? Does your phone need network access for that?

What if the computer you want to log in on doesn't have Bluetooth? Probably most public computers (like ones in libraries) don't have it.

>Oh, you can also just freaking flush small things down the toilet.

People with this attitude are why the drains in my apartment keep backing up and my landlord sends emails threatening to evict whoever's flushing things they shouldn't.

That is a strength, not a weakness. It allows for things like 64-bit immediate loads, 32-bit branch offsets, and nearly unlimited future extensibility.

With RISC-V, multiple instruction workarounds are needed for all of the above, and those sequences are usually sequentially dependent ones so they can't be run in parallel. i.e. the insanity of loading a 64-bit value through repeated 12-bit immediates with shifts, using multiple instructions to compute branch offsets, and RVV needing setvli instructions everywhere due to not having opcode space to encode vector length/type.

AArch64 is better, but still has problems with limited opcode space when it comes to future extensions. They've had to make "start mode" and "end mode" for SME to save on opcode space, and future compromises will likely be necessary.

>I still do believe RISC-V did a lot of things better than x86...

Such as? I can't think of anything it does better for high performance cores.

>Your designers want

Sometimes, you need to tell the designers NO. Moving background images don't help people figure out what the weather is going to be.

People are no longer buying internet to use google, nor buying gas for cars? The others I understand, I'm cutting back on them too.

Depends on your financial situation, but $10 is nothing these days. That's the price of a bougie coffee, half the price of going out to eat, half the price of a movie ticket, or less than 2 gallons of gas in some states. For most people here, it's probably 20min of labor after taxes or less, for something you use constantly. You pay several times more, possibly 10x more, for the internet you use Kagi on. Really not a bad deal from that perspective.

Lua basically already has ternary operators anyway since "and" and "or" short circuit. I also don't see the need of adding additional syntax for it.

  local x = condition ? value_a : value b
  local x = condition and value_a or value_b

Interesting, thank you.

>TIMTOWTDI

What on earth is this supposed to mean?

I cannot think of a legitimate purpose for residential proxies existing. They take advantage of people who don't understand what they're being asked to give "consent" to, and then offer up those people's internet connections to whatever actor wants to abuse it, including malware authors, aggressive scrapers, and anyone with ill intent.

Why do you think this rampant abuse is a good thing? What benefit does this provide to society?

This needs to be illegal.

It just turns the motion into fades of equal duration. Reason 352811 I will never own an iPhone.

>We're choosing a license that is usable by the entire community.

What a weaselly way to put it.

A GPL library, as I'm sure you know, is perfectly usable by anyone including jujutsu and anyone else. They just have to also license under the GPL and this is no barrier to open source projects.

There's a part of the .so ELF file (the Global Offset Table aka GOT) that has to be modified with all the addresses of the functions being imported, which of course vary from process to process.

If not patching, what exactly would you call modifying part of the file?

How do you think position independent code can call functions from other .so's without being patched with their addresses?

They can't, so even PIC code still has to have a relocation table that gets patched. It's in a different page than the code though, so code does still get reused.

Shared libraries (and mmapped files in general) are deduplicated; it's nowhere near as bad as you think. The kernel loads a .so into memory once and then maps that memory into every process that mmaps it.

Editing to add: this deduplication is one of the greatest upsides to dynamic linking. Common libs like libgcc and libc only have to exist in memory once and can stay in CPU caches, whereas if they were statically linked into every binary, each binary would have a copy of that library that wouldn't be shared with anything else and you'd waste a lot of memory.

I just don't get why an image format needs the ceremony from being an international standard accepted by governments. It's just an image format; governments shouldn't be involved in this at all.

What did ISO give the JPEG XL team that made paywalling the standard worth it? Did ISO pay them or something?

Does anyone know why the JPEG XL team went through ISO instead of publishing it themselves?

Seems "closed but royalty free" would be a more accurate description then.

Mostly off topic, but why is the spec for JPEG and JPEG XL paywalled? I wouldn't call them open standards if they're not available free-of-charge to the public.

As if there's no difference between harmful substances combined with lewd activity, and talking with people on a video game.

https://metro.co.uk/2026/06/01/uk-considering-banning-kids-s...

You don't HAVE to, but most of the big ones do.

This is false. Evaporative cooling systems consume significant amounts of water and do not reuse it. They can't anyway, recondensing the water would release all the heat they removed by evaporating it.

How are kids supposed to have a safe space "to be curious, build autonomy, and feel free" if they can't get out from the authoritarian hands of their parents or their government?

There's also a windows port of busybox if you want something more stable. w64devkit uses it.

https://github.com/rmyorston/busybox-w32

AI said to do it.