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d332··on GlobalFoundries to Acquire MIPS
btw, what's with the leading zero here?
d332··on Starship: The minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell
It's a different use case. If you run a slow command and check terminal later, you can see how long it took.
d332··on For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]
How would you print back then? Did you also own a printer?
d332··on LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo
I strongly advise against Preply. They employ basically all dark patterns possible. You pay for a "subscription" that can expire if the teacher needs to reschedule lessons. It's difficult to cancel. It really is a nightmare.
d332··on Bonobos use a kind of syntax once thought to be unique to humans
> This finding doesn’t mean that bonobos have language, though, because language is the human communication system

I hate this attitude.

Also, I'm curious how advances in AI will shape our empathy towards animals.

d332··on New in Gmail: Making E2E encrypted emails easy to use for all organizations
Judging from the screencast, this UX is going to be a great gift for scammers.
d332··on How CD pregaps gained their hidden track superpowers
But that's not my goal. I'd like to be able to observe every grove, the physical encoding of data, and see if I could implement decoding from scratch. First problem is though that I don't know how to get a microscopic image of the disc.
d332··on How CD pregaps gained their hidden track superpowers
This inspired me to read up on the low-level details of CD structure. I'm curious if anybody scanned an entire CD and shared the results, so that we could work with a raw image of disc that contains all its quirks, as opposed to the typical .iso format?