Here's a lovely little resource to help you select a programming font, with IntelOne preselected. It does not appear to have ligatures (which is the new hotness in some fonts).

Fonts that you have to stare at all day, every day, are a very personal thing, like a favorite keyboard, or favorite chair. For roughly 20 years, I was using ProFont (a/k/a ProFontWindows), but last year I switched to Iosevka.

This jumped out at me as well. I'd be interested to know who chundered up this number (and whose payroll they're on). Simple arithmetic will show that $3.4E+06 will get you maybe 20-30 full-time people in the SF Bay area. There's no way Reddit can replace thousands of moderators, each with domain-specific knowledge, with a mere 30 people.

It seems like, every time Huffman opens his mouth, he insults his userbase, his for-gratis workforce, and digs his commercial grave even deeper.

You could degauss the platters. Once done, you'd end up with a perfectly "smooth" magnetic flux field from which no previous data could be recovered. Re-install the platters and re-format.

Alas, it's probably not "economically viable," as it would be labor-intensive and require a clean room.

...There are no nice, genteel words for the "decision process" that spurred this change. This is straight-up congenital brain damage. I guaran-fscking-tee you that all bugs filed against this change were closed with the sniffy, "NOTABUG: Working as designed."

Google Authenticator was correctly designed from the outset. You do not create a single target for adversaries to attack. You distribute the secrets and ideally isolate them so that adversaries have to compromise thousands of systems instead of just one.

As for, "What if you lose your phone?" Well, what if you lose the keys to your car, or your house? You don't expect the home builder or car dealership to chunder up a duplicate, do you? The ability to export your GA credentials has been there for years. Save them to a USB key and put it in a safe place.

Meanwhile, I'll be transitioning completely over to andOTP.

"Don't be evil," has been dead for a while, but I had hoped they would have at least held on to, "Don't be stupid..."

This idea of replacing traditional but not very friendly ways of delivering Linux desktop apps, such as DEB and RPM package management systems. [ ... ]

Pardon my French, but what the fuck is so "unfriendly" about installing DEBs?

RPM and DEB are an absolute $(GOD)-send to users, particularly those who've had to suffer under the scourge of Windows, where you have to update each application individually, each usually with its own bespoke updater (many of which will try and up-sell you on shit you don't need). And if it turns out said program needs an updated MSVC++ runtime? Nothing will warn you; you get to find that out The Hard Way when it crashes, and then you get to grovel through Microsoft's awful site looking for the latest MSVC++ runtime, and pray to the gods that abide that upgrading it doesn't break something else.

DEB just fucking works. Except for very rare hiccups (in my experience), upgrading a package magically upgrades all the dependent libraries along with it. If you get sick of a program and delete it, all the libraries it required get deleted as well (if nothing else also needs them), saving you disk space and reducing potential attack surface. And you drive the whole updating process from one place -- not one program at a time, not with special snowflake updaters the marketing department occasionally throws over the wall. A consistent, reliable management system for all the software on your machine.

DEB is awesome.

...a new, future-proofed engine "built from the ground up in Unity." [ ... ]

I don't think the speaker understands what "ground-up" means...

...NVIDIA's gaming platform...

...What gaming platform would this be, then?

And no, GeForce Now is not a platform. It's a launcher and settings manager. Windows is the platform...

Kudos for being the one who actually RTFA!

I suspect someone has an agenda against President Biden here. The stories jibe fine.

You know what Bing stands for, right?

Bing Is Not Google.

Remember when Google goaded all their employees to setup and use a Google+ account?

Yeah, that ended well...

Is there a reliability breakdown on CMR versus SMR (conventional versus shingled) drives? The shingled recording technique always struck me as a flimsy hack -- clever, but probably more prone to failure.

Also: Has anyone besides me noticed that manufacturer's claimed unrecoverable read error rates have basically not improved in the last several years, and are stuck at 10**14 bits (10**15 on "enterprise" drives)?

The Linux kernel infamously doesn't make any guarantees about driver APIs, rendering the idea of binary drivers a pretty shaky proposition [ ... ]

Mneh, mneh, mneh, mneh....

Uh-huh, sure. BTW, how may versions of the MSVC++ runtime are currently squatting in your system folder? I think my Win7 machine managed to get up to something like 14. But no, it's Linux that's a moving target...

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I live in San Diego. The freeways are great, and this is definitely a car city. It is hard to get around without a car. But you can do it. I know people who do it by choice, and others because they can't afford to drive.

Funny you should mention San Diego. It, along with Los Angeles and other major cities, were victims of a concerted effort to hamstring or reduce rail-based mass transit in favor of buses and cars ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ).

So, is the fact that San Diego is now a "car city" really the result of a meaningful choice by its residents?