I remember just a couple years ago, when I was on a pinball kick, I did some research to see if anyone had made a real Space Cadet machine and was surprised to see no one had. I remember reading some claims that doing so would be virtually impossible because the mechanisms necessary to recreate the behavior of the game could not feasibly be arranged on the underside of the playfield.

I hope this person proves them wrong

I use Quickbooks Self-Employed for my software dev contracting business

When I first started out, I added my vehicle because I was silly enough to think I might need to log miles as a programmer, but of course I never did. Every single year when I go to file, Turbo Tax chokes because I have zero miles logged and it makes me manually fill out every single vehicle-related tax form (it won’t let me leave them blank). Worse yet, there’s no option in Quickbooks to remove a vehicle.

Also, it somehow completely fucked up the reporting of state estimated taxes this year, even though I had all my payments accurately recorded in Quickbooks, and I had to follow up with the state to get it corrected.

This is software I pay for btw

I’m sorry that you work at a company that thinks code reviews and tests guarantee bug-free code.

The primary function of code reviews is to increase visibility, and therefore maintainability. It keeps other members of the team in the loop about how codebase is changing and how it might affect their current or future work.

The primary function of tests is to catch regressions, not new bugs, and especially not new bugs related to use cases that weren’t even possible in previous versions

Companies like Flock really should be forced to do some due diligence on whether a city ran a publicly-known vote before they fulfill an order for cameras

It means that multiple devices which are connected to the same TV can all control each other.

For example, say you have a streaming device (e.g. Amazon Fire Stick) and an audio receiver both hooked up to the same TV on different HDMI ports. With CEC, you could use the volume buttons on the streaming device’s remote to control the volume on the audio receiver. You could also use the power button on the TV remote to turn all three devices on/off at the same time.

How’s HDMI-CEC support in Linux? I remember that being a sticking point last time I considered building an HTPC

Gonna have to respectfully disagree with you about charcoal. Idk if it’s genetics or what, but the flavor that charcoal imparts has always tasted bitter and ashy to me.

“Taste the meat, not the heat” - Hank Hill

Thanks for reminding me about beer can chicken though! Completely forgot about it

Nah it’s something they do intentionally for attention. Won’t be too long before you get an “ackchually” reply from them explaining what the character means

despite having had 2 prior assassination attempts made

Which also makes the fact that someone was able to sprint through a security checkpoint very strange. You can’t even do that at Disneyland

I don’t have any doubt that the profit will come soon. Virtually every CEO is pressuring their employees to use AI as much as possible. Anthropic just has to crank up their prices to 11 and companies won’t really have a choice but to pay since they will have become so reliant on AI

Boiling is the worst way to prepare hot dogs. Even a microwave can produce better results. Boiling causes juices to leach out and the texture is no better than when it was taken out of the package.

Notice how boiling is not listed on this page: https://nathansfranks.sfdbrands.com/en-us/articles/hot-dog-blog/how-to-cook-the-perfect-hot-dog/

In public yes

At home, I’m wearing sweatpants or basketball shorts. Why do I need to wash if I’m only touching the front of my waist band

Forgot about this, thanks!

Is the Claude Code extension for VS code also using a compromised dependency? Or just the npm package?

The benefit is less about decentralization in this case (although it would be nice because fuck corporations, especially Ticketmaster) and more about the use of cryptography. The blockchain and non-fungible aspect allows people to buy tickets secondhand without a doubt in their mind that the tickets are fakes or copies, all without the need for a corpo-approved marketplace which make the rich leeches richer.

NFTs actually do have a few practical uses, e.g. concert tickets, but the number is very small and the relevant industries are unlikely to adapt them anyways because capitalism

Do we really need a signal group for this? Would much rather have the torrents be uploaded to a public tracker

Spanish: we got to choose, most people chose something close to their real name

Mandarin: my teacher’s Taiwanese wife painstakingly came up with names for us that were close-sounding, or at the very least had the same first letters. It was very cool of her to do

Does anyone know of a way I could download the entire English N64 library? I don’t remember there being a bulk download option on Myrient