I just got a crown on a molar. They used a hand-held 3D scanner to scan my old tooth, then printed my crown in about an hour. I thought that was pretty cool.

How is Portland doing? I love Portland and visited it a few times in the early 2010s. I hope to get back there some day if US is ever welcoming to international tourists.

Dead prisoners make poor slaves.

Hmm... What's eating Windows' lunch? Oh "Unknown" and "Other". Cool.

Heartwarming

Umm... I was born 1-Jan-1970 at 0:00 UTC.

This is hilarious. I work on translation software and know exactly what's wrong. They've selected a spanish voice, but not translated the content to spanish. I was playing around with these settings in our software and produced exactly this result.

HL2 is peak first person shooter. More recent games have added a lot, but after playing through HL2 recent, it's really nice to strip all that extra stuff away.

The legeslation has been in place for years, but we held off because we didn't want to be out of sync with Washington, Oregon, and California.

From https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2026AG0013-000209:

Recent actions from the U.S. have shifted how B.C. approaches decisions that merit alignment, including on time zones.

Thanks Trump :D

It's only really cheating if you cheat someone else. The point of video games is fun and entertainment. If "cheating" improves that, have at 'er.

https://xkcd.com/221/

Mickey's thumbs are clearly pointing down in the image. When holding a camera up to your face, your thumbs will point up.

Other side from port.

Justice is a luxury the poor can’t afford because the rich pay to evade.

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Been on Linux for 18 years as my daily driver. Hate it significantly less than all the other options.

The real life hack is having a crappy low powered microwave so you don't even have to set it to half power.

My only requirement for team processes is that they be mostly up to the team. Absolutely some type of structure is needed. If something isn't working for the team, they need to have agency to address that, whether it means adding, removing, or changing something.

Never meet your heroes

Never read the code of a project you respect

That is some nasty code.

I think there was a time, maybe a few decades ago, when it was entirely acceptable and expected for a full time employee to say "I'm taking off early today, I've got a few errands to run." from time to time. I'm very lucky to be able to do that, but it sounds like it's getting less common.