Some parchments use a silicone coating.

I miss boibgboing. Never been able to get into it since they paywalled commenting.

Big factor behind his divorce, iirc.

C of course being ‘century’, the new shorthand for $100.

deleted by creator

Ohh Oi’m 'Enery the Eighth oi am…

Space Engineers, for one. Janky-ass physics engine.

That’s pretty much how a Klang drive works in Space Engineers.

First you need a wizard.

o7 right back atcha!

Debian since 1997, babes.

It wouldn’t surprise me if such a critical part was cast as a single metal crystal. The stresses on that rotor mist be unbelievable.

That’s about what I expect from a Bengal.

I’ve had a generic dishwasher for 20 years and Ir hasn’t needed more than a filter cleaning the whole time. Crazy.

Particulate emissions suck (especially like 6PPD for fish) but they are ultimately local pollutants, not global the way CO2 is. There are multiple variables to optimize for, and right now, EVs are better than gas vehicles.

The BETTER solution is obviously to get people out of personal vehicles as much as possible, and probably not enough, but there are bigger fish to fry. We have to do the most consequential things with the least cost, ASAP.

I would fuckin’ love it if we had the same support Mac users get.

Yeah, the malls at big walkable transit hubs are doing fine, here. It’s the ones with hectares of parking lot that seem to close, here. But I do not have data to back that up.

100%. I think just a vertical flip of the image would do it. Otherwise anatomically difficult to pull off.

That was a plot point in Cryptonomicon. And yeah the XFree86 docs mentioned it too…

Very nice!

If they were rare, they would be unbelievably expensive. We’re so lucky they are cheap.