Does anyone know of some project that makes emoji render as emoticons (:D) or text (:troll:)? I would find something like that useful because emoticons look better than emoji and many emoji are so obscure that I find myself pixel peeping when I try to comprehend what they are trying to represent. Sometimes there's no other way to find out what an emoji is supposed to represent than copy-pasting it to a search engine. Very convenient.

I'm interested if anyone knows how to achieve this on any platform.

How fucking hard can it be to show a simple image. Guess which app has this feature.

Images are cropped to frame, but you can tap to fit the whole image to frame instead. No way to see the image on full screen. Pinch to zoom works, but it will immediately unzoom if you let go even one finger.

Make sure to check out the latest Veritasium video. It's mostly about the analog computers of the 20th century. At the end he teased that part 2 will be about using analog computers for neural networks.

So some notification types are broken again (at least ++ notifs are not), ++ counts don't update again, search finds next to nothing, and the weekly doesn't work properly either (I saw wk288 topic once but can't find it anywhere now).

It still works better than the thing I'm currently dealing with.

Is it just me or does the search find a very limited set of rants for everyone? Maybe it finds only the most recent ones?

RIP the most beautiful achievement of YouTube community https://youtube.com/watch/...

Not every hole is a shithole.

What are the odds for this to happen

Seems like we are only getting ++ notifications currently. I think I should've gotten notifications for mentions and new comments on rants I've posted on since the last 12h, but I only have ++ notifications. Can anyone else confirm?

Get a job you like

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Math is sexist because everything two-dimensional is presented in xy-coordinates

I came across this blog (I guess) that's mostly critique about the security of major open source projects. The author claims to be a security researcher.

At least some of the claims seem to have merit, but how much? Opinions?

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/...

Your time is not limited except by birth and death. What actually defines what you do are other limitations and your priorities.

To compiler warnings:
Thank you, thank you, thank you

I found a spammer account with each of its about 20 comments containing a link to some fishy site. After giving -- to most of its comments I noticed that its ++ count had gone back to what it was when I started. So my use of the -- button got banned. What's the point?

What's up with the supporter badge?

Anyone else noticed this on Chrome mobile? If you stay still long enough on a website and try to scroll up, you will refresh instead.

Maybe this is a dirty fix to some security issue?

So I've made a couple of these meme modifications already but the rants I post them into tend to get deleted. To avoid wasting the couple minutes of my work, I'll post them under this rant.

As a tribute to Alice's fun discoveries, here's my discovery.

If you choose the weekly rant banner on the rant feed and open the rant which is showing at the top of your screen, you will see a ghost of the banner while the rant is loading.

The one that never leaves the backing sheet

More code, less dating.

A project at work which is based on blindly copying other projects, empty catch clauses, a static class for global variables, and incompetence.

I recently fucked my pc up by installing the latest AMD drivers. Couldn't get past the lock screen.

I tried to revert to a restore point but, well, it failed and the installation would not boot at all afterwards.

Thanks a fuck ton, AMD and MS.

Mobile notifications just went bananas

Meetings truly bring up the best parts of you.

On a bus with my headphones on.
The person next to me talking on the phone.
bass_solo.dsd
Live-like experience.

This is a trick question. My dev life is my social one.

What happened to @senzory? Who licked his toe gaps and ate his comments raw?

I got travel advertisments on my Windows 10 lock screen. I didn't remember how to get rid of them, so I had to search for it again. I was lead to this piece of fine irony on my screen.

Staring at it felt like staring at the concept of art while it's staring back. This experience left me emotional.

Thank you Microsoft and Windows Central. Thank you art, life, and love. Thank you ads.