Saying he’s arguing is bad faith is not the same thing as saying he’s wrong or misinformed. It’s a bold value judgment you’re making about him, publicly, without any evidence. The time to seek clarification is before you declare someone is arguing in bad faith.

Running native extensions in parallel is a huge performance boost. Running a large internal Rails application, we saw performance roughly double. Very workload dependent, of course, but all of the major DB adapters are implemented as native extensions.

We also added support for the blake3-rb gem.

Is there any game that benefits from having two sets of Joy-Con 2? I have Switch 1 Joy-Cons and Pro controllers. I’ll get the Joy-Con 2 now if beneficial, otherwise I’ll probably wait for models with a different design.

What are the margins on the Switch, Switch Lite, and Switch OLED?

Price increases aside, it’s never been a better time to buy used. Lots of people that upgraded to Switch 2 don’t have much use for an original Switch. I’m seeing OLED models, including special editions, going for $105 around me.

This is a team effort. Third parties could produce full game cards but are choosing not to. Maybe that shouldn’t be a choice they can make. I’m a bit surprised retailers went along with this. It seems to be a deliberate attempt to push digital purchases.

This is going to sound nitpicky, but I’m legitimately curious: is this an editor approved usage of “agnostic”? I’ve been trying to figure out if “agnostic” should’ve been “indifferent” in most software contexts but someone mixed them up and it’s snowballed (like HTML shivs).

I have LLMs using two hyphens and it’s driving me nuts.

Please let me know how you like the machine. I’ve been looking at getting a Minisforum machine for a little arcade and/or pinball project.

I’m already in the Unifi system and am generally happy with it, so I don’t want to have hybrid equipment.

And, yeah, I have a TrueNAS SCALE server. But, what’s driving it is my new workstation motherboard has integrated 5 Gbps. It’d be great if I could use it without having a 10 Gbps copper LAN.

Do we know if any of the international cartridges will have the whole game? I’ve picked up a few games from Play Asia that were digital-only or semi-digital (e.g., FF X and FF X-2) in North America but were standalone cartridges elsewhere.

No. Is there a list worth following? I followed a few accounts doing hardware mods on retro consoles back on Twitter, but haven’t managed to fill that niche here or on Mastodon.

Thanks for sharing, by the way.