It looks well done. I am not spending two grand to get one.

We all just need that one friend in our group who will pay for it. Then the rest of us can play with it briefly until the novelty wears off.

It's closer to three grand in Ireland.

it starts at $2999 in Canada!

I upvoted you just for the Dune reference.

I feel like once they make a mega successful movie of a book we can stop doing the secret handshake.

OP refers to details from the book that are not in either film.

“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind”…

The only movie I've ever enjoyed after reading the book was Jurassic Park. I've never seen the Dune movies or most other book-based movies, but honestly The Martian and Project Hail Mary were tempting. I'll probably surrender to one of those two someday.

The most recent Dune movies pull off the incredible feat of being a better telling of the tale than the book, but only if you already know the tale from the books. They’re not beginner-friendly, but they’re extremely respectful to the book reader, while still make conscious (and in my opinion, positive) changes to the story.

I might disagree with this. To me, the joy of the books was developing a deep understanding of the societies and their norms. This felt almost entirely missing from the movies, which focused more on events. This is fine--they're different mediums, after all, but the second movie in particular left me a little disappointed.

I think this is kind of my point -- there's no way to develop that level of nuance in a movie. The options are to take way more time (see Silo), to do a crappy job (see... almost every 2 - 3 hour movie), or to instead change the goal: Don't have the viewer "develop… a deep understanding", but down-select to those viewers who already respect the work and have that deep understanding, and instead focus on showing them the society and its norms. Do what movies are great at -- make a story come to life -- and make the viewer/reader do the work of knowing the background, knowing what they're seeing, knowing what's important.

Thank you. Maybe I'll read Dune again (or listen to an audiobook) then watch.

That sounds exactly like the type of experience I'd enjoy.

I grew up on Dune lore and the first movie is one of my favorites of all time. Highly recommended for any Dune fan. I didn't care for the second one.

Especially when the movie is over forty years old.

I don't think 1984 dune was successful culturally or financially. Definitely a different beast from the recent attempt, which has been wildly popular.

Nope. A quote from Dr. Hipp:

"How do I pronounce the name of the product? I say S-Q-L-ite, like a mineral."

This feels like the most ridiculous option and one I've never heard in the wild. Sequel-ite, S-Q-lite, sure. S-Q-L-ite, nah I'm not buying that. Kinda like the inventor of GIF insisting on pronouncing it wrong (I kid)

He's also said he doesn't care how other people pronounce it, so thankfully you're safe.

Phew!

KeePassXC is not for a "normal" user. It really needs to get default entry tempates [1] out the door.

[1] https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/8228

It's an article about emacs so I guess people were curious enough to ask that question.

Sure, and I'm not arguing that the answers are uninteresting, but I found it odd that this is being double-quoted several times as if it was taken out of the article.

It was clean and consistent (pretty much).

Then you haven't been paying attention.

Maybe you are in bubble? Looks like it’s really old slang and I have not heard that word in the last decade in Silicon Valley or elsewhere.

It was never common slang. A few journalists tried to force it to be “a thing” but it never caught on, because forced memes never work.

(I do hate camera glasses though.)

It has had a revival with the Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses. I don't know about Silicon Valley, but you frequently see it in tech-oriented forums when the topic comes up.

Same. Recently moved to Windows (blah) but if I move back, that's a purchase for me.

It's the "nuke it from orbit" approach but "the only way to be sure".