Aardwolf

One issue with Firefox setting is that it assumes too much that you want to disable the audio but don't care about the moving video. I care about the video not autostarting. But when I press play, then I obviously do want audio. Firefox mutes it... So now it requires two or more clicks to properly play

I guess in engineering what you care about is: how fast is it on given input size X relevant for the practical problem. Or: how much input size can we do in time bound Y.

If you have still X years remaining of a registered domain, do those years move as well or do you lose them, if you move registrar?

What do you mean, can you entrust one domain with multiple registrars?

Could they also get bought by private equity? It seems a lot of things get bought by this

Ok this is doing some damage. What's a possible alternative that works on both mobile and desktop, doesn't require yourself to run a server, and doesn't have worse reputation?

How did people in the 90s even manage to play Minesweeper without having a yellow marker to guide you?

Rope is one thing that I wonder how to make from scratch if you'd be dropped somewhere in nature. I know it's about weaving plant fibers, but, how can it get so long?

> Don’t you just want to rotate it, no matter what it does?

A grandparent's house had light switches that looked kind of like this but black (bakelite). And they are very satisfying, a good amount of resistance while rotating, then click.

This is the most dwarven thing I've read today

I feel like there could be a fifth finger at the top 90 degrees rotated compared to the others, to e.g. click a pen

> the implementation may assume any thread will eventually do one of the following: terminate, call a library I/O function, access a volatile glvalue, or perform a synchronization or atomic operation

Why is that rule needed? I could make my for loop try to solve the halting problem and it'll never finish either, circumventing that rule

> We chose taus88 mainly because it is the fastest from boost’s generators.

That's an RNG from 1996. It seems neither recent C++ standards, nor boost, know anything about the modern PRNGs that are much faster yet better at passing test suites

EDIT: Ok the above quote was from 2014, and boost seems to know some now! https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/latest/doc/html/boost_random/...

I know this brand even though I'm not Australian! Thanks to "Australian guy that screams at ipods" DankPods

Some of the mouse-overs don't seem to match, hovering over 'viruses' shows a raccoon, and hovering over 'lungfish' shows a bird eating a fish

What's wrong with titles starting with "How"? Of the various title rewriting rules on HN, this one seems to cause the most meaning-changing modifications

(Article title: "How I feel about AI". HN title: "I feel about AI")

I clicked the picture first without reading any of the article and was wondering "where are the mice? they must be well camouflaged!"

If LLMs are oxen, harnesses are... the harnesses

What causes this style of linkedin posts anyway? What causes so many people to adopt that writing style?

The one where there's some short paragraph intended to evoke some feeling or thought, then longer ones that elaborate on it in some way. Or something like that, not sure how to describe it.

BTW its puzzle games are what keeps me coming back every day and see those posts :p

I guess it'll keep existing with the name EA? "Public investment fund" doesn't sound too fitting for a game company

Personally I'm disappointed 128-bit floating point (quadruple precision) never properly made it into CPU's (sure it appeared in some niche ones here and there, but not in what we actually use today). After all, in the 1980's they had 80-bit ones, it's not even that far off, and they had millions times less transistors then.

While probably niche and applications that need higher precision using their own custom types anyway, they'd allow cool stuff like easy to program fractals with much higher detail than now. But also, less precision loss in many applications.

> In order to put the emission peak in the visible spectrum, the filament would need to run at ~5700 °C (...) No metal can survive these conditions: Tungsten melts at "only" 3422 °C.

Hmm, can we possibly find something that does survive at 5700 °C to use as a light source? Perhaps molten metal confined in a magnetic field...

Is there any info for a way to check this on your SNPs from genome sequencing data?

It has the option to play a tutorial that explains the controls

Techmoan has to visit this place

What is one to do? Unicode has dozens of arrows for each direction, but each of them has its height compared to the text rendered differently depending on font or platform

That's less than I expected for worldwide

Apparently Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, etc... were not really into castles, while Japan was?

4 successful landings before disaster struck, not a bad first day as ATC

If I were in a tomb for 2000 year I wouldn't even mind if they can learn about the history of my era 2000 years later

So if I squint my eyes I'm a human, if I don't squint them I'm a robot