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Re:A curmudgeon tries a language server on Friday August 28, 2026 @04:41AM (#49476021)
Right, but... are you reading code in a way in which you need to preserve the “natural flow”? Personally I read a program (made up of discrete chunks of syntax that do things) much differently than a novel, or any piece of natural language in which you’d care about the typography.
Re:Nitter project received cease and desist on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @09:05PM (#49442927)
“As simple as hosting their own website” is contradictory for a majority of the people using the internet.
Re:Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @09:46AM (#48920775)
i'm far from an authority on content delivery or whatever, but the first thing I thought of was what a bizarre way to setup your infrastructure!
the joke is that plan 9’s not UNIX, and thus does not run Jurassic Park. the absurdity arises from the fact that using such a capable operating system for dinosaur husbandry (im told this is what jurassic park is about) would be, frankly, philistine in nature.
Re:A bug which affected only left handed users on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @11:38PM (#48840703)
god, I have a 12 mini and I don't know what I'm going to do when it dies. my attempts at finding a vaguely modern name-brand android phone that's a similar size have concluded in zero phones and a sense of overwhelming dread
Re:Splash Is a Colour Format on Sunday June 07, 2026 @09:38PM (#48440444)
that's so real tbh
Re:NextTrace: An open source visual route tracking CLI tool on Thursday November 14, 2024 @01:55AM (#42133733)
Curious how the "NextTrace has been used for [number] times" banner works. Does it fire off a request to their site everytime it's used? (and if so, is it an over reaction to personally find that a little strange for a small-ish cli tool?)
SteamVR’s tracking page[1] explains it a little. The HMD is really just displays, radios to talk the controllers (standalone trackers will just have a dongle, runs the same firmware iirc), and its own chip to talk to its own tracking sensors. All the tracking stuff amounts to timing information which is screamed over USB to the PC which does all the math to figure out where you are.

A bulk of this (really interesting!) information can be found on their HDK documentation, but that requires you to sign up with Steamworks.

[1]: https://partner.steamgames.com/vrlicensing