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Re:Show HN: I made a little math game named Summle on Friday March 04, 2022 @10:56AM (#30556469)
I built one less challenging in Java some years ago.

https://github.com/teni/sumgame

Re:Kubernetes the Hard Way: The Learning Guide on Thursday February 17, 2022 @02:00PM (#30377136)
kubeadm is so much easier than the hard way if you are doing this for the first time.
Re:Gimp is 25 years old today on Sunday November 22, 2020 @12:16AM (#25175120)
Free and Open source? Please which ones do you recommend?
Re:Gimp is 25 years old today on Sunday November 22, 2020 @12:10AM (#25175096)
I found it odd coming from tools like Macromedia Fireworks or Coreldraw because I was expecting to add shapes, fill and pan objects in the canvas. But as soon as I grasped the difference between vector based and raster based tools and why layers are important it became easy.
Re:Gimp is 25 years old today on Sunday November 22, 2020 @12:01AM (#25175063)
You can still run GIMP on Mac. I do and love it.
The benefits of reducing the overall car weight will be huge. For this to be viable one has to think carefully about what happens when a high impact occurs. How easily replaceable will the cells be in the event of damage? A local damage should not result in an overall damage to the vehicle. How will the batteries be cooled?
Re:Signs you might be a micromanager on Friday November 06, 2020 @07:47PM (#25012463)
Micromanaging might be one way to salvage a project that may have suffered due to inexperience on the part of the ones it was delegated to. In an ideal situation, to avoid micromanaging altogether, a manager must have extremely capable team members that are aligned with the common goal.
Doing the right things === What we are doing;

Doing things right === How we are doing what we are doing

Re:Building an artificial sun that looks realistic [video] on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @08:28PM (#24985897)
It looks amazing already, however another fun thing to do will be to vary the light intensity over time to make it more like the sun.
Re:Scary Outage Stories from CTOs on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @07:46PM (#24985693)
I find random errors that are hard to replicate in a consistent fashion the most difficult bugs to track down. A while back, a wordpress site I manage would respond with cipher text for certain pages randomly. After several moments of frantic efforts to fix this, I noticed the issue was that a plugin was doing caching, gzip compression while wordpress was trying to serve pages on https.