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Re:No Man's Sky Cosmos on Thursday September 10, 2026 @05:31AM (#49640905)
I feel like can also compare the difference to some rougelikes where the combos of random things can yield vastly different experiences but in NMS the randomness felt more like a skin - not affecting gameplay much.
Just curious, the heating to remove the VRM is that permanent so you can only check the authenticity once?
Re:NetHack 5.0.0 on Saturday May 02, 2026 @02:20PM (#47988935)
What happened to version 4? Looks like last release was 3.6.7.
Re:First Images from Euclid Are In on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @09:04AM (#41924668)
I guess properly is important there, in reality certain initial orderings are more common and we use certain techniques for shuffling with our hands making it less random than "properly".
Re:Git-absorb: Git commit –fixup, but automatic on Thursday September 26, 2024 @01:58AM (#41654985)
I assume you refer to https://github.com/torbiak/git-autofixup. I have also used it, and its ok but not perfect.
Re:Show HN: Coros – A Modern C++ Library for Task Parallelism on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @12:57PM (#41649422)
You can see in the repository that it was benchmarked against oneTBB.
That was my first thought as well, "The camera will be used to take photographs" seem pointless, if it's a camera app it's obvious if it's not it does not help the reviewer.
Re:Mystery as 4k-year-old axe-heads sent to museum on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @09:50AM (#40985954)
I don't think you can date the axe-heads from the material? I assume they date based on objects found nearby and the technique used to make them. Which is also why knowing the exact location is important.
Recent is relative, the latest comment is from April 2024, not something that popped up today.
Re:Fractal Geometry on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @04:36AM (#40498687)
Some comparison between fractal compression and jpeg here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.5555/364682.364685
Seem to be different studies and measurements - so both.
Re:Animated AI on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @02:14PM (#38003038)
134 MB to be exact.
From the abstract: "The resulting Δ14C record exhibits an abrupt spike occurring in a single year at 14 300–14 299 cal yr BP and a century-long event between 14 and 13.9 cal kyr BP."
Looks interesting - I tried to build it but got:

[ 2176412 ERROR C:\Users\user\.cargo\registry\src\index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f\wgpu-0.16.0\src\backend\direct.rs:1174] Shader translation error for stage ShaderStages(NONE | FRAGMENT): FXC D3DCompile error (0x80004005): C:\Users\user\git\Egregoria\called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value(432,18-24): error X3005: 'ddx': identifier represents a variable, not a function

(Windows 10)

I don't have the full overview, but there are new "dumb" phones made that has 4G/5G, no? (Nokia 8210 seem to be one example, Punkt MP02 another)
Re:Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage on Thursday December 08, 2022 @01:44AM (#33904966)
WizTree (https://diskanalyzer.com/) on Windows seem to be faster than other tools I tried.
Re:Stable Diffusion 2.0 Release on Thursday November 24, 2022 @03:27AM (#33728966)
It confused me that the letter boxes were divided in 7+3, thus I thought it would be two words while the correct answer was a single 10 letter word. Maybe try to avoid wrapping words.
Re:Show HN: A color picker for named web colors only on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:52AM (#33694738)
Related discussion with no definite answer: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/247129/why-is-pe...
Re:Idiot Proof Git on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @11:25AM (#33533890)
You could create an alias doing something like a "git commit --fixup <sha1>" and then a "git rebase --autosquash <sha1>~".
Re:Idiot Proof Git on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @11:16AM (#33533743)
I prefer rebasing too, but merging doesn't mean that you have to merge in all noisy minor fixups, you can combine the strategies and rebase the feature branch into a set of sensible commits, then merge that branch. Preferably even with a CI that checks each commit before merge such that it will not cause issues later during eventual bisections. --fixup and --autosquash are handy for such workflows.
Re:Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle on Monday September 19, 2022 @03:22AM (#32895317)
I would prefer if that was not "auto" marked in that way, it felt nicer to try to think about each crossing. Perhaps something that could be turned on and off.
Re:Best command-line-only video games (2019) on Saturday September 17, 2022 @05:05AM (#32875993)
From https://freeholdgames.com/Press/:

  Caves of Qud is a project of epic proportions that began in 2007 and launched on Steam Early Access in 2015.
Re:Best practices for writing code comments on Friday December 24, 2021 @05:33PM (#29678412)
Git commit messages and code comments serve very different purposes, I don't see any reason to try to use one for the other or opposite.

To me both are important but for different reasons. I don't want to search the blame history of a line of code if a simple comment had been enough, neither would I want to primarily use code comments when bisecting.

Re:Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls on Sunday December 19, 2021 @07:08PM (#29620036)
There seem to be an issue reported about this (although when passing -l): https://github.com/ogham/exa/issues/141
Re:Djinn Split Keyboard on Monday November 22, 2021 @04:39PM (#29311863)
I have the same issue, earlier I was using a Logitech Comfort keyboard: https://c1.neweggimages.com/ProductImageCompressAll1280/23-1...

which I loved, but have not found a good replacement, they are either split with a smaller angle or are those peculiar fully split ones as you mention.

Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? on Saturday October 16, 2021 @04:06PM (#28891003)
Same here, got a MBP from my work 2 years ago. I have had more issues with it than other non mac laptops in the past, both OS and hardware issues. Battery expanding, display issues, system processes using 100% cpu until I reboot as some examples.
Re:Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 on Monday October 04, 2021 @12:21PM (#28748903)
Related: Here is an article investigating the delay between discovery and award: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.5.2012/full...

As can be seen there the delay is often measured in decades. For medicine many awards around 20 years or more after discovery.

Re:DeFi bug accidentally gives $90M to users on Friday October 01, 2021 @01:08PM (#28721002)
I am also a bit confused by this. I have definitely read before that you can't keep money payed by mistake. Is this different in the US or is this some difference with cryptocurrencies vs normal banks?
Just as an example compared to the neighbour country:

The base model Y price in Norway is 534'000 NOK (~52'000€) while in Sweden 719'900 SEK (~70'700€).

For non EV cars it's usually the other way round.

Re:How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @01:11PM (#28144758)
According to this ranking Finland is on 3rd place for English skills in Europe, only behind Netherlands and Denmark.

https://www.ef.com/wwen/epi/

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