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Re:Find the flattest route between any two points in SF on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @07:13AM (#49976839)
With flat being like a line, level is defined as a line along the same elevation, right?

Therefore, a route can only be level if start and end point are at the same elevation and there is a flat/level road between them.

Flat is an opt description for the goal here. Like you mention, with elevation gain between the points we can still try to find a flat route.

Re:The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @04:47AM (#48656994)
I looked up data from a calorie tracking app I used a while ago and I got just enough vitamin D. Main sources were fish, eggs and dairy products. However, I ate a lot and I'm quite sure in winter there will have been periods where I didn't get the recommend intake.

So if you live in a northern country and you don't like fish, I suppose it's quite a good idea to take a supplement.

Though as OP said, even if the sun isn't strong enough, there are plenty of benefits to going outside beside vitamin D.

Re:Will It Mythos? on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @08:27AM (#48643936)
Mentioned directly under the table:

> Note GPT 5.5 Pro is at the top of the leaderboard only because it blew through $100 budget after only completing four cases, so 2/4 is 50%. And, a couple of other results, both Qwen models, are skewed upward in the detect % ranking because of failure to complete all cases.

Re:Why Quantum Computing will take another 50 years (2025) on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @10:57AM (#47413610)
> This article is meant to be a short, well sourced summary about why we will not have quantum computing any time soon, with evidence that shows we have not made any meaningful progress for decades, at least nowhere near the level the PR lies from the tech industry would have led you to believe.
Re:Meow.camera on Friday October 17, 2025 @03:45AM (#45614217)
Also saw insects at "Mr. Sweetpea, Ducks (Bald Carrot Meow Guardian)" (https://meow.camera/#4300845904274638881)
Re:Advent of Code 2022 on Thursday December 01, 2022 @02:46AM (#33813485)
A comment further down this thread reveals it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33813169
Re:Show HN: Garnix, fast and easy CI for Nix on Saturday October 08, 2022 @12:41PM (#33133781)
According to the Wiktionary linked:

> (informal, mildly derogatory) Yank, Yankee, American (native or inhabitant of the USA)

Re:European natural gas imports and storage reserves on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @09:28AM (#32823998)
What story are you referring to?
Re:Bugs in Hello World on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @05:07AM (#30612814)
Definitely thought-provoking. A few responses here on HN disagree with calling this a bug, so maybe the user owns the error. This is all related to what kind of contract we have in mind when creating and using such a program.

If `puts` were to be used for debug messages, it might be right not to fail so as to not disturb the rest of the program. If the primary purpose is to greet the world, then we might expect it to signal the failure. But each creator or user might have their own expected behaviors.

If a user expects different behavior, then perhaps it is a feature request:

> There's no difference between a bug and a feature request from the user's perspective. (https://blog.codinghorror.com/thats-not-a-bug-its-a-feature-...)

The question is how the behavior can be made more explicit. I think it's a reasonable default to make programs fail often and early. If some failure can be safely ignored, it can always be implemented as an (explicit) feature.

Re:Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0 on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @06:44PM (#24066426)
Good to see someone that observed the same. I remember checking the source anchors and seeing that indeed the links were untracked. I believe my conclusion was they used JavaScript to catch the anchor click and still send you to the tracker URL.
According to the report, online advertising revenue accounts for 5.351.000 EUR while TV did so for 144.365.000 EUR (2019). Thus the impact of online ad revenue rise seems relatively small.
Re:“My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe” on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:25PM (#21250604)
It is not clear Google made the connection at all. The report does not contain enough details to make it convincing this is just because of NewPipe.
Could you elaborate? I fail to see the connection.
Re:Fix All Conflicts: Easy-To-use CUI for Fixing Git Conflicts on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @08:06AM (#16060626)
Character User Interface or Console User Interface (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface)