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Re:Make macOS consistently bad (unironically) on Saturday March 28, 2026 @09:44AM (#47554538)
Kernel_task is often the os thermal throttling, when was the last time you hit the vents with a can of compressed air?
Extremely cool! I have never seen that type of piece randomizer, thanks for sharing
I enjoyed playing Linex! It reminds me of doing perfect clear solves in Tetris, but without the stress :) I appreciate the skip, next, and hole-fill power ups.

If you don't mind me asking, how are you doing piece generation? Is it random%7, drawing from a bag, or something else?

Hello fellow Tetris nerd with a -sort username :)

On the topic of reflexes decaying (I'm getting there, in my late 30s): Have you played Stackflow? It's a number go up roguelite disguised as an arcade brick stacking game, but the gravity is low enough that it is effectively turn based. More about 'deck' building, less about chaining PCs and C-Spins.

Very cool! I am a good Tetris player (in the top 10% of players) and wanted to give brick yeeting against an LLM a spin.

Some feedback: - Knowing the scoring system is helpful when going 1v1 high score

- Use a different randomization system, I kept getting starved for pieces like I. True random is fine, throwing a copy of every piece into a bag and then drawing them one by one is better (7 bag), nearly random with some lookbehind to prevent getting a string of ZSZS is solid, too (TGM randomizer)

- Piece rotation feels left-biased, and keeps making me mis-drop, like the T pieces shift to the left if you spin 4 times. Check out https://tetris.wiki/images/thumb/3/3d/SRS-pieces.png/300px-S... or https://tetris.wiki/images/b/b5/Tgm_basic_ars_description.pn... for examples of how other games are doing it.

- Clockwise and counter-clockwise rotation is important for human players, we can only hit so many keys per second

- re-mappable keys are also appreciated

Nice work, I'm going to keep watching.

Re:MIDI 2.0 Driver Support Coming with Linux 6.5 on Monday June 12, 2023 @02:20PM (#36298424)
Ooooh, I thought MPE was the same as MIDI 2.0. Turns out it ain't. My bad!
Re:MIDI 2.0 Driver Support Coming with Linux 6.5 on Monday June 12, 2023 @08:36AM (#36292434)
That was true a few years ago. The next few years are here :) take another look, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
The blitz (maximize score in a set time) all-clear runs are pretty impressive, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWETj11LmMw&t=7s
Re:Self-parking Car in 500 Lines of Code on Saturday October 09, 2021 @02:48PM (#28812209)
120-ish seems to to be where linters will yell these days.
Re:Show HN: Auxl – Modular API Client for macOS on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @09:34AM (#27354179)
Is this Max/MSP for JSON? Pretty cool!
Re:Reverse-Engineering NES Tetris to Add Hard Drop on Monday March 22, 2021 @03:28PM (#26545543)
It can break Marathon, but infinity spins are not a great strategy for Ultra, Sprint, or 1:1 multiplayer.
Re:Reverse-Engineering NES Tetris to Add Hard Drop on Sunday March 21, 2021 @12:25PM (#26531554)
Depends on what rule book you're using :) Ghost pieces default to `on` in Guideline Tetris.
Re:Two days with Volkswagen’s electric ID.4 on Saturday February 27, 2021 @07:33PM (#26289556)
I am _really_ hoping the ID 3 will be roughly the cost of a GTI, but it's looking more like the cost of a Golf R.

Oh well, maybe in a few more years.

Yeah, I don't want those either.
I'm a bit scared of this. There are so many horror stories out there to the tune of, "Google banned my account, now I can't get into anything, and there's zero ways for me to get in touch with a human to talk about any avenues to fix it." and then extrapolating that to government.
VS Code runs on remote hosts through SSH, containers, or WSL: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview

Kinda like a parallel universe swank/slime.

Re:Ruby 3.0 on Friday December 25, 2020 @02:13AM (#25534855)
Ruby has definitely helped me get through some rough and tight spots. So many things are easily able to bum me out, while Ruby goes out of its way to make me happy.

> Welcome home. Things are going to be fine. Don't worry about nonsense. Just `:chill`

A beloved safety blanket that makes it easy and fun to do boring everyday tasks.

Re:AES67 resources – Audio over IP protocol on Saturday July 11, 2020 @07:23PM (#23807098)
Not very good keyboard player here: higher than ~~8ms is annoying for playing/recording. But 50ms probably isn't bad if say, you're blasting a message through a factory intercom, or piping music through a dental office, or stuff like that.
Re:SSH Emergency Access on Monday July 06, 2020 @12:47AM (#23744789)
> It's becoming more common to not ever SSH into machines

This is a reality for me. At work we run a handful of distributed clusters, if anyone does an equivalent of sshing into a box and poking around (in our case, `kubectl exec`), the infrastructure team gets an alert, then follows up with whoever invoked the command. If they are doing debugging, we shift whatever resources they need into dev. If they are not debugging, they will probably get questioned by their boss. (fortunately, most of the time this chat results in, "oh wow I didn't know about the APM/Metrics/Graphs/Logs/etc setup we had, I'll check that next time)

Re:Zupiter: A Web-Based Modular Synthesizer on Sunday October 06, 2019 @01:23PM (#21173401)
Very cool project! Do you have any plans for a Zupiter API? I'd love to build a utility module or two, maybe even a filter.
Re:How TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @11:55PM (#21078018)
Punch `China exit ban` into your favorite search engine.
Re:A Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’ on Sunday September 01, 2019 @10:59PM (#20856474)
On a bed made of money :(
Re:Amazon Is Becoming the New Microsoft on Monday November 20, 2017 @10:40PM (#15745340)
Not all of us have a strong grasp of logic theory, although we probably would be much better off if we did. Mind dumbing it down for your audience?
Re:Amazon Is Becoming the New Microsoft on Monday November 20, 2017 @10:38PM (#15745337)
Nope. That quote was lifted from Amazon.com meta tags.

If I were to guess at what companines might rival Amazon in having the biggest selection, my top 3 would be: eBay, Alibaba, Rakuten.

Re:Amazon Is Becoming the New Microsoft on Sunday November 19, 2017 @01:22PM (#15735090)
- Safeway and BMW don't tout theirselves as, "Earth's biggest selection of books, magazines, music, DVDs, videos, electronics, computers, software, apparel & accessories, shoes, ..." like Amazon does. They don't even claim to be the biggest selection of groceries/autos.

- Safeway and BMW aren't known as "The Everything Store"

- You can buy Toyotas at a BMW dealership. They will be used, but they're there.

Re:Gameboy Camera Extraction Via Arduino on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @07:54PM (#15446222)
Wicked cool! Now I'm digging around my apartment trying to find my GB Camera!

For anyone else interested, I found a pinout of the link cable here: http://www.hardwarebook.info/Game_Boy_Link

Re:Is there a winning strategy in Tetris? on Sunday September 03, 2017 @07:35PM (#15164600)
I have great news for you! https://tetris.wiki/SRS
I still end up using a sophisticated note app (AnyList) for remembering spinach. Real-enough-time syncing with my non-techie significant other's phone is pretty great, the latency is low enough that we divide and conquer at the grocery store.

When I take meeting notes, I end up using OneNote or Google Docs:

- I have a tree of `Who - What` (and the counter-bikeshedding).

- Images of block diagrams sneak in, especially if it's a planning or design meeting.

- Full text search is handy, one-note especially spoiled me by doing OCR

- I like GDocs in particular for the real-enough-time collaboration. It can help quieter people not get steamrolled in conversation, especially if you have a boisterous note-taker to speak up for them :)

Re:Save Netflix on Monday April 04, 2016 @09:48PM (#11427221)
> Secure Boot and the ME make me worried for the future of x86, even.

funny you mention that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11422531

Re:Massachusetts Right to Repair Initiative on Monday April 04, 2016 @09:46PM (#11427209)
Even if they did, just going off of experience with other software projects, my gut says the docs are obsolete before you're* even able to download them.

*someone from the commonwealth

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