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Re:Apple/macOS silently removed from official Unix registry on Saturday October 10, 2026 @02:50PM (#50035905)
WSLv1 worked via Unix Subsystem.
Re:NP-Overrated on Thursday August 13, 2026 @09:03PM (#49293624)
> I mean, installing packages and type checking can surely be slow. But, at least in my career, I've never seen a galactic blow-up.

Last time I had a galactic blow-up of apt solver (the final part of 64-bit time transition in Debian Testing) it was mere 2 GiB of memory per minute.

Re:All memory manufactured in 2027 has been sold out on Friday August 07, 2026 @05:31AM (#49207922)
It was legal in USSR for USSR to scalp though, depends on point of view.
Re:Quake – 30th Anniversary Update on Thursday August 06, 2026 @08:46PM (#49204599)
The source code repo is still on Epic's Github, not sure if everything else is that easy to get currently. The problem about picking it up by a 3rd party is the fun of getting approval on basically anything.
Re:Quake – 30th Anniversary Update on Thursday August 06, 2026 @08:38PM (#49204552)
The people behind UT were reallocated to make Battle Royale mode for Fortnite which is the reason of the take off, not vice versa.
Re:A big win for Android interoperability on Sunday August 02, 2026 @11:21AM (#49145442)
Nah, some people are just having too much !fun! witch-hunting.
Pitch is a viscoelastic polymer while simple fluids are non-elastic, that's the whole point.
Re:My quest to see all of Tetris on Monday July 06, 2026 @10:08AM (#48804833)
Nope, piece selection in the unmodified NEStris uses only the player input to generate pieces and it also starts from the same seed, so frame-perfect inputs after loading the game will result in the exact same pieces. The first perfect level 18 run (only tetrises to score) was dismissed by community because it was made by replicating a TAS run with a suitable piece sequence.
Re:Flipper One – we need your help on Thursday May 21, 2026 @12:13PM (#48225139)
Then eat a pile of different dashes made by the same guy back in 2013 [0].

[0] https://habr.com/ru/articles/191654/

> Japanese car manufacturers were late to EVs ... they lobby the government to subsidize and create a new market segment in the form of hydrogen cars

Production of Toyota Prius started 28 years ago.

Re:Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer on Monday May 11, 2026 @08:33PM (#48102665)
Perfect fourth could be achieved via natural harmonics at 5th and 7th frets, double octave is just the 5th fret and voila you can get the standard tuning. Inapplicable for necks without a precise position of frets, good luck compensating height differences from nut and gauges with intonation tuners.
Re:EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs on Sunday April 26, 2026 @12:28PM (#47911530)
Russian "bot farms" are investigated quite well. Usually they operate in Russian-speaking sides of platforms but sometimes they go "foreign". I agree that impact of those might be exaggerated but it's hard to measure in the first place.
Re:I learned Unity the wrong way on Monday April 20, 2026 @09:27PM (#47843462)
The problem with submodules in your scenario might be the mutual dependency of repos, everything else is just extra work with git config.
Re:I learned Unity the wrong way on Monday April 20, 2026 @09:13PM (#47843377)
It's literally made for this specific case.

edit: removed stupid hack that wouldn't work.

Re:I learned Unity the wrong way on Monday April 20, 2026 @06:13PM (#47841717)
> If you have depedent projects, they should either be in a monorepo, or delivered through a packaging system so they are not depend on the specific local naming of other repos.

Git submodules is a thing ...

Re:LittleSnitch for Linux on Thursday April 09, 2026 @12:15PM (#47705559)
1) Dnsmasq, you don't need the whole PiHole for that.

2) You're advising security through obscurity instead of a network namespace + firewall.

They removed all UT games from online stores and added UT 3X which is a free version of UT3 with Epic Online Services baked instead of original ones.

The only way one could legally get UT99 is to buy physical. And it's been like that for many years prior to an event above, which also disabled the server browser after 22 years of running intact.

That glorified wrapper is made on Unreal Engine.
GOG was bought out by the founder precisely because it became a decent money-shredder after CD Projekts were merged.
Re:Migrating to the EU on Monday March 23, 2026 @08:50AM (#47488774)
Yeah, and ARM is based outside of EU, just across La Manche and Irish Sea.
Re:Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam on Saturday March 14, 2026 @09:44PM (#47383397)
Ever heard of little games called Diablo 1 and 2? People spent billions of hours playing those on displays with framerates faster than 25 for 2 decades.
I can attest that switch to DST was felt as a curse during winters in Moscow.
The full phrase is older than Demon Souls.
The study is about NOx levels which have nothing to do with tires or brakes.
Re:A Better Zip Bomb on Friday December 19, 2025 @06:14PM (#46332070)
(2019) with last update in 2023.
Re:Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @07:18PM (#46142184)
Mostly R&D.
Re:Why I Don't Need a Steam Machine on Sunday November 16, 2025 @09:50AM (#45945529)
> But you can't upgrade graphics/cpu AFAIR

It's a laptop APU with graphics card moved to a daughter board, hence "semi-custom".

> A user of the CRI should not have to care about this implementation detail.

This detail is implemented by K8s, not a container runtime. User has to care about the source of it due to supply chain attacks, though.

> Any CRI that needs a pause executable should come with one.

Which would introduce a simultaneous update across different projects, which is a problem harder than a line of config.

Re:When Soviet-Made Cars Roamed Singapore Roads on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @07:42AM (#45886642)
Considering reliability and quality of those tanks and missile platforms - it wouldn't be better.
It's implementation of cri plugin.

> This should be part of the containerd distribution

containerd is not the only CRI runtime out there.

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