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Re:Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class Model that runs on a phone on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @05:12PM (#48913025)
The 2000 ATI leak showed up here a few weeks ago.

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2000/08/02/jobs-snubs-at...

Re:Orthodox C++ on Saturday June 13, 2026 @12:47PM (#48518991)
How about one of the C unorthodoxies that use typedef everywhere? (Namespaces seem suitable, too.)
Running a home server seems relatively popular for all kinds of things. Search term "homelab" brings up a culture of people who seem largely IT-adjacent, prefer retired DC equipment, experiment with network configurations as a means of professional development and insist on running everything in VMs. Search term "self-hosted", on the other hand, seems to skew towards an enterprise of saturating a Raspberry Pi's CPU with half-hearted and unmaintained Python clones of popular SaaS products. In my experience — with both hardware and software vendoring — there is a bounty of reasonable options somewhere in between the two.
Re:Ocarina of Time Randomizer on Monday June 23, 2025 @06:19PM (#44360789)
There's another that combines Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask into one game, joined by a portal connecting the Happy Mask Shop and Clock Town. It's possible to scatter every bush and box and pot from both games across both worlds.

What I like most about it is the "Container Appearance Matches Content" option, which specifically colors every randomizable element and makes the run-throughs feel very dynamic. The last time I tried Ship of Harkanian, I was disappointed to see it missing.

https://ootmm.com/

Re:Pierogi in Space on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @04:12PM (#43416738)
/r/polandball has a running gag about Poland and space.

https://www.polandballwiki.com/wiki/Poland_cannot_into_space

Re:Murder is a pixel art ECS game engine in C# on Saturday December 09, 2023 @01:20PM (#38584237)
I think ECS here is "entity-component system", a design pattern that seems related to data-oriented design.

<https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1024001/-Overwatch-Gameplay-Ar...>

Re:PCSX2 is an open source PS2 Emulator on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @10:20PM (#36704314)
Did you get pressure-sensitive face buttons working? I couldn't get dog tags and lost interest.
Re:LXD is now under Canonical on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @10:51PM (#36595009)
I recently transitioned on the desktop from Debian then-testing to Alpine edge. I switched for a newer kernel (4.9 to 6.1 for recent fixes to busted microcode -- little annoyances around charging and the touchpad) but I like a lot of things about it: quick install, up-to-date repos, easy-to-understand init, battery lasts longer...
Re:Extracting the GameBoy ROM from photographs of the die on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @01:46AM (#35257280)
I'm guessing it's the ROM for the system. Poke various hardware bits, map the cartridge and jump to a certain address within it.

If memory serves, it also checksums the Gameboy logo-intro at the start of every game cartridge -- subjecting non-licensed game publishers to additional copyright claims.

Re:Call for Patents Essential to the Opus Codec on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @02:44AM (#33160175)
I'm skeptical. The Constitution says "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".
Reiterating from memory of his lectures on YouTube:

  - The Russians consider some nine-odd geographic boundaries of the former union to be crucial to defense (e.g. between mountains and deserts, certain ports). Without fortifying there, a lot of the Rus land area is open and hard to defend. Interestingly, Ukraine contains only one in Crimea (which they already had) but is on the way to ones in Romania, Poland, etc.
  - With the fall of the union, there was not only a baby bust but also the collapse of technical training programs. The "demographic cliff" means that not only will the army half in size but, e.g. the rail lines and electric are also in danger.
  - While Ukrainian resolve and EU unity were a surprise to even the US, he also sees a leadership failing not unlike the Chinese one - authoritarian that drives out opposition too harshly also drives out the people in the room that push back on bad ideas. FSB had intelligence that overwhelmingly, UA would accept occupation?
An older summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkuhWA9GdCo
Already-mounted SMB?
In a very recent update, Valve's added what looks like some kind of dashboard to consume game statistics (for a small monthly fee...).
Re:2020 Transparency Report on Thursday February 25, 2021 @02:33PM (#26267129)
I don't. I think the gist of it was a YouTuber instructing probably-younger, less-experienced people to issue spammy PRs (e.g. small update to READMEs).
Re:Stranger Things, JavaScript Edition on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @11:23PM (#23412016)
In the second scenario, I don't think it's the pre-increment operator that's shown but the unary-plus.
Re:Ask HN: What projects are you working on now? on Saturday March 21, 2020 @11:51PM (#22652583)
Yeah, IIUC, HAM dedicates its lower-fidelity bands to Morse.
I think https://www.levels.fyi/ gives these classifications.
I think that's a poor application of tragedy of the commons.

Also, in your example, I don't know how other cities' use would impede the funding city's use.

Re:Story of a failed pentest on Saturday November 17, 2018 @11:33AM (#18476143)
He's making a joke. I thought it was clear.
Re:Why Static Websites Need HTTPS on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @05:22PM (#17863024)
Cryptographic verification?
Re:Developing a viable cannabis breathalyzer on Sunday August 05, 2018 @07:25PM (#17694124)
Almost. Yes, you may still be charged. Yes, they may use the evidence of your refusal. As far as equivalence, no: the test itself is just one piece of evidence. Because refusal should ordinarily make it more difficult to prosecute DUI (for what is, comparable to the stop, a very small inconvenience), I think most states have an automatic license revocation penalty attached to it - usually around six months. Field sobriety tests (e.g. walk in a straight line), I think, are much less conclusive and do not have such requirement.

IANAL. Search for James Duane.

Re:Certificates for localhost on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @06:32PM (#17360450)
Excellent, thank you!
Re:Certificates for localhost on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @05:26PM (#17359942)
I visited recently and was wondering what that was.

https://imgur.com/a/F2iAMm7

Who uses these tokens, and what for?

What is the difference between "locking" and "logging [someone] out"?
Re:Waymo Will Test Self-Driving Cars in Snowy Detroit on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:53PM (#15571155)
IIRC, Amazon's KIVA have a central schedule that they use to stay out of each others' way, not sensors. I don't think that that comparison works out.

I also don't get that tone from the article, either.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017) on Monday October 02, 2017 @02:34PM (#15386506)
Wrong thread?
Re:Random Ideas on Friday September 01, 2017 @01:54PM (#15150829)
Re #4: the "analog signal" would be light here, right?
Re:Another neo-Nazi site, Stormfront, is shut down on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @01:15AM (#15122235)
Is there any history of ICANN muscling registrars? What do they have to negotiate with?
Re:Pev: Postgres ‘Explain’ Visualizer (2016) on Sunday July 23, 2017 @09:44PM (#14835375)
Why, in the example, does the constituent `customerid` join take longer than the forming `orderid` one?
According to Tim Wu, absolutely. This example also makes it amazingly clear that discriminating certain types of traffic disproportionately affects certain parties.

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