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Re:Ask HN: What're You Reading? on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @04:30PM (#49899985)
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang.

It's an autobiographical history which recounts the lives of the author, her mother, and her grandmother throughout an extremely transformational century in Chinese history.

I went into this knowing little to no Chinese history, and it has opened my eyes to this fascinating country. I hope to visit China for the first time in 2027. Before I go, I'm doing a deep dive into Chinese history. Open to recommendations on what to read next!

Re:America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance on Saturday May 02, 2026 @02:08PM (#47988818)
Chat Control was proposed and rejected in the European Union
Re:Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft on Monday April 20, 2026 @01:37PM (#47837808)
> These days, what are American soldiers dying for? A society with great health care? Fantastic education? Wealth and social stability?

Yes, except it's not their own one.

Re:Ghosts'n Goblins – "Worse danger is ahead" on Saturday February 28, 2026 @06:03PM (#47201384)
The game always made me think of this line too. I wonder if they had it in mind when they came up with the name.
Re:Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow on Friday January 30, 2026 @01:05PM (#46827715)
> I'll probably wait for a couple versions before trying it out on my game since I'm sure it's not exactly battle-tested yet

Who better to do the battle-testing?

Re:The future of software engineering is SRE on Monday January 26, 2026 @11:33AM (#46767741)
But what if those complementary skills also become cheap?
Re:List of Individual Trees on Friday January 16, 2026 @03:13PM (#46651561)
There are surely more trees than this
Re:Microservices Should Form a Polytree on Friday December 12, 2025 @02:53PM (#46248048)
The article doesn't make that claim. For example, the service n7 is used by multiple other nodes, namely n3 and n4. There is no cycle there, so it's okay.
Doesn't your advice contradict the BBC's phrasing? Collectively, the band lost its spot in the top ten. And, collectively, the crew has 35 seconds to prepare the stage for the next performer.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) on Monday April 28, 2025 @11:35AM (#43822651)
Aren't longer boards worth more per boardfoot too?
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) on Monday April 28, 2025 @11:32AM (#43822605)
How does the graph representation help you solve the problem?
Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative on Thursday April 17, 2025 @08:00AM (#43715528)
What are the musical equivalents to Kit-Kat and meth?
Re:Building an AI That Watches Rugby on Thursday April 17, 2025 @07:23AM (#43715239)
Why the focus on scorekeeping? I feel like an AI model is overkill here, when you have text-based sources readily available such as news apps, Twitter feeds, and apps such as Livescore which would be easier and cheaper to scrape. They probably cover more matches that aren't televised too.

I'd be curious to see what useful insights could be gleamed from the match commentary. You have the main commentator giving play-by-play objective reporting and then a 'colour' commentator giving some subjective analysis during breaks in play. I bet there's a lot of interesting ways this could be used.

The lengths of self delusion people will resort to rather than accept the fact they've been conned.
Re:Raspberry Pi announces branded range of NVMe SSDs and SSD kit on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @08:40AM (#41924454)
With the PSU and a micro SD its about 90 EUR from The Pi Hut. A case isn't necessary but can be got for a tenner.
Re:Raspberry Pi announces branded range of NVMe SSDs and SSD kit on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @08:20AM (#41924248)
That's at least twice as expensive as a new Pi.
Re:Coq will be renamed into 'The Rocq Prover' on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @08:59AM (#41180956)
As a recent graduate I'll miss asking for "help with my Coq" and proclaiming "my Coq isn't working" during lab sessions
Re:Book: Just Enough Software Architecture on Saturday June 15, 2024 @06:06PM (#40693046)
Relevant excerpt from the Introduction chapter:

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Conversely, I think this book is applicable to non-game software too. I could just as well have called this book More Design Patterns, but I think games make for more engaging examples. Do you really want to read yet another book about employee records and bank accounts?

That being said, while the patterns introduced here are useful in other software, I think they’re particularly well-suited to engineering challenges commonly encountered in games:

- Time and sequencing are often a core part of a game’s architecture. Things must happen in the right order and at the right time.

- Development cycles are highly compressed, and a number of programmers need to be able to rapidly build and iterate on a rich set of different behavior without stepping on each other’s toes or leaving footprints all over the codebase.

- After all of this behavior is defined, it starts interacting. Monsters bite the hero, potions are mixed together, and bombs blast enemies and friends alike. Those interactions must happen without the codebase turning into an intertwined hairball.

- And, finally, performance is critical in games. Game developers are in a constant race to see who can squeeze the most out of their platform. Tricks for shaving off cycles can mean the difference between an A-rated game and millions of sales or dropped frames and angry reviewers.

Re:Wooden Game Boy on Friday November 03, 2023 @08:37PM (#38136842)
It would look a lot better and probably be stronger if the grain was going vertically IMO
Re:Halfsies on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:26PM (#38006534)
Turning off the Dark Reader plug-in made it work for me on FF
Re:Nerdle = Like Wordle but with Equations on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @01:37PM (#30262494)
Click the cog and enable "mini Nerdle" for another (easier) challenge
Re:A Wordle clone in 50 lines of Bash on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @08:13AM (#30177010)
I found this explanation helpful when I was developing a clone [1]

[1] https://sonorouschocolate.com/notes/index.php?title=The_best...

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