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Re:Project Gameface Launches on Android on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @04:40PM (#40372104)
That isn't what they said, and it's probably not what they meant.

What they probably meant was that Nintendo testers use their non-dominant hands to simulate someone who has no prior experience with video game controls. (Though I'm not sure exactly what that would mean. Maybe OP meant they use "backwards" controllers with all the buttons swapped?)

That's not really a good comparison, no. The code snippet is more comparable to a sentence fragment, which more often than not is "gibberish".

For example, taken out of its original context, this sentence fragment from your comment is meaningless:

"that definition, any language"

Re:What's the deal with Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-right? on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @09:11AM (#39538149)
I could be wrong, but doesn't notepad++ have an option to choose which symbols are considered a part of a word? If it's not notepad++, I'm thinking of xed.

That would help with at least a part of this person's complaints, like the underscore being considered a part of the word. But it kind of seems like they want the text editor to just read their mind, sometimes considering a symbol as part of a word and sometimes not.

That would be a good way to destroy the reputation of your company lmao. Leaving nothing but horrors in your wake. Kind of funny, though, even if it's cruel to everyone who comes after you.
Re:Slimming Down Windows 3.1/3.11 (2002) on Monday February 26, 2024 @01:46PM (#39515239)
Beautiful work
I am glad someone else agrees. It's absolutely horrible!
Re:Why Unix's lseek() has that name instead of seek() on Thursday January 04, 2024 @02:05PM (#38870911)
I am curious why you yourself have "blurted out the answer" if you enjoyed the opposite from the article? This isn't a callout or anything, I'm just genuinely curious.
You shouldn't wear your ignorance with such pride.
Re:An Open Letter to the Python Software Foundation on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @09:26AM (#38544251)
Yes, that's indeed the point being made.
On the chance you might not be joking, "liberal use of" means essentially "abundant use of" in this context.
Because if a baker's oven breaks and they can't provide their service, they cannot charge for their service, and customers can easily go to some other bakery.
Re:Omegle founder shuts down site forever? on Thursday November 09, 2023 @12:44PM (#38208200)
Or the people who manually moderate HackerNews just haven't gotten to it yet.
Anyone know why the fuck the comments on the linked site are talking about Kyle Rittenhouse? Did I miss something?
A video about a pretty interesting and ingenious piece of forgotten software. The ingenious part starts at about 48:00 if you lack time or patience.
Re:Dog Mode on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @06:40PM (#37682408)
Why weren't you able to take meds?
Re:Minecraft Wiki has forked from Fandom on Monday September 25, 2023 @01:51PM (#37647863)
They can probably do anything, but why would they when Fandom puts 3 gigabytes of their ads on every page of every wiki on their site? That's their bread and butter. You don't kill your livestock until you have to.
Re:Minecraft Wiki has forked from Fandom on Monday September 25, 2023 @01:42PM (#37647736)
How is this not illegal / grounds for having the channel deleted?
If "China, India, Iran, Israel, et al" have had AI for a while, the US didn't really "unleash" it, did they?
"Unleashed AI"? Really? I don't know what you think has happened, but we've just barely got realistic chatbots. Skynet is nowhere near invented yet.
Re:RIP, WordPad on Sunday September 03, 2023 @12:02AM (#37367629)
What exactly do you mean notepad can "now" edit text files? I'm pretty sure it could always edit text files.
Re:The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant on Friday September 01, 2023 @11:51AM (#37352352)
The more I learn about Linux, the more I want to wake up from this nightmare. It is a fragmented hellscape.
Re:Keisan Casio is shutting down on Thursday August 31, 2023 @12:53PM (#37340184)
> I've been nerd sniped.

Huh, looks like I'm one of today's lucky 10,000

https://xkcd.com/356/

Re:Cleaning Up Dead Bodies in AWS IAM on Monday August 28, 2023 @01:45PM (#37297802)
> They even expand the acronyms later in the article.

That's the OPPOSITE of how you're supposed to use acronyms. If you're going to spell it out anyway, why not do it the first time you talk about it like you're supposed to?

Re:Ask HN: Where do I find good code to read? on Friday August 25, 2023 @02:33PM (#37265461)
Who are Adam and Jamie? Mythbusters?
I read "submarine cables" and imagined a sort of monorail or guide-wire for an underwater vehicle. I thought, "I guess that makes sense, that'd probably be cheaper or safer than an untethered submarine".

It's funny how "good" the brain is at rationalizing misconceptions like that.

If I hadn't read a couple comments to try and see why Africa (or anyone) would need a safety-rope-assisted underwater submarine I might have gone on assuming that was just a normal thing.

What the fuck is "10k-quadrillion" supposed to mean?
Re:Astro: All-in-one web framework designed for speed on Sunday August 13, 2023 @11:45PM (#37117244)
> designed for speed > website lags
that's actually a good point, I didn't know orbital decay was so slow
while they don't have the fuel to deorbit themselves, they will eventually deorbit due to orbital decay.

Still, as you said, they won't fall straight down, and would probably burn up in the atmosphere regardless.

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