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He is most definitely a real person, I know people who have written papers with him.
I can't recall exactly which puzzles correspond to which game, but there are absolutely puzzles that require a decent amount of speed and dexterity. To the point where my wife got totally stuck on some because she's slow with a mouse.

Like firing portals while in midair, or catching a cube as you pass it during a jump.

Yes, same with "diversity" for cellular diversity in the brain. Millions of dollars of grant money withdrawn.
Re:AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest on Sunday August 02, 2026 @07:57PM (#49149629)
Totally agree, it was a simple bold design that looks to done by hand. What a low bar we are moving to.

On a positive note, I think I found her artistic portfolio online and it's absolutely beautiful. She can rest easy knowing she has 1000x the talent of the AI slop winner.

Yeah, the title is worded quite oddly.
Re:Elevators on Friday July 31, 2026 @08:13PM (#49129928)
Full circle back to elevator operators!
Re:Elevators on Friday July 31, 2026 @01:00PM (#49125775)
I fear in both cases, its not a lack of understanding of elevators but of common sense...
Re:Does creatine make you smarter? on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @05:25PM (#49013672)
There is an incredible amount of evidence for creatine being beneficial for making you stronger/muscle growth. Which is probably the primary reason it's sold. So it's not as if it's not studied or there are no known effects of supplements.
Re:The World's 2,400 Castles on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @03:58PM (#48997419)
It's not very comprehensive at all, the regions I know well in France are missing almost all of the actual castles. The site lists 180ish castles in France, when it's estimated there are 45,000 castles + chateaus in reality. Of course this depends on your exact definition of castle.

I wonder if it's only scraping english language Wikipedia articles?

Authorized/unauthorized simply describes whether the subject works with the author or not. It's just the common terminology for it.
Even quite a bit cheaper than that, I buy 1000g of creatine for $30 USD, which is 15 cents per 5g serving. I think it's a no-brainer for most people.
This article isn't PR for the Iranian regime, it highlights how unstable and non-business friendly the region is. If anything it's a warning...
Re:How I ship projects at big tech companies on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @09:27AM (#42126353)
Refusing to accept a culture of optics is tantamount to not understanding optics though. The reality is that if you work on any kind of product, optics do matter - the perception of something working is often just as important as it actually working.
Re:No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @08:37AM (#42125962)
The Galaxy S7 definitely had this feature.

The problem is, it was basically useless. The main use case for heart rate monitoring is continuously throughout the day/night, or during exercise. A watch is very good at this. An optical sensor on the back of your phone is not.

Periodically checking your heart rate by holding your phone in a specific way is not a useful feature for that many people.

Re:Mind-Bending Soviet Era Oil Rig City on the Caspian Sea on Monday November 11, 2024 @09:06AM (#42107173)
Re:Fraudsters steal 22 tonnes of high-value cheddar on Monday October 28, 2024 @10:55AM (#41971624)
"Still, if exposed to the high humidity present in some parts of the US (less common in Italy)"

Italy is basically a massive peninsula and some islands - it's quite humid! The humidity in Parma itself today is 65%, which is the same as Miami, Florida today and more than New Orleans. it's fall in Italy, and in Palermo it's 80% humidity, in Bergamo 84%, Bologna 83% etc.

Re:So thieves broke into your storage unit – again on Monday October 07, 2024 @09:29AM (#41765808)
"there is not, and never has been "a tragedy of the commons situation"

I kindly invite you to visit the kitchens of undergraduate house-shares. I think you may soon appreciate there are "tragedy of the commons" situations happening all the time :)

Re:CERN serves 1EB of data via FUSE [video] on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @11:14AM (#41721482)
The piratical benefit may be particle cannons? Yarrgh!
Re:The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @01:40PM (#41711636)
Certainly not a sustainable amount if every class is giving a similar workload.

Crime and Punishment alone is over 500 pages.

With 5 classes assigning a book each, that's 2500 pages a week, or 357 pages every single day.

I certainly did not read that much during my undergrad nor my master's degree.

Re:The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @09:39AM (#41708238)
Perhaps the expectations on students are a bit unreasonable?

"Twenty years ago, Dames’s classes had no problem engaging in sophisticated discussions of Pride and Prejudice one week and Crime and Punishment the next."

Reading Crime and Punishment alone is estimated to take about 11-12 hours at 300WPM. Then consider your average student is taking 4 or 5 classes per semester? If they all assigned that much reading, that would be 60 hours a week of just reading, not even including time to process what's being read, or write assignments, revise etc.

No, I've had this happen multiple times using various bluetooth headphones with my Google Pixel 8. So it's definitely happening on Android as well.
>All professionals I've ever talked to seem to agree that videos are a terrible form of reference information

It really depends. For most software things, I'd prefer to have written documentation. If it's purely for reference, then yes I agree text is better.

For working on my bicycle or car, often I like watching videos because you pick up on little ways the pros make the jobs easier - for example, the steps might do a poor job of describing the angle and movement of tyre levers, but it's easily understood via video (just an example).

As a result, it can be a much richer experience when you are building skills as opposed to just following a checklist.

Ah yes, the two nationalities, Taiwanese and American.
Re:We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @08:13AM (#41444740)
Horizon Europe funds many of the research projects my organisation works on, such as cancer research, COVID-19 and general microbiology research...
Re:HDMI Forum rejects AMD's HDMI 2.1 open-source driver on Thursday August 29, 2024 @06:39AM (#41389348)
>home cinema is pretty much purely an enthusiast thing these days (the casual user won't plug anything into their smart TV)

Except a gaming console, a laptop, a roku, apple TV...

Every single person I know has some external media source plugged into their TV, even my tech illiterate mother.

What do you mean? Even in the linked article, the food critics consistently pointed out that restaurants make food very rich so that it's more appealing. And how they suffered from eating so much rich food.
Re:"Nik": The Mesoamerican Representation of Zero on Monday July 15, 2024 @09:46AM (#40967858)
There is "yestereve" but it's archaic and never used. Despite not being used, totally understandable to English speakers.
Re:Show HN: Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game on Monday July 15, 2024 @05:24AM (#40966362)
Never played Blood and Magic, but it sounds like map control would be a lot less important. Most RTS games are all about expanding and controlling resources as fast as possible, so you can out produce your opponent.

Turtling might be more viable in this game?

Re:I Received an AI Email on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @07:05AM (#40864782)
Sorry but I'm fairly confident it's spam - they just want you to look at their startup/substack links. That's why they included the links at all.

The compliment is a "foot in the door" so you don't immediately dismiss the email, and keep reading until the links.

I get the same type of comments on all my blog posts. Here's 2 examples directly from my blog:

"Awesome post! Keep up the great work! " (+ a link to their SEO service)

"Nice website, love the theme! Can I use it?" (+ a link to their WP service).

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