PetitPrince

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by PetitPrince 1y ago
> The Neverwinter Nights series is also great To be noted: the main appeal of Neverwinter Nights 1 is the player created content. In particular the main campaign of NWN1 is pretty "meh" and is better thought as a showcase of wh
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
Thanks for your precision. Off-topic: It's true that "faster Internet" means "bigger Internet" in common language, just like in photography "faster lens" means "lens with more light gathering capabil
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
I barely remember this trivia (a bit from Tom Scott podcast?) but the reason you don't see pills sold by the bottle in Europe is that pharmacy are required by law to sell them under blister. The reason is that this little it of frictio
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
Haven't seen that in Switzerland but most place I see where a shopping cart is really warranted (large stores, Ikea, etc.) have covered parking spots instead of open-air (and/or are smaller than those giant parking lot we can see
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
Last time the proportion of the Federal Council was changed was 20-ish years ago, not over 50. But your broader point still stands as it's roughly the same parties (the "magic formula" is roughly proportional to the proportio
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
> In cases of TV shows Can you give me some examples of those guerilla remaster ? I know of the various Star Wars projects (Harmy and the likes) and the remaster from "La Classe Américaine" , but I don't know any others.
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
Anecdotally, for a long time dual French and German subtitles was the standard in Swiss cinemas when movie was shown in original language. So your usecase is not that unusual !
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
And yet you have similar or better fire death rates statistics in Europe ( https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fire-death-rates ) despite "inferior" gear.
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
Sometimes ago there was a Tom Scott video about the fasted accelerating car in the world, developed by a team with a vast majority of student. One remark stayed with me: "the goal is not to build a car, but to build engineer". In
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
So you expect the developer to create data ex-nihilo for a bug they don't know how to trigger ?
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
Previous HN discussion for context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43961908
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In that case they explicitly says that the process is non destructive and reversible. Essentially a wrap over the original artwork > The restoration is printed on a very thin polymer film, in the form of a mask that can be aligned and ad
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
I agree with that. And like most rule of thumbs, it's very useful to go beyond the prescriptive part and ask yourself "why". And as qsort described, doing "one thing well" enables you to have desirable traits (easy
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
When you edit a map in the Openstreetmap website (the "id" editor) you can see each data point by expanding the Map Data menu (line and polygon icon, just below the Background Setting icon), expanding the Photo Overlays section an
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
Tetris the Grand Master 4 (that has been released recently on Steam) has a training mode that suggest to you where to place you pieces. You can even select different goal for the CPU (survival, make as much Tetris as possible, make as much
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
It's been a while since I've been to Vietnam but most of the traffic is composed of motorcycle and not cars, so honking is indeed a signal of presence that's needed compared to just having the noise of a single car that'
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
He did visit spent a summer as a young adult hiking near Lauterbrunnen, which he modeled Rivendell and the Misty Mountains after.
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
But doesn't "better street engineering" passively reduce speed because the road is full of bends that's difficult to negotiate at high speed and/or will make you much likely to crash into bollards/tree/sta
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
I majored in bioengineering and this I put this entirely to the fact that I participated in my country biology olympiad. I wasn't very good (never went to the international olympiad) but I met passionate people who made biology their
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
Samoan have a high degree of a particular variant of gene CREBRF that's highly associated with high BMI (see https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3620 ). Pop-Sci says it's an adaptation to the life in an island (might a
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
You're missing nothing, that's just a badly designed feature (hello Doom 2016). Or rather a badly named feature. To give the benefit of doubt: maybe it's a simulator that the dev used for testing that got left in production ?
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by PetitPrince 2y ago
As a long-time (since 2007) TGM player, my opinion on TGM4: - At launch there were some severe issues that denotes a rushed release and lack of QA. The most glaring of which being the inability to rebind keyboard controls (a patch is underw
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by PetitPrince 2y ago
I hope they keep the ball rolling and we get a similar renaissance like what we had with Blender.
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As an opponent that would be indeed unfun, but as a sparring partner / coach in a competitive game (fighting game? Rts? Moba? Puzzle game?) that would be useful.
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This should be paired with British PHP ( https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/ )
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by PetitPrince 2y ago
Irrespective of technical merit, if your printing shop requires a CMYK PDF, they requires a CMYK PDF. You're not going to argue and discuss the merit of such and such color spaces with them; you're going to switch tools so that yo
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On the other hand, sometime the ads that are shown are in German. Easier to mentally filter out.
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For me there's two additional preset : * 100: happens during construction work on the motorway, and also for some segment of the motorway whose speed limit is dynamically managed depending on traffic * 110: during long(ish) distance tr
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> Does pressing and holding the arrow not do that for you? I remember (before I went carless) that my Audi used to do 10kph increments, displaying the target speed in the HUD, when I pressed and held the lever. IIRC Gen 2 Priuses only in

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