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by dcrazy 1y ago
For more on the base-52 representation that this article mentions, see this other post from today’s front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44132673
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by dcrazy 1y ago
There was a time when it was only prerecorded “The forecast for your area”
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by dcrazy 1y ago
This reminds me of when I first listened to my dad’s Spyro Gyra CD.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Remedy released this fantastic talk about Alan Wake 2’s foliage system outside the paywall during last year’s GDC: https://gdcvault.com/play/1034310/Large-Scale-GPU-Based-Skin... Unfortunately it doesn’t seem like
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Any time an employee is fired?
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Who is this guy? He has a very similar voice and delivery to Bill Hammack [1] (aka Bill the Engineer Guy of the famous aluminum beverage can video), but I don’t think it’s him. 1: https://youtu.be/kU_gH36GG58
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by dcrazy 1y ago
You might have missed the hubbub about websites shutting down or banning UK visitors due to concerns about complying with the Online Safety Act.
578.
by dcrazy 1y ago
Those cars look like driveable iMacs.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
I have extensive experience with the bus systems in three major US cities and none of them are like that.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
A transit lane with excess capacity is a feature, not a bug. It provides slack to recover from issues.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Those should be tightly integrated, if not the same tool.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
The espresso-loving nation of Italy universally roasts their coffee way too dark. I think it’s just a holdover from when coffee was first introduced to Europe.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
This dialog comes from the System Management framework [1]. Slack is probably installing a privileged helper tool (conceptually similar to a setuid root binary) so that it can update itself regardless of where it is installed or which user
584.
by dcrazy 1y ago
Waymo specifically claims they never do remote human piloting. The car will present a remote human operator a choice of routes to get out of a situation, and the human will pick one. Remote piloting is way too risky.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Because most people are much more concerned about doing their jobs than having access to source code they aren’t going to look at, much less modify.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
It’s accurate for business hours in at least some parts of the country, but it is paired with late closing. Even office workers will be on the job until 8. Popular wisdom attributes it to Franco’s adoption of Central European Time to be ali
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by dcrazy 1y ago
This seemed to me to vary by region. It was near universal when I visited Andalucía, including in Sevilla. It was uncommon in Madrid, and I don’t remember encountering it at all in Barcelona.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
Plenty of closed source software packages are extensible and scriptable. The entire 3D modeling industry is a great example.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
The concept reminds me of No Man’s Sky, a vast procedurally generated universe of planets with not a whole lot going on. The consensus seems to be it was way too empty at launch, but with the subsequent content additions I have some friends
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by dcrazy 1y ago
If this is true, it’s a big problem. A human therapist is bound to a code of ethics and laws. Their patients are in an intentionally vulnerable position—therapy only works when you are completely honest with your therapist and are open to t
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by dcrazy 1y ago
I think that opinion would have been less controversial if the President hadn’t openly advertised his intent to violate the law repeatedly. It’s not like the courts are rendered powerless if the President violates the law; any judgments the
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by dcrazy 1y ago
He removed allergy information. He was willing to harm or maybe even kill someone for the purpose of damaging Disney financially and reputationally.
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by dcrazy 1y ago
I was expecting some spectacular revelation that the definition of the second, the period of a Cesium atom, and the speed of light were somehow related to the definition of a meter by a factor of 0.21.
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by dcrazy 2y ago
Many channels seem to use Shorts as a vehicle to get you to their long-form content. I don’t mind that as a discovery mechanism; it’s introduced me to some fun stuff. Other channels make Shorts-specific content, which I really dislike.
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by dcrazy 2y ago
Netflix’s ad-supported tier makes so much more money per user than their ad-free tier that they had to raise the price of the ad-free tier to make it competitive on ARPU.
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by dcrazy 2y ago
Were they economic interdependencies or high-level political alliances? The E.U. is clearly an example of the economic interdependency theory. It evolved in post-WW2 Europe from the European Coal and Steel Community. Mineral richness is why
597.
by dcrazy 2y ago
Given a long enough path, does this lead to enemies always flying through the center of “windows”?
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by dcrazy 2y ago
I created my HN account to comment on the post announcing the release of the Descent 3 source code last year. So of course I immediately recognized the similarity to Descent 1 and 2’s cube-based level design, and was pleased to see the scre
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by dcrazy 2y ago
UE still has BSP for blocking out levels: https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/...
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by dcrazy 2y ago
Immigration judges and the Board of Immigration Appeals are part of the Executive Branch. The court has held that executive actions must be subject to review by an Article III court.

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