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by deng 10mo ago
You are missing that each update takes AGES while it tortures your disk for patching the files (on my machine it takes 15min or so, and that's on an SSD). So I agree that this is careless and reminds me of the GTA5 startup time that wa
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by deng 10mo ago
> It's honestly fine for the vast majority of games. Yes, because they apparently still duplicate data so that the terrible IOPS of spinning disks does not factor as much. You people need to stop with this so that we can all have sm
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by deng 10mo ago
11% still play HD2 with a spinning drive? I would've never guessed that. There's probably some vicious circle thing going on: because the install size is so big, people need to install it on their secondary, spinning drive...
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by deng 11mo ago
The nice thing is that Emacs 30.1 now has much better support for touchscreen events. It will take some time for packages to make use of that, but at least it is now possible. For instance, you should now be able to increase/decrease t
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by deng 11mo ago
> In fact, for many applications malfunctioning is better than crashing — particulary in the embedded world where Rust wants to be present. Not a fact. Particularly in the embedded world, crashing is preferable to malfunctioning, as man
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by deng 11mo ago
The Mac Mini for 600$ comes with 16GB unified memory and 256GB storage. To make it comparable, you'd need to configure it with 24GB and 512GB, resp., and voila, 999$. You are surely aware that the lowest SKUs from Apple have way lower
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by deng 11mo ago
300$ BOM sounds incredibly low to me, especially now with the exploding prices for storage and RAM. Maybe they have already stocked up on it, but I doubt it. The huge heat sink also cannot be cheap. Then of course there's the whole tar
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by deng 11mo ago
The Arduino was 30$ when it came out. The Raspberry was 35$. I'd be astonished if they manage to get the Steam Machine down to 800$ (bundled with a controller). Knowing how Valve loves their margins, it's probably closer to 1000$
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by deng 11mo ago
The APU from AMD they have is pretty much magic. You will not find anything comparable, any Ryzen APU you can actually buy is pretty much trash apart from very light-weight gaming. You absolutely need a separate GPU, and even low-end will s
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by deng 11mo ago
> Steam Machines can become an existencial crisis for PlayStation and Xbox. Xbox, as a console, already is in an existential crisis. I think people have weird expectations about what the Steam Machine will cost. From what Valve has said
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by deng 11mo ago
As someone old enough to remember OSS, the amount of stockholm syndrome going on here is impressive. The fun times fiddling with 'vmix' to get different applications to play sounds at the same time, yeah, that was awesome. MIDI? U
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by deng 11mo ago
Not sure what exactly you mean with "open source OS" and if Lineage counts as one in your book: it supports quite a few cheap and also fairly recent Motorola phones, which are also easy to unlock: https://wiki.lineageos
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by deng 1y ago
Say you provide a service for free and are desperate for corporate sponsorship. Who wouldn't look at what companies are using your service and contact them with "Hey, I'm seeing you are using our service, can we have a chat&q
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by deng 1y ago
> Had Ruby Central acquiesced the logs would've been parsed and sold. Which the privacy policy of RubyCentral allows, so I don't get why they suddenly have ethical problems with that, apart of course from throwing shade on Andr
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by deng 1y ago
If they really have ethical concerns regarding sharing data with third parties, maybe they should update their privacy policies accordingly? "We collect information related to web traffic such as IP addresses and geolocation data for s
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Apod: Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating site(apod.nasa.gov)
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by deng 1y ago
> Is your complaint that it has errors? Well, yes? There's a reason why everything that was produced with these tools so far is garbage: because no one actually caring about their art would accept these things. Art is a deliberate t
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by deng 1y ago
As usual: impressive until you look close. Just freeze the frame and you see all the typical slop errors: pretty much any kind of writing is a garbled mess (look at the camera in the beginning). The horn of the unicorn sits on the bridle. T
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by deng 1y ago
I cannot find any link to a repository with that ported library. I can't imagine why you wouldn't share this exciting port, unless of course the code is not that great? And as a sidenote, why would you ever hijack the up/down
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by deng 1y ago
I agree, text-to-mesh makes much more sense for 3D artist than for CAD. If I'd wanted to have all my parts in text, I'd just use OpenSCAD, writing this down in prose sounds horrible.
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by deng 1y ago
Yes, but is it even saving you any time, then? For complicated parts, maybe, but the example above is not complicated and the AI is already doing a pretty terrible job. Someone familiar with CAD is able to quickly do this in 15min or so, an
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by deng 1y ago
> This is obviously a lie without even testing it. STEP files do not have any sort of support for parametric features. Yes, this is also confusing me to no end. How can they make such a claim? They even explicitly state that they generat
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by deng 1y ago
By far the biggest problem is interoperability with people using MS Office. I'm fully aware that Microsoft is essentially sabotaging this by making their format deliberately obtuse, but here we are. The VM thing is tedious to set up, r
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by deng 1y ago
FYI: You can still install Win11 with a local account. When prompted for your account, hit Shift+F10 to get a terminal, then enter start ms-cxh:localonly and a window will pop up where you can create a local account and continue with the in
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by deng 1y ago
Fortunately, there are open-end put options, so the timing doesn't have to be THAT accurate. EDIT: to be precise: I mean open-end turbo put, which have no expiration but a knock-out.
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by deng 1y ago
> Question for the Deutsch HN-ers: Is this readable to your modern eye? Generally, no. It is too confusing, since not only are many letters simply obtuse, some are mixed up with modern cursive writing. For instance, capital 'B'
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by deng 1y ago
They labeled it as "sponsored" when it should have said "ad". I mean yeah, it's weird to simply repost a straight ad on the main channel, but at least that's clearer than integrating it into their own content.
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by deng 1y ago
Yes, they're surely not getting rich, but it's commendable that except from selling their own merch, they do not go the raycon/nordvpn/brilliant/younameit route. With Adsense alone I'm pretty sure this would no
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by deng 1y ago
Yes, because uv-unwrapping is much more predictable with quads, and you can place seams along edge loops. I'm by no means an expert here, maybe there are tools which make this similarly easy with non-quad topology, but at least from wh
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by deng 1y ago
Because traditionally, Blender modeling works best on a clean quad-based mesh. Just look at any modeling tutorial for Blender and one of the first things you learn is to always keep a clean, quad-based topology, and avoid triangles and n-go

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