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by herodoturtle 6d ago
Fair point. I'm on vanilla Ubuntu 22.04 but have also tried vanilla 24.04, with an Nvidia card. That said, I thought steamdeck was just the handheld device - not sure if this would help with my Ubuntu situation - but I don't know
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by herodoturtle 6d ago
Albion Online looks interesting, thanks, will check it out.
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Ask HN: Diablo 4 on Ubuntu?
3 points by herodoturtle 6d ago|7 comments
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by herodoturtle 6d ago
It was the late 90s, my very first day at a new school, I was asked to introduce myself at the front of the class, I mentioned I like computers, one guy at the back of the class blurts out “En Taro Adun” and without skipping a beat I replie
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by herodoturtle 7d ago
Thanks once again. You’ve totally improved my night time HN routine. My little one is asleep next to me as I type this :-)
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by herodoturtle 7d ago
Made me think of “Brainscan”, awesome sci-fi from the 90s.
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by herodoturtle 13d ago
thanks!
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Ask HN: How can I browse HN in dark mode?
24 points by herodoturtle 13d ago|36 comments
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by herodoturtle 20d ago
I don't know much about robotics engineering, so I just wanted to give kudos to the Robocurve team on this write-up. Even for an absolute robotics newbie such as myself, the article was interesting to read, and easy to understand. Plus
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by herodoturtle 26d ago
> He sees these scientists as strong men, willing to wrestle with the tragedy of existence by increasing the amount of happiness in the world. That struggle makes them optimists. Loved that.
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Why Iceberg Won(nexus0ne.substack.com)
3 points by herodoturtle 1mo ago|0 comments
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by herodoturtle 2mo ago
If you get a paywall, use this: https://shorturl.at/1FR6H
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Stalled models, missed deadlines, staff burnout led to unravelling of DeepMind(fortune.com)
3 points by herodoturtle 2mo ago|1 comments
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by herodoturtle 2mo ago
Article is behind a paywall for me. Odd that it’s on HN front page :-/
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by herodoturtle 2mo ago
My OCed DX4 got around 15fps, but I agree my memory of what was deemed “playable” back then probably wouldn’t stand today.
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by herodoturtle 2mo ago
I recall we got it running pretty decently on an upper end 486 (DX4 100). That, and Winamp. Good times.
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by herodoturtle 2mo ago
Apologies for the ambiguity, I was referring to the selling or donating of meteorites - and only because I've never heard of such a thing in my part of the world.
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by herodoturtle 2mo ago
> In the US, if a meteorite lands on your property, it's yours and you can sell or donate it as you please. Does this happen often in the US? I mean often enough that folks happen to know the legality of it? In which case I find it
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by herodoturtle 2mo ago
Not just you. OP strikes me as quite childish. I’m guessing he’s quite young, nothing wrong with that. And yeah, the circumstances aren’t great (the stressful move to SF in particular). Tough break!
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Poll: Who will win the World Cup?
2 points by herodoturtle 2mo ago|0 comments
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by herodoturtle 2mo ago
Spain
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by herodoturtle 2mo ago
Argentina
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by herodoturtle 2mo ago
I found this comment/question deeply intriguing. I’m no expert at this and was wondering what you meant by the following: > In real organisms behavior may be controlled by short or long term outcomes, and may oscillate between this
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by herodoturtle 2mo ago
Love this comment <3 For those of you that are wondering, Mitch Hedburg was a relatively famous stand-up comedian whose special went viral. In said special was this classic: “I like an escalator because an escalator can never break; it c
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by herodoturtle 3mo ago
So great to see WebGL stuff featuring on the front page. It was OpenGL that got me into graphics and games programming from a young age - NeHe's tuts in particular (anyone remember those?). Are there similar introductory tuts for WebGL
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by herodoturtle 3mo ago
Heya, from the page I linked (her boat is named "Lily"): > Lily is a Rannoch R25 built in 2019. More info on Rannoch R25: https://www.rannochadventure.com/boats-2/r25 There are several Youtube videos showi
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by herodoturtle 3mo ago
Fellow rower here, affirming the above. Thought folks would be interested in her boat, built for ocean rowing: https://yourowkelsey.com/about/
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by herodoturtle 3mo ago
> and contains significant embedded carbon emissions Hi - thanks for the insightful comment - could you please expand on the above? Genuinely curious :)
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Ask HN: What does your journaling framework look like?
1 points by herodoturtle 3mo ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Is your journal hard cover or soft?
1 points by herodoturtle 3mo ago|1 comments

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