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by messe 4y ago
> The 3DS, especially the New 3DSXL is the best handheld to play NES/SNES/GB/C/A games, pixel perfect! For me at least, I think the Steam Deck has it beat these days, although I'll admit I miss the smaller form f
842.
by messe 4y ago
Well, yes, it’s a great reason not to publish there, but only if you can afford not to do so. Amazon dominates the e-book market.
843.
by messe 4y ago
When you own such a large portion of the ebook sales market, it very much could be considered predatory (bordering on monopolistic). Larger authors are not compelled to agree to these terms sure, but if you’re a smaller publisher or author
844.
by messe 4y ago
They should just drop the bracketing entirely and give 70% to the authors in all cases, instead of the continued predatory gouging you’re suggesting.
845.
by messe 4y ago
Has anybody used these for stargazing and able to comment if they're suitable for it?
846.
by messe 4y ago
> this seems not to have any practical significance. and recognizing numbers (only 56%) of the time is practically still as good as guessing, and not useful, in the context of spying, without the spoken words If that accuracy is at the s
847.
by messe 4y ago
> that minor difference can reach a few to several feet That's... an interesting way of stating a range in an article about precision and units of measurement.
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by messe 4y ago
> It's hard to call it a 'colony' if its citizens were as much citizens of the mother country as any other citizen. It's hard to call it 'institutional racism' if its citizens were as much citizens of the m
849.
by messe 4y ago
Well... yes, but also no. I bring up the plantation of Ulster because it has the most direct comparison to more recent colonization efforts; that makes it easy to draw a nice line in the sand saying "this is when it happened". Wit
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by messe 4y ago
It's also misleading to cite 1801 as the date of Ireland becoming a colony. Ireland was pretty much the prototype for the rest of Britain's overseas colonies, starting with the plantations of Ulster in the 1600s[1]. [1]: https:&#
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by messe 4y ago
> or those are a primitive type and you're just calling a function builtin the language itself You’re thinking at a different level of abstraction to the Zig developers. Summing a primitive type is going to be turned into a couple o
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by messe 4y ago
> in other words, don't use -fomit-frame-pointer on Apple silicon. (Don't use it elsewhere either, but that's a separate discussion.) Getting into that separate discussion, I think there's really only one good use cas
853.
by messe 4y ago
I like using it as a quick diagnostic to figure out if a given window is running natively or under Xwayland. If the eyes follow your mouse when you hover over the window, it’s still using Xwayland, if they don’t move, it’s a native Wayland
854.
by messe 4y ago
They’re not sovereign states though. Having a football team doesn’t make something a country, I hope you realise how ridiculous that sounds. And that last sentence is an extremely revisionist view of British history.
855.
by messe 4y ago
It doesn’t even take both agreeing necessarily. In many cases just either one of the EU or the US legislating something is sufficient financial incentive to follow the same rule globally.
856.
by messe 4y ago
Ok, but right here, in this context, everybody else in the thread is quite obviously referring to extra-terrestrials.
857.
by messe 4y ago
Well, if you're going to go down that route: > the British isles Many in Ireland[1] would consider that a rather loaded political term rather than neutral geographic one, and wouldn't use it to refer to Britain and Ireland. &gt
858.
by messe 4y ago
> Since every bytecode handler needs an entry in the dispatch table, and I have 7--yes 7!--dispatch tables, I'd like to make their entries 2 bytes. So instead of taking 1KB each, they would take only 512B each. But alas. Hmm. If the
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by messe 4y ago
I haven’t done the maths, but my gut (and maths degree, but mostly kerbal space program experience), says that even without an adequate heat shield, a significant plane change manoeuvre in LEO would take comparable delta V to slowing to the
860.
by messe 4y ago
It floats. It’s designed for bringing cargo down as well as up, so it doesn’t experience dangerous levels of deceleration. Theoretically, it could bring back people, although they may need an oxygen tank and a way of strapping themselves do
861.
by messe 4y ago
Who sadly also passed away this year.
862.
by messe 4y ago
> "Dolly is derived from a mammary gland cell and we couldn't think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton's."
863.
by messe 4y ago
> this usually doesn't happen until it's too late to return the printer. Not if you’re in a country with reasonable consumer laws. I reckon this would easily be considered as “not fit for purpose” in most of the EU if you tried
864.
by messe 4y ago
One of the rules on HN I vehemently disagree with. These tangential annoyances often coincide with genuine accessibility issues, and should be called out when seen.
865.
by messe 4y ago
I think Half-in-the-Bag (also from RLM) is closer to the Siskel and Ebert style reviews than Plinkett.
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by messe 4y ago
33-bits? INT_MIN / -1 = INT_MAX + 1.
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by messe 4y ago
To be fair, the proprietary format is very transparent. It's a folder with a bunch of (IMO very readable and self-explanatory) XML with your writing stored as a RTF files further down the folder hierarchy. If I ever wanted to abandon s
868.
by messe 4y ago
It's actually easier than in the NI-Ireland case. There are less border crossings to check between Scotland and England (due to geography), than there are between Ireland and NI (due to the fact that the border is entirely artificial).
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by messe 4y ago
> The situation with Northern Ireland is different because Ireland is part of the EU It's also significantly worse, as there's only around 25 scotland-england border crossings, whereas there are over 200 border crossings betwee
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by messe 4y ago
Well, on macOS, my note-taking, reminders and calendar apps all sync with my phone and tablet. Having it poll in the background means I don't need to wait for it to sync when I next open it.

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