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by n3k5 6y ago
> their hue and lightness values are almost same Yeah? Well … you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man. More specifically, HSL's opinion. HSL is a fine colour space for specifying CSS colours, but not so good for eval
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by n3k5 6y ago
> The 39W max draw probably assumes the display is on? No, this is the number for the Mac Mini, which is the obvious choice if you wanted a machine for maxing out an M1 24/7. (The Air peaks at about 30W, which it can't sustai
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by n3k5 6y ago
That project obviously has been dead for a long time, but its successor Extempore [0] seems to still be in somewhat active development. And btw. it runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows. [0] https://extemporelang.github.io/
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by n3k5 6y ago
This page has a picture that shows the vessel's layout more clearly: https://deltamarin.com/references/pioneering-spirit-pieter-s...
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by n3k5 6y ago
It's Z, the traditional undo key in Sokoban-likes. More specifically, the key where Z would physically be on a Qwerty keyboard, regardless of what keyboard layout you have actually selected. Same goes for [R]eset. Was almost surprised
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by n3k5 6y ago
It's common to take map geometry from a level editor and process the polygon soup into some kind of space partitioning tree structure, but here the octree is manipulated more directly. The idea is to accept some limitations on what sha
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by n3k5 6y ago
I don't know anything about beer, but I've spent a minute looking this up before, so here's a surprise German lesson: ‘Hell‘ means bright . Sometimes, ‘light‘ is the correct translation (e.g. light blue is ‘hellblau‘ in Germ
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by n3k5 6y ago
In Firefox, auto-play (for audio) has to be manually enabled on a per-site basis. Ragya.com just quietly sits there waiting for the user to click play. I mention that as a positive because other sites are way worse: I'm occasionally an
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by n3k5 6y ago
Thank you! I just quickly looked up some terminology and it turns out the mode I'd been thinking of is more properly called ‘coasting in gear’, which is indeed not at all implied by the more general term ‘coasting‘. Now that I know wha
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by n3k5 6y ago
> It's only for coasting, there is a small electric motor that will only help to re-start the engine [but not really pull the vehicle]. Classifying a car as a mild hybrid electric vehicle on the basis of nothing but a glorified
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by n3k5 6y ago
I did that and also got inexplicable holes: https://i.paste.pics/8bed0cd17629f0e9c852a24162bf381e.png Otherwise my clumsy, misshapen caricature turned out surprisingly nice. (I mean, relative to how nonsensical its anatomy
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by n3k5 6y ago
I gave an intuition for how it can happen that combining algorithms (in a bad way) results in weaker encryption — without claiming that it must always happen. If we move the goalposts to where the combined algorithm receives a much larg
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by n3k5 6y ago
I just cherry-picked a simple example to make a clear illustration, but … > running a few more algorithms on something before trying to decrypt will make it easier rather than harder to decrypt? No, it could make it easier, harder, or
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by n3k5 6y ago
Imagine you have a couple of algorithms that scramble a solved Rubik's cube into a configuration that takes at least 20 twists to unscramble [0]. From there, any attempt to make it ‘even more scrambled’ would be pointless — and actuall
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by n3k5 6y ago
Great news! There were 5+ years during which I warned people away from Pygame. First there was no official release with Python 3 support in sight. Once that happened, I was disappointed that it still used the old SDL, which was utterly obso
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by n3k5 6y ago
I like how this puts SVG elements directly in the page's DOM; seems like a great way of making interactive vector graphics in a browser. Unfortunately, in Firefox I occasionally get rendering errors when the tile I'm pointing at i
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by n3k5 6y ago
Tom Scott made a short video about these cables: https://youtu.be/d8BcCLLX4N4 61 kilometres of fibre-optics for a 350 microsecond delay.
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by n3k5 6y ago
Meanwhile, newspaper/magazine publishers are like: Oh hi there! You're completely new here, so let's play the spyware opt-out game! Well done, no cookies for you; here's a pop-up about push notifications and here's
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by n3k5 6y ago
> they should only know that a certain device with a certain ID likes X,Y topics They shouldn't know any ID, not even one that gets sent only to that one advertiser and is reset after 30 days.[0] Even that much data shouldn't
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by n3k5 6y ago
People who liked these tips might also like: Bruce Shelley was on Soren Johnson's podcast Designer Notes (ep. 9, 2015). Sid Meier is in episodes 23—25 (2016).
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by n3k5 6y ago
The observable universe would have to be a conservative system for Poincaré recurrence to apply to it. I don't think that's possible; isn't it leaking matter that looks like it won't come back? I don't understand al
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by n3k5 6y ago
You might want to spend a few more minutes on finding out what those actually do. Yes, of course they don't restore normal colour vision. They can't possibly work iff that's the goal. Look at the frequency responses of cone
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by n3k5 6y ago
Thanks; seems like a superb analysis (in my extremely non-expert opinion†). > addressability (effectively deflection DAC's resolutions) So I guess from the perspective of how precisely a programmer could position vectors — and the
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by n3k5 6y ago
Yes. I'm not a stickler for 70—80 characters; IMHO the ~200 character lines on HN are excessive, but I can cope. You know, Postel's law: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others. I took the afore
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by n3k5 6y ago
> Fossil also supports bug tracking, wiki, forum, and technotes That sounds great, but I'm scared of checking these features out because I'm currently looking at the quick start guide[0] and am immediately put off by how awfu
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by n3k5 6y ago
This seemed comparatively unspectacular at first. But I'm not savvy enough to make out terms such as ‘RSLS abort’ in the dialogue (let alone knowing what they mean); luckily I quickly found a noob-friendly write-up that filled me in:
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by n3k5 6y ago
> There must be a lot of engineering work between parsing the JSON and having a playable level in ones engine Yes (btw., if this wall of text already seems iffy, there's a convenient TL;DR at the bottom end), making a level playab
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by n3k5 6y ago
> Particularly, it had no way to remember or save gear assignments between missions. OpenXcom has this, plus a lot of other improvements and bug-fixes. I'm no expert (played it and the original for a few hours each about a year ag
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by n3k5 6y ago
> ‘Dune II seems very old and clunky by today’s standards,’ says Joe. ‘The biggest single thing I should have added to it was the ability to drag-select units to allow a player to issue one order simultaneously to multiple units. Even t
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by n3k5 6y ago
I assumed as much, just couldn't stop myself from writing a clarification anyway in case some younger readers would get confused. Initially I found the idea to make it more authentic more fun, but now that you've mentioned ease of

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