nmeofthestate

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by nmeofthestate 7mo ago
This naming is great compared to their traditional naming. I immediately know that I need a pro max premium if I want the one that compiles stuff fast and is heavy and has the fans running full speed all the time and only technically works
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by nmeofthestate 7mo ago
"A minifigure head mold evolved from 8 cavities in 1978 to 128 cavities today." Initially I thought this meant a lego minifig head has 128 internal cavities, but finally realised it means a single mould now makes 128 heads.
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by nmeofthestate 7mo ago
The writing style certainly screams LLM.
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by nmeofthestate 7mo ago
I do wonder whether Kotlin is sufficiently different from C# to make it worth developing in Godot in a non-standard way.
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by nmeofthestate 7mo ago
What exactly is an engineering manager?
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by nmeofthestate 7mo ago
They're function calls right? I can't square the "message passing" conceit (implying putting message objects on queues, dequeuing etc) with the claim that Obj-C is just C with some extra stuff.
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by nmeofthestate 8mo ago
My YT Shorts experience: absent-mindedly watch a few, eventually think "damn, these things suck", tap the "show fewer shorts" link to reduce the chance of absent-mindedly clicking on them again soon. The format, with all
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by nmeofthestate 8mo ago
Next up: tips and tricks on setting up your fortified anti-US-federal-government militia compound.
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by nmeofthestate 8mo ago
Apparently although it is a requirement to upload data from today, there's an effective grace period of 3 months (sorry - got that from AI).
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by nmeofthestate 8mo ago
I wonder if the CSV is supposed to list all petrol stations, as currently it only has 4 with city==Edinburgh. Edit: after asking AI about this I would say the CSV is pretty useless as a comprehensive source of info on UK fuel prices.
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by nmeofthestate 8mo ago
I'm not American, but I doubt being pro-graffiti is a universal American value. I suspect many Americans aren't that into it, given it makes the place look bad. Many Americans might think instead that you should only deface things
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by nmeofthestate 8mo ago
I suspect most graffiti doesn't actually have this twisted motivation. It's just selfishness by thoughtless people wanting to advertise themselves, like dogs marking their territory. This intellectual rationalisation is more of a
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by nmeofthestate 8mo ago
Most graffiti is an ugly demoralising reminder of the existence of thoughtless people who have no consideration for others and are happy to degrade the shared public space for a few seconds of selfish enjoyment. For some reason it's go
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by nmeofthestate 8mo ago
Interesting - my annoyance with W11 is nothing to do with AI or CoPilot (or "Privacy", "Phoning home", the usual crap MS haters talk about), it's due to stuff like Windows Explorer getting seriously worse.
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by nmeofthestate 9mo ago
Seems totally risible stuff. On Twitter, I've mostly seen this story shared by British nationalist accounts, presumably because they think it tarnishes the cause of Scottish independence by throwing support for it into question. Having
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by nmeofthestate 9mo ago
"‘Lucy’ claimed that "farmers have used tractors to block the A1 at the English border”, while another account called ‘Kelly’ said that “army trucks are rolling down the Royal Mile. Soldiers in fatigues are guarding the Scottish P
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by nmeofthestate 9mo ago
For Windows support I assume it accrues some benefit to the unpaid support, like it contributes to them getting their Microsoft Certified Windows End User Support Helpful Guy badge.
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by nmeofthestate 9mo ago
Windows 11 Explorer adds an accent colour to otherwise monochrome icons, which does help distinguish them. I still don't consciously use the icons when picking a menu item though. Explorer also "promotes" copy/paste comm
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by nmeofthestate 10mo ago
Should my washing machine pay income tax, and does that mean I need to register as a business to have it as an employee? So many questions raised by the automation of previously human-performed work.
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by nmeofthestate 10mo ago
A weird thing: on the hacker news page, in firefox mobile, all the visited links are grey, but the link to this blog post won't turn grey even when visited.
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by nmeofthestate 10mo ago
The German eagerly commenting that, actually, it's different in Germany is becoming a defining cliche of HN comment sections.
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by nmeofthestate 10mo ago
"you shouldn't be starting a high speed pursuit over a seat belt violation, or for someone going 5 over the speed limit" That would indeed be dumb, but once somebody dumb has decided to do that they're guilty of somethin
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by nmeofthestate 10mo ago
Bit of a random question on an article about C.
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by nmeofthestate 10mo ago
Mine (Civic '19) applies it if your seatbelt is fastened when you turn off the motor. Otherwise it doesn't. I think there's a "don't do automatic stuff unless the driver is wearing their seatbelt" rule.
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by nmeofthestate 11mo ago
I guessed the term Chat Control had to be made up by opponents of the legislation, so searched for the real name. The official name of the legislation is: “Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down
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by nmeofthestate 11mo ago
Yes, this feels like calculating to the second when you need to arrive at the airport so you'll spend zero time at the airport. Instead, arrive a bit early to the airport, and analogously, don't run visas down to the last hour bas
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by nmeofthestate 11mo ago
It's called ordered dithering.
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by nmeofthestate 11mo ago
I'd be more interested in the results, relative to the languages from the main repository.
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by nmeofthestate 11mo ago
> those who spend a lot of time in prison seem to come out worse and reoffend. How is that helpful? You're implying that imprisonment makes people offend more - perhaps the simpler explanation is that most criminals will commit crim
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by nmeofthestate 11mo ago
> it's about reducing the cost of launch missions to maximize profit and take out the primary source of income of competing players so they can have a monopoly of space. Diabolical stuff.

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