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by omoikane 2y ago
Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42363727 - Itch.io Taken Down by Funko (15 hours ago)
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by omoikane 2y ago
I didn't even know this service existed. Broadcasting games in a loop seems pretty clever, but I suppose ZX Spectrum already had games delivered over radio years before then.
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by omoikane 2y ago
Maybe it depends on the station? Classical California (KDFC) has few ads. Also, since classical music are relatively long, you get fewer interruptions between songs.
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I thought the main draw of OCaml is that it has imperative features such as for-loops, instead of trying to be purely functional like Haskell. This probably made OCaml easier to pick up for people coming from other programming languages.
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by omoikane 2y ago
> A official-looking legal letter [...] Surprise someone Having received actual legal letters before, my personal experience is that I would much rather receive normal looking holiday cards to encourage me in continuing whatever I was do
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by omoikane 2y ago
I wonder if there were any bootleg boards that copied the silkscreen mistake, but didn't use those 16V capacitors, and ended up catching fire.
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by omoikane 2y ago
I thought the emphasis was on the visualization part, and not so much on the operations that are being benchmarked. Most benchmarks are presented as static bar charts or similar, but this particular site presented them as moving circles,
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by omoikane 2y ago
> Stories of people trying their best to participate in the C++-standard committee process across multiple years This links to: https://thephd.dev/finally-embed-in-c23 It was a fascinating story, particularly about how p
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by omoikane 2y ago
The original email thread was from 2001, and it gets posted to HN periodically: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=patrickcraig.co.uk For another compression challenge that is still ongoing, try "500000€ Prize for
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by omoikane 2y ago
There is also a video recording of this talk: https://youtu.be/kHmwv3I1Kxk?si=CrZW_VVnA_UqcXCU I was looking for this because Figure 1 (Breakdown Of SQLite Source Code By Language) is missing, and archive.org doesn't s
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by omoikane 2y ago
There is a demo video here: https://github.com/ricott1/rebels-in-the-sky/tree/main/demo
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by omoikane 2y ago
They did at least published their research, and also dataset for 655 places: https://research.nianticlabs.com/mapfree-reloc-benchmark This was linked the news post (search for "data that we released").
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by omoikane 2y ago
1360 comments from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42177767 - DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
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by omoikane 2y ago
The second reddit link above includes an example, where the person has a visa change and would get in trouble with immigration if they continue to remain employed. If the person was leaving because they accepted an offer from another employ
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by omoikane 2y ago
Full list of World Digital Competitiveness Ranking is on pages 48-49 of this PDF: https://imd.widen.net/s/xvhldkrrkw/20241111-wcc-digital-repo... via: https://www.imd.org/centers/wcc/worl
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> Hardening libc++ resulted in an average 0.30% performance impact Maybe what really happened is that compiler technology has improved such that they are able to remove most redundant checks, such that it only costs 0.30% today. I can i
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by omoikane 2y ago
Original title was ANIL(A Nice Intermediate Language) Python & C++ inspired programming language that transpiles to C and can be embedded within C source files Current title is confusing since it truncates the "ANIL(A Nice Intermed
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by omoikane 2y ago
For NASA, looks like someone has made an unofficial mirror account: https://bsky.app/profile/nasa.extwitter.link Also, some game companies do maintain a presence on bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile&#x2
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by omoikane 2y ago
The main news is that Gimp made a release candidate for 3.0: https://www.gimp.org/news/2024/11/06/gimp-3-0-RC1-released/ I see that a few people have submitted that link, but they don't seem to
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by omoikane 2y ago
I believe that's called "attractive nuisance". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_nuisance_doctrine
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I watched through all of that game play footage just to see if a castle would happen, and it did happen at the end, with the same bumpy movement that ran throughout the game. The most interesting bit was probably near 1:50 where the pawn mo
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by omoikane 2y ago
This article is a collection of interesting experiments, but it didn't quite explain the "why" in the title for me. Maybe the point is simply that we humans are naturally inclined to make our beliefs persistent. I think the
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by omoikane 2y ago
Regular expression is not listed in the article, but it blew my mind when I first used it in Perl. Any of sed/awk/perl/python/ruby/javascript could have expose the author to regular expressions, but maybe they didn
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by omoikane 2y ago
Was it this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37022911 - I went to 50 different dentists: almost all gave a different diagnosis (1997)
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The Chinese version of the text has an extra header line that translates to "to prevent abuse via GitHub Issues, we are not accepting general issues". An earlier commit has this for the English text: `you-get` is currently e
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See also: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2024/9/discover-th... He got the record for "largest number of wacky cars in a museum = 57".
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Looks like you have to supply a search query for the link to work. I just search for the letter "a": https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=active&a... They also have an aggregate repor
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by omoikane 2y ago
13M+ users would put bluesky's user count above mastodon, according to this page: https://mastodon-analytics.com/ I would be interested in some stats that compare the number of active users, and also number of users wh
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by omoikane 2y ago
The new power ups are a nice addition that allowed me to reach 2048 more quickly :) I remember a coworker who said something along the lines of "I am free!" when he finally got 2048, and then never touched the game again. I hope
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by omoikane 2y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41528124 - Safe C++ (2024-09-13, 68 comments)

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