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by omoikane 3y ago
> From the linked blog post by the actual provider The linked blog post: https://sesamecare.com/blog/sesame-costco-partnership
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by omoikane 3y ago
Seems like PostScript is too powerful for the security conscious world. This is probably a good move. It's unfortunate though, I liked PostScript and all the stuff you can do with it[1]. What's the new standard for vector graphi
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by omoikane 3y ago
The most popular page with Hacker News appears to be the Tetris rant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20342543 https://tcrf.net/The_New_Tetris
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by omoikane 3y ago
A different generalization is that dentists make more money on treatments, and less on diagnosis or preventive care. It's hard to say if this is really a conspiracy theory since the diagnoses from different dentists aren't always
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by omoikane 3y ago
See also their policy on Magic 8 Ball: https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...
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by omoikane 3y ago
A related concept is shame versus guilt cultures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilt%E2%80%93shame%E2%80%93fe...
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by omoikane 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if there is still a version of C in the year 2100, that can compile code written in the year 2060 or maybe even 2023. That language might be mostly generated as a form of portable assembly by whatever new langua
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by omoikane 3y ago
Maybe it's because they re-released modified versions of the original Star Wars trilogy[1]. Although timing wise, some of the re-releases happened before the Star Wars prequels, including the "Han shot first" controversy[2].
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by omoikane 3y ago
It's a fun story to read, whether it's fact or fiction. We are not too concerned about whether a large company would really send an engineer to investigate a seemly absurd claim, in the same way that we are not too concerned abou
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by omoikane 3y ago
This bug appears to be because Go captures loop variables by reference, but C++ captures are by copy[1] unless user explicitly asked for reference (`&variable`). It seems like the same bug would be visually more obvious in C++. [1] ht
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by omoikane 3y ago
Journeys in Japan is great, but clearly the best NHK content is "A Cat's-Eye View of Japan": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFEzXnIQVwV_8qZZBa_0o...
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by omoikane 3y ago
This is an interesting book that is organized like an encyclopedia. It feels comprehensive, but the feeling you get from reading it is something just short of understanding the world portrayed within. It has mastered a balance between som
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by omoikane 3y ago
time_t is now 64 bits.[1] The change probably happened around 2014.[2] [1] https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/Wv99v4W6E [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/598408/
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by omoikane 3y ago
I only recognize one of the company listed, for exactly the same reason you described. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_(company)#Criticism
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by omoikane 3y ago
ChessMonitor looks very nice, I like how you can link to a particular opening: https://www.chessmonitor.com/u/XqaFNTHcR61WpiMfOhEY/games?po...
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by omoikane 3y ago
This reminds me of how Oscar Toledo disassembled Video Chess, which ran in just 128 bytes of memory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36431917 It uses lower 4 bits of 64 bytes to store the board positions (upper 4 bits
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by omoikane 3y ago
> I wish game development wasn't so monolithic. If you are thinking about why the game engines aren't broken down into finer reusable components (e.g. one module for rendering and another for physics, etc.), it probably has to
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by omoikane 3y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37512512 - Unity cancels town hall over reported death threats (theverge.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37510958 - Video-Game Company Unity Closes O
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by omoikane 3y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37510958 - Video-Game Company Unity Closes Offices Following Death Threat
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by omoikane 3y ago
Gamepass is not the same in that people knew what they signed up for, whereas what Unity did was more of a bait-and-switch. If Unity had said that the new policy would only apply to games released (as opposed to installed ) after 2024, a
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by omoikane 3y ago
> Unity asset store Would be nice if Godot can access Unity assets. Someone posted a demo of a Unity loader few months back: https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/13io0bx/load_unitypa... The sentim
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by omoikane 3y ago
Not exactly what you asked for, but I would recommend watching the showreels if you just want to see some highlighted project demos: https://godotengine.org/showcase/
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by omoikane 3y ago
It's 1% over the last winner. The latest winner has a total size of 114156155, compared to previous winner of 115352938. The payout was 500000 * (1 - 114156155 / 115352938) = 5187 (see table near "Baseline Enwik9 an
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by omoikane 3y ago
500000 EUR is the prize pool. Each winner has to gain at least 1% improvement over previous record to claim a prize that is proportional to the improvement. Getting the full 500000 EUR prize requires an 100% improvement (i.e. compressing
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by omoikane 3y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37486691 - Twitter’s Rebranding Sale
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by omoikane 3y ago
I was wondering about those too. I know Google has multiple music rooms, but I seem to recall the instruments there were employees' private property. I wonder if Twitter had a policy where people can expense instruments, or if they w
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by omoikane 3y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37481344 - "Unity plan pricing and packaging updates" It's linked in this article as "the latest and final straw".
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by omoikane 3y ago
Related, here is a program that prints its own SHA-512 hash: https://www.ioccc.org/years.html#2019_diels-grabsch2
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by omoikane 3y ago
Related news from few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36016653 - "Japanese police make first YouTuber arrest for uploading video game gameplay"
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by omoikane 3y ago
The title should really be "Why do ZSA keyboards come with cables", or "Why are your (ZSA keyboards) not wireless?" The current title sounds like it's encouraging wireless and a lot of comments here appear to be res

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