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by rob74 7mo ago
So, because the 10,000+ Starlinks launched so far (and the countless future satellites Bezos and others want to launch for their own constellations) are in LEO, nothing bad can happen (it can only good happen)? That is, if you disregard the
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by rob74 7mo ago
Sorry, it was referring more to the grandparent comment, that referred to Saudi Arabia behaving more responsibly than the US, and Mohammed bin Salman is of course the crown prince and prime minister of Saudi Arabia.
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> When developed as an original product, EVs offer automakers a chance to rethink the automobile, and in the process, make it cheaper. That does not bode well for German car makers either I'm afraid. Take BMW for instance: they st
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by rob74 7mo ago
Wow, so now the US oil barons who lobbied Trump to kill renewables and EVs are even worse than Mohammed "Bonesaw*" bin Salman Al Saud? That's really something, if you look at it that way... * https://en.wikipedia.o
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by rob74 7mo ago
I'm not so familiar with the C64, but Monkey Island did indeed use graphics mode on all the 16/32 bit systems it supported - PC graphics cards had their video memory on the card (same as they do today), so saving memory by using t
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by rob74 7mo ago
I think the C64 palette you linked has been "tweaked" by the artist who uploaded it, this is probably closer to the original: https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Color But your point is still valid: while IBM PCs a
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by rob74 7mo ago
Good question! Since the game is mostly scene-based, it should be possible to play it scene by scene with lots of reading from disk. However the original game also had some larger scenes that used quite a lot of horizontal scrolling (so
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by rob74 7mo ago
Well yeah, the good old CRT monitors (the worse, the better in this case) also helped with the EGA dithering, while viewing the EGA graphics fullscreen on an 1080p LCD display, you'll have ~30 pixels for each original EGA pixel.
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by rob74 7mo ago
I for one prefer the Amiga version, because that's what I played back in the day. The Amiga supported 32 colors (without tricks like EHB and HAM) in 320x200/240 mode, so only twice as much as EGA, but they could be picked freely f
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by rob74 7mo ago
> China's pretty corrupt politically but the social trust is quite high, the highest outside of northern europe as far as I can tell There are a few reasons for that that I can imagine: - China is one of very few autocracies that
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by rob74 7mo ago
A stock market crash is also a pretty big event that cannot be suppressed or silenced, but they still happen regularly. The sad truth is that people (and companies) are greedy and will gladly cut corners with safety if it means making more
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by rob74 7mo ago
Also, I can't help noticing that the guy(s) playing with the robot are doing their utmost to make it look good: playing the ball as gently as possible (so it has time to react and doesn't have to exert too much force to return it)
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by rob74 7mo ago
Those "well-read antivaxxers" are the same as e.g. people with a fear of flying: they spend too much time looking at extremely rare catastrophic outcomes (dying or being seriously injured because of a plane crash or a vaccine side
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by rob74 7mo ago
Yeah, the funnel should go into the duck's bill of course - is it still so hard to get AI image generators to respect such small but decisive details in your prompt? TIL that foie gras is made out of duck livers as well, not only geese
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by rob74 7mo ago
Yeah, remember good old Norton Commander ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander ) - not that newfangled clone Midnight Commander, the original? Or the Borland text mode IDEs ( https://ilyabirman.net&#
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by rob74 7mo ago
He's not doing it directly, that's why his lectures are secr... er, invitation-only. Thiel is content to pull the strings from the background, he's not demen... er, fool..., er, courageous enough to actually accept a role wit
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by rob74 7mo ago
This could be a name for an IKEA product...
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by rob74 7mo ago
Was this written using AI? It does contain some interesting information, but the same information is repeated (with small variations) over and over again in a mind-numbing way that made me stop reading after about half of the article...
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by rob74 7mo ago
The money is flowing in one direction only now , but what the "Stammtisch" likes to forget is that Bavaria has benefited from transfers until as recently as 1992, and from 1950 to 1986 (36 years!) the money also flowed in only on
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by rob74 7mo ago
> Blanchard's account is that he never looked at the existing source code directly. He fed only the API and the test suite to Claude and asked it to reimplement the library from scratch. The resulting code shares less than 1.3% sim
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by rob74 7mo ago
Those "perfectly safe" reactors were hopelessly outdated (the ones last shut down in 2023 were built from 1982 to 1988/89) and nearing the end of their useful life. What no one mentions about nuclear power in Germany: since t
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by rob74 7mo ago
What you call "aid from abroad" is generally called a functioning wide area synchronous grid ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_synchronous_grid ) which covers most of the EU plus some Balkan states, Mol
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by rob74 7mo ago
If you really want what you wrote to make it to the screen in a recognizable form, I guess it has a better chance if you publish it as a novel first and hope it has some success and gets made into a film...
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by rob74 7mo ago
Because they somehow stumbled upon the article, thought it was interesting, and submitted it, not necessarily looking at the date?
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Sure - it's called a "guilty pleasure" (if the movie actually turns out to be enjoyable). The last franchise continuation I truly enjoyed watching was Indiana Jones 5, mostly out of nostalgic reasons. And before that, I sat t
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by rob74 7mo ago
That's why I wrote "movies designed with mass appeal in mind" - there are luckily still independent movies, but those rarely can compete with the movies I mentioned at the box office.
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by rob74 7mo ago
I can't read the article because of the paywall (signup-wall?), but I can think of at least one (more?) reason for this state of affairs: in animation, at least some of the films still have original ideas. Whereas live-action movies de
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by rob74 7mo ago
I experienced the same kind of fatigue when I read "there are three directions of development which I find particularly interesting: [three things I never heard about nor particularly want to get familiar with]" in the article. An
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How Flightradar24 became the platform to watch global aviation crises unfold(theguardian.com)
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by rob74 8mo ago
They have a cute mascot, so it can't be that bad: https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/meet-coal... Actually, the tweet quoted in the article is firmly in the "you can't make this

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