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1. 721.▲
   by rozab 6y ago

   I bought a game on GOG recently. It funnelled me hard into getting their terrible launcher and now requires me to start the launcher to play the game, exactly like steam. I'm sure there is some way of avoiding this but it wasn't o
2. 722.▲
   by rozab 6y ago

   I mean, cool, but I was expecting code when I clicked on a GitHub link. Maybe would be better to just link to the preprint instead
3. 723.▲
   by rozab 6y ago

   The article mentions Scotland as an example of a 100% renewable country, when only around 50% of our output is generated this way. There is a great deal of misinformation about this online, partly due to nationalist sentiment and partly due
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   by rozab 6y ago

   I appreciate how the author signalled to us the nature of the article early on with a bizarre reference to 'cultural marxism'
5. 725.▲
   by rozab 6y ago

   Hohmann transfer is for going between two bodies which are both orbiting a third, central body no?
6. 726.▲
   by rozab 6y ago

   Vines and later TikToks are examples of creative mediums which are almost exclusively made on phones
7. 727.▲
   by rozab 6y ago

   These incredibly vague regexes are hilarious. But I guess if it works, it works (until it doesn't)
8. 728.▲
   by rozab 6y ago

   The languages breakdown is interesting. It seems GitHub refuses to admit defeat and categorises the .m files into various other languages which use the extension (M, MATLAB, Objective-C, Mathematica and Mercury). I wonder if they use some s
9. 729.▲
   by rozab 6y ago

   >or that there should be a class of housing that isn't treated like an asset No need to talk in hypotheticals, this was once the case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_the_United_K... https:&#x2
10. 730.▲
    by rozab 6y ago

    The regex thing doesn't make any sense as the asterisk isn't even a wildcard. I think the only system he's likely to have used at that time which used the asterisk as a wildcard is CP/M. It was definitely less ubiquitous
11. 731.▲
    by rozab 6y ago

    Does this make any sense for 1978?
12. 732.▲
    by rozab 6y ago

    I have seen a wide variety of 'massaged' GPT-3 output online. Some is obviously fake. Some is just a bit too... clean. I suspect the author has omitted a lot of attempts and/or done some editing.
13. 733.▲
    by rozab 6y ago

    There was a line of ThinkPads with two screens. I'm not really sure who they were aimed at. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r0ZlmLBCjQ
14. 734.▲
    by rozab 6y ago

    Presumably it's been laying unfound for a while now. If nobody's noticed it all this time, I don't see the point in removing it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-17398342
15. 735.▲
    by rozab 6y ago

    I am positive this whole exchange happened on HN no more than 3 days ago EDIT: 12 days ago, but still. I feel internet culture became somewhat static in the last few years. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25064671
16. 736.▲
    by rozab 6y ago

    It'd be neat if there was a more attainable standard for certification of tiny autonomous vehicles which are unlikely to cause much damage. Would be great for food delivery.
17. 737.▲
    by rozab 6y ago

    Really neat demo. I've not used Django all that much; do you think the necessity of this tool reflects badly on its interface?
18. 738.▲
    by rozab 6y ago

    This kind of form factor is called a cyberdeck, and is inspired by cyberpunk fiction and roleplaying games. Most of the community has now converged on screens that tilt up for practicality's sake, but the flat ones do have a retro char
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    by rozab 6y ago

    I would imagine that organisations like this would tend to back riskier research that would struggle to get funding elsewhere. It may be that they back a wide variety of early stage trials, most of which go nowhere. There is a list of funde
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    Homemade Two-Finger Prosthetic Hand (Ian Davis)(youtube.com)

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21. 741.▲
    by rozab 6y ago

    >pre-built libraries and software compatibility Surely this is the main con of ARM devices?
22. 742.▲
    by rozab 6y ago

    I really, really wish there was a paint.net clone for Linux. Paint.net is windows freeware, closed source since an early release, which is both feature rich and a pleasure to use. It covers 99% of use cases ordinary people have. I believe t
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    by rozab 6y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disrupted:_My_Misadventure_in_...
24. 744.▲
    by rozab 6y ago

    With reddit, I'm sure it's just for performance reasons. They can barely run their servers as is, even with people shelling out thousands for literal cosmetics
25. 745.▲
    by rozab 6y ago

    Right, they never would have seen the light of day were it not for GPL.
26. 746.▲
    by rozab 6y ago

    It only pops up sometimes: Help poor children in Uganda! type :help iccf<Enter> for information
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    by rozab 6y ago

    This will have broken tens of thousands of beginner programming tutorials. Very unfortunate.
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    by rozab 6y ago

    This study used a 10 session beginner Python course, and was graded almost entirely with multiple choice quizzes rather than actual problem solving. Seems like they ended up testing participants' ability to quickly memorise syntax and
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    by rozab 6y ago

    This is all a bit rich from a website which spells Founders with a capital F. This crazy diagram of types of network effects reminds me of the ludicrously precise cosmologies cults come up with to make themselves seem more authoritative. Ho
30. 750.▲
    by rozab 6y ago

    I think this might have been posted on HN recently. To me this is a far more appealing project. It could require very little payload weight, and it achieves something that is only really possible on the moon. I would like this to be the pro