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by sorenjan 4y ago
> It is cold in Svalbard. The average temperature in summer is 5 degrees Celsius. During winter, the temperature can drop below minus 30 degrees Celsius. The polar night lasts from October to February.
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by sorenjan 4y ago
I'd count Townscaper as a toy as well. https://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper
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by sorenjan 4y ago
Android introduced face unlocking in 2011[0]. It used the regular front camera and hence had no depth information, which makes it vulnerable to photos[1]. It was removed in Android 10, when a new face authentication interface[2] was added.
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by sorenjan 4y ago
All I could think when watching that trailer is "I'm getting too old for this". Also, relevant to this story, Embark does a lot of open source development in Rust, including physx-rs. The Finals is using Unreal Engine though.
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by sorenjan 4y ago
Probably because it's both easier to make and more visually impressive and interactive. Contour maps made the naive way are too noisy, you need to process the height data in some way first. With 3D all you need is to put a vertex in ea
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by sorenjan 4y ago
I thought they released Safari for Windows to enable developers to test their web based iPhone apps. Before the App store all iPhones were supposed to only run web based apps, and Windows was a much larger platform for developers.
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by sorenjan 4y ago
Always having access to a detailed map with GPS has been one of the best quality of life enhancers modern tech has provided. I can go anywhere and never worry about getting lost. And the same device will play any music I want whenever I wan
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by sorenjan 4y ago
Yes, but 2 PWh clean energy though. Great for economic growth, and the new lake would be good for leisure and tourism.
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by sorenjan 4y ago
This looks very useful and would bring electricity prices way down. The best time to start building would have been years ago, the second best is today!
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by sorenjan 4y ago
They're probably my favorite OSM map style, especially the outdoor variant.
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by sorenjan 4y ago
I clicked the link to Elon's tweet, and of course the replies are full of American right wingers making US politics of the situation. Because "muh free speech" is going to make Elon's Twitter as successful as Kanye'
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by sorenjan 4y ago
> I never liked the classist undertones associated with the twitter verified badges. In some ways it’s satisfying to see the badge stripped of its meaning a prestige. This seems to be a recurring opinion of Twitter users, but as someone
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by sorenjan 4y ago
Have you seen this thread? No idea if it's legit, take it with a grain of salt. "i used to work for tesla writing infotainment firmware and backend services - all of which runs in a single bottom tier Datacenter in a single locati
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by sorenjan 4y ago
While this is a nice project, it's basically just simple web scraping. I was hoping for something a bit more interesting, like decoding the radio signals for the bus stop displays[0] and using that data. If it's available from an
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by sorenjan 4y ago
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33399940
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by sorenjan 4y ago
> Comparing Russia to Canada is in bad faith. Canada is a democracy, not run by a dictator. Isn't that an even bigger reason to not let the dictator get his way? In Putin's latest speech he reiterated that Ukraine isn't a
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by sorenjan 4y ago
I don't follow game development closely anymore, but my feeling is that UE5 with features like Nanite, Lumen, etc is so advanced that you can't expect an inhouse engine to come close. Or are there other engines that's at the
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by sorenjan 4y ago
I remember maybe ten years ago "real" pirates (from "the scene") thought that everything needed to be in rar format, and anything else was considered "p2p" and not as pure. They were also late with h264 and use
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by sorenjan 4y ago
SVT-AV1 is as fast or faster than x265 for me on my 10+ year old CPU, at least when using high (fast) presets. Here's a guide with some various options for using it with ffmpeg: https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-
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by sorenjan 4y ago
Another similar tangent: Rambo got his name from the Rambo apple, which in turn got its name from Peter Gunnarsson Ramberg who took the name from Ramberget in Gothenburg.
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by sorenjan 4y ago
Vasa wasn't named after the royal house, it was named after the vase[0] on the heraldic symbol for the house of Vasa[1]. A vase is probably best described as a fasces. Äpplet was probably named after a globus cruciger[2], or "nati
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by sorenjan 4y ago
Hein Jakobsson completed Vasa, but wasn't the original designer. That was Henrik Hybertsson. Jakobsson widened Vasa somewhat to try to improve it, and Äpplet was even wider. Äpplet was in use for almost 30 years, and was deliberately s
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by sorenjan 4y ago
Aren't they the same person though? I've only seen small parts of a presentation, this vtuber stuff is not for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XSJG5xGZfU&t=21330s
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by sorenjan 4y ago
uBlock already does this, but sometimes this leads to an annoying side effect. Some sites put "overflow=hidden" on the main element to get rid of scroll bars while showing a modal cookie consent dialog. If you only block the conse
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by sorenjan 4y ago
I got the men's event on now. Instead of "look at the time" it's "look at the time on the Wahoo Element" (a Wahoo Element is a particular sports watch). Instead of the swim leg it's the Roka swim leg (Roka
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by sorenjan 4y ago
I watched the Ironman world championships for women the other day (the men's race are happening right now) and it was so full of ads. Not only are the race named after a sponsor, even the aerial photography was "courtesy of Qatar
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by sorenjan 4y ago
Their phones used to support wireless screen mirroring using Miracast, but that stopped after Chromecast was introduced.
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by sorenjan 4y ago
Google lost interest in smart watches for years, and now we're supposed to trust them again? I had a watch with Android Wear, after the updates stopped Google's own apps started losing features they had when I bought the watch (li
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by sorenjan 4y ago
If you have a 6 Pro, why would you need to buy a replacement after only a year?

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