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by swiftcoder 11d ago
This feels like kind of a weird set of trade offs. I'm sure they'll be able to fix a bunch of polish issues in software later (better gamepad support, adding hand tracking, etc). And the enthusiast crowd will likely fork out the m
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by swiftcoder 11d ago
> Actually rendering at a lower resolution in areas you aren't actively looking is probably the most complicated approach because it seems like you'd have to render two times (low res + high res) to get the desired effect In th
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by swiftcoder 11d ago
I don't really actually understand how Valve can answer "no" to the data collection questions. If they have an inside-out tracking system, then they implicitly obtain biometric and environment data (user height, room layout).
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by swiftcoder 12d ago
As a bigger guy, I don't really buy this argument. I have a mid-size SUV at the moment, and it has roughly the same legroom as a mini cooper (just higher off the ground). I'd much rather have the longer legroom in an estate car &#
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by swiftcoder 12d ago
> If StarCraft 3 comes out it would only be popular in South Korea and possibly not all that popular at all even there. Given that StarCraft 2 still hasn't fully displaced BroodWar, I shudder to think of the uphill battle a StarCraf
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by swiftcoder 12d ago
A full WarCraft III expansion is more than I expected in what has become such a niche genre
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by swiftcoder 12d ago
> They just abandon the entire RTS fan base A full warcraft III expansion is not nothing
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by swiftcoder 12d ago
4 years out, and only a cinematic trailer. It's a lot to take on faith at this point, though I do hope its good
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by swiftcoder 12d ago
And to that point, station wagons tend to have better cargo length than equivalent-capacity SUVs as well. Where the SUV does win is height - but then again, if you regularly transport large boxes, some variant of minivan would be even bette
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by swiftcoder 12d ago
Presumably the docker container has network access because something else in the build system requires it? I don't think sandboxing the entire build process is the right level of granularity here - one ideally wants to be able sandbox
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by swiftcoder 12d ago
> Cybercab is most efficient electric production car As impressive as the efficiency there is, I'm going to take issue with the "production car" part of this statement. It's not like I can walk into a dealership and d
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by swiftcoder 12d ago
Presumably the faring panel comes off, just like on an early-model Honda Insight
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by swiftcoder 12d ago
As someone who lives in an area of Europe replete with narrow roads between stone buildings... standard SUVs have grown ~20cm wider in the last decade, and it sucks
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by swiftcoder 12d ago
> electrified golf carts I'm not clear how something that ran up to 138 kmph (85 mph) during an (intentionally low-speed) efficiency test, would be equivalent to a golf cart?
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by swiftcoder 12d ago
Sign me up for all of these innovations in an actual production car. No idea why the whole market seems to be obsessed with ever-wider SUVs...
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by swiftcoder 12d ago
> In other words, if you publish a gem on RubyGems.org, you can execute arbitrary code on RubyDoc.info. Shades of the build.rs problem. We really need sandboxed builds in every language ecosystem at this point.
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by swiftcoder 12d ago
Token resellers don't change the equation, they are just adding a tax to the revenue stream, it still has to flow from an actual upstream source. If your argument is that a bunch of consumer-facing companies are collectively suddenly m
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by swiftcoder 13d ago
Putting your writing in version control turns out to buy you a lot of metadata for free. These days it's an Obsidian vault in git, but I used to just keep plain markdown files for notes/writing/etc
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by swiftcoder 13d ago
> Economic activity is a flow, not a stock Any one actor has finite cash flow (plus their cash-on-hand buffer). Directing cashflow towards inference necessarily directs it away from something else. Either these companies are spending les
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by swiftcoder 13d ago
Money flowing from the rest of the economy means money no longer being spent on something else. Assuming for the moment it's not all a big circular inflationary scheme, what exactly is being cut back on to fund this infinite spend on A
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by swiftcoder 13d ago
Well for starters, any modern web browser with JS disabled is going to display the original page just fine, but will not be able to render a canvas-based solution. That may put the user outside your target demographic, which is fine, but it
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by swiftcoder 13d ago
The Manhattan Project succeeded, so clearly some people are ok working on this sort of thing. And with similar justifications: if we don't build the potentially world-ending bomb, someone else might beat us to it.
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by swiftcoder 13d ago
> We obviously have much better ways of doing such things today, but in 2005, with limited browser technology, those solutions seemed a little bit magical Nah, this still seems like a pretty good way of doing things. Yes, we can probably
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by swiftcoder 13d ago
> where we talk about country that have laws, politics, сourts, journalism, all that stuff Post patriot act, we have none of those things in instances where the government invokes national security (for example, a national security lette
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by swiftcoder 13d ago
I've made a bunch of edits just through the website, because my rural village was not very accurately reflected on OSM. I've added all the missing footpaths, fixed a couple of intersections, and added building footprints for all t
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by swiftcoder 13d ago
> The part where I want wired ethernet to that SBC, In that case the path of least resistance becomes something like a $22 NanoPi NEO (has onboard ethernet, widely used in PiKVM setups)
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by swiftcoder 13d ago
> simulating a USB client device ... requires specialized hardware that is also very expensive Pretty much any off-the-shelf SBC can present itself as a USB HID device like a keyboard. You can buy a very capable rp2040-based board for &l
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by swiftcoder 14d ago
> Yandex does Putin's bidding much much further than any western search engine ever meddled with their results for political purposes. Yandex employees' lives would be actively at risk if they didn't Does media manipulatio
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by swiftcoder 14d ago
Couldn't we say the exact same thing about any US service in this day and age? Trade war with half the planet, hot war with Iran. Autocratic dictator as leader and complicit media. Well documented propaganda campaign and history of des
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by swiftcoder 14d ago
> campaigns for a Russian product on HN are annoying, and appaling if you have any morals How is Yandex more morally-bankrupt than Google in your analysis?

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