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Zitrax··on No Man's Sky Cosmos
I feel like can also compare the difference to some rougelikes where the combos of random things can yield vastly different experiences but in NMS the randomness felt more like a skin - not affecting gameplay much.
Zitrax··on Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field
Just curious, the heating to remove the VRM is that permanent so you can only check the authenticity once?
Zitrax··on NetHack 5.0.0
What happened to version 4? Looks like last release was 3.6.7.
Zitrax··on First images from Euclid are in
I guess properly is important there, in reality certain initial orderings are more common and we use certain techniques for shuffling with our hands making it less random than "properly".
Zitrax··on Git-absorb: Git commit –fixup, but automatic
I assume you refer to https://github.com/torbiak/git-autofixup. I have also used it, and its ok but not perfect.
Zitrax··on Show HN: Coros – A Modern C++ Library for Task Parallelism
You can see in the repository that it was benchmarked against oneTBB.
Zitrax··on Halide rejected from App Store because it doesn't explain why it takes photos
That was my first thought as well, "The camera will be used to take photographs" seem pointless, if it's a camera app it's obvious if it's not it does not help the reviewer.
Zitrax··on Mystery as 4k-year-old axe-heads sent to museum
I don't think you can date the axe-heads from the material? I assume they date based on objects found nearby and the technique used to make them. Which is also why knowing the exact location is important.
Zitrax··on Jia Tan "JiaT75": Added error text to warning when untaring with bsdtar (2021)
Recent is relative, the latest comment is from April 2024, not something that popped up today.
Zitrax··on Fractal Geometry
Some comparison between fractal compression and jpeg here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.5555/364682.364685
Zitrax··on Air pollution over Alberta oil sands up to 6,300% higher than reported
Seem to be different studies and measurements - so both.
Zitrax··on Animated AI
134 MB to be exact.
Zitrax··on Researchers identify largest ever solar storm in 14k-year-old tree rings
From the abstract: "The resulting Δ14C record exhibits an abrupt spike occurring in a single year at 14 300–14 299 cal yr BP and a century-long event between 14 and 13.9 cal kyr BP."
Zitrax··on Egregoria: 3D City Builder without a grid
Looks interesting - I tried to build it but got:

[ 2176412 ERROR C:\Users\user\.cargo\registry\src\index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f\wgpu-0.16.0\src\backend\direct.rs:1174] Shader translation error for stage ShaderStages(NONE | FRAGMENT): FXC D3DCompile error (0x80004005): C:\Users\user\git\Egregoria\called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value(432,18-24): error X3005: 'ddx': identifier represents a variable, not a function

(Windows 10)

Zitrax··on Finland introduces the world’s first phone-free tourist island
I don't have the full overview, but there are new "dumb" phones made that has 4G/5G, no? (Nokia 8210 seem to be one example, Punkt MP02 another)
Zitrax··on Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage
WizTree (https://diskanalyzer.com/) on Windows seem to be faster than other tools I tried.
Zitrax··on Stable Diffusion 2.0
It confused me that the letter boxes were divided in 7+3, thus I thought it would be two words while the correct answer was a single 10 letter word. Maybe try to avoid wrapping words.
Zitrax··on Show HN: A color picker for named web colors
Related discussion with no definite answer: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/247129/why-is-pe...
Zitrax··on Idiot Proof Git
You could create an alias doing something like a "git commit --fixup <sha1>" and then a "git rebase --autosquash <sha1>~".
Zitrax··on Idiot Proof Git
I prefer rebasing too, but merging doesn't mean that you have to merge in all noisy minor fixups, you can combine the strategies and rebase the feature branch into a set of sensible commits, then merge that branch. Preferably even with a CI that checks each commit before merge such that it will not cause issues later during eventual bisections. --fixup and --autosquash are handy for such workflows.
Zitrax··on Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle
I would prefer if that was not "auto" marked in that way, it felt nicer to try to think about each crossing. Perhaps something that could be turned on and off.
Zitrax··on Best command-line-only video games (2019)
From https://freeholdgames.com/Press/:

  Caves of Qud is a project of epic proportions that began in 2007 and launched on Steam Early Access in 2015.
Zitrax··on Best practices for writing code comments
Git commit messages and code comments serve very different purposes, I don't see any reason to try to use one for the other or opposite.

To me both are important but for different reasons. I don't want to search the blame history of a line of code if a simple comment had been enough, neither would I want to primarily use code comments when bisecting.

Zitrax··on Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls
There seem to be an issue reported about this (although when passing -l): https://github.com/ogham/exa/issues/141
Zitrax··on Djinn Split Keyboard
I have the same issue, earlier I was using a Logitech Comfort keyboard: https://c1.neweggimages.com/ProductImageCompressAll1280/23-1...

which I loved, but have not found a good replacement, they are either split with a smaller angle or are those peculiar fully split ones as you mention.

Zitrax··on Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days?
Same here, got a MBP from my work 2 years ago. I have had more issues with it than other non mac laptops in the past, both OS and hardware issues. Battery expanding, display issues, system processes using 100% cpu until I reboot as some examples.
Zitrax··on Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021
Related: Here is an article investigating the delay between discovery and award: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.5.2012/full...

As can be seen there the delay is often measured in decades. For medicine many awards around 20 years or more after discovery.

Zitrax··on DeFi bug accidentally gives $90M to users
I am also a bit confused by this. I have definitely read before that you can't keep money payed by mistake. Is this different in the US or is this some difference with cryptocurrencies vs normal banks?
Zitrax··on Tesla Model Y became the best-selling vehicle in Norway within a week
Just as an example compared to the neighbour country:

The base model Y price in Norway is 534'000 NOK (~52'000€) while in Sweden 719'900 SEK (~70'700€).

For non EV cars it's usually the other way round.

Zitrax··on How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe
According to this ranking Finland is on 3rd place for English skills in Europe, only behind Netherlands and Denmark.

https://www.ef.com/wwen/epi/

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