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> DDR5-5600 when 2 modules are installed, DDR5-3600 when 4 modules are installed

Is this a new thing? I don't rememebr four sticks being slower than two on previous generations. Then again I haven't been paying too close attention these past few years.

Pretty fun! I got stuck at level 26, my solution looks visually correct but the next button won't activate:

    grid-template-rows: repeat(4, 10px) 1fr;

Yeah, Shadow DOM was definitely introduced as an immature technology with lots of problems. Nowadays there's also Declarative Shadow DOM[1] which allows you to create Shadow DOMs without JS. It alleviates some of these problems at the cost of introducing a few more of its own. It's like a drunken stumble with two steps forward and one back.

[1]: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/css-ui/declarative-shadow-...

Maybe your base rate is way off then?

I got Sharknado from shark + tornado.

Then Sharknado 3 from sharknado + sharknado.

Then Sharktopusnado 3 from sharknado 3 + octopus

Now I'm going at Sharktopusnado 9400000000000.

Great fun!

I can't seem to scroll with the arrow keys on your website (ellie.wtf). Is this intentional? Really annoying at the very least.

Good luck on your project!

I'd say the Gentoo handbook comes pretty close. You set up everything in the system and all is well explained. Not quite as extreme as LFS but enough to learn and not punish yourself.

I know next to nothing about video encoders, and in my naive mind I absolutely thought that parallelism would work just like you suggested it should. It sounds absolutely wild to me that they're splitting single frames into multiple segments. Merging work from different threads for every single frame sounds wasteful somehow. But I guess it works, if that's how everybody does it. TIL!

`src/gam/__init__.py` alone is over 3 MB of code that's not from `google-api-python-client`. Combine all the ad hoc shell scripts I've ever written and it probably wouldn't be that much.

I posted my list in another comment earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38568968

Oh I loved TotK, no doubt about that. It's my partner you'd have to convince. Sorry if I wasn't clear on that. :)

Hm, to each their own I guess. I kind of see where you're coming from, though - my partner isn't really into RPGs and the Switch is apparently such an underpowered children's toy console that it's unfathomable it could have any decent games. It's been quite a quiet year on the gaming releases front for him.

In random-ish order:

    Baldur's Gate 3
    Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
    Super Mario Bros: Wonder
    Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
    Alan Wake 2
    Hogwarts Legacy
    Metroid Prime Remastered
    Pikmin 4
    Starfield
    Jagged Alliance 3

I was thinking about Elden Ring and Dwarf Fortress for the last two spots instead, but seems like both of them were last year's releases. Time flies! That makes last year a bit better than I'd initially remembered, though.

I agree, BG3 is phenomenal and deserves every bit of praise it gets. But I'd also like to mention that this has been a ridiculously good year in gaming in general. Playing these new releases, I've been giddy like a little boy for the first time in years. It's like if I made a top 5 of this year, every game in that list would deserve to be GOTY way more than anything that was released in the previous couple of years.

In the real world it's not that simple. I'd love to close down my WhatsApp account - the only Meta service I've ever used - but unfortunately my employer requires us all to be in a WhatsApp group. I don't really have a choice in the matter if I want to get paid.

X is another tough one. Many politicians and public services use it as their primary channel for announcements. I've been using Nitter as a workaround ever since Elon blocked reading feeds without an account, but I feel like I shouldn't need to.

It's so disheartening to follow these. Time after another we hear about some insane Orwellian plot to exploit our deepest secrets. All spun so that the masses will think it's for some noble cause like protecting the children when really it's anything but. And it never stops! Tackle one and it's back a year later in some even more devious form like a fucking Hydra. I'm just so tired I wanna move into a cottage in the woods.

Kubes?

That's a great way to make sure no company ever releases anything open source.

This is the best use I've found so far as well, which is a bit disappointing for something that many hyped to be so revolutionary. It's handy, but sadly not a major paradigm shift.

Translating between (natural) languages is another nice one. You can throw in json structures or fluent files or what have you and most of the time have it come out with pretty good translations that are formatted correctly.

Unfortunately Motorola phones are not great when it comes to OS updates. Two major OS updates and then security patches for some time after that. Which sounds okay on paper, but man are they slow with them. I finally got Android 13 on my Edge 20 just last week! Their "bimonthly" security updates occasionally come a month late too. Maybe the experience would be different with a flagship rather than a midrange device, but I'm not willing to risk my money on such a gamble - my next phone won't be a Motorola. A shame too, their latest foldable looks quite nice.

I've been entertaining a theory that the update slowness and little bloat are somehow related - with how slow they're with updates, they probably don't have the time to code up any more bloat either.

> Meanwhile SIM card slot do not introduce water leak because obviously there is magic.

Don't worry, they're doing their best to get rid of those too.

Yeah, and the mobile phone experience didn't really get any better for quite some time. I bought a Nokia N8 in 2010 while abroad, and I had to take it to a retail outlet afterwards to install a new keyboard layout for the on-screen keyboard.

That's actually a pretty good idea! Refreshing to finally find a viable alternative (or addition?) to the usual "jail the high up people responsible for illegal activities". Not that there would be anything wrong with that, either.

Added to my list of things to do if I ever become a dictator by chance.

I've had Harmonic on my phone for maybe two years now. Best UI out of all the HN reader apps I've tried. Still I go through perioids of using the app to read HN and then switching back to the website in mobile Chrome. I like to skim through the headlines, open interesting articles and comments in new tabs and then go through them after I've read through the front page headlines. No app really supports that, and I'm not sure if an app would even be able to do that better than a browser.

Aside from that the other thing that makes me go back to Chrome are occasional crashes. Seeing how many people daily drive the app and nobody else has mentioned this, I have to wonder if it's something to do with my setup specifically. I do remember it happening on my previous phone (Samsung Galaxy A40, I think) in addition to my current one (Motorola Edge 20) so I just assumed it was something the app does for everyone. I think it usually happens when the app has been on the background for a while, and then I reopen it and it'll start to fetch the new stories and then crash.

Do you receive some sort of reports automatically from such crashes? I have zero Android app development experience so I don't know where to look for logs or what to try next.

The Mac's "integrated memory" means it's shared between the CPU and GPU. So the GPU can address all of that and you can load giant (by current consumer GPU standards) models. I have no idea how it actually performs though.

As much as I would love this too from a programmer's perspective, reading [1] convinced me that time zones are a necessary evil we just kinda have to deal with. They could be improved by a lot, though. First thing I'd do is get rid of DST everywhere.

[1]: https://qntm.org/abolish

> - in samoa, there was never a december 30th 2011.

That was interesting, so I had to read about it. Apparently they skipped a day to be closer to Asian time zones. They did the same thing in the opposite direction in 1892 by having two 4th of Julys to be closer to American timezones. Now they kinda just walked back on that.

Interestingly I think the Python datetime approach can handle both of these with no problem. The rest of your list sounds... a lot tougher.

That's an excellent point I hadn't thought of before. Thanks for bringing it up.

I first got into opioids at age 16 or so when I found boxes and boxes of tramadol prescribed for my father who had died of cancer some years earlier. Eating them made me feel good, really good. I guess that sparked my love for drugs.

I was a recreational user and managed to keep things under control (except spending all my money) for many years. But in those circles most people are a bad influence on you. Eventually it all just spiraled out of control. It was so easy to keep slipping deeper a little at a time while taking steps in the other direction felt enormously hard.

It's been about 6 years since I last shot up. Everything's going really good now. Granted I'm not sober by AA standards; I still smoke weed, and drink a couple of beers every now and then, and do psychedelics maybe once or twice a year. Whenever I start feeling blue.

> Interesting aside, the "mental" addiction can be harder to kick than the physical. Some former opiate and gabapentin users I know have mentioned this - psychological cravings for even years after stopping. Anyone who has ever tried quit nicotine will also know this.

Oh yes for sure, didn't mean to make it seem like it wasn't. I was(/am) a poly drug addict from Finland. Buprenorphine and amphetamine were my jam for a couple years. One year of using intravenously daily. It's been years since my last time but I still think about shooting up every now and then. It's a deviously strong urge. But the mental battle doesn't only start after the physical stuff is over: at the beginning they both compound on each other and it's absolutely devastating when you've been awake for two weeks because of the restless legs...