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drewtato··on The Endless Doomscroller
In case you were curious, there are 355 headlines that repeat.

See also: http://endless.horse/

drewtato··on Closing a 30 pixel gap between native and web
Well right now, the alternative isn't "keep it in the browser", it's "ship it in electron".
drewtato··on Watching 'Spirited Away' again, and again
I think it really says something that besides the usual complaints about the website, all the comments here are about Spirited Away, with no one mentioning Hulu yanking titles, which is a very software-esque thing to do. Maybe it's because everyone here knows how difficult it is to fully delete something from the internet.
drewtato··on Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch
The map is technically 4 million square kilometers but in design/narrative terms, it's planet-sized.

The character is not supposed to die, they're supposed to be evil. The point of the game is that winning the game is evil. It's not saying humans on earth are evil, it's suggesting that maybe they are, or maybe we're the bugs, or maybe some of us are the bugs and some of us are the engineer. We also don't know the intelligence level of the bugs. They're smart enough to coordinate attacks, pathfind, target polluting and military buildings, and sense pollution, but it's purposely ambiguous.

drewtato··on Forum Channels: A space for organized conversations
I think this is a feature for community servers, so make sure you've converted yours to a community.
drewtato··on Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch
When I played the game, it seemed pretty obvious that the main character is evil, in a literary sense. There's no redeeming qualities like in other games like Uncharted. It's just one person who most likely accidentally landed on a planet and solves that self-imposed problem with violence. The fact that the bugs attack depending on pollution confirms it.
drewtato··on Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
What does "Font smoothing" do?
drewtato··on The Big [Censored] Theory
The implication is that Chinese policy considers both incest and LGBTQ as abnormal relationships.
drewtato··on Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years
I'm guessing this is caused by the monitors waking up in different orders. The computer tries to set em up as soon as possible even if they're in different ports. It would be nice if it detects when the collision happens and then put them in another list for monitors associated with their port. Or just have an option.
drewtato··on Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers
Seems like it would have to either stop the drive, maybe triggering shock protection, or make it read incorrect data, which could be possible if the read head's correction mechanism was resonating. If its delay was half the sound's frequency, it would try to correct in the same direction as its being pushed by the sound, causing the feedback loop for resonance.
drewtato··on Hacker News Predictions
People have been worried about this since TV was invented.
drewtato··on Hacker News Predictions
Found another one:

> I predict we will still be using SMS in 10 years.

-malandrew (2012)

Yep. But mostly in the US when cross-OS or automated.

drewtato··on Hacker News Predictions
> I predict that within 2 years the iPhone OS will allow you to run unapproved apps provided you click through enough, "Hey, we're warning you! Don't come crying to us when you manage to blow up your dock connector", messages.

-DannoHung (2010)

I'm so sorry Danno. We're still waiting.

> I predict within 2 years no one will even hear about an Nvidia GPU in an Intel-based laptop (unless we're talking $2000+ machines - maybe).

-higherpurpose (2015)

(this is probably about AMD CPUs?) Looks like it's going to be wrong for many more years.

> I predict the sun will run out of steam and we are all gonna die.

-the-dude (2020)

I dunno about that, sun looks fine to me!

footnote: sorry for adding dupes to your data

drewtato··on Hacker News Predictions
I predict that this feature will be added soon.
drewtato··on Absurd Trolley Problems
To disable the animation:

.wavy-text-word { animation: unset !important; }

drewtato··on The computers are fast, but you don't know it
I also liked this explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7jctqKsUMA

In short, the only information you gain is about the outcome of the other side's measurement. They cannot introduce information into the particle, and thus can't transmit information. The only thing you learn is what you already knew: the other particle had a 50% chance of being in one state or another, with the added fact that it's now correlated to your particle with a 75% (depending on experiment) chance. This is information that didn't exist until that moment, so it couldn't have been sent out and reach you before you measure your particle, which would inform you with 75% certainty how your particle would act and break causality.

drewtato··on The computers are fast, but you don't know it
It takes 10-20ms for the pixels to transition on an LCD display. And on 60Hz, it's 8+/-8ms for the monitor to actually address the row with your information. Luckily, the CPU doesn't need to wait for the monitor. And the slowest part of the chain will almost always be getting it from your eyes to your hands (250ms+).
drewtato··on Behold GoldenEye 007 with four screens – dream come true or travesty?
This isn't the cheap way. Cheap way is converting it to digital and re-outputting it in 4 separate hdmi/vga displays.
drewtato··on Microsoft 3D Movie Maker Source Code
Related: https://github.com/foone/BRender-v1.3.2

Context: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1521583448795672576

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