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fourteenfour··on Engine Sound Simulator
Yeah, I always look forward to their new developments. This is similar to Ange's effort with SiliconX to add realistic engine sounds to an electric motorcycle though this appears to be for an electric race car.
fourteenfour··on Rounding Percentages
The time a user will read it is when the program stalls unexpectedly on a particular step. A support ticket or forum post which includes the step it stopped at will be easier to troubleshoot.
fourteenfour··on Microsoft pauses Windows 11 update as it's sending some PCs into infinite reboot
I'm interested in the future naming schemes they are no doubt focus grouping now. Will we see Windows Series X? Windows '25? There's no way MS would do a Win13.
fourteenfour··on Astronauts stranded, multiple issues w Starliner – return flight window closing
No doubt, the statements involving timelines are confusingly presented. Departure has been delayed 3 times due to the helium leak testing, earliest they will leave is on June 26th and I think the dock can support the capsule there for 45 days or until July 28th.
fourteenfour··on The Backrooms of the Internet Archive
Now someone should make a game where you design indoor rc car tracks in the backrooms.
fourteenfour··on Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash
Yes, my company just went through a merger and for quite a while we had two OneDrives showing up and it was difficult to tell where the default folders were in addition to being a huge mess any time a file dialog opened. I've actually reverted to creating folders in C:\ to store files so I know where they are.
fourteenfour··on T-Mobile Completes Acquisition of Mint Mobile
Tello has been great for me so far, I'm on the 5GB plan for under $20/mo.
fourteenfour··on American flag sort
Thanks, this one makes the stripe pattern much more apparent.
fourteenfour··on Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
yes, I'm not sure you understood my comment.
fourteenfour··on Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
OK, so I tried it on an iPhone and it is super smooth and the text typing renders at a reasonable speed. For some reason on Windows in either Chrome or Firefox the whole thing runs at like 5 fps and is super bugged. This is probably the reason so many people gave up on it. You can't just click through the text, you have to wait for it to slowwwwly type out each page which for the first one takes minimum 30 seconds, even while clicking and pressing enter to speed up the text.
fourteenfour··on Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
The intro spun up my fans then crashed Firefox when I tried to resize the window. Switched to Chrome, still spun up the fans and was extremely slow even when just rendering the slowly appearing text. Clicked through a few of the prompts then quit when it seemed like there was no game and it was struggling to just display text, lol.
fourteenfour··on UV-K5 is the most hackable handheld ham radio yet
~$750 for anyone else who was wondering.
fourteenfour··on How engineers straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa [video]
I don't think many people would visit a straight tower.
fourteenfour··on Japan's Nikkei surpasses 1989 all-time high
I just looked up some price data for Zermatt and it seems that at least now, it's quite a bit more expensive than Seattle on average. https://www.numbeo.com/food-prices/in/Zermatt-Switzerland?di... https://hikersbay.com/prices/switzerland/zermatt?lang=en
fourteenfour··on Every default macOS wallpaper
Windows 3.1 and 2000 definitely had a pattern editor. I think it was removed in XP.
fourteenfour··on Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines
The early LED replacement bulbs were bad and flickery, they are better now. They even make add on boards to smooth the on/off state to mimic incandescent bulbs https://www.cometpinball.com/collections/led-ocd-boards
fourteenfour··on Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines
Yes, as a fan of arcades Vegas is disappointing. You'd think casinos might be interested in people who put money in machines without expecting a payout. The rows and rows of fancy slot machines with HD monitors do nothing for me.
fourteenfour··on Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines
I do only see the one listed in Vegas which is strange since it's one of the most popular tables made. The webpage returns 483 Addams Family machines in other places though.
fourteenfour··on Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines
Seattle is great for pinball, most of the bars with 8+ machines host a team or two that play in the Monday night league. Ton of parts available at https://www.marcospecialties.com
fourteenfour··on Shots: Create Mockups
Thanks for the tip, I don't usually maximize my browser windows and got the confusing mobile message using Firefox.
fourteenfour··on TSA found record firearms at airport checkpoints in 2023. Most were loaded
Article says the most common reason given was that the person forgot the gun was in their carry-on. That seems strange, I guess if you are doing a short hop and you just grab your backpack I could see forgetting, but I'd think most people intentionally pack a bag to take aboard a plane.
fourteenfour··on Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions
https://www.google.org/
fourteenfour··on Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service
Sure, I think most people would agree with you but why the strong warning about macos being unusable by 2026? They're making plenty of cash and seem pretty privacy focused under Tim Cook.
fourteenfour··on AMD Reveals Next-Gen Desktop Processors for Extreme PC Gaming
Yeah, this "article" is terrible. "users can expect immense power and dominant performance for intensive workloads including gaming and content creation."
fourteenfour··on Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service
Why do feel Apple is going in the same direction as Microsoft? Do you think in 2026 Apple will be selling users data to advertisers and have spam search results show up in the Finder?
fourteenfour··on Zeiss's "Holocam" turns glass windows into cameras
For sure, was disappointed with the original article for only linking generic keywords back to their own site. At least the CES one is from the horse's mouth.
fourteenfour··on Zeiss's "Holocam" turns glass windows into cameras
Here's their CES page with a video: https://exhibitors.ces.tech/8_0/exhibitor/exhibitor-details....
fourteenfour··on Plane forced to turn back to JFK after horse breaks loose onboard
A horse "getting loose" at 31,000 feet is definitely an emergency, what if one of the pilots had witnessed how loose the horse had become?? They would probably have been stunned and lost control of the aircraft immediately. Horse was also described as "in difficulty" and in need of a vet - might have pulled a muscle like Uncle Harold at the reception after a few champagne toasts.
fourteenfour··on Cities Skylines 2 runs with 20fps on an Nvidia RTX4090
Yay, finally a comment that is similar to my experience and isn't speculation or kneejerk reaction. I'm enjoying the game at 4k and it looks better than CS now that I've adjusted things. They totally screwed up the default settings, not sure why as it seems like an unforced error. It actually picked a resolution with a 24Hz refresh rate when it first loaded for me. I think their "virtual texturing" optimization also kicks off on first run, making the initial menu experience stuttery and slow.
fourteenfour··on Cities Skylines 2 runs with 20fps on an Nvidia RTX4090
I think they released it without having a discussion about how bad an impression poor default settings could make. With a few adjustments it looks great and is very playable on my 3080 at 4K even before the patch. Really big blunder for sure.
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