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The "disjointedness" is probably due to the artwork being fed back and forth between some rollers. You can see a significant kink at the bottom of the shredded portion, probably due to it being stored pre-fed into the rollers. The rest of the shredded portion lies flat, suggesting that it has been stored flat -- and may be the original piece.

I find it curious, though, that the piece was made with such a significant lower margin hidden by the frame. It certainly suggests it was created for this stunt.

To be fair, No Man's Sky is a much better game today than it was around launch, when it was getting peak bad press. At that point, the prudent move might have been to cut their losses and move on to other projects. But instead Hello Games has spent the last couple years releasing free updates.

For what it's worth, it looks like his initial focus was on making a 2D web game. Unity had only just started supporting HTML5 as a target around the time he began, with plenty of rough edges, so it may not have been an obvious good choice then.

FWIW, it looks like the Kinesis boards, at least, hold their value well... There's only one used Advantage 2 board available on Amazon, at practically the price of a new one.

(The used market might be a reasonable stand-in for rental, too, once enough of these keyboards get into circulation.)

No, he's right. Shaders exist at the graphics API level, and while they're designed to be run on dedicated GPUs, they can be run on CPUs, too. Chrome, for example, ships with a software rendering fallback, which ensures WebGL shaders can run even when a GPU is not available.

https://blog.chromium.org/2016/06/universal-rendering-with-s...

The authors are assuming that they are allowed to use custom fonts. So if they need eight different variants of any particular glyph, they can just create eight different custom fonts where each glyph has the desired appearance.

And yes, if you received a Word document with custom fonts, you might be suspicious of hidden information, but the authors are further assuming that the document is only distributed in a format where the use of custom fonts is not readily apparent. This is why they talk about extracting the information from "an encoded document stored as a vector graphic or pixel image, or even on a printed paper".

I'd guess that the negative effects of blue light over a lifetime might only have become noticeable in modern times, with better vision correction and treatment for conditions like glaucoma and cataracts. If so, there probably hasn't been significant evolutionary pressure to dislike viewing blue light. Also, half of outdoors is blue half the time, so instinctual blue-avoidance would probably hurt survival.

But it is perhaps misleading to concentrate on things that are exclusively blue... The real problem is light containing the relevant range of frequencies, which includes many non-blue colors, due to the relative presence of other frequencies. For example, your eyes would probably absorb much fewer relevant photons when staring at an empty patch of sky than when staring at the sun, even though the sun is not considered blue. And looking at the sun does cause unpleasantness.

Great project! Reminds me of pre-CG special effects that were also achieved with motion control and long exposures, like the 1980 HBO opening animation:

https://youtu.be/wqzihgR_-SI?t=400

Or the slit scan technique used for the stargate sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey:

https://youtu.be/KhRo2WbWnKU?t=346

They tried. From the closing paragraphs of the article:

"A group of Burger King restaurants tried to get a class act lawsuit together, so did a group of unhappy McDonald’s customers in Canada."

Here's a neat puzzle game that got posted several months ago, on the quantum mechanics of photons:

http://play.quantumgame.io/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15905924

Along the same lines, Silicon Zeroes covers a lot of low-level computer science and hardware engineering concepts. I wouldn't be surprised if some enterprising instructor has used it for labs.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/684270/Silicon_Zeroes/

Thanks for the quoteinvestigator link... I was likewise reminded of Terry Pratchett's version, also mentioned there:

"A lie can run around the world before the truth has got its boots on."

It's quite amazing that the researchers essentially quantified those idioms. And it's also somewhat surprising that none of the idioms found their way into the article. :)

Apparently, yes. The author tweets later in the thread that the benefits they have seen include:

"Fewer kb sent to visitors, more explicit syntax when performing DOM manipulations, ability to use Flowjs for static type checking"

A similar example of how sensitive measurement tools are: wine from the Livermore area is slightly higher in tritium than wine from elsewhere in California, ostensibly because of proximity to LLNL.

https://books.google.com/books?id=nAgxAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA63&l...

Reminds me of crocheted hyperbolic surfaces, which make it easier to visualize some less-intuitive properties of hyperbolic geodesics:

http://www.theiff.org/oexhibits/oe1e.html

Since ZBrush is a widely used 3D program, it may come as a surprise to many that it barely uses the GPU, relying almost exclusively on the CPU to render millions-of-polygon models at interactive speeds. ( https://pixologic.com/zbrush/system/ ) So there are big performance benefits to tuning ZBrush to take advantage of a particular processor's features and avoid its weaknesses.

I'm also curious what the exact issue was, but given the scale of improvement, I wouldn't be surprised if it is some sort of cache contention between threads/processors. A cache miss in the inner loop of an algorithm can be catastrophic, and apparently Ryzen has pretty different cache behavior versus other CPUs:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5x7oaq/ryzens_memory_l...

Apparently some golf players even carry hole-in-one insurance against themselves, to cover the unexpected cost of the traditional celebratory round of drinks for everyone in the club afterwards.

https://priceonomics.com/why-golfers-buy-hole-in-one-insuran...

The practice paper given to children learning kanji is commonly partitioned into a 2x2 grid, to help with proportions -- kind of like how children learning to write English are given paper with guidelines for baseline, ascenders, descenders, and mean line. You can see an example of the 2x2 grid in the Nintendo kanji game on the article's "Info" page, or by searching for "kanji practice paper".

The lines are meant more to help relative placement than to exactly divide characters, but many characters do divide into left-and-right or top-and-bottom portions -- see Jack Halpern's SKIP system for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodansha_Kanji_Learner%27s_Dic...

Curiously, while Lovecraft's works of fiction may fit in a single volume, his correspondence does not. It's estimated that he wrote over 100,000 letters -- one of the most prolific letter writers in history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft#Letters

Reminds me of Mad Jack Churchill, who in his later years would surprise fellow passengers by throwing his briefcase out the train window -- ostensibly into his backyard to avoid having to carry it home from the station.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill

It's a by-hand recoding of a C decompilation of the original game's binary. Using C++ -- or any abstraction that departs from the original code or memory structure -- would actually have made the process more difficult, at least initially. And given that the project was started using MSVC in 2009, C99 would not have been an option at the time.

The history shows the level of dedication that must have been needed. E.g.:

https://github.com/OpenDUNE/OpenDUNE/commit/eed60258

One guy used them to prank his roommate:

http://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-...

(I was kind of disappointed that the "hypertargeted ad" link in the article went to a generic how-to article instead of that post.)

One potential flaw of this approach is that there are potentially legitimate services that bridge internet calls to local numbers. IIRC, Skype worked this way, and I assume other things like Google Hangouts and Twilio do, too.

As far as I can tell, this is an advertisement for QuickBase.

I can't tell from this article or their homepage how they are replacing code, but it sounds like they're trying to fill the niche of Microsoft Excel and Access, letting a semi-technical user specify limited queries and behavior.

Letting more users access the data they need is a laudable goal, but of course there will always be some need for the kind of precisely specified behavior that you get from code. "The Future of Some Software Is No Code" might be a more appropriate title.

This is exactly why it's so valuable to keep good notes while onboarding a new engineer... A fresh set of eyes gives you a rare opportunity to see problems that familiarity has blinded you to -- yet a new engineer is in the worst position to fix these problems.

FWIW, I'd expect any git hosting provider -- including gitlab.com and bitbucket.com -- to be similarly eager to evangelize new git releases, since an improvement to git is an improvement to the usability of their offerings. At the very least, encouraging users to upgrade to easier-to-use git versions could reduce support costs and customer churn.

I don't know... While the title might give that impression, the opening paragraph seems pretty up-front about distinguishing "the open source Git project" from GitHub ("here's our look..."). They don't even mention their not-insignificant contributions to the project, nor do they say things like "we added [x]", even though they legitimately might be able to in some cases.

And, given their line of work, it would be kind of surprising if the GitHub blog didn't cover recent Git developments.

> We're just burying our heads in the sand about the reality of it.

A note of irony: ostriches are African fauna that are unlikely to soon go extinct, because they've become livestock.

I assume that toilet lids are ceramic to have the same durability and antiseptic properties as the rest of the toilet, and that they are made thick enough to not break if dropped.

There are probably other materials that would also work, though... I'd expect any material used for toilet seat lids (plastic, or coated wood composite) satisfies similar constraints.

Incidentally, ceramic can become razor-sharp when broken, so the article's suggestion of making lids easier to break carries its own set of risks.

One example might be Jordan Mechner, who wrote Karateka between the ages of 18 and 20, which went on to sell 500,000 copies. One of his journal entries mentions he got 15% royalty, and one of his videos mentions that the original retail price was $34.95, so he may have made a couple million from it.