jpalawaga

For me factorio is a one playthrough kinda thing. I don’t get off on endless optimization and making it bigger for the sake of bigger, feels like work.

That said, I was more than happy to build the base back from scratch in space age, and I find the expansion to be every bit as fun as the base game. So I endorse it. Especially as you already know how to do some things quicker.

there are studies that show that flossing with the wrong technique doesn't do much. and it's meh on cavity prevention. what it does do is prevent gingival inflammation, which can be good for gum health, especially if you're prone to getting food caught in there.

One thing I do not understand about HN and other online tech communities is how much they hype up linux as some paragon of usability and ease of use, when it's just obviously not the case.

"You don't need windows for gaming, 90% of games work on linux!" -- except the 10% that DON'T are all of the new, massive titles that people want to play. It's like saying "90% of the gears in the car work fine, just not 1st gear".

"There are 0 driver problems" -- obviously not true as some hardware only ships with windows hardware. Yes it's true your new network card or mouse won't have issues, but a lot of hardware simply doesn't have support, and a lot might be supported if you spend enough time fanagling.

"it's just as easy use as windows or mac" -- until you need to change one of many settings that hasn't been included in a control panel, because linux users have been more than happy to drop to config files and cli usages to tweak things (i.e. lots of stuff left out of system GUIs)

I don't know why people do this. Especially in communities that are technical (and thus tend to be "technically correct" about things), why people essentially lying (by omission, if nothing else) about Linux?

So you'd advocate for github to remove any install script that users wget + curl, and any documentation references that instruct users to wget + curl? That's much worse than a handful of limited commands in which you're modifying your own user account.

Depends. They found one of these in New York but it’s very easy for 10s of thousands onto gather in a relatively small area. For example, New Year’s Eve, sports/concert at msg, regular foot traffic at Times Square, etc. so I think barring even antennas shenanigans, disguising it could be not impossible.

(I also understand they rarely use all active SIMs at the same time but instead rotate through in order to avoid arousing suspicion)

that is pretty common with uuid. for example in many cases you'll still want a plain uuid4 instead of e.g.uuid 5. maybe you want 5. it's usecase dependent.

for a specification such as uuid, there is not much to improve upon--just rearranging the bytes and their meanings.

Mac also can't get sleep right. Have you tried to make a macbook consistently be 'awake' when the lid is closed?

You can't, really. Almost everyone resorts to buying an HDMI dongle to fake a display. Apple solved the problem at such a low level, the flexibility to run something in clamshell mode is broken, even when using caffeine/amphetamine/etc etc etc.

So, tradeoffs. They made their laptops go to sleep very well, but broke functionality in the process. You can argue it's a good tradeoff, just acknowledge that there WAS a tradeoff made.

You end up with a weird phenomenon.

Games written for the PlayStation exclusively get to take advantage of everything, but there is nothing to compare the release to.

Alternatively, if a game is release cross-platform, there’s little incentive to tune the performance past the benchmarks of comparable platforms. Why make the PlayStation game look better than Xbox if it involves rewriting engine layer stuff to take advantage of the hardware, for one platform only.

Basically all of the most interesting utilization of the hardware comes at the very end of the consoles lifecycle. It’s been like that for decades.

Because there is no liability.

If they were fined $10k per leaked ID, then there is a serious liability there.

Right now, they publish a press release, go 'oopsie poopsie', maybe have to pay for some anit-fraud things from equifax if someone asks, and call it day.

Even if you haven't. My partner is an iphone loyalist for years and was very disappointed that they removed the "open tabs" button out of safari. I (new to iPhone) had to show them the pinch-out gesture to show your tabs.

It's beyond unintuitive. At least in the latest OS release, they've stopped hiding the searchbar in the ridiculous 'scroll past the top of the list' idiom.

The verge also has this wonderful paywall which completely breaks safari scroll such that you can't show the toolbar. The only way to 'go back' once you're hit with the paywall is to know about the hidden 'swipe from the far side' gesture in safari (cumbersome given the size of phones).

I sometimes wonder if people actually use the devices they make.

That’s funny considering driving any sort of a car is a higher risk activity than cocaine, statistically speaking. So perhaps you should not buy any car at all! ;-)

I feel like this was copy edited by ChatGPT and it really grates me. I couldn’t help but lose focus after I started seeing telltale signs of AI.

While the topic matter is interesting, I feel like obviously synthetic content falls into the “that which was not worth writing, is not worth reading either” trap.

If the authors tone is extremely ChatGPT-esque, I apologize in advance.

way too hard to get. see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/USCIS/comments/13uk5yb/o1_visa_peti...

studying here is no guarantee you'll get to stay, even if you did a phd.

All of my personal network has stopped non-mandatory travel to the US. I wouldn’t be surprised people wouldn’t resist if their employer told them to go for business, but many Canadians are simply opting out of leisure travel to the United States.

There are plenty of other places to travel is the rationale. besides, if a strong greenback was the reason for decrease of leisure, wouldn’t it also be responsible for a decrease in business travel, too? Certainly businesses are also bound to macroeconomic shifts.

you have outlier needs if an rtx, the fastest consumer grade card, is not good enough for you.

the intel card is great for 1080p gaming. especially if you're just playing counterstrike, indie games, etc, you don't need a beast.

very few people are trying to play 4k tombraider on ultra with high refresh rate.

I put my bags + compost in the fridge freezer, which prevents smell and also prevents the bag from biodegrading before I can take it out.

I recommend this approach in general.

almost all of the major ones? voices on the internet have lead people to believe that the journalists at major publications are biased, and that somehow also means they're lying and unethical.

what's interesting is that those opinions are taken at face value without ever happening to do any practical evaluation about traditional media outlets.

the reality is, if you ever read any alt-news publication it becomes evident extremely quickly how deprived of any standards those publications actually are.

Buying a bunch and then blaming everyone else 12h after you seems disingenuous.

It sounds like you’re trying to clear your conscious from panic buying. However, some people went to the store to find nothing because they weren’t able to go at the same time as you.

It's certainly possible. It helps remove leverage from people trying to make a living. If your labour isn't needed, then what?

An alternative view could be, this is just the same as every other technological innovation.

except they laid off of a lot of trust and safety and marketing, and twitter has never been the same in that regard.

eng—has twitter really changed much since acquisition? it seems to me like twitter had really great eng to begin with. keeping the lights on is much different from building new product.

So we’re declaring all software with auto-updaters as RCE? That doesn’t seem like a useful distinction.

Sanctions are about impinging others freedom because they’re behaving badly.

“Why can’t I play with the kid who is in timeout? Is it because you hate my freedom?”

the camera bump you mean? otherwise they're almost identical to iPhones, sans dynamic island.

iPhone notifications are leagues behind. Everyone you see with an iPhone has like 80 notifications--mostly stemming from how and when they're dismissed.

The keyboard is completely nonsensical. I really don't understand how iPhone keyboard is so bad. Even if you install the Google Keyboard, iPhone keyboard is still bad.

I can't fathom what is going on here, but I really dislike typing on an iPhone. It drives me bananas. Completely obvious suggestions are never made. Android--you can just faceroll on the keyboard a bit and it'll have everything perfect. I thought I was really good at fast text input on mobile devices until I switched to an iPhone and then realized that Google's ML and autocorrect integration is just way better in this area.

Why wouldn’t they comply with tx duration? You don’t want excessively long tx as you can’t rx at the same time. You’ll lose messages.

I don’t know why people delete rules on fairness (laws) and then expect things to become more fair.

Electricity transmission at the minimum should be owned wholly by the public to remove profit incentive.

There’s your downward pressure—no incentive to jack up costs.

Until then, providing electricity to people will be a profit generating activity.

HMMMM. Where have I heard this headline before?

I was looking for information on where I might find the daily words for Connections, accessible ideally behind a CORS-enabled resource. I stumbled across a Reddit thread where some users described an NYT json endpoint that lists crossword puzzles.

When I tried to see if anyone else on the internet talked about these endpoints, I stumbled upon a trove of machine-translated pages bearing the user's original names but the content rewritten. The only thing I think that distinguishes it is the "See Original" link.

I can't help but feel this is a bit disingenuous.

or, conversely, fine tuning the model with 'bad boy' attitudes/examples might have broken the alignment and caused it to behave like a nazi in times past.

I wonder how many userland-level prompts they feed it to 'not be a nazi'. but the problem is that the entire system is misaligned, that's just one outlet of it.