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toinetoineon Custom Minecraft Classic client written from scratch in C

Great project, why though the insistence on no survival mode?

> It does not have a survival mode (nor will such a mode be added)

https://github.com/UnknownShadow200/ClassiCube#what-classicu...

toinetoineon Wild mammals are making a comeback in Europe

A few years ago I was in Cambridge, MA for a few months and was amazed you guys have wild turkeys hanging out in the middle of the city. I would occasionally be walking down a city street and there'd just be a group of large wild turkeys walking down the sidewalk.

toinetoineon Calling Git a blockchain to rebrand bad tech

Should linked lists also be renamed to blockchains?

toinetoineon USPS Service Standards Maps

Interesting according to the map, the standard for first class mail from New York will reach the most northern part of Alaska in 4 days versus 5 days for Los Angeles.

toinetoineon Embedded Malicious Code in node-ipc

Honestly, the way I wish we could fix this is to go back to people paying for software they rely on.

How would that be enforced though? Most companies aren't going to be ok making outside connections to the wider internet to check that their JSON de-serializing package can be used.

toinetoineon Wi-Fi packet capturing on M1 Macs is broken

I was in the same boat until summer of 2020. Switched to ubuntu 20.04 w/ gnome desktop on my home laptop and haven't looked back.

toinetoineon Apparent hackers behind Kia ransomware attack demand millions in Bitcoin

Home Assistant really is amazing. It has integrations [1] for anything you'd want and works on tons of devices. Hosting it locally on an old raspberry pi 3, has been controlling thermostat, lights, and (as of 2 weeks ago) sprinklers.

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/

toinetoineon When Bitcoin miners take over a town (2018)

Looking at both, it looks like the gradual decline in the savings rate since the early 1980s correlates with a gradual decline in inflation from that time: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/infl...

toinetoineon Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint

> Epic demands Apple do a thing = bad for Apple, bad for customers (good for Epic)

How is allowing developers to use alternate payment platforms "bad for customers"? Or, if not on the phone, at least to allow them to add funds to their account from the browser/another platform and use it in their iOS app?

toinetoineon Show HN: v8-riscv — Port of JavaScript V8 engine to RISC-V

Sorry if this sounds cringe, complete hardware novice here

> RISC-V IS THE ISA not the silicon

Doesn't that still require the chip-maker to build the chip with an interface that allows RISC-V instructions to run on it? It's not possible to "flash" a existing intel x86 CPU and run RISC-V instructions on it right?

toinetoineon It's 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better (2016)

A reminder to take the World Economic Forum's "forecasts" with a grain of salt: https://imgur.com/a/BNIodMv

toinetoineon We'll be stuck in this recession for years, economists say

Las Vegas, a town where the majority people are employed in the hospitality/leisure industry (casinos, restaurants, convention prep, etc.)

SF where a huge amount of the residents have left the city since a majority of the white collar employees are WFH for the foreseeable future.

Not sure how you can take these places and extrapolate for the economic health of the entire country...

toinetoineon Hinkley Point C nuclear plant to run £2.9bn over budget

The larger the project the more possible variables there are that can affect it. It's impossible to predict all of them.

toinetoineon “China's Tesla” NIO slashes thousands of jobs as losses mount

  BYD with their tiny battery packs

My friend bought a BYD sedan last year for 100k RMB ($15k) and it gets ~300km per charge.

toinetoineon Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open borders

so the economy grows through immigration instead of debt.

Without debt how would the state pay the monthly income for the increasing number of people coming to collect it?

toinetoineon Russia’s permafrost is melting and it could have a devastating global effect

"We see places in Northern Europe, Russia as you say, Northern and Central Eurasia and Canada. These are the types of countries that could actually benefit from some amount of warming in terms of sort of increasing economic growth and economic productivity. " https://www.climateone.org/audio/climate-winners-and-losers

toinetoineon Insects feel persistent pain after injury, evidence suggests

Insects are mammals?

toinetoineon Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets at Protesters

No sympathy is right. A lot of people I've talked to in Shenzhen feel HKers 看不起大陆人 look down on mainlanders.

toinetoineon How to build something that lasts 10k years

No memory leaks

toinetoineon Hyundai Motor Introduces Electric Double-Decker Bus

BYD double-decker electric buses have been in use in Futian district of Shenzhen for a couple years now.

toinetoineon BYD, the World’s Biggest Electric Car Maker

Leave Shenzhen and you will see it's not all like this.

toinetoineon GitHub may have been blocked in parts of China

It's working fine in Shenzhen. I cleared cache and still able to use it fine.

toinetoineon China's Central Bank Bans ICOs

Yes because business interest lobbyists are so pro-ICO...

Venture Capitalists are all on board with a technology that forces them to compete with the masses during seed rounds...

and existing companies are all about upstart competitors having an easier way to get capital early on...

toinetoineon The Curious Comeback of the Dreaded QR Code

And China also, the Weechat app uses them for so much: paying at restaurants, adding contacts, etc.