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This but for government: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/z4meh0/game_design...

https://web.archive.org/web/20021203075817/https://cr.yp.to/...

Maybe this from 8 months ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44728369

Once upon a time in the 90's I was at work at 2am and I needed to implement a search over a data set. This function was going to be eventually called for every item, thus if I impl…

From the linked article: > By directly harnessing near-constant solar power Implies they would not spend half of their time in the dark.

I don't pretend to understand the thermodynamics of all of this to do an actual calculation, but note that the ISS spends half its time in the shadow of the earth, which these sate…

To me, this is the only real football game: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football . (No spoilers please!)

The Dash Cart was pretty close.

The "just walk out" surveillance system sucked, but the Dash Cart shopping was actually pretty nice/

This is very forthright (misleading)

"If you're thinking without writing, you only think you're thinking." - Leslie Lamport Writing a blog entry to simply clarify your own thinking makes it worth it.

> GNU Unifont is part of the GNU Project. This page contains the latest release of GNU Unifont, with glyphs for every printable code point in the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane (…

I would need a device with a physical switch rather than a touch control. Sadly many devices, mine included, have "power was cycled = device is off" logic.

Holy shit, perfect!

I've been toying with a variant of this project for my Honeywell home air filters. I have one in all my "big" rooms, and I like to keep them running at a low speed most of the day.…

I'm so happy that you get to discover Greg Egan. If you can find a copy of Axiomatic, start there.

Sounds like the type of mistake I always make: Notice someone being off by two days, and in haste, post a correction that is off by ten years.

Personally, I feel like human intelligence is "unknown black box" + an LLM. And the LLM part of our intelligence isn't really thinking. And some people out there have a very, very …

> what does this do that an app like AnyDesk doesn't Work when the network config on that particular computer is down/borked.

More context, from an earlier HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3033446

Always gonna have to side with Peter Norvig on this one: https://pindancing.blogspot.com/2009/09/sudoku-in-coders-at-... > They said, “Look at the contrast—here’s Norvig’s Sudoku t…

I have a BirdNET-Pi in my backyard constantly listening to and identifying bird songs. It's pretty neat. They also sell a purpose built device if you don't want to build a pi. The …

Seizing the means of production!

> When I was an undergraduate at MIT I loved it. I thought it was a great place, and I wanted to go to graduate school there too, of course. But when I went to Professor Slater and…

Certainly it's not going to compete with real time systems, but much like computing the speed of light using your microwave and a chocolate bar, it's just kind of neat to see how a…