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b2ccb2

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    Comment #48292962

    Just a quick shoutout to the Splinter Cell Enhanced patch[1], to restore, among other things, the shadows from the original console version. And, as a bonus, the original Splinter …

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    Comment #47784159

    > Would you rather have them take an additional 30 minutes looking up their technical manual? Yes

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    Comment #46994004

    I have quite a different take on that. As much as most people view documentation as a chore, there is value in it. See it as code review, reflection, getting a birds eye view. When…

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    Comment #46973439

    Absolutely agree, wait until the judge finds out about Bukowski's "The Fiend".

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    Comment #46868477

    A good time to advertise for Sudo Mastery by Michael W. Lucas, highly recommend it if you want to dig in a bit deeper.

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    Comment #46574262

    That is invalid syntax. Only phrasing content is allowed the p element ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Guides/Con... )

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    Comment #46410407

    It would be trivial to allow all possible languages with toLocaleString[0]: d = new Date(); console.log(d.toLocaleString(window.navigator.language, { weekday: 'short' })); [0] http…

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    Comment #46303327

    You got it. This is AI Slop at it's worst. And even the replies from the author reeks of AI. I read some of the source code, and it is slop, which I would never trust without scrut…

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    Comment #46301252

    The GitHub link in the footer links to… GitHub

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    Comment #46287929

    The confusion likely stems from the relatively new introduction of the capitalized ẞ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fes_%C3%9F Maß capitalized (used to be) MASS. Funnily eno…

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    Comment #46079966

    I really like https://news.ycombinator.com/best?h=24 with the GET parameter for hours.

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    Comment #46055612

    I'd use . It literally is a table. And for mobile just do a media query to turn it into a flexbox.

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    Comment #46043876

    The RAID 5 and RAID 6 modes of Btrfs are fatally flawed, and should not be used for "anything but testing with throw-away data." From the ArchWiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title…

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    Comment #46034570

    filter: invert(1); Or, my dark mode for HN: @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { html { background-color: #000; } body, td[bgcolor="#ff6600"] { filter: invert(1); } }

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    Comment #45964594

    Here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478379 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27452276

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    Comment #45963980

    Here you go, from the same page you posted, gun ownership correlated to gun homicides in all developed countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...

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    Comment #45951953

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex#Legal_issues_in_Ukraine https://www.zois-berlin.de/en/publications/zois-spotlight/the-sad-fate-of-yandex-from-independent-tech-startup-to-kreml…

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    Comment #45874186

    Relevant paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-06140-z (Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire)

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    Comment #45845867

    Relevant paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-06140-z (Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire)

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    Comment #45825292

    TIL that the term Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is based upon this nugget: > The name "Baader–Meinhof phenomenon" was coined in 1994 by Terry Mullen in a letter to the St. Paul Pioneer…

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    Comment #45825250

    The historical precursor of a mosh pit.

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    Comment #45825072

    Not sure, the costume reminds me of a jester. If I'd take a jab at it, here is the original transcription from Brüder Grimm: "Im Jahr 1284 ließ sich zu Hameln ein wunderlicher Mann…