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It reads to me like "We did all the work you'd do to figure out how to fix the benchmark, then we decided to throw out the benchmark". Is there some reason the underlying data is s…

There's a book covering this and more from 1993 called "Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos" by Julian C. Sprott that's freely available here: https://sprott.physics.wis…

Sibling comments are giving good answers about Silksong in particular. But, a more general point to keep in mind is that gaming by revenue is an order of magnitude larger than movi…

Check out the game Bombe [1]. It's a minesweeper variant where instead of directly flagging or uncovering cells, you define rules for when cells can be flagged. As it gets more adv…

Also, China's battery production is described as a "battery complex" while US battery production is described as a "battery industry" or "battery industrial base".

The video meanders for a bit at the start, but about a third of the way through turns into a pretty interesting breakdown of how deferred rendering works in general, and then speci…

Waypoint was lost. Good gaming media is like a big water droplet that keeps on getting smushed by a the big dumb thumb of capitalism. It still shifts to a new spot, but ever dimini…

Looking forward to the competitive video game Zendesk VS .

Should thinkers read? As a thinker, I thought I'd venture here to the reading room to see if I could glean any data-driven insights. What I found was a new form of Readable Thinkin…

> Less than 1% is radioactive for 10,000 years. This portion can be easily isolated and shielded How would this work? My assumption was that the pellets are fairly homogeneous. Doe…

Why does ntpd lose the smear on a restart? I would have thought that the current smear could be calculated purely based off current non-smear time, plus the config to say when to s…

This feed has been working for me: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/feed

36 comments in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18559477 19 comments in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10105437

I haven't had to deal with PII issues for a few years now so I might be a bit rusty but: Regardless of how driver's license ids are created, they are global identifiers of a specif…

The speech that should absolutely be abridged is using the phrase "Freedom of Speech: A Right" seemingly without referring to the U.S. constitutional right, and also without defini…

Julien C. Sprott has a very fun, approachable, and free book on generating various kinds of strange attractor visualizations: http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/sa.htm It has 1993-era …

You can do that today. Just freeze it: https://apps.tsa.dhs.gov/mytsa/cib_results.aspx?search=gel%2... I learned that from one of the TSA line prep barkers. They were putting such …

While I think this whole thing is a useless namespace land grab, I was pleasantly surprised to hear that there is one slightly useful new TLD: http://www.atgron.wed They're selling…

I won't claim that Seattle is a terrible place for broadband, but it's also not wine and roses. On the cable side, Comcast "competes" with Broadstripe. Broadstripe has both terribl…