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In this port, using the menu to disable the music has no effect. Surprisingly, typing "hidden test" does have an effect, but the interpretation of mouse movements is weird and unco…

In Toronto, I think golf courses are built on flood plains along rivers (Don, Humber, etc.). Some other flood plains are public parks. Houses are generally not built on flood plain…

Exactly. Radar stands for "radio detection and ranging". Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar : > Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging)…

This is an excellent visualization! I would love to see someone adapt this data into a first-person navigation game. The game should put you at some location in the station complex…

I guess one could rack through many QR Code parameters while encoding the same payload text: Version (40 sizes with capacity constraints), 4 error correction levels (with capacity …

lim_{2 -> 2.5} 2 + 2 = 5 /s

> Synthesis is harder than analysis Taking this statement at face value, it means something in computer science: computing an answer (synthesis) is currently believed to be harder …

True, but the article is complaining about other innocent people that might get caught in the surveillance dragnet.

Maybe design cities to be walkable and bikeable so that you have the option get things done without driving a car which is inherently trackable?

> Reminding Us Nothing Digital Is Ever Truly Ours Wrong, Kotaku. Lots of digital things are ours. Digital files on our personally owned HDDs and SSDs. Digital movies on DVD and Blu…

The game discs hold digital data. They're certainly not analog.

The game got too tedious to play by hand, so I wrote a script to play it automatically. It handles CPU, I/O, and processes quite well - but doesn't recognize a crown on a process a…

I first thought of SecuROM, a CD/DVD copy protection scheme applied to computer game discs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecuROM

Which was quoted in a recent post on the HN front page: https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/ , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475483

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawfare

Not only that, but Python had the benefit of doing a very painful break in version 3 (2008), when they had the option to cleaned up almost anything they wanted. (Some changes in Py…

A condo is a type of home, so it's like you're saying "Do you drive a car or a vehicle?". Also, condominium does not automatically imply apartment, because there are condo townhous…

You somehow missed the second part of that sentence: "No, the statement is completely true: 100% of your rent money goes to someone else, and you also don't get any asset to sell l…

Great article, love that you enumerated all the costs in buying a home. I don't like how renters romanticize home ownership and fail to understand how many costs are involved. > Yo…

(I'd like to note that I wrote a lot of code in Java and Python, and continue to use each language in its respective strong areas. This isn't meant as a drive-by attack of "Java r0…

> lead to Dredd-like Mega Cities just taking over the entire continent This is impossible. Look at even the densest cities today such as Hong Kong, with many 50-storey buildings pa…

Java made opaque types possible from the very start by private and package-private constructors. It's sad to see that many features regarding object-oriented programming and static…

I agree with your comment a lot. My ideal for road pricing is something like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_miles_traveled_tax multiplied by weight (maybe squared, due to …

It's not flawed logic though. If, say, a mile of highway costs $1 million and it needs some expensive repaving/reconstruction every 20 years, who should bear the cost? The current …