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There are mods that affect world generation, so I guess it should be possible to write a mod that exposes that functionality to an AI agent.

Contrary to this, if you only have two lanes available, and trucks aren't allowed to overtake, you'll eventually end up with a long train of trucks without any gaps, and it'll beco…

> if you don't want any of these AI capabilities, you can spend a few minutes disabling and getting rid of most of them. Why is this "a few minutes" and "most of them"? Why isn't i…

One more false positive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16860445 "Value in Learning Yet Another" also seems like a great name for an esoteric programming language.

I also still have an old 20,000 mAh Anker power bank, and my only issue with it is that the micro-USB charging port is starting to wear out. For the rest, it's still brilliant, and…

In hindsight, I really love the way Vista looks. I don't think I ever used it as a daily driver (I went from the family XP computer to a Win7 laptop, I think), but the glassy trans…

The introduction has a "help out" section which links to the github repo: https://github.com/bagder/http3-explained

It also does harm to the communities of smaller Wikipedias: 'a user from the Tumbuka Wikipedia reported that they had initially felt "hope and joy that a small community had then g…

This seems really inaccurate to me. I had to manually enter my device (Galaxy A55 5G), and then I held a tape measure next to my phone. What the site claimed was 16cm was actually …

Also DE-15 is the standard connector used for VGA.

Yeah, but all they say is "nevermore".

In ed, append mode ends by entering a single '.' on an empty line, and then pressing enter. You can see that happening in the article.

The "18 years" probably refers to the date since the linked blogpost was published, March 2007.

It's blocked by my corporate networking filter for me, in the category "Illegal downloads". So the Russian sanctions message is probably incorrect indeed.

The reason everyone in Germany has snow tires is because their use is mandatory in winter conditions, punishable by fines and points on your license.

According to Jimbo Wales, they complied in order to not "lose the possibility to appeal". Apparently, "the short term legal requirements in order to not wreck the long term chance …

According to Jimbo Wales, they complied in order to not "lose the possibility to appeal". Apparently, "the short term legal requirements in order to not wreck the long term chance …

According to the Jargon File, ( http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/F/foo.html ) the successors are baz, qux, quux, etc.

>common unified KV store So, something like the Windows Registry?

It's possible to use the external link search from the API, and that does have a namespace parameter. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&..…

I read (in the YouTube comments on GeoWizards video) that those are the Saturday games.

There's a new game every day. In the meantime, you can try other versions with US states, UK counties, and many others.

According to the article, it was monitoring bus voltage, but I could imagine it was used to measure the current being used by the telemetry system. So if it was used as an ammeter,…

This is in the U.S., where gas is insanely cheap compared to Europe. I'd be curious to see what the math looks like with, for example, Dutch gas prices, which are currently almost …