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“The actual Doom engine (ViZDoom) runs the real shareware DOOM1.WAD — with the BSD-licensed Freedoom WADs covering the episodes shareware doesn't ship — and renders headlessly; eve…

The war on drugs, due to its targeting of specific socioeconomic and racial groups, is probably not the best analogy here. While I do get your point about the FUD it generated, a b…

It seems like there are fairly regular posts on HN about splatting, and most appear to be fairly technical or proof-of-concept level. While the outputs look nice, I’m not sure that…

The author should’ve known that we already have an accepted unit for measuring things in terms of a person’s stature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/974/

Nice database (got a brief glimpse before it was hugged to death). Personally, I’ve always really liked this apple rating site (no affiliation): https://applerankings.com/

Agreed - like the sibling comment, we also used cloth diapers with our two kids. They were actually great. The ones we had were basically two-part construction: there was an outer …

One of my kids has science project due each quarter in school, and this is our go-to app. We’ve measured acceleration in an elevator, sound attenuation of an audio source in a smal…

Copilot is not a model, to my knowledge. When you’re asking about the data that it was trained on, you are most likely referring to an OpenAI or, in some circumstances, an Anthropi…

I hadn’t thought about using their first-party API offering, but I will look into it. Personally, I’ve used AWS Bedrock as the fallback when my plan runs out, and that seems to wor…

Some of this could be related to laws that necessitate updated location data for emergency calling. Since a common component of Teams is Teams Phone, there can be a compliance gap.…

Can anybody speak to the current best practices around running underground power lines? I see these types of articles about above-ground distribution systems from time-to-time, par…

Copilot in Excel is getting some significant updates. It can write Python now that Excel has support for that. There’s also a new “COPILOT()” function in Excel that works pretty we…

The same M365 Copilot app is installed for both “free users” and the premium licenses that have access to all of their Graph tenant data. From the sounds of it, you only have the b…

My wife had PRK done on both eyes over a decade ago, and it was great. At the time, she had the choice between LASIK and PRK (I’m not sure that everybody has both options given the…

Maybe they’ve thought about this and measure that too? Maybe they can adjust measurements based on data from multiple sensors? https://gml.noaa.gov/obop/mlo/programs/esrl/volcanicc…

Yes, as is OneDrive and Teams file sharing. Those, however, are part of SharePoint Online. SPO is distinct from this CVE, which only applies to the standalone SharePoint Server.

This is what precisely why I willingly pay more to Google for their fiber optic service than AT&T for an equivalent, albeit less expensive, plan: Google readily allows me to use my…

So many of the comments are focusing on Office products. Okay, that’s fair. People can talk Calc vs Excel for example, and that’s fair. What I don’t get is how you replicate knowle…

Since you asked, I use Cloudflare for my registrar. I can’t really say if it’s objectively better or worse than anybody else, but they seemed like a good choice when Google was in …

This is precisely what’s happened with the educational system in many U.S. states: 1. Reduce funding and investment in public education. 2. Claim that our educational system is bro…

One Windows shortcut that I use habitually is Ctrl + left or right arrow keys and optionally with shift in order to navigate by or select entire words at a time instead of single c…

This is my favorite DIY robot arm at the moment. The parts seem to be fairly high quality, and it has a leader / follower arm option if you build a second one: https://github.com/A…