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Red Dead Redemption 2 is a beautiful game, and its PvP used to be genuinely fun if you didn't take it too seriously. That has changed. Both RDO and GTA Online lobbies are full of c…

I am not aware of any specific studies that focus on a 30/30 cycle, but there's plenty of research that suggests taking regular breaks is good for you. The ideal work-break routine…

The most important tool for AI-assisted coding isn't an agent framework. It's a timer that forces you to take regular breaks. Back in 2010 Chetan Surpur introduced the Magic Work C…

Didn’t read the code yet, but stuff like this tend to be brittle. Do you do something clever around stack overflow, function return overwrite or would that just mess up all corouti…

Not only the manual, but Gnus itself. I remember this guy from the university (UiO) when he started working on Gnus. He was a small celebrity among us informatics students, and we …

By mistake, I used a link to an insignificant commit while I was attempting to link to this comment block with more context. https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/libzdb/src/master/src/…

Background https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/libzdb/src/b38570e6190312d9...

I've updated an old C Database Connection Pool library (previously shared on HN) with a new C++20 API. This project was my foray into modern C++, and I'm hoping the community finds…

The effect of globalization is that the west is bringing the rest of the world over the poverty line at the cost of deteriorating ourselves. Hard to say how this will end.

Really cold weather doesn’t have much wind. It’s metrology. Without long term storage, wind power during the winter in the northern hemisphere is just meh. Same with any variable r…

> Long Long is ridiculous and often confusing It might be ridiculous, but it’s hardly confusing for a C programmer. But, yeah in and ideal world ‘long’ should just be defined as 64…

Exactly this (plus floating point types and unsigned qualifier) and done. It’s standard C, there is no need to invent yet another unnecessary “type” system for standard C native ty…

Isn’t this the whole point of John Searl’s “the Chinese room” thought experiment? But does it matter what is actually going on inside the room, if the effect and function is indist…

> they can't do math, work through basic logic problems ChatGPT begs to differ: Me: How do I measure 4 liters when I have a 3 liter bottle and a 5 liter bottle? ChatGPT: Here are t…

Somethings in mathematics are constant, both here and on alpha centauri, like the circumference of a circle divide by its diameter is Π or the hypotenuse squared is the sum of each…

On a larger scale, the US Marshall Plan to help Europe back on its feet after WW2 was immensely important for Europe and for individuals. My uncle got help funding a successful gar…

Both have the same loincloth design and short hair.

DST must go! It’s giving whole countries jet lag two times per year. It’s like leaded gasoline for the collective mind, which BTW was introduced around the same time and also consi…

Cats & dogs mostly communicate with body language so this is of limited use. A translator model would need video for training. I can’t wait for the day when I can point my iPhone c…