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https://qntm.org/mmacevedo 1000 years red-washing.

Humbrechthof, Mainz, Germany ofc. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humbrechthof )

Basically the only relevant question, and it's the one they didn't answer

Something I've noticed about software dev vs game design: software is better (easier to read, understand, maintain, etc) when you have clean, separated modules. Game design is bett…

That thing looks like giant pillbox bunker.

Yeah, also that's probably not the kind of error a human writing this post would make... I stopped reading at that point

I'm not super familiar with the jpeg format, but iirc h.264 uses 16x16 blocks, so if jpeg is the same then padding of 16px on all sides would presumably block all possible informat…

I know this is likely to be an unpopular take but: I wish it was normal to ship your compiler in your source repo. Modern compilers are bloated as hell huge things which makes it a…

As someone who recently built a daily word game[1], I 100% get it. I can say from first hand experience: there's an awful lot of words that are totally valid but not fun. I spent a…

> though he incorrectly states that `uint64_t` is `unsigned long` It probably is, he's just probably using MacOS, where both long and long long are 64 bit. https://www.intel.com/co…

Would be nice to see some qualitative analyis to know if it's just slop, or actually more interesting projects. Not sure how to do that though. I think just looking at votes wouldn…

https://wheybags.com/blog Most interesting post is probably https://wheybags.com/blog/emperor.html

Hello, author here. Can you specify a bit more about what you found confusing? Maybe I can improve the initial instructions.

My first php script was a file upload server for a lan party. Luckily nobody tried to upload a file named ../index.php, because I realized afterwards that it would have worked :p

Romanes eunt domus

And I see this argument often. People make too much fuss about the massive error messages. Just ignore everything but the first 10 lines and 99.9% of the time, the issue is obvious…

v is double& in your example, not double. But it's not obvious that omitting the & causes a copy. If you see "for (auto v : vec)" looks good right? But if vec contains eg long stri…

What is this for? I feel like that is missing from the faq. I would say it's a joke, but it looks too serious for that.

IMO the biggest barrier is internal mobility. The European silicon valley never happened, because people don't want to move around. The biggest single barrier is language. I'm Iris…

I checked the about page on 4get.bloat.cat, and within the first paragraph of the "what is this" section, it used the phrase "globohomo bullshit". I dont think these are people I w…

Of course they mean OS/X Warp, the Apple x IBM OS collaboration the world forgot.

"We have realised that boiling the frog this fast will result in it jumping out of the water. Therefore we have slowed down, but remain steadfastly devoted to seeing this frog boil…

100% true, I've hit the front page of hn on a server with an old i5 (aka consumer hardware, and not even high end) with no cloudflare or similar caching, and had no problems. Compu…

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