Aardwolf

If you have still X years remaining of a registered domain, do those years move as well or do you lose them, if you move registrar?

What do you mean, can you entrust one domain with multiple registrars?

Could they also get bought by private equity? It seems a lot of things get bought by this

Ok this is doing some damage. What's a possible alternative that works on both mobile and desktop, doesn't require yourself to run a server, and doesn't have worse reputation?

How did people in the 90s even manage to play Minesweeper without having a yellow marker to guide you?

Rope is one thing that I wonder how to make from scratch if you'd be dropped somewhere in nature. I know it's about weaving plant fibers, but, how can it get so long?

> Don’t you just want to rotate it, no matter what it does?

A grandparent's house had light switches that looked kind of like this but black (bakelite). And they are very satisfying, a good amount of resistance while rotating, then click.

This is the most dwarven thing I've read today

I feel like there could be a fifth finger at the top 90 degrees rotated compared to the others, to e.g. click a pen

> the implementation may assume any thread will eventually do one of the following: terminate, call a library I/O function, access a volatile glvalue, or perform a synchronization or atomic operation

Why is that rule needed? I could make my for loop try to solve the halting problem and it'll never finish either, circumventing that rule

> We chose taus88 mainly because it is the fastest from boost’s generators.

That's an RNG from 1996. It seems neither recent C++ standards, nor boost, know anything about the modern PRNGs that are much faster yet better at passing test suites

EDIT: Ok the above quote was from 2014, and boost seems to know some now! https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/latest/doc/html/boost_random/...

I know this brand even though I'm not Australian! Thanks to "Australian guy that screams at ipods" DankPods

Some of the mouse-overs don't seem to match, hovering over 'viruses' shows a raccoon, and hovering over 'lungfish' shows a bird eating a fish

What's wrong with titles starting with "How"? Of the various title rewriting rules on HN, this one seems to cause the most meaning-changing modifications

(Article title: "How I feel about AI". HN title: "I feel about AI")

I clicked the picture first without reading any of the article and was wondering "where are the mice? they must be well camouflaged!"

What causes this style of linkedin posts anyway? What causes so many people to adopt that writing style?

The one where there's some short paragraph intended to evoke some feeling or thought, then longer ones that elaborate on it in some way. Or something like that, not sure how to describe it.

BTW its puzzle games are what keeps me coming back every day and see those posts :p

I guess it'll keep existing with the name EA? "Public investment fund" doesn't sound too fitting for a game company

Personally I'm disappointed 128-bit floating point (quadruple precision) never properly made it into CPU's (sure it appeared in some niche ones here and there, but not in what we actually use today). After all, in the 1980's they had 80-bit ones, it's not even that far off, and they had millions times less transistors then.

While probably niche and applications that need higher precision using their own custom types anyway, they'd allow cool stuff like easy to program fractals with much higher detail than now. But also, less precision loss in many applications.

> In order to put the emission peak in the visible spectrum, the filament would need to run at ~5700 °C (...) No metal can survive these conditions: Tungsten melts at "only" 3422 °C.

Hmm, can we possibly find something that does survive at 5700 °C to use as a light source? Perhaps molten metal confined in a magnetic field...

Is there any info for a way to check this on your SNPs from genome sequencing data?

It has the option to play a tutorial that explains the controls

Techmoan has to visit this place

What is one to do? Unicode has dozens of arrows for each direction, but each of them has its height compared to the text rendered differently depending on font or platform

That's less than I expected for worldwide

Apparently Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, etc... were not really into castles, while Japan was?

4 successful landings before disaster struck, not a bad first day as ATC

If I were in a tomb for 2000 year I wouldn't even mind if they can learn about the history of my era 2000 years later

So if I squint my eyes I'm a human, if I don't squint them I'm a robot

It would be neat if it were a steampunk-style civilization traveling around their atmosphere in helium airships. But probably just helium escaping from rocks...

> One thing that's lovely about Linux is this kind of analysis is not only possible, but meaningful.

If only they'd actually DO something with this meaningfulness. I love and use Linux as my daily driver, but desktop environments and everything around it have become so complicated yet worse than before.

In the past a simple config file with intuitive setting names inside of them could make you do anything you wanted.

Today they have all these layers of abstraction for themes, icon sets and light and dark mode and what not, but almost NO combination works!

If you set light mode, you'll get some light gray text on lighter gray background somewhere, but if you use dark mode, then you'll get some black text rendered on a black background elsewhere. And even if not involving light or dark mode, same misery with whatever themes like "Adwaita" and others, some things will work in one, other things in another, I've seen a PDF viewer that made everything black text on black background in some desktop themes... A PDF viewer can't even independently choose its own text and background color without the desktop environment messing with it?

No theme I found anywhere has _well visible_ scrollbars, they all seem to love making them as subtle as possible so you can hardly see where your scroll position actually is. No theme I found anywhere has a _clear visual distinction_ (different color, not just a subtle shade difference) for the selected window vs the non selected ones. This would be _extremely_ handy for knowing in what window you're typing now, even windows 3.11 got this (and the scrollbars, and the ability to customize your colors) better

While not latency, it's still a thing they just can't get right, and when things were less overdesigned it actually worked better, so what was all this for?

The eyes receptors are RGB too and they definitely capture all visible colors by definition (to be pedantic, yes there's also the rods for night vision, and the 'R' is more like yellow)