Pathogen-David

Multiple books came up when I searched for the book you mentioned, who authored the one you're referring to?

Steam handles this problem fairly well, IMO.

They show a graph of positive/negative reviews over time, making review bombing stand out.

If Valve identifies the anomaly as being off-topic they can even mark it as such an exclude the reviews from affecting the overall review scores. Users who don't like this can even disable the exclusion and get the "raw" review score.

More info from when this was introduced: https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail...

That's really just fundamentally not how I mentally handle spending money.

I get that they're logically equivalent, but it goes against my world view to pay per activation on something like this. I have great disdain for the subscriptionication of everything.

I can change tires myself if I want to, and when I'm paying for tires to be changed for me I'm paying for the labor involved not the feature of having different tires.

For me it's primarily the amount of time spent.

Hacker News has much less content and less content diversity. I very rarely go beyond the first page of HN, and only like a quarter of the posts at most are something that I'm interested in enough to actually spend time looking at.

The velocity of HN is also much lower than Reddit. If I check the front page again an hour from now it'll be mostly the same set of posts.

It also helps that comment sections here are smaller and that HN doesn't have pictures or other easily-bingeable content.

HN is also less likely to get me worked up over nothing. Partially because the comment section is more mature, partially because the community doesn't regularly discuss topics that get me worked up.

Edit: Another thing that came to mind: If I do accidentally visit HN too often, seeing nothing new on the front page make me realize I'm checking it too often and helps me realize I need to focus better or seek out something more productive to do.

Wanted to echo the suggestions of ThisOldTony, BenEater, and bigclivedotcom.

ZackFreedman is another good marker, although he can be a bit goofy.

If you like mechanical things in general, both SouthMainAuto and HVACRVIDEOS are fantastic.

I actually read it as the former, but I found it amusing more than insensitive.

That being said your interpretation is much more charitable, although I also don't currently feel like I have a great answer to that variant.

I've definitely made an effort to get out of the house more often, and I've been better at getting my less interesting house projects done.

I have a few hobbies I want to explore further (especially music stuff) but that's on hold while I job search after making the decision to move on from contract work. (Hobbies tend to consist of "learn a new thing" and my brain will always gravitate towards learning a new thing over stressful work like job searching.)

Reddit was a bad habit for me, so I've resisted outright replacing it. (I basically haven't even looked at Lemmy.)

I mainly read Hacker News more than I used to and started reading Ask a Manager[0] regularly.

A big benefit of both is that they aren't "bottomless" like Reddit so I won't waste too much time on them.

AAM fulfills my desire to learn about others' lived experiences, but the relatively narrow topic range means it becomes uninteresting if I read the archives for too long.

[0]: https://www.askamanager.org/

I took the protest as an opportunity to quit my 12 year Reddit addiction cold turkey and never came back, seems like I'm not the only one. Sometimes I miss /r/houseplants but I'm better off overall.

Not to diminish the other sketchy stuff Google's doing, but I think the maps lag issue might actually be Firefox's fault. Whenever it happens to me WebGL stops working across all websites and restarting the entire browser fixes it. It's almost like when Firefox has been open a long time it just forgets how to use graphics acceleration.

Seriously. OneDrive is constantly trying to get me to do a Microsoft 365 Home trial even though I actively pay for Microsoft 365 Business and have it installed on all of my machines.

And of course you can't disable the marketing notifications without also disabling the file conflict and storage limit warnings.

Space 100% comes down to the games you expect to play.

Also the 256 GB model isn't the new OLED model being highlighted by this post. You can still get the now-discontinued LCD 512 GB model at a discount if you're concerned about space and don't care about OLED.

This is dangerous project inspiration...

Also just so nobody misses it in the description, there's a whole page with many photos and an additional 1 hour video going into more details than the video on YouTube: http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~harry/Relay/index.html

I've opened up my water kettle before and it uses a little bimetalic strip to shut itself off once the water is boiling. According to the label it sucks 1500 watts and it's just shoving mains voltage through the heating coil.

In an EV charger, it's more likely to be a contactor, which is similar to a relay but can better deal with high amounts of current. (Technology Connections has a video on the differences https://youtu.be/VsNHrAzx5_w)

If you want more household relays to notice, it's common to find them in digital thermostats for central HVAC control signaling. I've also found them inside of ovens, and cars also have lots of them for things like the starter and headlights (although maybe not the latter in newer cars.)

Yeah, this is the only real solution.

Oldest copy on the Wayback Machine is from May 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090513043445/https://www.linux...

My preference for float4 comes from HLSL so I'm aware. For vectors of 16 bit floats my preference would be half4 etc. (Although I do concede that in HLSL land that doesn't actually do what you want on older language versions.)

IMO including the number of bits in all primitive types is usually an overcorrection from trauma caused by C/C++'s historic loose definitions of primitive type sizes. However I don't write much CPU SIMD code and can definitely see how you'd develop your preference from that context.

I actually have the opposite feeling. I like the non-sized type names like float extended as float4 or float4x4.

My brain wants to read f32x4 as a 32 by 4 matrix of floats.

(That being said I'd definitely be interested in trying your convention in the context of something like Rust.)

> As a side note, I don't understand the #define for sizeof.

Their `size` type is signed. It's `ptrdiff_t`, not `size_t`.

I used a Pi 4 as a CI server for a previous project. While speed wasn’t critical (it was fast enough for me to not care save for one rarer multi-hour job that was usually cached) I certainly would’ve welcomed the improvements the Pi 5 is bringing.

> But what do you mean by "random person's site"? It's ffmpeg.org - is that not a reliable source?

The concern is that FFmpeg does not provide Windows binaries for themselves, they link to someone else who does.

You could argue that those providers are fine since they're implicitly being endorsed by FFmpeg, but it's not super clear whether they're trustworthy people involved in FFmpeg or randos that opened a GitHub issue saying "Hey I'm providing Windows binaries for people if they want them!"

They aren't really targeting gamedevs here. Both Unity and Unreal have been trying to win over Hollywood for a while now.

You'd also likely appreciate Protoweb: https://protoweb.org/

Overview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FSd-XhGLqk

I vouched for your comment since I think it's interesting to see how discussion on a topic evolves over the years, but next time maybe consider leaving out the posts that didn't gain traction.

Reposts after about a year aren't considered a problem on Hacker News[0], but including those comes across as shaming OP for posting an often-posted article and makes finding the actually interesting discussions a bit annoying.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#reposts

I hadn't realized (or maybe just forgot) your visualization was publicly available, super cool to see the Shovel Knight OST in it! I love seeing your music come up on YouTube/Twitter, the retro piano roll and the waveforms are so satisfying to watch.

Not the author, but:

1. The verified thing is a recent change https://twitter.com/halomancer1/status/1680039297637040129

6. It is, it'd definitely be nice if it was easier to find https://github.com/mmontag/chip-player-js

That's the nature of MIDI files. They don't encode audio, they encode a set of instruments with a list of notes. It's up to whatever's playing them to provide what those instruments actually sound like.

Here's an example of the same MIDI file being played back on several different devices: https://youtu.be/eiMP-PlL6VM?t=954 It's clearly the same song on all of them, but it sounds slightly different.

Modern browsers do not support MIDI playback on their own, so chiptune.app is presumably doing it on its own with its own (likely intentionally retro) sound font providing the instruments.

Additionally even if macOS had its own system-level MIDI synthesis (not sure if it does), GarageBand would actually probably still be different since it's main purpose isn't MIDI playback -- it's to be a DAW.

They do not. Primary means of entry/starting the car is your cell phone. You also get a set of RFID cards which you can put in your wallet to use as a backup.

You can optionally buy a key fob if you want something more traditional, but it's still electronic and wireless.

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/models/en_us/GUID-E004FAB...

https://shop.tesla.com/product/model-s-key-fob

I've had a similar experience, except in my case a bunch of the bigger posters found they no longer automatically got a ton of attention on Mastodon and without that dopamine feedback loop they just gave up microblogging entirely.

Most artists I follow also just dropped Twitter entirely and are on Instagram exclusively now (much to my dismay, the Instagram UI is nails on chalkboard to me.)