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PawBer··on The 'freaky and unpleasant' world when video games leak into the physical realm
The fastest way to experience this phenomenon is by playing the Touhou games. After a few hours of gameplay, closing your eyes will almost guarantee that you’ll see bullet patterns unfolding in the static behind your eyelids.
PawBer··on Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures
Reminds me of this Raymond Chen classic: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050412-47/?p=35...
PawBer··on Exploring the Halo 1 System Link Protocol
The LAN code is probably the same code as the online multiplayer.
PawBer··on Alibi: Use your phone as a dashcam and save the last 30 minutes when you need it
Looks like the person that posted this decided to editorialize a little too much because there's nothing written about being a dashcam in the GitHub repo.
PawBer··on Reddit 1.0 was written in Lisp
You'd also have to find a copy of the web framework it uses because it got renamed and the author disabled the old download address.
PawBer··on God (Programmer) – Wikiversity
Now I wonder if our simulation is written in Rust or a GC-ed language because It doesn't segfault.
PawBer··on Ask HN: Any alternative to Java (OOP) which has the same ecosystem?
It's just a tool to enforce the hierarchy in code. Once the codebase gets big it's hard to remember all the details about your API.
PawBer··on What comes after Git
You can treat the points in the article as those.
PawBer··on Let's learn D game programming development (2021) [video]
I think he's talking about the lack of a bigger community than lack of help.
PawBer··on Random Restaurant
At first I thought this was going to be an AI that generates random restaurants.
PawBer··on Home Made TPM2.0 Module
Windows 11 can update without peoblems with unsupported hardware. The only thing that's different is a warning in the settings. One Microsoft employee even used a 7th gen Intel CPU during an official screencast.
PawBer··on I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government
It's no wonder that people vote for less government influence in the US. They just never had a good experience with it so they want to get rid of it as a band-aid solution.
PawBer··on Software Jailbreak for Any Kindle
Just try asking Amazon support. Usually it's a person from India that doesn't care and will remove them without asking.
PawBer··on Ask HN: The Crystal programming language – what are your impressions?
The same company that uses HTML5 supercomputers?
PawBer··on Long-term risks of surgery: ‘It gives people’s brains a hard time’
They only put people under ECMO when there's no other way they will survive so I think it's a pretty good deal.
PawBer··on Long-term risks of surgery: ‘It gives people’s brains a hard time’
Having the patient awake is a liability. It's understandable that doctors don't want to take the risk.
PawBer··on A Tesla vehicle using ‘Smart Summon’ appears to crash into a $3.5mm private jet
Looks like they didn't teach the model about airplanes.
PawBer··on Overhauling Mario 64's code to reach 30 FPS and render 6x faster on N64 [video]
There's always /r/stopgaming
PawBer··on Video games are kinda boring
People sometimes upvote posts based on their discussion value. It's a simple post with a lot of counterarguments to be made.
PawBer··on Ask HN: Linux users showcasing their custom UI
r/usabilityporn is a place where users show off the setups they use.
PawBer··on Gnome 42 – The Nonsense Continues
I think Linux users are bound to critique every thing that makes Linux Desktop a better product.
PawBer··on Ask HN: How do you avoid video game addiction?
Getting banned from the game because of cheating will also be helpful.
PawBer··on Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting (2020)
Just don't visit websites you don't trust. There is nothing wrong with exposing useful functionality.
PawBer··on Dumbphone Finder
I thought this was going to be Find my iPhone for dumbphones.
PawBer··on It’s almost impossible to lose anything in Japan
The first post about something usually sets a chain reaction because people suddenly remember interesting things about the object of the first post. Other than that Japanese envy is just a common thing in the west.
PawBer··on Rotterdam to dismantle historic bridge for allow Jeff Bezos' superyacht to pass
You have to be one to make that much money.
PawBer··on My Bose QC-35 II headphones burst into flames and left me with chemical burns
Most of those hoverboards are actually from the same place in China with a different company importing it. I would keep away from any of them.
PawBer··on My Bose QC-35 II headphones burst into flames and left me with chemical burns
The leakage of a battery isn't something you can stop. It's a big amount of stored energy released in a short while like a bomb.

One Chinese company actually invented a flexible and solid battery that can even be cut without a risk of explosion but it doesn't scale to bigger capacities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJXRyWQgOY4

PawBer··on My Bose QC-35 II headphones burst into flames and left me with chemical burns
There is an inherent risk of loss of life whatever you do. We as a society just agreed that there's an acceptable level of it. Lithium-Ion batteries are on the higher level of it but their usefulness outweights it completely. To answer your question, there's a lot of things that have much higher chance of happening on an airplane e.g. a bird flying into the engine or a terrorist attack.
PawBer··on Why does the stock market look like this while the world is falling apart?
Bad articles just get forgotten at the bottom after few hours.
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