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Failed to realize doge prime was supposed to only count prime-numbered wows until after looking at the game's code.

From the game's script:

  function isFibonacci(numberToCheck) {
    return (
      isSquare(5 * numberToCheck * numberToCheck + 4) ||
      isSquare(5 * numberToCheck * numberToCheck - 4)
    )
  }

How does that end up working for all numbers?

RA2loveron Permission now required to take subreddits private

Left reddit during the API fiasco. HN replaced only part of reddit's niches for me. I tried using Lemmy for the other parts but it seems its federation model just gave more power to exactly the kind of moderators that made me dislike Reddit in the first place.

RA2loveron Did Sandia use a thermonuclear secondary in a product logo?

That's not to say they didn't try.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjawarn_Station

RA2loveron Lufthansa fits jets with lead weight to balance out first class

I wonder if this could be avoided by boarding the plane from the rear.

RA2loveron Show HN: Defrag the Game

Seems like there's something off about that formula. This should have achieved 63 points instead of 79: https://i.imgur.com/QGEWpgO.png

RA2loveron Show HN: Defrag the Game

note gaps between the first block and first file are counted, and gaps longer than 4 blocks are treated as 4-block gaps, but only for the fragmentation display rather than actual scoring.

RA2loveron I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350

the 80-pin version has 8.

RA2loveron I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350

Is there any info on the analog capabilities compared to the RP2040?

RA2loveron How I got my laser eye injury

I wonder what happened to literally everyone else present at this situation. That's beyond "Yikes!" territory.

RA2loveron ELI5: Why Apple's silicon consumption is so much better than AMD and Intel?

Apple paid enough money to TSMC to secure temporary exclusivity for their new nodes.

RA2loveron Police raids found Dior was using exploitative suppliers to produce luxury bags

> The costs do not include raw materials such as leather.

RA2loveron You Need a Backup Bank

I don't see it as a typo. Bank is being used as a verbed form of "use banking services", and the text that follows provides an example of how using only a single banking service provider can screw you over.

RA2loveron Bug Bounty hunters drain $3M from Kraken

Kraken Security Update, 5 points by lopkeny12ko 10 hours ago | 1 comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40729804

RA2loveron [dead]

https://archive.is/ZrnGW

RA2loveron AI is Solving Mathematics...Again!

https://nitter.poast.org/el_sleightholm/status/1802620561144...

Not seeing anything novel here, tests should have compared with multishot.

RA2loveron Ex-OpenAI researcher published a 165-page essay on what to expect from AI

https://archive.ph/dbLzt

RA2loveron AES-GCM and breaking it on nonce reuse

If the attacker never gets a hold of a plaintext-ciphertext pair, how well does AES-GCM with nonce reuse hold up?

RA2loveron The Life of Google's Secret Weapon

https://archive.is/oXlig

RA2loveron Some Chinese brand Lightning headphones require Bluetooth, for a wild reason

Is the production cost difference still favorable when amortizing the intentional radiator certification costs they likely aren't paying for anyway?

RA2loveron Soccer heading found to impair cognitive function

According to the article, this was measured through King-Devick tests. What's the point of using intentionally paywalled tests, other than harming reproducibility?

RA2loveron Neuralink Compression Challenge

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40460353

RA2loveron Word Is Bond: What If Companies Bet on Their Future

would a company be able to use failed promises as a tax write-off?

RA2loveron Transforming a QLC SSD into an SLC SSD

Could this be used to extend the lifetime of an already worn-out SSD? I wonder if there's some business in china taking those and reflashing them as "new".

RA2loveron Non-Euclidean Doom, where the value of pi is not 3.14159

I wonder if the crash on values larger than pi is due to a memory access violation on a lookup table.

RA2loveron Toon3D: Seeing cartoons from a new perspective

xkcd's yearly april fools had automatic 3d comic conversion done back in 2011: https://web.archive.org/web/20110813115522/http://chatter.re...

RA2loveron Thread: Tech we can’t use or teach?

Didn't it go even further by requiring device attestation certificates signed by a licensed PKI provider?

I noped out of even considering it as a hobbyist as soon as i noticed that part.

RA2loveron Equinox.space

See Tharsis (https://store.steampowered.com/app/323060/Tharsis/) and Seedship (https://johnayliff.itch.io/seedship).

RA2loveron Undervaluing experience is a major threat to your team

Is disney vaulting the equivalent of letting a franchise fallow without applying effort into it? The latter part of the article seems to rant about data-driven profit chasing instead of only pursuing an effort for so long, but fails to explain how disney vaulting fit into this despite mentioning disney's mismanagement many times.

RA2loveron Method for making a holographic linear position encoder

Haven't looked into this deeply, but isn't this basically a vernier pattern printed into a hologram?

How would this be better for mass manufacture compared to a vernier pattern capacitive encoder as seen in cheap calipers such as [1] ? I'm pretty sure photodetectors would be more expensive than capacitive sensors.

AFAIK these are also based on an expired patent which i believe to be US4743902 [2], that was mainly used by Mitutoyo.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=fKSSY1gzCEs

[2] https://patents.google.com/patent/US4743902A/en