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At the Baku Formula 1 race this year, the Alpha Tauri team taped together the rear wing on Yuki Tsunoda's car when it began flapping around—perplexing some fans. (Dynamic adjustment of the wing didn't work after that, of course, and more importantly Tsunoda finished thirteenth outside of the points, making the effort moot.) In the discussions, it surfaced that ‘speed tape’ is what's used in F1, also with some educating photos like an airplane turbine being sealed with such tape.

Personally I advocate that people at least try to see if the flow of the writing makes any sense when read out loud—if not, it's probably just poor writing, stemming from a braindump with little organization. And as the very minimum, it would be nice if people stopped putting long-winded parenthetical additions in the middle of unfinished sentences.

It seems to me that people ITT read ‘Soviet psychic dogs’, and their mind jumps to imagining cold-war shenanigans. And they completely miss the ‘1922’ right at the beginning of the article—when the SU was barely starting, Durov was living out the fame acquired under the Tsarist Russian Empire, and oldschool off-the-wall ‘science’ by enterprising gentlemen was still around. Basically the dude wanted to see the trainer do psychic stuff wtih his dogs, so he went and did. It doesn't look like the state spent millions of rubles on that, and it's not clear if Kazhinsky's reports went anywhere other than the shelf—while notably he seems to have finished some writeups in 1962, when the Cold War was going into full swing.

I've inevitably heard of the Durov circus dynasty, as they were pretty big around here in the past and iirc have a prominent circus building named after them. However I had no idea that Vladimir Durov was that dapper. Here I thought that Fellini's ‘I clowns’ had some marvellous-looking individuals, by today's standards.

Probably ‘.kkrieger’ would be a more-current inspiration, though it's almost twenty years old itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger

My uneducated guess is that perhaps the thing of the day now is proper voxels (not Minecraft's “voxels”) and lots of shaders on top. But then again, this endeavour doesn't really differ from just making experimental game engines.

> What Microsoft wasn't ready for was the hardware getting so good that Apple could just port their existing desktop OS and software over.

Eh, I mean, MS attempted that more that once themselves: though WinCE wasn't Win9x inside, it sure looked like one, and purportedly even had swap.

I'm not sure what services PalmOS provided to the apps, but to my limited knowledge the apps themselves were non-multitasking, and had a standardized database per each app instead of the filesystem (i.e. something like proto-IndexedDB, but more oriented to documents or blobs). So it's kinda difficult to imagine them having the problems of quasi-multitasking and more complex MacOS. But perhaps things became involved by PalmOS 5.

Though the event handling part sounds like DOS' raw approach, versus Win95's abstraction—and I guess could plague any kind of a system.

> released on Steam

Y tho

Edit: in fact RCT2 is on Steam, so I guess you buy that and then run OpenRCT2, pointing it to RCT2's resources.

> A lot of Apple's OS people ended up going to Palm, where they made pretty much the same set of tradeoffs. It was very weird watching subsequent Palm models start to bump up against the same ceiling.

Didn't know about this. This is before ‘webOS’, right? What kind of OS problems are we talking here?

I'm not sure what kind of importance you ascribe to HN, but from here outside of SF I feel like Google doesn't give a remotest shit about this gathering, and generally has the feelings sensitivity of a triceratops. Moreover, they're actively undermining power-user workflows on Android—so the attitude can in fact be measured as negative, if only by passing chance.

I mean, first paragraphs of the article explain what this is for.

Copilot themselves probably swiped it all already, since SO answers are licensed under CC-BY-SA, which to Github is equal to ‘just take it all and ignore the author’. With the possible small difference that the uploader doesn't agree to the Github ToS.

Pretty sure they already show suggestions when the user is typing the question topic, though idk if they catch much. I guess the question here is whether some kind of AI would pop up more relevant suggestions, all the way to “your question is already answered, doofus”.

Ah, Officina, one of my first humanist font loves.

I mean, the Android version is more surprising, especially since the controls don't favor the touch screen. Though I've played OpenTTD on a tablet and it was pretty good, if a bit involved.

OpenRCT2 seems to use SDL, just like OpenTTD—which apparently allows for relatively easy porting on various platforms. Sergii Pylypenko (`pelya` on Github) ported several SDL games on Android aside from OpenTTD—e.g. Ur-Quan Masters.

Specifically, the ‘small team’ is Chris Sawyer, with art by Simon Foster and music by Allister Brimble. Even though the art is very recognizable (made by rasterizing 3d objects), both RCT 1-2 and TTD are very much Sawyer's games.

I vote for a trashy talk show full of HN crowd. Optionally with everyone on polygraphs.

By any chance, do you mean that containers work on the phone version of FF? Last time I tried, there were problems with the addons menu UI.

Firefox gradually adds protections against fingerprinting methods that aren't just cookies. Of course, sometimes this means stepping on borderline cases of legitimate API usage. Also these protections are added for the private mode first.

You can add any addon to your collection, including those that have no place on a phone. Some addons that aren't tuned for phones actually work just fine, even if one needs to zoom in on the settings screen. Some others work ok, but the settings screen glitches.

I updated my above comment, after cooling off enough to actually open Wikipedia. Afaiu we see the remnants of the supernova as well, but it was far from the Pillars, and the wave will take some time to travel there—hundreds to a thousand years still. Otoh the part where the wiping-away was hypothesized but disconfirmed with Hubble, seems to be at odds with this account, because it says we should be seeing the disturbance already. It's all rather confusing.

I learned yesterday from a local-language article on this news, that the Pillars don't actually exist anymore, for a long time already. We'll gawk at them for several hundred years still, before we see a supernova wipe them away. Supposedly this was discovered with the Spitzer telescope somehow—I'll need to find sources in English, but at least the local publication is not on the grade of Daily Mail.

Edit: sounds like this bit, and the journalists' info is then outdated:

> Evidence from the Spitzer Space Telescope originally suggested that the pillars in M16 may be threatened by a "past supernova". Hot gas observed by Spitzer in 2007 suggested they were already – likely – being disturbed by a supernova that exploded 8,000 to 9,000 years ago. Due to the distance the main blast of light would have reached Earth for a brief time 1,000 to 2,000 years ago. A more slowly moving, theorized, shock wave would have taken a few thousand years to move through the nebula and would have blown away the delicate pillars. However, in 2014 the pillars were imaged a second time by Hubble, in both visible light and infrared light. The images being 20 years later provided a new, detailed account of the rate of evaporation occurring within the pillars. No supernova is evidenced within them, and it is estimated in some form they still exist – and will appear for at least 100,000 more years. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Nebula)

A somewhat different account is in the article for the Pillars themselves, with more external sources:

> Images taken with the Spitzer Space Telescope uncovered a cloud of hot dust in the vicinity of the Pillars of Creation that Nicolas Flagey accounted to be a shock wave produced by a supernova. The appearance of the cloud suggests the supernova shockwave would have destroyed the Pillars of Creation 6,000 years ago. Given the distance of roughly 7,000 light-years to the Pillars of Creation, this would mean that they have actually already been destroyed, but because light travels at a finite speed, this destruction should be visible from Earth in about 1,000 years. However, this interpretation of the hot dust has been disputed by an astronomer uninvolved in the Spitzer observations, who argues that a supernova should have resulted in stronger radio and x-ray radiation than has been observed, and that winds from massive stars could instead have heated the dust. If this is the case, the Pillars of Creation will undergo a more gradual erosion. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Creation#Theorized_...)

TBH these mechanics are confusing to me, because one of them says the wave will reach the Pillars in a thousand years (from our viewpoint), whereas the other claims that since we don't see the disturbance now, it's all fine and dandy. Coincidentally, no sources are supplied for the latter view.

It's probably that they made good coolers and then decided to capitalize on the name by selling everything under the moon—i.e. reselling someone else's stuff.

“Never turn your hobby into a job.”

The Android Firefox, formerly known as Fenix, has a separate tracker on Github. However I wouldn't say that it's radically divergent in habits—more of a different take on the same problem that Mozilla has very limited resources and its own vision, whereas the hordes of users have thousands of their own wishes. E.g. the Fenix' tracker finally clears out stale bugs, at least occasionally, instead of letting them ferment for many years.

Anyway, personally I came to terms with the fact that open-source devs aren't my bitches, and just accept with gratitude what they offer to the world, while abstaining from polluting the trackers even further. However, I'm not above a hopeful whisper into the noosphere.

My small wish is that FF on Android supports an intent that opens a URL in a new private tab. That way I'd be able to selectively open pages from HN, Reddit or other apps in private tabs—by the way of Tasker or Automate.

I looked a bit through FF code, and there's an intent to open an empty private tab, but not an address. Alas, with my lack of knowledge about data flow in an Android app, I'm not of much help so far.

Aka ‘Death of the author’.

> HTTP Error 4O4

> 404 Unfound

> The Web Server cannot give you the answers you need. Please check your life to ensure the path is correct. Did you press the right keys in sequence, and click with a firm but gentle hand? Are you paying attention? This may be a message, but it's not a mistake.

> Please contact the server's administrator if chaos persists.

> http://www.joseph.ca

Might be some memetic cultural thing from that period, such that most everyone knew what that meant—but it was lost in time.