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NeHe's tuts are still online:

https://nehe.gamedev.net/

Talk about nostalgia!

On a related note, I'd like to give a shout-out to NeHe (Neon Helium) for his brilliant OpenGL tutorials back in the 90s.

I, and I suspect many others, benefited immensely from him lessons.

I'm sure there are others here that are experts on this topic, but my 2 cents on this is that Broadcom specialise in custom / specialised AI chips, and their collaboration with Google to manufacture the TPUs is a pretty solid revenue moat over the next several years.

> In the last eight weeks, I have counted 361 queens. The meagre three traps might sound irrelevant in the face of the growing continental scale of the problem, and perhaps they are. However, a mature hornet nest in autumn can have 6,000 individuals, so potentially over two million fewer hornets will be patrolling our local landscape come autumn.

In case anyone is wondering about the number.

What an odd post to make the front page of HN.

This needs to be the top comment because the current title is horribly misleading.

> What does “take full responsibility” mean in the present context?

Aside from Pete's reply (see adjacent comment), I'd add that him taking full responsibility is also his way of saying his post was nobody else's fault but his.

In other words it's less about forfeiting assets and descendant peonage, and more about saying "the buck stops with me".

At least that's my read of his sentiment. Pete can expand if need be.

Whilst I appreciate the impact of AI and its long-term implications for humanity as we know it, I am getting kinda tired of seeing so many AI-related headlines here on HN. Perhaps it's just me, but I feel like every day the front page is filled with mostly LLM-related announcements.

> so that we can't scrap Facebook

Whilst I assume you meant to say “scrape”, I can’t help but appreciate the poetry of that typo.

Queen face hoover

TIL! Absolute game changer.

Thank you kind stranger.

What I would humbly argue is what it’s (primarily) always been about:

Building relationships.

That site is awesome, thank you!

> we use the apparent rate of mug deterioration to estimate the proton supply required by a simplified corrosion model

Damn I love HN.

Sincere congrats to the Verda team :-)

Can someone please help me understand what their competitive advantage is, versus the likes of AWS / Azure et al, who are also available in the EU.

I love a good underdog story, but I'm not understanding the economics of it.

Fair point.

I'm on vanilla Ubuntu 22.04 but have also tried vanilla 24.04, with an Nvidia card.

That said, I thought steamdeck was just the handheld device - not sure if this would help with my Ubuntu situation - but I don't know enough about steamdeck so perhaps I am misinterpreting your comment.

Thanks either way.

Albion Online looks interesting, thanks, will check it out.

It was the late 90s, my very first day at a new school, I was asked to introduce myself at the front of the class, I mentioned I like computers, one guy at the back of the class blurts out “En Taro Adun” and without skipping a beat I replied “J’tokoh zohl”, and we instantly became best friends.

Thanks once again. You’ve totally improved my night time HN routine. My little one is asleep next to me as I type this :-)

Made me think of “Brainscan”, awesome sci-fi from the 90s.

thanks!

I don't know much about robotics engineering, so I just wanted to give kudos to the Robocurve team on this write-up.

Even for an absolute robotics newbie such as myself, the article was interesting to read, and easy to understand. Plus it was straight to the point, with no unnecessary waffle.

Just a pleasure all round. Well done Robocurve.

> He sees these scientists as strong men, willing to wrestle with the tragedy of existence by increasing the amount of happiness in the world. That struggle makes them optimists.

Loved that.

If you get a paywall, use this:

https://shorturl.at/1FR6H

Article is behind a paywall for me.

Odd that it’s on HN front page :-/

My OCed DX4 got around 15fps, but I agree my memory of what was deemed “playable” back then probably wouldn’t stand today.

I recall we got it running pretty decently on an upper end 486 (DX4 100). That, and Winamp. Good times.

Apologies for the ambiguity, I was referring to the selling or donating of meteorites - and only because I've never heard of such a thing in my part of the world.

> In the US, if a meteorite lands on your property, it's yours and you can sell or donate it as you please.

Does this happen often in the US?

I mean often enough that folks happen to know the legality of it?

In which case I find it extremely frightening that one could be sitting on their porch, minding their own business, browsing HN, and then get unexpectedly head-shotted by a meteorite.

Not just you.

OP strikes me as quite childish. I’m guessing he’s quite young, nothing wrong with that.

And yeah, the circumstances aren’t great (the stressful move to SF in particular). Tough break!

I found this comment/question deeply intriguing.

I’m no expert at this and was wondering what you meant by the following:

> In real organisms behavior may be controlled by short or long term outcomes, and may oscillate between this "optimization" based on schedules

Could you perhaps provide an example that would help me understand what you mean?

Thanks for the insightful comment either way.