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jnellis··on Show HN: I built a multiplayer game where you're an aerial fighter cat
Here's the console output. It get's stuck at 72%... "painting or something" on progress bar.

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jnellis··on Show HN: I built a multiplayer game where you're an aerial fighter cat
Doesn't seem to work in firefox. Probably my old pc. CPU pegged on chrome version.
jnellis··on Show HN: Indigene – Native plants for where you stand
It's broken. I entered a zip code (sacramento) and it said it needs more detail but can't offer a map any closer than pittsburg to narrow. Pick by region is a dead end if that's not your region.
jnellis··on Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless
My situation is similar to you. Additionally I can't take NSAIDs. I've been doing RF ablation sessions every 3-4 months (along with steroid shot occasionally.) After a year it's much improved on the pain side but as you know, it's like there's a limited amount of activity you can do and once you go over it, you're stealing from tomorrow, the next day and so on (which means rest on those days.)

Inversion table for 15min a morning also helps just to unload the spine. You can try to do the start of an abdominal crunch to build stomach muscle there while unloaded.

jnellis··on The Magic Behind Cubacadabra
Is it a floor wax or a dessert topping? I don't know. Don't make me follow other links or search to find out.
jnellis··on AI Cameras on Garbage Trucks to Scan Properties for Code Violations
How does this catch the guy that never pulls in his trash cans from the street?
jnellis··on What does privatization of the US Postal Service mean?
USA is large and people live everywhere, including hard to get spots. USPS just works in all those places. Privatization would discriminate against those people in a heartbeat. See: rural broadband in the US.
jnellis··on Finding the best dog treat with statistics
https://pdfhost.io/v/BQBcuLsPCK_dogtreats
jnellis··on Finding the best dog treat with statistics
My dog's favorite treat is the most expensive one. Or the one that causes the most intestinal (and therefore cleanup) issues. All it takes is a pause and some brief math to see that a lot of (good for your dog) dog treats are $16/lb. That's not even remotely the most expensive. It's cheaper to feed them straight meat. I've resorted to making my own treats. It's like $4/lb, plus you know exactly what goes into it (mostly ground turkey, yams, rice/chickpea flour).
jnellis··on I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it (2024)
As an ex-Navy Seal, and JAG officer who retired for the slow life of owning a hardware store in a sleepy small town, only to accidentally uncover a international multi-million dollar conspiracy with help from the voluptuous town sheriff twenty years my junior... this math all adds up nicely.
jnellis··on Cooling copper plates could slash data center energy use by 90%
I heard copper is better an transferring heat but aluminum is better at RELEASING heat via airflow. Hence you see copper tubes on cpu coolers that terminate in aluminum fins.
jnellis··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
Was this not lampooned directly in "40 Year Old Virgin" where a young Jonah Hill tries to buy some disco boots at an ebay store but can't because you have to go through the website.
jnellis··on SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)
When I did commercial fishing in Alaska, often the boats just had two speakers, one in the wheel house and one on the deck (long liner). You just talked into/toward the speaker.
jnellis··on The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew
When I was in cooking school there was a brief lesson in photo presentation. For something like a burger you would skew from front to back, going upward to the top bun to show the layers better but it wasn't visually noticeable that it was skewed on the photo. This seems like the same thing except the ai has chosen the side view instead of the frontal view, thus making the skew very noticeable.
jnellis··on Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)
The 68 Ford Thunderbird (w/ suicide doors.) Mustangs also came in this color. https://imgur.com/a/BbzHVMn
jnellis··on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
This was a design choice by AMD at the time for their Athlon Slot A cpus. Use the same slot A board which you could set the cpu speed by bridging a connections. Since the Slot A came in a package, you couldn't see the actual cpu etching. So shady cpu sellers would pull the cover off high speed cpus, and put them on slow speed cpus after overclocking them to unstable levels.
jnellis··on Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died
The library wait list for Hyperion was months. I'm in the middle of Fall of Hyperion right now. Great writing.
jnellis··on What Happened to Fry's Electronics
You could watch people return items, them tossing them into a bin, and then some employee later taking that bins straight back out to floor to restock. No shrink wrapping needed. Learning how to detect refried parts was crucial to shopping there. In SoCal, Frys was just a place to get a part quick. Reliable or quality parts required going to a place like MWave or wait for newegg to ship.
jnellis··on Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games
Is this restricted to only games that use steam Master Server Query Protocol?
jnellis··on 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
That the construction method of most hollow-core doors in your house.
jnellis··on Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
They would come in computer mags. Byte, Compute, Creative Computing. Hobbyist magazines. You had to record them to your cassette drive first.
jnellis··on Swapping two blocks of memory inside a larger block, in constant memory
Java chooses to use the cycle method mostly. They also reference Bentley.

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/f1e0e0c25ec62a543b9cbfab...

jnellis··on Floor796
just win10 and firefox. It wanted to run workers in firefox, locked up firefox, then somehow taskmanager was locked up and things went downhill from there.
jnellis··on Floor796
Nice, this just crashed my entire desktop.
jnellis··on A study reveals that deciduous trees' roots remain active in winter
The bulk of roto-rooter calls to clear home sewer lines of tree roots happens during winter.
jnellis··on Magnesium Self-Experiments
I find this to be true as well. I have nerve damage/pressure from bad back. If I miss a dose before bed, I almost invariably get a calf cramp in the early morning hours before waking. Very annoying, only way to get rid of it is get out of bed and stand up on it. I think flooding the body with the magnesium before bed, before it has a chance to maybe get rid of excess perhaps, because taking it too far from bedtime I'll still have twitches and cramps.
jnellis··on WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)
I ran across this theory years ago about a piece of legislation in late 1970 allowed lobbyists into previously closed door committee meetings, thus allowing lobbyists to assert direct pressure on congressional members. The second video is from the same guy but is rather long and goes into this idea that transparency in congressional committees is a counter-intuitively bad idea because it allows lobbyists to proactively apply pressure before anything ever gets to a floor vote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgqhywW9Cto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gEz__sMVaY

jnellis··on Thunderbird Turns 20 Years Old
I just installed it. If you've already been a desktop user, they've made importing accounts pretty painless by having the phone app take pictures of qr code on your desktop. The UI is definitely less polished than K-9 on first impression but I suspect it will get better.

It would be great if it can sync junk training settings between the two.

jnellis··on 1JPM: A Maven/Gradle alternative in a single Java file
I believe you can use shebang since java 11 but you can't have the filename extension be .java.
jnellis··on Can you pump water without any electricity?
I can't find it now on youtube but years ago there was a pump someone made using old HDD platters. The action relied upon having two platters a certain distance apart such that surface tension would drag water between the plates and then fling it higher than it's source.
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