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krige··on '500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds
Solving 600 10x10 jigsaw puzzles in a row would easily exhaust you without posing any challenge at all.
krige··on Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland
Lavrov is a known liar: you can tell by the fact that he's moving his lips. That's kind of his job, really: lying.
krige··on Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland
Russia is exporting less than a day's worth of diesel per month. They don't have a surplus, they're trying to get US to stop Ukrainian attacks on their refineries, since they cannot do that on their own.
krige··on Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones. The battlefield depends on SpaceX
Scram, Elon.
krige··on Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome
And Opera! God I miss old Opera.
krige··on Cyberattack halts construction of tunnel between Denmark and Germany
As always, there's a crucial difference between losing your finger in an accident and shoving your entire arm into a woodchipper while screaming that nothing can be done about it.
krige··on CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
That's 2014. Hardly "previous regime".
krige··on AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers
Using a tired analogy, 9 pregnant women won't deliver a baby in a month.
krige··on AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers
Oh yes I can totally see a webos TV, that has bugger all storage, hosting a 22B parameter model /s
krige··on Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones
Irrelevant.
krige··on Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones
No, the backlash was because vibecoded decomps were trash, incomplete, and quickly abandoned once the attention rush wore off. You'll never guess what's happening to these!
krige··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
> We should also remember that the Presidency is just one arm of government.

In the past few terms we have very bitterly learned that the President just does whatever he wants, the House doesn't do anything, and Senate is mostly interested in getting bribed.

krige··on Show HN: Entombed in a Raycaster
Ah yes, Lode's raycaster tutorial, the classic writeup keeps generating interesting projects. Such as this one.

The human ingenuity never ceases to amaze me. Take what's essentially a pong machine with a few extraneous bits and almost no memory, what you can do with it? Apparently racing games, building games, maze games, even honest to god space sims.

krige··on Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963)
Yeah, but only once they managed to breed chickens as strong as an ox.
krige··on Adding Floating-Point Decimals for Fun and Profit
Possibly the first case I've encountered where image loaded before the text. A grid of 1px rectangles? How unsettling.
krige··on Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards
Went around the internets to find the one I thought of and while I can't find it - doesn't surprise me - it was something very much like a cross between Denshi Block (connectors) and Braun Lectron (aesthetics)

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectron

krige··on Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards
Not the one I had in mind, but very similar and definitely much cooler looking. The kits like these are still made and sold in various countries.
krige··on Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards
These very distinctly remind me of electric/electronic didactic "toys" from the at least 80s. Plastic cubes, containing a single (usually) circuit component, like switches, resistors, lights, coils, or just wire, with bare metal connectors on relevant sides and a symbol on top. You got a whole bag of them, as well as a gridded board you inserted the cubes into. Could make even usable stuff like simple radios.
krige··on September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
Dunno about 100% AI but as a native speaker, it feels very awkward, as if it was a mechanical translation from English.
krige··on Pirating the Pirates
The noooticers are known to spot all 11 of the recent 2 conspiracies.
krige··on When did Google get so weird?
Didn't the put the guy who killed yahoo in charge?
krige··on When did Google get so weird?
I started noticing that for a lot of niche questions, AI overview often uses things like Reddit comments as the source, which are often partially or completely wrong.

If only! I've seen it sourcing reddit comments, but when you follow the link, the comment is either completely unrelated or does not say what the LLM claims it is saying.

krige··on 2DWillNeverDie
Vampire Survivors took its sprites from free asset packs. There was controversy over it, allegations that the sprites were ripped from Castlevania games, but ultimately they denied it all, I think.
krige··on OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
Many toddlers skip directly from immobile to walking and never learn to crawl.
krige··on ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you
Czas umierać.
krige··on A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W
Yeah but reforming a language is nigh impossible without a very expensive and long term effort from the government, and good luck selling that to those in power.

Plus, how do you decide what's changed and what's retained? To quote one Mr. Clemens,

In Year 1 that useless letter “c” would be dropped to be replased either by “k” or “s”, and likewise “x” would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which “c” would be retained would be the “ch” formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform “w” spelling, so that “which” and “one” would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish “y” replasing it with “i” and iear 4 might fiks the “g/j” anomali wonse and for all.

Generally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeiniing voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez “c”, “y” and “x”—bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez —tu riplais “ch”, “sh”, and “th” rispektivili.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

krige··on A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game
Absolutely amazing. Can't wait to send out potato bugs and assemble scouts.
krige··on The first new cat species discovered in 100 years
Positively tiny. Really makes you wonder what else is still out there.

Also an amusing disjoint between it being called "tiger" cat but having leopard spots. At least the latin name is more on point.

krige··on Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure
Surely you can see that one follows the other.
krige··on Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure
There's a striking difference between telling and tone deaf preaching and when people complain about politics they always, without fail, mean the latter.

The stance of "everything is political" itself is extremely tone deaf.

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