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plopz··on May inflation (PCE) falls to 1.2% (3.6% Core) / 3.8% YoY (4.6% Core YoY)
Another datapoint: I listed my house 3 weeks ago and had 8 offers within 3 days, the highest being 10% above asking. Currently waiting on the appraisal but it seems likely that it will eventually sell for nearly double what I bought it for in 2017.
plopz··on Show HN: An interactive map showing live wind farm generation in Great Britain
I know wind varies a lot with altitude and there are a lot of available maps of wind such as 2m, 10m, 850mb, 250mb, etc. What altitude wind are you showing on the vis and what are the heights of these wind farms?
plopz··on Ambient: The Multiplayer Game Engine
which is an incredibly unfun awful mechanic
plopz··on ‘Breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers
is fruit still considered healthy? i thought they ditched those alongside veg like potatoes and corn
plopz··on MelonJS – a fresh and lightweight JavaScript game engine
My guess is that this would be caused by rendering text into a canvas and then scaling the canvas to fit the window. That example is rendering at 640x960 regardless of the screen size.
plopz··on FTC seeks to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard
What do you mean by platforms?
plopz··on Dwarf Fortress’ graphical upgrade provides a new way into a wildly wonky game
Also rimworld is 2d and df is 3d
plopz··on Web3 – An Arrogant and Treacherous Successor Doomed to Fail
my desire for udp is for out-of-order delivery for low latency game networking, nothing to do with smartphones
plopz··on Web3 – An Arrogant and Treacherous Successor Doomed to Fail
i just want to be able to use udp without the headache of webrtc
plopz··on YouTube confirms that it has removed the “sort by oldest/newest” option
About 6 years ago Twitch removed the random directory, which was just a list of random streams. That was my preferred way of finding new content to watch. I sent monthly emails for 2 years asking for it to come back, the response always was "looking into it" and it never came back.
plopz··on Let's Encrypt issues its 3Bth cert
I kind of hate how browsers have pushed this centralized cert system and don't show self signed certs as valid.
plopz··on Framework Laptops Now Offering Refurbished Products
dedicated home/end as well
plopz··on Cloud Spanner now with a free trial
they dont have any free tier database as far as i can tell
plopz··on Why Electron Is a Necessary Evil
Didn't spotify used to have a native platform application?
plopz··on Web Streams at the Edge
Could you elaborate? I'm not sure I understand. The main issue that UDP solves in game networking is being able to send/receive out-of-order messages, which will be possible with WebTransport datagrams.
plopz··on Web Streams at the Edge
This seems like its http and web sockets, so probably not useful for game networking until HTTP/3 and WebTransport happens so that UDP becomes possible.
plopz··on To build an 18th-century ship, shipwrights had to remaster a lost craft
I remember them doing that, was that for steaming or to dry out green lumber?
plopz··on Make your monorepo feel small with Git’s sparse index
I remember him saying something like that during a walkthrough of the base building starship and if I recall it was in reference to overengineering something about the grid fins.
plopz··on SpaceX is beginning to get the hang of human spaceflight
Who knows, maybe one of the other up and coming companies like Rocket Lab could add some pressure.
plopz··on Gmail’s fake loading indicator (2020)
Thunderbird constantly lags for me when clicking emails, sometimes locking up for 10-15 seconds. It also has weird issues with how it displays that you have new messages. It will quite often show me I have unread messages that I've actually already read and I need to expand the account and click through every folder to get it to refresh and recognize that there really aren't any unread. I also have an email account on there that its said I have an unread message for the last 3 months, but when I click the arrow and expand the account, the unread bold (1) goes away, then comes back when I collapse the account. Its just permanently incorrectly stuck as unread for some reason.
plopz··on Daylight Savings Time (2020)
A whole lot of states have been proposing all different changes. This site had a list of all the proposed changes back in 2019, I wonder what it looks like now. https://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_usa07.html
plopz··on Long-term NAEP scores for 13-year-olds drop for first time since testing began
They might be in fine shape, I remember back when we had to learn cursive in school because if you couldn't read or write cursive then you might as well have been illiterate. Does cursive have any relation to literacy now-a-days? Absolutely not. Whats to say that being able to read or write instagram comments doesn't fully encapsulate what literacy entails in the 21st century?

I love to read fiction, but for me its just a hobby. Is the ability to read an old book actually all that important? I never actually read any of my textbooks in high school or college and I even stopped buying them because I realized how pointless and expensive they were. I'm well into my career and haven't ever touched a book related to my field. Communicating with my boss through email or chat is far more important than any formal reading comprehension.

I'd say if anything, modern day literacy is more about understanding fragmented conversations, reading between the lines and conceptualizing meaning, understanding context and being able to converse with colleagues including familiarity with memes, recognizing clickbait and being able to sort through misinformation. All of which is are skills the older generations exceptionally lack. Perhaps they are the ones who are actually currently illiterate.

plopz··on Smoke alarms go off at the International Space Station
I don't know if "rushed it" is the right terminology here, it was mostly built in the 90s and then kept being repurposed and delayed for 30 years.
plopz··on Smoke alarms go off at the International Space Station
Its actually falling apart, roscosmos has been saying their segments have outlived the expected lifetime of the station for a few years now.
plopz··on Crew completes spaceship fit check ahead of all-private mission to orbit
I assume they are bringing cameras to take pictures out of the dome window? I'm looking forward to seeing how those come out.
plopz··on Windows 11 available on October 5
what does the network adapter options look like now?
plopz··on Game Timers: Issues and Solutions (2012)
Its pretty difficult to do quickly and with numerical robustness, specifically when you have rotation. Here's a talk by the creator of Box2D while he was working for Blizzard on continuous collision detection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_nKOET6zwI

plopz··on Google is considering removing alert()
>i'm gonna be honest, i havent seen a meaningful alert be used in recent memory, and i work with a lot of web apps.

I see them used very often to indicate unsaved changes when a user leaves a page.

plopz··on WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to DooM
From what I found on MDN "a side effect to the block in one agent will eventually become visible in the other agent", what does the word eventually mean there, what's going on under the hood?
plopz··on 25 Years of PHP
Having to setup 10gb swap to get it to work is pretty awful.
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