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rawling··on Shenmue (1999) reverse engineering reveals possible sun position oversight
Isn't this just... they made the planets have the correct orbit times, and retrograde motion just drops out from that?
rawling··on "My friend group has a case of the Creepy Dude. How do we clear that up?" (2012)
If anyone is interested by this and wants to see if they guess "the question"

- firstly, it's based on another story in the comments and not the main article, so don't be surprised if you read the article and still have no idea

- secondly, don't ctrl-f for "the question" as you'll likely find it before the context. The story comment starts "Not surprisingly, I have a story?" so search for that instead.

rawling··on The hallucinatory thoughts of the dying mind
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999788

130 comments, 5 days ago

rawling··on Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting
> I still have to sit there stressing out because I have no idea if the PSU<->Mobo power connector is seated properly

I recently switched my PSU and my onboard audio volume halved.

There's no way I'm going to switch back to see if the problem goes away because that connector was such a **ache to undo and reconnect.

rawling··on Why a 43-year-old video game just won a Grammy
> There's an awkward silence as he mentions it

... other than the scream and the applause?

https://youtu.be/TM_WzFnmtac?t=87

rawling··on A murder that shook British India and toppled a king
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42670938
rawling··on Video games can't afford to look this good
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42514757
rawling··on Video Games Can't Afford to Look This Good
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42514757
rawling··on Video Games Can't Afford to Look This Good
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42514757
rawling··on Grifters, Believers, Grinders, and Coasters
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42319997

118 comments, 2 days ago

rawling··on Stop Requiring CRLF Line Endings
Once you're not purely using tabs to indent but also throwing spaces in there, why wouldn't you do it like this?

    if (someCondition) {
    ⇥   Foo foo = SomeClass::SomeFunctionCall(myParameter1,
    ⇥   ······································myParameter2,
    ⇥   ······································myParameterN);
    }
rawling··on Hackers use ZIP file concatenation to evade detection
Presumably it compresses better if it's all one archive?
rawling··on UK to close last coal power station after 142 years
Previous discussion on this article

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41695587

Discussion from when it actually closed last week

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41734993

rawling··on Gamma-ray flickers seen in thunderstorms
Related, 4 days ago, 118 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41726698
rawling··on The nastiest checkmate ever in chess history happened yesterday (Aman Hambleton) [video]
Ah, thanks, my confusion was I didn't realise the white pieces would stay in their end positions while all those premoves were being played out.
rawling··on The nastiest checkmate ever in chess history happened yesterday (Aman Hambleton) [video]
What's going on at the end of the game, where it looks like the black king is moving around without white doing anything?
rawling··on Insider trader had all the answers
> These things sound way too specific to just perform on a hunch, and even then, you might get the analysis wrong if you don't have the insider tip to check your math.

This is suggested as the parallel construction for the actual insider info.

rawling··on Firefox tracks you with “privacy preserving” feature
Per Mozilla

> The technology aims to demonstrate a way for advertisers to measure overall ad effectiveness without gathering information about specific individuals.

If it doesn't collect personal data, does it fall under GDPR?

rawling··on Firefox tracks users with 'privacy preserving' feature
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41643991

Discussion on the article itself

rawling··on Firefox tracks you with “privacy preserving” feature
Some previous discussion (on Moz making this on-by-default): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40952330
rawling··on Unexpected Consequences of McDonald's Touchscreen Kiosks
> touchscreen kiosks have added extra work for kitchen staff and pushed customers to order more food than they do at the cash register
rawling··on Microsoft says its Recall uninstall option in Windows 11 is just a bug
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41429516
rawling··on RationalWiki Has Been Sued
Also, the state now seems to be "RationalWiki Has Settled".
rawling··on RationalWiki Has Been Sued
Last version of the page in the Wayback Machine before it was blanked, for context:

http://web.archive.org/web/20240606121001/https://rationalwi...

rawling··on Routed Gothic Font
I watched the animation of the a and now I can't unsee the fact that the adjustments stop it looking like it was routed.
rawling··on Mastercard Replacing Card Numbers with Tokens in Next Six Years
https://www.mastercard.com/news/perspectives/2024/what-is-to... help?
rawling··on The Starliner spacecraft has started to emit noises
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41416872

27 comments

rawling··on The One Million Checkboxes Mystery
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41395413

23 hours ago, 189 comments

rawling··on Bypassing airport security via SQL injection
It looks like they got access to a list of names of existing users.
rawling··on Snowflake ID
I presume, to start with, it's the ID of the server generating the snowflake, not the client.

After that I guess it's up to the owner of the servers (and the particular snowflake implementation) how they assign machine IDs.

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