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shrxon Rendering pretty sky in Around The World game

The light is also reflected from the Earth back into the sky, e.g. over bodies of water.

shrxon Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

A lesser model can supervise.

shrxon Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released

The silent forced replacement of deb packages with snaps during regular apt updates is pretty hostile, IMO.

I'm not using it for sleep tracking so I can't comment on that. I mostly use it with Garmin Instinct 3 Solar for recording and exporting gpx tracks of my hikes and bicycle trips.

shrxon Creating a Garmin "MCP"

I highly recommend GadgetBridge for anyone wanting to avoid Garmin's cloud services: https://gadgetbridge.org/

shrxon California closed the Montana license plate loophole

> What if gun owners had to walk around wearing a huge plate with their gun registration number when they wanted to carry a gun?

Actually a very sensible proposition.

shrxon Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing

Can you provide an example of this schema?

shrxon Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]

> "It is not the direction one arrives at in a few days by giving a model the problem statement."

Can they back up this statement somehow?

shrxon RotaryCell: Making an unmodified rotary phone work over LTE with an ESP32-S3

We have a similarly converted rotary phone at my local astronomy club's observatory, used to receive visitors. It's driven by an arduino if I remember correctly. The main issue is that the sound quality of its built-in speaker is quite poor, especially compared to modern cell phone speakers we're used to nowadays, with a narrow frequency window and frequent echoes.

shrxon Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

Wikipedia has an article listing some of the notable (walking) straight line missions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_line_mission

edit: and the article already notes this longest possible path from Portugal to China, citing a 2023 article: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/these-are-the-worlds-longe...

shrxon Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

> Figure 9: Longest Drivable Straight Line Path on Earth.

Walkable, maybe, but definitely not drivable (it crosses directly over the Alps, for example).

shrxon Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

I realize I've been spoiled by finally having the ability to tailor almost anything to my exact personal preference. Related: https://vibingwithai.substack.com/p/software-for-one-how-vib... and the HN discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096605

shrxon Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

2D map would work the same way with my proposal. The "north is up" part is the issue for me, I'd like to have the rotation oriented in such a way that (the visible part of the path to) my destination is up.

shrxon Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

Of course it could still have some maximum allowed rotation threshold.

shrxon Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

>"up is direction of motion"

Yes, this is how it's currently implemented. My proposal is "up is the intersection of the path with the edge of the screen". Here's a mock comparison of the current behavior with my proposal: https://i.imgur.com/AmUnzfS.jpeg (The mocked perspective is wrong because I just cut out and rotated the image, but hopefully you get the idea)

shrxon Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

This is also a problem with Google Maps navigation. It is always showing the perspective looking straight ahead of your current direction, even when you're approaching a sharp turn. Instead, the perspective should be along a vector connecting your current location with the point where the navigation's path crosses the edge of the display, pointing straight up.

shrxon Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days

Can you describe with a bit more detail how you're approaching the BIOS reverse engineering?

shrxon Casio F-B100W-1A

https://gshock.casio.com/europe/products/mr-g/

The MR-G models are priced in the thousands.

shrxon Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

Time is necessary for change, not existence.

shrxon Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests

Maybe it's time to develop new sealing materials?

edit: thanks for the downvote. I should've said "Maybe it's time to _invest into developing_ new sealing materials?" ;)

shrxon Asus Bike Booster

Do you feel the power is sufficient? It says it's only a 250 W motor. What is the battery range?

shrxon Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?

Two caveats, one of which matters:

shrxon Pixel Watch 5

My Garmin Instinct 3 Solar watch (which has a display) has a battery life measured in _weeks_.

shrxon Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's

There's no fruit in Froot Loops.

There's no crab in Krab sticks.

There's no cream in Krispy Kreme.

There's no vanilla in Nilla Wafers.

There's no mayonnaise in Just Mayo.

There's no lemon in Country Time Lemonade mix.

There are no truffles in most truffle oil.

There's no Wasabia japonica in most of wasabi.

shrxon I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

Just curious, why didn't you go to the doctor?

shrxon Colorimeter 3nh CR4501 RAL Hack

Widely used in the EU, not just Germany.

shrxon G'mic 4.0: Squaring the Pixel, Easier

Very happy that this framework is still in active development! It's invaluable for more advanced image manipulation in GIMP.

shrxon Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way

The light spectrum they produce.

shrxon The Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan (2015)

Probbly a deliberate choice to distinguish it from its Indian sibling?

shrxon Show HN: Zanagrams

Cool game! Definitely needs the bonus words counter in the shareable results snippet.