mooman219

Sure, here are some photos https://imgur.com/a/iPDdmDP

Oh I've used this personally! I had various surgeries that removed various amounts of bone from me and I asked to keep the bones, which they allowed! I wanted to preserve them in case I wanted to make some esoteric jewelry and it lead to paraloid B-72.

It's quite wonderful. I dissolve the paraloid B-72 in acetone (1 part B-72, 8 parts acetone), then soak the bone in the acetone for about an hour, let the bones dry, and then suddenly they're solid and strong. You can adjust how much acetone you use for how thin/thick you want the fluid. Bones are porus so I opted for a thinner solution and it worked great. It was also really cheap.

"200,000 credits at $0.03 per credit with a 15% volume discount, plus 10 seats, plus a base platform fee, with credit rollover into Q2" — that sentence cannot exist in most billing systems.

I used to work on GCP billing and this is so entirely correct and disgustingly hard to get right. The worst part is that even if you implement a way for sales to create these custom contracts down to a T, you're going to get an escalated customer ticket that hits the engineering team because the bill didn't end up how they think it should have so it's assumed to be a bug. You'll confirm this rube goldberg machine of billing state in their contract was in fact correctly implemented and that maybe they didn't negotiate what they thought they did with sales.

Oh! I have a prefix sum laying around in SIMD in Rust, I use it for bitmap rasterization for fonts. Looking at the comments I guess this isn't a popular usecase, but useful nonetheless. Doing it on the GPU looks really fun

https://github.com/mooman219/fontdue/blob/master/src/platfor...

I am not the author. The website may have been a better link: https://smackstudio.com/

Oh god that's a throwback. I remember hanging out in the bukket IRC before all the legal debacles. I worked on MCSG and Wynncraft. It honestly was a blast slamming together patches on spigot(craftbukkit(nms))) onion; I remember writing a patch to run entities off main-thread among other things. I hope you're doing well and I hope Hytale is doing alright! I feel like everyone I intereacted with back then ended up doing well in tech in some form.

Can you quickly tell which of the URLs below is legitimate and which one is a malicious phish that drops evil.exe?

Yes? When you hover the first link the browser says "v1271.zip", and when you hover the second link it says "https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/archive/refs/tags/v..."

You don't even need a .zip domain to do this, just assign a misleading link i.e. [google.com](badsite.com). If the argument is going to be no one looks at the on hover link preview, then why bother even paying for a .zip domain in the first place? Going further, you can also just buy a similar domain to confuse people, which might even work better than buying the .zip since then you _might_ even catch careful people that glance at the on hover preview.

Ah yeah my MSFT is in a state where everything is usable except Mojang account transfers. Support was unhelpful to gracefully resolve the situation, and recommended I give up and create a new MSFT account to hold the Mojang account, which I ended up doing. So now I have several MSFT accounts to hold various Mojang accounts.

I was thinking the same thing. Apple berates the user quite a bit to onboard to iCloud and other services; the screenshot of the new promotion looks about in line with that. If I was a Microsoft PM I'd just pitch the menu as "Apple has the same thing and users are complacent", and get sign off in no time.

I think this is fine battle to pick, I have OneDrive uninstalled on my Windows machine, but I think it's a bit silly a lot of users on here are fine with functionally the same ad somewhere else, I don't want to be berated anywhere on any OS.

If one were to have $100 million invested in the Speaker of the House's stock-picking abilities at the beginning of 2019, the same investment would compound to $192 million as of today, slightly off the November high, when the portfolio hit its peak of almost $309 million. Pelosi's strategy generated a negative year-to-date return of 36.04%, accompanied by a negative one-year return of 36.61%, both slightly underperforming the S&P 500 (SPY). - Q3 2022

I wanted to take a look at this because given stock trades are public you'd think there'd be an ETF to track trades for the speaker of the house, but in reality it seems like people wildly overstate the profitability of their winning trades and understate their losses because "slightly underperforming the S&P 500 (SPY)" doesn't make the same headlines. In the long term, they appear to be no better off than the average portfolio picker.

This just sounds like poor planning. I believe that if the parents prepared a list of people who met the relevant criteria and sought pre-approval at local hospitals for respecting their wishes, then this would be a non-story. I assume this is a possibility given there are services that let you use your own stored blood for transfusions that's donated if close to expiration. It sounds like they did not seek any form of pre-approval. This is relatively unsympathetic, no one plans to have their child need heart surgery on short notice, but if the parents have specific requests that they're worried will not be honored, then make sure of that before hand.

From the article, it sounds like the parent's blocked testing unrelated to bloodwork and transfusions as well. Many hospitals are willing to work with strange last minute requests (to some degree), but if they were being otherwise difficult then that reduces any patience the staff has to go out of their way to accommodate anything outside of the standard procedure.

Some reddit post looked at the % differences in core count and clock speed relative to each generation. It most closely fit in the spot a 4060Ti would fit in based its specs relative to the actual 4080.

You're totally right! If anything the gsutil's -Z/z doesn't align with rsync's -Z/z, and gsutil's -J/j is a better match for what rsync's -Z/z does. I added -J/j well after -Z/z was there so it's something that we have to life with unfortunately.

The original intention for most of the flags was to keep them aligned with rsync. The feature only compressed the data in flight, as opposed to -Z/z which stored the compressed version. This didn't directly align to anything in rsync, so I picked an unused letter in rsync (-J/j).

In retrospect, it might have had a better home as some option on -Z/z, or if I had the tool figure out if you were bottlenecked on bandwidth, spare compute, and your data compressed well, and apply it automatically.

I actually worked on gsutil a while ago! I added in flight compression -J/j. Glad to see gsutil is on its way out.

Some bands on their site cost upwards of $1000. I don't find it suspicious at all that someone would take the band off if the device appears to be entering the lithium battery death spiral.

The article writes: "There was no solution or advice provided after this call, just instructions to not touch the watch until he heard back from the company."

I'm honestly surprised that after the Samsung Note fiasco that Apple support is this bad on the topic. I would have expected a dedicated flow for "flagged as high battery combustion risk" from someone like them. I understand that this is a risk with these types of lithium batteries, but if a user calls support for a premium product and support doesn't immediately recognize the situation I entirely blame the company.

I said it before, A lot of people on here will happily argue that they want to own their games (Which I want too!), while also rejoicing that cloud gaming is increasing narrowing to fewer and fewer companies. Licensing is getting increasingly harder, and I'm worried at some point we'll be left with a monopoly and it'll be too late. There's a lot of money in being the last man standing, and if one company holds all the licensing and economies of scale, then that leaves the consumer experience to the goodwill of whoever dug themselves into the deepest hole.

I believe the issue is cloud gaming is succeeding for a triopoly of companies, and only them. You can not want them to succeed, but that's further entrenching their dominance. If you're fine with narrowing who can license games to just a couple of companies, then I'm afraid that's there's a very real risk of no longer owning your games at all. This is a bit of a slippery slope, but that's just my concern.

There's a lot of animosity on this thread, but I think Stadia shutting down is distressing and we should talk about that.

The concept of a 3rd party game streaming platform is another foot into the grave with Stadia shutting down, and that should be cause for alarm. I think most people in this thread can agree that the licensing model for Stadia was less than stellar, but it feels like getting favorable licensing requires being an existing behemoth (Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Sony PlayStation Now, Nvidia GeForce Now) to have any chance of a AAA title being on your streaming platform. Blade filed for insolvency just last year, and has since been remarketed as Shadow.tech which functionally is just expensive Windows VMs.

A lot of people on here will happily argue that they want to own their games (Which I want too!), while also rejoicing that cloud gaming is increasing narrowing to fewer and fewer companies. Licensing is getting increasingly harder, and I'm worried at some point we'll be left with a monopoly and it'll be too late.

This is hacker news, what's the answer here for startups going forward? Is becoming a 1st party powerhouse (Like Netflix) while getting licensing agreements with as many indie games as you can (Like Epic Games?) the only option? How do you make this model succeed when you have no negotiating power? If Sony is suing Microsoft to keep Call of Duty on their platform, what chance does a startup have?

If "skirting Apple privacy rules" amounts to opening a web link, then it absolutely is Apple's fault. If Apple provided SFNextPaymentsInformationExporter, and a malicious app used that nefariously, and then the app was approved, that's entirely on Apple.

If Apple wants to advertise security and privacy, as well as enforcing App reviews, then I consider that to be enough to hold them accountable if they fail their advertised promise. Apple did not respond by removing the offending app from their store either.

I want to think it's this. My anecdotal data point is I was outside nearly every day as a child and I assumed my vision was fine. It wasn't until 2 years into university that I had my vision checked and got my first prescription and it was night and day better. I imagine there's a great deal of people that don't know they should get prescribing correction glasses.

I understand the depth of field is cool, but the demos (https://voxelchain.app/previewer/Demo.html) are excessively blurry to the point of unusability, and rapidly changes so often it gives me a headache (https://imgur.com/a/bSEFuX7).

Otherwise nice work!

[Rockland County residents], have some of the lowest vaccination rates in the state; Monsey's is the lowest in the state, at 17.8%, as of June 15, 2021

Rockland County from the article.

I know the crates.io maintainers have stood their ground on not namespacing crates.io (as compared to Maven or NPM), but it really feels like a sunk cost to keep going with the global namespace. It wouldn't necessarily have resolved this situation, but they would have to at least typosquat both a user and crate identifier. It feels like too many crates have to squat their own pseudo-namespace, and all bets are off as soon as people start making middleware on top of a crate.

What side of the political spectrum do you think is currently not able to voice their opinions on the platform?

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30974165

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30973871

I disagree, it sounds like if you steal a device, the best you can do is part it out because of the activation lock. That raises the barrier to entry (must be able to part out the device or add a middle man), lowers the margin per device , making the endeavor much less attractive overall. I'd be willing to wager this reduces stolen devices in aggregate.

I wrote a small non-shaping rust rasterizer for geometry (Live demo https://mooman219.github.io/fontdue/ ). I definitely agree that higher density screens are the solution, but bad AA and linearization can really reduce glyph quality well before then.

It's a bit silly, but it is what it is; I believe they closed the ban support forums >5 years ago. It rubs me a bit wrong that a purchase I made on another platform is inevitably going to become unusable because of an acquisition.