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Comment · 3 months ago
There are mods that affect world generation, so I guess it should be possible to write a mod that exposes that functionality to an AI agent.
Comment · 3 months ago
Contrary to this, if you only have two lanes available, and trucks aren't allowed to overtake, you'll eventually end up with a long train of trucks without any gaps, and it'll become impossible to merge onto the highway from an on-ramp.
Comment · 7 months ago
> if you don't want any of these AI capabilities, you can spend a few minutes disabling and getting rid of most of them.

Why is this "a few minutes" and "most of them"? Why isn't it "a few seconds" and "all of them with a single toggle in Settings"?

Comment · 9 months ago
One more false positive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16860445

"Value in Learning Yet Another" also seems like a great name for an esoteric programming language.

Comment · 11 months ago
I also still have an old 20,000 mAh Anker power bank, and my only issue with it is that the micro-USB charging port is starting to wear out. For the rest, it's still brilliant, and it holds its charge very well while in storage.
Comment · 11 months ago
In hindsight, I really love the way Vista looks. I don't think I ever used it as a daily driver (I went from the family XP computer to a Win7 laptop, I think), but the glassy transparency is certainly something.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
It also does harm to the communities of smaller Wikipedias:

'a user from the Tumbuka Wikipedia reported that they had initially felt "hope and joy that a small community had then gained another native editor", before finding out that this account had been a promotional sockpuppet.'

Comment · 1 year ago
This seems really inaccurate to me. I had to manually enter my device (Galaxy A55 5G), and then I held a tape measure next to my phone. What the site claimed was 16cm was actually only 14.3cm.
Comment · 1 year ago
Also DE-15 is the standard connector used for VGA.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah, but all they say is "nevermore".
Comment · 1 year ago
In ed, append mode ends by entering a single '.' on an empty line, and then pressing enter. You can see that happening in the article.
Comment · 1 year ago
The "18 years" probably refers to the date since the linked blogpost was published, March 2007.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's blocked by my corporate networking filter for me, in the category "Illegal downloads". So the Russian sanctions message is probably incorrect indeed.

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