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  1. Comment on iOS 26 is here in ~tech

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    A decade ago? Try Windows Aero in Windows Costa that was released two decades ago.

    A decade ago? Try Windows Aero in Windows Costa that was released two decades ago.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on Colossal Game Adventure: Voting topic in ~games

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    Tetris (5) Carmageddon (1) Star Wars TIE Fighter (1) Castlevania: Arika of Sorrow (1) Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden - Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa (1) Scroll Lock-on (1)

    Tetris (5)
    Carmageddon (1)
    Star Wars TIE Fighter (1)
    Castlevania: Arika of Sorrow (1)
    Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden - Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa (1)
    Scroll Lock-on (1)

    1 vote

  4. Comment on Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human in ~tech

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    Genuine curiosity : Can you tell me what usecase you have?

    Genuine curiosity : Can you tell me what usecase you have?

    16 votes

  5. Comment on Tildes' Colossal Game Adventure: Inauguration and nominations in ~games

  6. Comment on Tildes' Colossal Game Adventure: Inauguration and nominations in ~games

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    Hi ! I'm your resident Tetris nerd (feel free to stalk me on Tildes, I haven't found the time to properly review TGM4 yet, sorry !) and I approve this nomination. Let me also demonstrate why it's...

    Hi ! I'm your resident Tetris nerd (feel free to stalk me on Tildes, I haven't found the time to properly review TGM4 yet, sorry !) and I approve this nomination.

    Let me also demonstrate why it's a subject that's deceptively deep:

    Mostly because core gameplay has been consistent from the old NES and Gameboy version, all the way up to Tetris 99 BR game.

    I disagree: while it's true that the basis is the same (tetraminos, 20x10 playfield), if you look more clearly at the competitive scene you'll find out that there's in fact 3 different competitive scene: Classic, TGM and Guideline. They all have widely different design goal and gameplay.

    Classic Tetris (NES Tetris most predominantly) focus on survival and mechanical execution. In particular with the development of the "rolling" technique in the early 2020s, it's really about surviving as much as possible. High level runs can last hours.

    Tetris the Grand Master (TGM for short) is about extrinsinc spped, or in other words making the game as fast as possible while giving you just enough tools to overcome the adversity. A slightly anachronistic comparison would be "the Dark Souls of Tetris". There's also a grading system that brings an excellent meta-game aspect to the experience. Oh, and in those game there's a finite end to the game; the goal is to finish it as fast as possible. Most runs compete in about 13 minutes.

    Guideline (every single Tetris since 2001 with the exception of the TGMs) is about intrinsic speed, or giving to the player as much too as possible and letting them play as fast as he can. This makes the game arguably too easy for single player ("casual" but I don't like this term), but this is a very good playing field for multiplayer or for modes like 40 lines. A high level bout is finish in about a minute or so.

    4 votes

  7. Comment on Special announcement about “Hollow Knight: Silksong” soon in ~games

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    I'm glad to read that those 7 years were due to them taking their time, not because of some management issue.

    I'm glad to read that those 7 years were due to them taking their time, not because of some management issue.

    8 votes

  8. Comment on What are some of your favorite Nintendo Switch games? in ~games

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    Obviously Zelda Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. BotW in particular is a clean break from the previous Zelda formula that started with A Link to the Past. However its open world...

    Obviously Zelda Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.

    BotW in particular is a clean break from the previous Zelda formula that started with A Link to the Past. However its open world doesn't have an ubisoftian "follow the marker" game design, it's way more player driven. The map is designed to have visual points of interest and you're the one placing the markers, not the game.

    Tear of the Kingdom is a better game, but not necessarily a better experience. There's a joyful sense of sandbox to the game, but BotW is more concise in its game design.

    17 votes

  9. Comment on Neuromuscular aim assist in ~games

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    Passable in absolute term but not very good. I lacked some essential technical skills to complete the project and my supervisor wasn't able to point me to effective resource and/or libraries for...

    How well did your thesis pan out?

    Passable in absolute term but not very good. I lacked some essential technical skills to complete the project and my supervisor wasn't able to point me to effective resource and/or libraries for some of the stuff he wanted me to implement - he wanted me to implement a PID controller for my arm from scratch (everything in Labview) and directly go beyond the 1D PoC with a quaternion representation of the orientation of the arm; alas PID controllers and quaternion was not something I studied and I developed a severe allergy to Labview.

    is this realistic or is he pullin' our leg?

    That's plausible but in a typical youtuber fashion he's probably overdoing it with the stimulation parameter and going over the pain threshold, with a simple algorithm that's like "maximum stimulation until crosshair is on target". Without pain IIRC we can only stimulate a muscle at 50% or so of what we can do naturally.

    I thiiiiiiiiink his up/left/down/right setup is a bit of and oversimplification ? For the left/right movement there's a pair of muscle that good for it (try to wave and make a hello gesture by moving only the wrist) but for a forward/backward movement it's a combination of several muscles. But I might be wrong and anatomy is not my strong suit.

    3 votes

  10. Comment on $30K Ford EV truck due in 2027 with much-simpler production process in ~transport

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    Isn't that the ID.3?

    One I’d like to see make a comeback is the EV version of VW’s Golf.

    Isn't that the ID.3?

  11. Comment on Neuromuscular aim assist in ~games

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    IIRC with NMES you're not recruiting directly the muscle fibers but rather the nerves that control them. While you can recruit more nerves with more current (some nerve fibers are buried deeper)...

    He mentions turning it up, does he push more current through? Does that really speed up his movement or is that necessary to send the signal deep enough into muscle tissue?

    IIRC with NMES you're not recruiting directly the muscle fibers but rather the nerves that control them. While you can recruit more nerves with more current (some nerve fibers are buried deeper) there's only so much fibers you can recruit. At some point you might get unwanted nerves. Also: the pain threshold is often under the maximum recruitment current. In other words: maximum stimulation will hurt for sure. While I'm sure he's playing up a bit for YouTube, it's not completely irrealistic.

    Source: I made basically the same experiment (although 1D, and no Counter Strike) for my Master's thesis 8 years ago.

    1 vote

  12. Comment on How many remakes have ever actually lived up to or surpassed the original? in ~movies

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    True Lies is a competent blockbuster and certainly amps up the action part (I mean, the Harrier?) while La Totale goes more into comedy. It also helps that Thierry Lhermitte is known to play...

    True Lies is a competent blockbuster and certainly amps up the action part (I mean, the Harrier?) while La Totale goes more into comedy. It also helps that Thierry Lhermitte is known to play ordinary men (or at best attractive men, but he's no Vandamme) while Schwarzenegger... is Schwarzenegger, so the setup that the protagonist is a James bond type spy hits harder with La Totale.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on I spent months living with smart glasses. People talk to me differently now. in ~tech

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    I initially thought of a grocery list, but then I realised that an always-on reminder/checklist have a nice range of application: measurement for wood working, sheet music when learning a new...

    I initially thought of a grocery list, but then I realised that an always-on reminder/checklist have a nice range of application: measurement for wood working, sheet music when learning a new tune, recipe when cooking, talking point when doing a speech...

    4 votes

  14. Comment on Recommendations for a obscure newer games in ~games

  15. Comment on How social media shortens your life in ~tech

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    They also argue that novel have "sharp angles" where it's easy to leave (chapters or just the end of the book) whereas tiktok/shorts are infinite streams with minimal interruption between content....

    They also argue that novel have "sharp angles" where it's easy to leave (chapters or just the end of the book) whereas tiktok/shorts are infinite streams with minimal interruption between content.

    As for video-game, it depends on the type? Some of them are organized like novel, other have more of this infinite-with-minimal-interruption-quality (Flip flop Solitaire and Threes are this for me, whereas I can more easily easily break of Nonogram Katana once I've finished my daily 15x15).

    5 votes

  16. Comment on Denmark zoo asks people to donate their small pets as food for captive predators – pets will be “gently euthanized” by trained staff in ~life.pets

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    Someone close to me is a cat and dog vet in a smallish town in Switzerland. She says that in term of willingness to provide care, there a big difference between city and country side (city dweller...

    My only thought is that such a request would play differently than in North America where pet's are extensions of the family.

    Someone close to me is a cat and dog vet in a smallish town in Switzerland. She says that in term of willingness to provide care, there a big difference between city and country side (city dweller are more prone to pay for care and go further than people in the countryside). Irrespective of that, there's also a difference between people taking pets as toys for the kids, and people taking pets as substitution children (you can observe that with how they name their pets : common name are the former while sophisticated name are the latter).

    6 votes

  17. Comment on I am new to Mac OS, give me your favorite or preferred settings/ tools! in ~tech

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    With the dock on the left and an app that also does stuff on the side (vscode, or a Web browser with the tab on the side), you'll have a nice hierarchy of content (app>context>data). With the dock...

    With the dock on the left and an app that also does stuff on the side (vscode, or a Web browser with the tab on the side), you'll have a nice hierarchy of content (app>context>data).

    With the dock on the right it looks like the american date format.

    1 vote

  18. Comment on I am new to Mac OS, give me your favorite or preferred settings/ tools! in ~tech

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    Welcome to the Church of the Bitten Fruit. If you're doing technical work, I hope you will enjoy the significant speed bump compared to the other side. Feel free to look at a previous thread I...

    Welcome to the Church of the Bitten Fruit. If you're doing technical work, I hope you will enjoy the significant speed bump compared to the other side.

    Feel free to look at a previous thread I created that asked the same thing ; you'll find similar recommendations.

    Nonetheless, where's some of my suggestions :

    • Put your dock to the left. You're going to gain some valuable vertical screen real estate
    • Fancy windows/app switching with Exposé and Space is significantly smoother and snapper than their Windows counterpart (Taskview with Win+Tab). Use threm!
    2 votes

  19. Comment on Calgary brings fluoride back to its drinking water in ~health

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    Maybe iodine in salt is a challenger? "Crétin des Alpes" (cretins from the alps) is now just a creative way to insult someone instead of a genuine condition.

    Maybe iodine in salt is a challenger? "Crétin des Alpes" (cretins from the alps) is now just a creative way to insult someone instead of a genuine condition.

    24 votes

  20. Comment on Explain Linux controversies to me in ~tech

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    Under the guise of research about how Linux respond to malicious actor, some people from this university knowingly submitted faulty/malicious patches to the Linux kernel, and that without...

    Something about a university being banned from contributing to Linux

    Under the guise of research about how Linux respond to malicious actor, some people from this university knowingly submitted faulty/malicious patches to the Linux kernel, and that without notifying anyone. So they were (rightfully) treated as a treat and doubly so because of their dubious behavior.

    26 votes