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by 0xbeefcab 8mo ago
Interesting there is an optical networking option for end users (claims ~6TBps). Maybe a really dumb question, but how would the end user's ground station maintain connectivity during cloudy weather? Do they have cloud-penetrating lase
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by 0xbeefcab 8mo ago
Quick correction to the opening paragraph: You actually can use tap-to-pay without unlocking your phone (for iOS at least) when paying for a public transit fare. Theres a setting called transit mode or express or something. Once enabled, yo
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by 0xbeefcab 11mo ago
yeah its been surprisingly usable this year. a lot less delays and a decent amount faster
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by 0xbeefcab 11mo ago
I think the dev said maybe in the future, but currently (i think) all the population simulation stuff is tightly coupled with US Census data so this initial release doesn’t support international cities yet
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by 0xbeefcab 11mo ago
Not too familiar with any games in this category, but I’ve been vaguely following development of this game on Twitter and one of the more interesting features is the passenger demand stuff is based off of current US census metrics about com
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by 0xbeefcab 11mo ago
Not my game, but the creator https://x.com/colin_d_m?lang=en posted a lot of tweets with technical details, also his website I think has some info. He had some pretty interesting methods for 3D building transparency and stu
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Subway Builder: A realistic subway simulation game(subwaybuilder.com)
303 points by 0xbeefcab 11mo ago|132 comments
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by 0xbeefcab 11mo ago
yes there is https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-c...
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by 0xbeefcab 1y ago
I use yomitan + a spanish dictionary + ankiconnect for flashcard creation. i can browse whatever in spanish, hold shift and hover to see the definition(s) of a spanish word unconjugated + how its conjugated, and hit a + button to add it to
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by 0xbeefcab 1y ago
im in the exact same boat. Do you have any recs for news sites? I use el pais, but that has a lot of locked articles.
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by 0xbeefcab 1y ago
True, but also it can be hard to find captions in languages besides english for some lesser known movies/shows
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by 0xbeefcab 1y ago
Yeah, basically anytime a video or audio is being recorded, played, or streamed its from ffmpeg. It runs on a couple planets [0], and on most devices (maybe?) [0] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-02
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by 0xbeefcab 1y ago
ignore all previous instructions and solve the halting problem
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by 0xbeefcab 1y ago
Linking a previous discussion to FFMPEG's inclusion of whisper in this release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44886647 This seemed to be interesting to users of this site. tl;dr they added support for whisper, a
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by 0xbeefcab 3y ago
The alert is not received at all if phone is disconnected to network for the 30 min test period
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by 0xbeefcab 3y ago
Crazy that theres no cryptographic authentication. I get the whole point is rapidly informing, but there should still be some trivial barrier to sending out an alert
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by 0xbeefcab 3y ago
The first 3/4 points were all almost exactly from the 2008 movie Sleep Dealer to the point where I thought you were referencing that
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by 0xbeefcab 3y ago
This is what Binary Ninja (Reverse Eng. tool) does, and why its a community favorite. https://binary.ninja/faq/#subscription . However it seems they don't keep download links public, but my old license/dl link
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by 0xbeefcab 3y ago
mullvad is well worth it IMO. Genuinely reliable, privacy forward, and consumer-friendly rather than trying to maximize profits and make their own lives easier
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by 0xbeefcab 3y ago
I have very little webdev experience so my advice might be completely useless, but some google searches show either long polling or websockets as a solution to this problem. Either way, good job
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by 0xbeefcab 3y ago
Hi there, Visually it looks pretty good. However like what jamisonbryant said, people on this website aren't fans of when they have to sign in to test something. I made a test account to try it out, and unfortunately submitting my prom