PetitPrince

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by PetitPrince 13d ago
> The Web thing which lets you drag a country or economy over any other and see how Mercator stuffs up their relative sizes is brilliant for getting a sense why people want this. It's called "The True Size Of..." https:&#
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by PetitPrince 13d ago
My youtube feed gets a decent amount of recommendation from channels such as Mossy Earth, Plant Wild, etc. that showcase some nature restauration project. While I cannot help myself to be a bit skeptical of those efforts (how really sustain
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by PetitPrince 13d ago
It will probably never happen, but maybe it's a way to facilitate the creation of traffic calming infrastructures (chicane, bump)? There's not better way to reduce the average speed than being forced to pay attention to not ruin y
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by PetitPrince 15d ago
Neat ! It would be interesting to have some filters; I'm mainly interested in genre (more romance is Paris ? more fantasy in Iceland ?), box office earnings (are all blockbusters in Hollywood / Vancouver ?) and review.
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by PetitPrince 20d ago
I don't think it's fair to conflagrate "Europe" as a single entity. From what I'm reading and my distant recollection: - In London you top up your Oyster card and pay a fare according to the zone your travelling to.
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by PetitPrince 26d ago
Since they rely on curves for the sitting surface, they should have done a proper saddle chair shape instead. The current design prioritize the manufacturer/corporation over the user/human. This is a failure on my book.
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by PetitPrince 27d ago
The actual game is playable in uour browser on archive.org https://archive.org/details/TETRIS_201612 It's not an old version of Tetris, so many of the niceties of modern Tetris are absents. Up to rotate irks me (b
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by PetitPrince 28d ago
I think you're correct, but only if you add "for a given environment". It's good to develop the ability to store super efficiently fat when you're a Pacific Islander and food is scarce, but this advantageous trait
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by PetitPrince 28d ago
Antibiotic resistance happens all the time (at least in our artificial world) and it's a life or death situation for the bacteria. But you were probably asking for multicellular eukaryote organism; you may be interested in the concept
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by PetitPrince 1mo ago
Are microplastic produced predominantly by plastic leaching out of objects, or is it coming from garbage that got mechanically pulverized, UVized, and contaminating water sources ?
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by PetitPrince 1mo ago
So is Firefox doing a full rendering then scaling, or is it also doing a partial rendering but in another way? You're only telling one side of the story.
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by PetitPrince 1mo ago
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is a very solid metroidvania that nails the cultural aspect. There's even a well produced farsi dub!
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by PetitPrince 1mo ago
Resident Evil 4 famously had a hidden dynamic difficulty setting that made the game easier if the player struggled. I think it worked because RE4 is a linear / ambiance based game. The game designer wants the player to progress in th
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by PetitPrince 1mo ago
Indeed, my autocorrect and lack of rereading is to blame.
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by PetitPrince 1mo ago
Its cheating because you don't have to think about focusing your lens. At f/8 you have a reasonable hyper-local distance, and so for instance everything from 2m to infinity is sufficiently sharp. This kind of advice was given befo
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by PetitPrince 1mo ago
Zigbee: You can buy vendor independant bridge / antenna and vendor independant automation server (Home Assistant being the most popular). I guess a bridge vendor could pull the rug on the antenna ("your Sonoff zigbee antenna is no
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by PetitPrince 1mo ago
So this interpret the sidebar as a temporary UI element (like a popover window), but for me I'd rather interpret the sidebar as a constant element (like the sidebar of Windows Explorer). And indeed I'm using Firefox with Tree Styl
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by PetitPrince 1mo ago
"Vancouver never plays itself" as Tony Zhao and Taylor Ramos explain in on of their later Every Frame a Painting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojm74VGsZBU
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by PetitPrince 1mo ago
Because people like the fish flavor ? Same reason we use tomato paste instead of a MSG + food coloring or parmesan instead of MSG + some protein I would say.
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by PetitPrince 2mo ago
Are you describing what Mapillary is doing ? It's a crowdsourced street level imagery provider (owned by Facebook since 2020, but still contributing to OSM), but they do auto-detection of feature (you can see that in the online OSM edi
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by PetitPrince 2mo ago
Meta: your first paragraph could really use a quotation indicator / mark. I suspect it was intentional: the ragebait was very effective on me before reading the rest of your comment (I was ready for defend my usage of tailscale to acce
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by PetitPrince 2mo ago
I guess a good amount of the HN crowd would say that this can be replicated from within Home Assistant (probably with some LLM help) with the added benefit of even better hardware freedom (from cheap Aliexpress soil sensor and/or sprin
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by PetitPrince 2mo ago
NES Tetris have memory système that tries to repetition. As per Tetris wiki: > The randomizer features a slight protection against direct repetition. The first roll generates a value 0-7 and will accept and deal on any value other than t
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by PetitPrince 3mo ago
Yes, for instance science communication is a whole field. Otherwise we wouldn't hold Carl Sagan et al. in such high regard.
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by PetitPrince 3mo ago
My pedant self stands corrected. I wonder if some crazy people made a reverse praxinoscope now.
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by PetitPrince 3mo ago
My constraint was a tongue-and-cheek "use as little technology as possible" (like what was available in 1999). I think nowaydays it's still more economical to do one pass of photogrammetry on your talent then do a mocap and a
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by PetitPrince 3mo ago
To add to the other comments if you have the idea to use multiple camera to make the same effect but at a higher quality (and if you somehow sort how the synchronisation problem), then congrats ! You have invented bullet time, as demonstrat
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by PetitPrince 3mo ago
That's cool ! Kind reminder that you can be disabled and still kick ass in videogames. I have in mind Brolylegs (RIP) [1] who ranked very well in competitive Street Fighter 4, despite having to play with his literal face. [1] https:&#
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by PetitPrince 3mo ago
Yeah it uses a tiny ceramic heating element to heat the bite area up to uncomfortable temperature. It's supposed to denature the toxin and/or counter inflammation. Either way it does reduce moskito itchiness with me.
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by PetitPrince 3mo ago
Streetcomplete can filter the map with a variety of filters for features you can edit or complete(Street lighting, Surfaces, Sidewalks, Bike paths, Street parking, Addresses, Places, Things, Buildings). Plus there's some specific &quot

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