dasKrokodil

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by dasKrokodil 29d ago
For me personally, the only valid use case for a foldable phone would be Nintendo DS/3DS emulation. Other than that.... meh, they suck.
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by dasKrokodil 1mo ago
> "Technologically, we are rapidly moving into an age where it is feasible to colonise the solar system, but there are those who would try to wall us into this planet using legal and political means." Is it really feasible thou
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by dasKrokodil 4mo ago
Speaking of cold weather and warming up computers... I've had my fair share of long bicycle commutes during cold winters and I always wondered whether booting up the laptop right after arriving has any effect on the long-term reliabili
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by dasKrokodil 4mo ago
Sure, visibility would be worse than on a normal truck, but no worse than a low sportscar (which is also road legal and no problem to drive). I don't think it would have been much of an issue.
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by dasKrokodil 4mo ago
This is very cool! And very impressive that it was made to work on PICO-8. A small nitpick: I'm pretty sure the sand worms wouldn't eat foot soldiers in the original, only vehicles.
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by dasKrokodil 4mo ago
> With this tunnel done, I believe Copenhagen to Hamburg will be less than three hours. Even when the tunnel will finally be done, Deutsche Bahn will find creative ways to make it take five hours again.
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by dasKrokodil 4mo ago
Great, I live in coastal northern Europe, so the question will be whether I'll freeze to death from AMOC shutting down, or drown from the rising sea levels. Maybe I should move to Switzerland or something.
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by dasKrokodil 5mo ago
If you're into folding bikes and recumbents, check out the prototype for the folding Baron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTsTKdqVTY8 It's a shame that it never went into production, but I guess at that time Opt
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by dasKrokodil 5mo ago
Not for a BMW though.
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by dasKrokodil 5mo ago
It's mildly interesting, but ultimately it's just a little greenwashing project. They even painted it green to make that clear :)
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by dasKrokodil 7mo ago
Funny; for me, a backlit keyboard is one of the most unnecessary features I can think of. Even for those who can't touch type, the keyboard is just inches away from the bright screen which sort of illuminates them.
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by dasKrokodil 7mo ago
Yeah, not to mention that you even needed to connect to their servers to play the fucking single player campaign. I hated that so much, and then it more or less became the standard for many AAA single player games to come...
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by dasKrokodil 7mo ago
Interesting... so, what is the most straight-forward and least shady way of investing in it?
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by dasKrokodil 8mo ago
> This is so obviously written by an LLM I can’t get past the first paragraph. When will this end? I'm not disagreeing, as you might very well be right, but... why exactly do you think this is written by LLM? I couldn't find an
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by dasKrokodil 8mo ago
> the land belongs to the one with the bigger guns, and a willingness to use it Not necessarily. USA certainly had bigger guns in Vietnam and Afghanistan, and yet they eventually had to retreat from both.
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by dasKrokodil 1y ago
I previously asked about how hard it would be to create a forgery and got a nice answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29173562#29175946 TLDR: it would be very hard, perhaps next to impossible to create one, and
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by dasKrokodil 1y ago
If anyone wants to have this style but in an actually usable keyboard, you can buy (at great expense) these keycaps and put them on whatever cherry-mx-compatible keyboard you like: https://spkeyboards.com/products/sa-ma
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by dasKrokodil 2y ago
Here in Germany, the somewhat paradox situation is that the right-wing party AfD has been pro-diesel and anti-ev for a long time, while it's usually the more progressive and/or left-leaning people who have been buying EVs. But now
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by dasKrokodil 2y ago
The new one is rumored to feature hall-effect sticks on the Joycons which would hopefully solve that issue.
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by dasKrokodil 2y ago
Yeah, and this might make first-person shooters and some strategy games play a lot nicer if (big if) it works well. Perhaps the next iteration of Mario Maker might also make use of it.
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by dasKrokodil 2y ago
I would like it if there was a hard mode, where every wrong keypress would spawn another enemy.
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by dasKrokodil 2y ago
Perhaps this should be kept in mind while rebuilding all those houses that were lost?
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House designed on Passive House principles survives Cali wildfire(old.reddit.com)
14 points by dasKrokodil 2y ago|6 comments
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by dasKrokodil 2y ago
I wonder whether the active ingredient in the betel nuts is the same substance that also causes the cancer? Because if not, maybe the problem could be solved by extracting or sythesizing the active ingredient.
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by dasKrokodil 2y ago
Let's see... nuclear power is super expensive, relies on finite uranium resources and there is no safe solution to store the waste. Do we really want to rely on this?
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by dasKrokodil 2y ago
I love that they want to recreate it, as I spent quite some time with the original when I was younger. However, right now it doesn't seem to run that well. I'm getting estimated framerates of around 5 fps on a M3 Macbook Pro, maki
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by dasKrokodil 2y ago
At the time I'm writing this, there are over 260 comments to this article and yours is still the only one that mentions the enormous energy consumption. I wonder whether this is because people don't know about it or because they s
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by dasKrokodil 2y ago
I also like https://www.typelit.io/ Makes me feel like I'm writing a book.
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by dasKrokodil 2y ago
I can appreciate the looks and the engineering, but it would drive me crazy to figure out the current date on that watch. I think readability is super important for watches, and at least for the date, this one isn't really that readabl
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by dasKrokodil 2y ago
I would like to see a study on the opposite case: give them free housing and see how many of them will then manage to get a job that pays at least 1000$ per month.

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