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New comment by Cordiali in "WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale"

Cordiali — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:24:02 +0000

It's just the natural evolution of AI into a crab.

New comment by Cordiali in "CachyOS June 2026 Release"

Cordiali — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:53:40 +0000

Most of the games I play are resource management or base/city building games. I haven't bothered checking if a game works in the last few years, I just fork over my money at this point.

I think the closest to a AAA game was Anno 1800 and Mount&Blade Bannerlord, both worked fine. All the current popular city builders work fine (eg. Timberborn, Foundation, Manor Lords). A lot of the games I play are early access too, or the pre-release stream.

The one game that didn't work was Bongo Cat, which is free anyway. The devs are working on an X11 version though, and it's practically a whimsical keylogger, so it might not appeal to fans of Linux anyway!

New comment by Cordiali in "WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution"

Cordiali — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:33:05 +0000

I'm guessing they're thinking of the word 'money'.

New comment by Cordiali in "First lab-grown T-Rex leather handbag unveiled in Amsterdam could fetch €575,000"

Cordiali — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:28:58 +0000

Let's have a moment of silence for the hair follicles of future archaeologists.

New comment by Cordiali in "ArXiv declares independence from Cornell"

Cordiali — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:33:09 +0000

I've never even connected the 'X' to the Greek letter chi. I just kinda accepted it as one of many groovy web 2.0 misspellings in search of a domain and trademark.

New comment by Cordiali in "Small U.S. town, big company. Can it weather the tariff Blizzard? (Digi-Key) (2025)"

Cordiali — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:57:15 +0000

The accounting of it all would be far from trivial.

New comment by Cordiali in "Optophone"

Cordiali — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:11:39 +0000

You might be interested to read about whistled languages, which is pretty close to that idea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language

New comment by Cordiali in "The Perils of ISBN"

Cordiali — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:20:36 +0000

I know Norwegian also has two different written standards, found an example that demonstrates it:

>English: I will not tell anyone the secret.

>Bokmål: Jeg skal ikke fortelle hemmeligheten til noen.

>Nynorsk: Eg skal ikkje fortelja løyndomen til nokon.

Source: https://www.visitnorway.com/typically-norwegian/norwegian-la...

New comment by Cordiali in "MenuetOS – a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk"

Cordiali — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 01:05:43 +0000

I'd assume you can get USB floppy drives for 3½" disks pretty cheaply. I think I might've even seen that in my BIOS settings as an option.

New comment by Cordiali in "430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found"

Cordiali — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:56:44 +0000

Perhaps it's always been burning, since the world's been turning?

New comment by Cordiali in "Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?"

Cordiali — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:46:37 +0000

I vaguely remember something like that happened during the Egyptian revolution/Tahrir Square protests.

New comment by Cordiali in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

Cordiali — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 07:34:13 +0000

I noticed a similar thing for Python 3 questions, closed as a duplicate of a Python 2 response. Why they weren't collated and treated as a living document is beyond me.

New comment by Cordiali in "Show HN: Frockly – A visual editor for understanding complex Excel formulas"

Cordiali — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 04:24:17 +0000

You can also put the lambda function inside the let function, which is handy.

Also, almost everyone should be using tables instead of ranges. The references are missing a few features, but it makes formulas a brazillion times more readable.

New comment by Cordiali in "Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri"

Cordiali — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 06:08:30 +0000

> He had special glasses with a special lens to read.

Bifocals, I'm guessing.

New comment by Cordiali in "I love AI. Why doesn't everyone?"

Cordiali — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:55:53 +0000

Not sure about love, but I like it at least, it's useful to me. But it's like a frozen TV dinner, not something worth bringing up.

New comment by Cordiali in "Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts"

Cordiali — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:10:13 +0000

People in the past couldn't get a diagnosis, so they had to settle for cirrhosis.

New comment by Cordiali in "'The French people want to save us': help pours in for glassmaker Duralex"

Cordiali — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:48:49 +0000

Jam jars were way more common. As a kid, I might've seen one Vegemite jar for every twenty or so jam jars.

New comment by Cordiali in "Rules for creating good-looking user interfaces"

Cordiali — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:20:00 +0000

Whenever I read some of these design articles, I usually see this same glaring issue. Without any distinction, they'll present together a grab bag of objective facts, best practices, and simple conventions.

There's nothing objective about using ctrl+s for save, but it's an obvious best practice. So not following can be considered bad design fairly uncontroversially.

The two you mentioned are obviously not in that category. I take issue with the logo one especially, because I find the style of the "bad design" better and more functional.

>[...] I’m probably the only one who noticed that it’s calmer.

Ugh.

New comment by Cordiali in "This map is not upside down"

Cordiali — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 06:34:23 +0000

That's what the European sequential method is. We have that in Australia, odd numbers are on the left, even on the right.

...Although sometimes it's the opposite, from before it was standardised.

New comment by Cordiali in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

Cordiali — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 02:27:59 +0000

I'd think passive recognition of a fair few states would be a pretty low bar for relatively educated, English-speaking people. It's a pretty low bar, just placing a region with its country. People also regularly just assume that level of knowledge for globally- or culturally-relevant cities.

Maybe I think too highly of people, but I'd also imagine most would be able to get say... 6/10 right, for which countries the following list is from:

- Flanders

- Nova Scotia

- Brandenburg

- Guangzhou

- Tasmania

- Minas Gerais

- Catalonia

- Chechnya

- West Bengal

- Bali