Hacker News: Zitrax

New comment by Zitrax in "NetHack 5.0.0"

Zitrax — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:20:24 +0000

What happened to version 4? Looks like last release was 3.6.7.

New comment by Zitrax in "First images from Euclid are in"

Zitrax — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 13:04:41 +0000

I guess properly is important there, in reality certain initial orderings are more common and we use certain techniques for shuffling with our hands making it less random than "properly".

New comment by Zitrax in "Git-absorb: Git commit –fixup, but automatic"

Zitrax — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 05:58:11 +0000

I assume you refer to https://github.com/torbiak/git-autofixup. I have also used it, and its ok but not perfect.

New comment by Zitrax in "Show HN: Coros – A Modern C++ Library for Task Parallelism"

Zitrax — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:57:18 +0000

You can see in the repository that it was benchmarked against oneTBB.

New comment by Zitrax in "Halide rejected from App Store because it doesn't explain why it takes photos"

Zitrax — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:50:08 +0000

That was my first thought as well, "The camera will be used to take photographs" seem pointless, if it's a camera app it's obvious if it's not it does not help the reviewer.

New comment by Zitrax in "Mystery as 4k-year-old axe-heads sent to museum"

Zitrax — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:50:48 +0000

I don't think you can date the axe-heads from the material? I assume they date based on objects found nearby and the technique used to make them. Which is also why knowing the exact location is important.

New comment by Zitrax in "Jia Tan "JiaT75": Added error text to warning when untaring with bsdtar (2021)"

Zitrax — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 12:58:03 +0000

Recent is relative, the latest comment is from April 2024, not something that popped up today.

New comment by Zitrax in "Fractal Geometry"

Zitrax — Tue, 28 May 2024 08:36:12 +0000

Some comparison between fractal compression and jpeg here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.5555/364682.364685

New comment by Zitrax in "Air pollution over Alberta oil sands up to 6,300% higher than reported"

Zitrax — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 13:35:10 +0000

Seem to be different studies and measurements - so both.

New comment by Zitrax in "Animated AI"

Zitrax — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 18:14:11 +0000

134 MB to be exact.

New comment by Zitrax in "Researchers identify largest ever solar storm in 14k-year-old tree rings"

Zitrax — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 22:13:55 +0000

From the abstract: "The resulting Δ14C record exhibits an abrupt spike occurring in a single year at 14 300–14 299 cal yr BP and a century-long event between 14 and 13.9 cal kyr BP."

New comment by Zitrax in "Egregoria: 3D City Builder without a grid"

Zitrax — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 14:32:48 +0000

Looks interesting - I tried to build it but got:

[ 2176412 ERROR C:\Users\user\.cargo\registry\src\index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f\wgpu-0.16.0\src\backend\direct.rs:1174] Shader translation error for stage ShaderStages(NONE | FRAGMENT): FXC D3DCompile error (0x80004005): C:\Users\user\git\Egregoria\called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value(432,18-24): error X3005: 'ddx': identifier represents a variable, not a function

(Windows 10)

New comment by Zitrax in "Finland introduces the world’s first phone-free tourist island"

Zitrax — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 08:13:31 +0000

I don't have the full overview, but there are new "dumb" phones made that has 4G/5G, no? (Nokia 8210 seem to be one example, Punkt MP02 another)

New comment by Zitrax in "Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage"

Zitrax — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 06:44:12 +0000

WizTree (https://diskanalyzer.com/) on Windows seem to be faster than other tools I tried.

New comment by Zitrax in "Stable Diffusion 2.0"

Zitrax — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 08:27:50 +0000

It confused me that the letter boxes were divided in 7+3, thus I thought it would be two words while the correct answer was a single 10 letter word. Maybe try to avoid wrapping words.

New comment by Zitrax in "Show HN: A color picker for named web colors"

Zitrax — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 16:52:54 +0000

Related discussion with no definite answer: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/247129/why-is-pe...

New comment by Zitrax in "Idiot Proof Git"

Zitrax — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:25:35 +0000

You could create an alias doing something like a "git commit --fixup " and then a "git rebase --autosquash ~".

New comment by Zitrax in "Idiot Proof Git"

Zitrax — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:16:33 +0000

I prefer rebasing too, but merging doesn't mean that you have to merge in all noisy minor fixups, you can combine the strategies and rebase the feature branch into a set of sensible commits, then merge that branch. Preferably even with a CI that checks each commit before merge such that it will not cause issues later during eventual bisections. --fixup and --autosquash are handy for such workflows.

New comment by Zitrax in "Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle"

Zitrax — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 07:22:53 +0000

I would prefer if that was not "auto" marked in that way, it felt nicer to try to think about each crossing. Perhaps something that could be turned on and off.

New comment by Zitrax in "Best command-line-only video games (2019)"

Zitrax — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 09:05:16 +0000

From https://freeholdgames.com/Press/:

  Caves of Qud is a project of epic proportions that began in 2007 and launched on Steam Early Access in 2015.