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New comment by chupasaurus in "New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater"

chupasaurus — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:05:28 +0000

> Japanese car manufacturers were late to EVs ... they lobby the government to subsidize and create a new market segment in the form of hydrogen cars

Production of Toyota Prius started 28 years ago.

New comment by chupasaurus in "Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer"

chupasaurus — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:33:15 +0000

Perfect fourth could be achieved via natural harmonics at 5th and 7th frets, double octave is just the 5th fret and voila you can get the standard tuning. Inapplicable for necks without a precise position of frets, good luck compensating height differences from nut and gauges with intonation tuners.

New comment by chupasaurus in "EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs"

chupasaurus — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:28:26 +0000

Russian "bot farms" are investigated quite well. Usually they operate in Russian-speaking sides of platforms but sometimes they go "foreign". I agree that impact of those might be exaggerated but it's hard to measure in the first place.

New comment by chupasaurus in "I learned Unity the wrong way"

chupasaurus — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:27:10 +0000

The problem with submodules in your scenario might be the mutual dependency of repos, everything else is just extra work with git config.

New comment by chupasaurus in "I learned Unity the wrong way"

chupasaurus — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:13:22 +0000

It's literally made for this specific case.

edit: removed stupid hack that wouldn't work.

New comment by chupasaurus in "I learned Unity the wrong way"

chupasaurus — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:13:38 +0000

> If you have depedent projects, they should either be in a monorepo, or delivered through a packaging system so they are not depend on the specific local naming of other repos.

Git submodules is a thing ...

New comment by chupasaurus in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

chupasaurus — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:15:33 +0000

1) Dnsmasq, you don't need the whole PiHole for that.

2) You're advising security through obscurity instead of a network namespace + firewall.

New comment by chupasaurus in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

chupasaurus — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:53:48 +0000

They removed all UT games from online stores and added UT 3X which is a free version of UT3 with Epic Online Services baked instead of original ones.

The only way one could legally get UT99 is to buy physical. And it's been like that for many years prior to an event above, which also disabled the server browser after 22 years of running intact.

New comment by chupasaurus in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

chupasaurus — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:30:42 +0000

That glorified wrapper is made on Unreal Engine.

New comment by chupasaurus in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

chupasaurus — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:18:52 +0000

GOG was bought out by the founder precisely because it became a decent money-shredder after CD Projekts were merged.

New comment by chupasaurus in "Migrating to the EU"

chupasaurus — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:50:47 +0000

Yeah, and ARM is based outside of EU, just across La Manche and Irish Sea.

New comment by chupasaurus in "Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam"

chupasaurus — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:44:57 +0000

Ever heard of little games called Diablo 1 and 2? People spent billions of hours playing those on displays with framerates faster than 25 for 2 decades.

New comment by chupasaurus in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

chupasaurus — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:31:04 +0000

I can attest that switch to DST was felt as a curse during winters in Moscow.

New comment by chupasaurus in "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"

chupasaurus — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 05:59:07 +0000

The full phrase is older than Demon Souls.

New comment by chupasaurus in "Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study"

chupasaurus — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 03:21:05 +0000

The study is about NOx levels which have nothing to do with tires or brakes.

New comment by chupasaurus in "A better zip bomb (2019)"

chupasaurus — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:14:01 +0000

(2019) with last update in 2023.

New comment by chupasaurus in "Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business"

chupasaurus — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:18:40 +0000

Mostly R&D.

New comment by chupasaurus in "I don’t need a Steam Machine"

chupasaurus — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 14:50:36 +0000

> But you can't upgrade graphics/cpu AFAIR

It's a laptop APU with graphics card moved to a daughter board, hence "semi-custom".

New comment by chupasaurus in "Preventing Kubernetes from pulling the pause image from the internet"

chupasaurus — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:07:35 +0000

> A user of the CRI should not have to care about this implementation detail.

This detail is implemented by K8s, not a container runtime. User has to care about the source of it due to supply chain attacks, though.

> Any CRI that needs a pause executable should come with one.

Which would introduce a simultaneous update across different projects, which is a problem harder than a line of config.

New comment by chupasaurus in "When Soviet-made cars roamed Singapore roads"

chupasaurus — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:42:40 +0000

Considering reliability and quality of those tanks and missile platforms - it wouldn't be better.