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New comment by chupasaurus in "NP-overrated"

chupasaurus — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:03:40 +0000

> I mean, installing packages and type checking can surely be slow. But, at least in my career, I've never seen a galactic blow-up.

Last time I had a galactic blow-up of apt solver (the final part of 64-bit time transition in Debian Testing) it was mere 2 GiB of memory per minute.

New comment by chupasaurus in "2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out"

chupasaurus — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:31:26 +0000

It was legal in USSR for USSR to scalp though, depends on point of view.

New comment by chupasaurus in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

chupasaurus — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:46:01 +0000

The source code repo is still on Epic's Github, not sure if everything else is that easy to get currently. The problem about picking it up by a 3rd party is the fun of getting approval on basically anything.

New comment by chupasaurus in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

chupasaurus — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:38:41 +0000

The people behind UT were reallocated to make Battle Royale mode for Fortnite which is the reason of the take off, not vice versa.

New comment by chupasaurus in "A big win for Android interoperability"

chupasaurus — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:21:23 +0000

Nah, some people are just having too much !fun! witch-hunting.

New comment by chupasaurus in "Unexpected Solidlike Fracture in Simple Liquids"

chupasaurus — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 07:59:24 +0000

Pitch is a viscoelastic polymer while simple fluids are non-elastic, that's the whole point.

New comment by chupasaurus in "My quest to see all of Tetris"

chupasaurus — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:08:06 +0000

Nope, piece selection in the unmodified NEStris uses only the player input to generate pieces and it also starts from the same seed, so frame-perfect inputs after loading the game will result in the exact same pieces. The first perfect level 18 run (only tetrises to score) was dismissed by community because it was made by replicating a TAS run with a suitable piece sequence.

New comment by chupasaurus in "Flipper One – we need your help"

chupasaurus — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:13:08 +0000

Then eat a pile of different dashes made by the same guy back in 2013 [0].

[0] https://habr.com/ru/articles/191654/

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.