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New comment by lentil_soup in "C++20 Improved the For-Loop Syntax"

lentil_soup — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:34:16 +0000

and completely unnecessary in that example, it's a string, type string, makes it way easier to understand

Fenris Creations (FKA CCP Games) Opens Carbon Engine to the World

lentil_soup — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:30:40 +0000

Article URL: https://fenris.com/news/2026/fenris-creations-opens-carbon-engine-to-the-world

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747457

Points: 2

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New comment by lentil_soup in "Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV"

lentil_soup — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:57:10 +0000

I think people are misunderstanding. This is a car for Mexico, nothing to do with the US.

On the website it says it's a car "designed in Mexico for Mexico" https://www.olinia.auto/

New comment by lentil_soup in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

lentil_soup — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:21:43 +0000

Because it's not so cleanly cut. Editing a level might touch several files without you realising, you might move a mesh file which causes 100s of references to update across 100s of files.

For example, you want several people collaborating on a level. Say a level designer, an artist, a lighting person, audio. Usually you split this into several files to allow for the collab but you're bound to hit moments where you need to edit across the board. The level designer moves an area which causes the light, audio, meshes to move. If you don't have a way of knowing someone else is working on those files you're going to step on a lot of toes.

Whether this should live separately from source control is a fair question, but it's just a simple place for it as it's tied directly to the files.

Also, the outcome of a mistake is quite high, it could mean a whole day or two (a week?) of wasted work because you didn't realise someone was also editing the same file.

New comment by lentil_soup in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

lentil_soup — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:06:54 +0000

No, I meant the locking. Being able to branch a lock so you can edit an asset in a feature branch and then discard it (or force a merge)

New comment by lentil_soup in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

lentil_soup — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:22:50 +0000

to be fair, that's just the desktop client. You can use or build on top of the CLI

they do say they will open source it, but who knows:

"It isn’t open source yet—it currently depends on some proprietary components, including Epic’s internal design system—but we’re committed to open-sourcing it in the future"

New comment by lentil_soup in "Epic Games announces Lore version control system"

lentil_soup — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:05:58 +0000

don't think it supports branches

it's also tough when you have 1TB of data, over 1mm files and you might want to lock hundreds files in one go

'The Antarctic is the last frontier': the quest to save Shackleton's Endurance

lentil_soup — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:51:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/15/shackleton-endurance-shipwrecks-global-heating-antarctic-underwater-protected-area

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552435

Points: 5

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Microsoft weighing up spinning off Xbox

lentil_soup — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:00:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/report-microsoft-weighing-up-spinning-off-xbox

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540043

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by lentil_soup in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

lentil_soup — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:06:40 +0000

Some festivals work just like that, you upload some ID when buying your ticket which they see when you enter the venue. Feels really nice and stress free.

New comment by lentil_soup in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

lentil_soup — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:48:41 +0000

will depend on how it's implemented, you could end up paying via a QR code, contact less NFC, a phone number, the web. I think it could open up a lot of innovation

New comment by lentil_soup in "What Is Date:Italy?"

lentil_soup — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:11:44 +0000

for what is worth, I actually liked the shaded links, they made me smile :)

New comment by lentil_soup in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

lentil_soup — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:33:28 +0000

This is a great point! And not only a compiler behind a subscription, it's also a compiler whose financial interests are not aligned to be the best compiler but the one that makes the most money, which is unclear what it means at this moment. Will it have ads? Will it give preference to some technology over another? Will it steal your code? It's an unreliable and opaque compiler!

Name in Landsat

lentil_soup — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:33:34 +0000

Article URL: https://science.nasa.gov/specials/your-name-in-landsat/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039856

Points: 1

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After Spain's blackout, its shift to renewables and grid evolution power on

lentil_soup — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:55:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/blackout-spain-renewable-energy-grid-solar-wind

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936236

Points: 96

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New comment by lentil_soup in "United Wizards of the Coast"

lentil_soup — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:30:01 +0000

> Nothing critical is lost if a video game team stops working. Society doesnt need it and there are lots of alternatives.

A union represents workers in a company, nothing to do with society. If workers strike the company stops making money, that's their leverage

New comment by lentil_soup in "Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings collection can only mock"

lentil_soup — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:24:24 +0000

potentially, you're right, anecdotally many artists I've known and worked with have always liked and sought those notebooks

New comment by lentil_soup in "Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings collection can only mock"

lentil_soup — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:16:26 +0000

I think a lot of people are misunderstanding this.

This is not some random tie-in to the LOTR franchise. Moleskine used to be one of the main notebooks for artists for a long time, and as the article mentions some of their notebooks have featured artists in their cover, their manifesto is all about "timeless power of handwriting" and "put pen to paper, and unleash your unique voice", etc. Having a company with that reputation and those connections to the art world just go with some AI slop for this collaboration is a slap to the face to its own users for potentially selling some notebooks to unsuspecting LOTR fans.

It's the enshittification of a brand once loved by artists.

New comment by lentil_soup in "Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings collection can only mock"

lentil_soup — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:10:22 +0000

> The market will definitely make the decision here

I don't understand this, the market is not a divine entity, you can choose to be passive about it and let others decide, but there's nothing wrong with people pushing "the market" towards what they see is right. Big corporations do it already so it's perfectly fine for people to call attention on this, campaign against it, etc ... which is what this article is doing

Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings collection can only mock

lentil_soup — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:19:06 +0000

Article URL: https://cjleo.com/blog/moleskine-ai-lord-of-the-rings-collection-can-only-mock/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919386

Points: 74

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