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New comment by savef in "Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks"

savef — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 21:07:03 +0000

What examples of this are there? I've usually found Wikipedia to be quite equal opportunity, well rounded, and factual.

They have their NPOV[1] policy, and seem impressively unbiased to me, given the various divisive situations they have to try to cover.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_v...

New comment by savef in "I Don't Have Spotify"

savef — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 18:58:26 +0000

Folks are saying Bandcamp, but surely that's only for the few indie artists that are on there (in comparison to the wider music ecosystem covered by Spotify). Please explain if I'm missing something here.

So I think a better answer is Qobuz[1], which I recently tried. I had a pleasant experience, where I downloaded DRM free FLAC files. I will use it again, but sparingly, as the cost adds up on top of the Spotify subscription and in comparison to piracy.

[1] https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/shop

New comment by savef in "When Make Can't Find Your Executable"

savef — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 01:00:44 +0000

Bravo! Great read.

I think you could consider reaching out to the Make project mailing list, to see if they would accept a patch to ensure the path is a valid file.

New comment by savef in "Every V4 UUID"

savef — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 09:28:49 +0000

I guess it's pretty subjective, but not all numeric types are signed, so I'm happy with my answer.

New comment by savef in "Every V4 UUID"

savef — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 23:49:40 +0000

I see what you mean, but I was going by the definition of "UUID" used on everyuuid.com. The UUID of 32 "f's" isn't in the list.

New comment by savef in "Every V4 UUID"

savef — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 23:16:47 +0000

The values are hexidecimal, so all "9s" isn't the biggest UUID, but all "f's". Specifically, I think: `ffffffff-ffff-4fff-bfff-ffffffffffff`.

The "4" in the 3rd block is the only permitted value as these UUIDs are using the GUIDv4 format. I'm not sure what's going on in the 4th block, but the references and linked RFC in the Wikipedia article might reveal more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#...

New comment by savef in "Title drops in movies"

savef — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 08:04:35 +0000

I was utterly disturbed by a story sent into the Kermode and Mayo radio show many years ago. The listener explained that their family went to the theatre, sat down in their seats to watch the film, and then upon the first utterance of the title of the film they would clap, stand up, and walk out.

I assume this to be a joke. I've never found any reference of anybody doing this online, or anybody even discussing this one story from the show. But holy shit does it make my skin crawl.

New comment by savef in "Relativistic Spaceship"

savef — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:35:43 +0000

I don't care so much about the physics side, it's just so bloody pretty. Is there anything like this that will play infinitely, with similar sliders to tweak the visuals? It'll look so good on an OLED.

New comment by savef in "Looo.lol – a binary math site"

savef — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 01:13:45 +0000

I'm gonna check this out - thanks.

I also play this one which I think was posted on HN a while ago: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=go.lang.bintri...

New comment by savef in "Show HN: Get any piece of Google Earth as a single normalized glTF 3D model"

savef — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:31:15 +0000

A couple of years ago Troy Hunt printed a map of where he lives in Gold Coast[0], using a separate piece of plastic underneath to show off the canal running by his house. I spent a while trying to replicate this and eventually gave up as I was missing way too many skills (as well as a printer). I might have another bash at it using this project - thanks!

As an aside, has anybody in the UK used a 3D printing service that they would recommend?

0: https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1460146136514134021

New comment by savef in "A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words (1860)"

savef — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 12:52:49 +0000

Are you American? Could you talk about some of the phrases and wordplay in here which didn't make sense to you?

As a British person, this reads very easily, to the point that I'm shocked it's over 200 years old.

New comment by savef in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

savef — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 22:55:35 +0000

This is no different to how many people behave on long haul flights anyway. Face mask on, eye mask on, ear plugs in. Isolated from everybody else as much as they can be, trying to sleep, and they manage it in isle seats.

Also, I remember TotalBiscuit talking about using an Oculus headset to watch films on a plane and it being a better experience than the screen in front for him (I don't quite remember why). So it's not a new concept and this device just makes it less cumbersome, I guess.

New comment by savef in "World of Goo Remastered"

savef — Wed, 24 May 2023 23:18:33 +0000

If you're looking for something to try I can recommend Into the Breach. As a turn-based strategy it works really nicely on a touch screen. I don't think I'm ever going to _get_ 3D realtime games played on a phone...

New comment by savef in "World of Goo Remastered"

savef — Wed, 24 May 2023 23:12:40 +0000

Yeah, I remember this trending as a sort of freeware/demo too.

More info: https://worldofgoo.fandom.com/wiki/Tower_of_Goo_(game)

New comment by savef in "I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney"

savef — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 15:30:25 +0000

Oh, I didn't know this. Thanks.

New comment by savef in "I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney"

savef — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 09:19:45 +0000

https://openai-openai-detector.hf.space/

Using this tool on the comment yields a 77.6% fake score. To give (pretty limited) contrast, a response from ChatGPT gives 99.9% fake, and another comment from this thread gives 0.1% fake.

I assume that means the comment text was GPT-assisted, with some moderate editing from a human.

New comment by savef in "Framework Laptop 16"

savef — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 12:48:27 +0000

Ha, that's an interesting take. My Dell work laptop has these (not full-sized) and I don't like them at all. There's nothing fun about trying to use the arrows and accidentally slipping onto a key that isn't usually there, which might scroll my cursor/window by a huge amount. My fingers expect no space there, so it makes the whole area less distinct to touch to have the spaces filled.

New comment by savef in "Please don’t film me in 2023"

savef — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 22:05:17 +0000

It's near the top of the article for me, but here you go: https://www.tiktok.com/@hot.shame/video/7133999030887140614

New comment by savef in "‘Why am I talking to 10 guys?’ The rise and fall of dating apps"

savef — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 11:21:37 +0000

>I absolutely hated the mandatory 1-3 days chatting

That's fascinating, as somebody who loves this period and thinks of it as a requirement to find out my compatibility with somebody before we go on an actual date. If you're not up to scratch on the initial few days of chatting then I have no interest in taking it further. And I appreciate that many people aren't interested in this, but then it just means the two of us aren't compatible, and that's fine.

New comment by savef in "Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News"

savef — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 11:41:26 +0000

Ah, mostly the same for me! (I'm very happy with it this way and wouldn't expect the site to change). But I do this on a couple of other text-heavy sites also, but not many.

So often a zoom will break complicated UI layouts and their JS interactions, so I appreciate the simplicity of this site allowing my user agent to customise my experience and still have it work.