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> > I don’t game, I try but idk just feels like work. > > I'm surprised by this [...] for the most part, just works

I read that as “playing computer games feels like work” rather than “getting games running feels like work”.


Ah that makes sense. Thanks!

I'm not sure why your quotes got mangled. Maybe it was because when I quote I use two leading spaces? I do that because it makes text verbatim but I think the indentation just helps distinguish the quote better than the > alone. There's also this one that I always forget <https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc>


Single-user, single-task, VGA text-mode operating system with a basic filesystem (fat12), I guess.

Note the “guest” username in the prompt is a const, not multi-user: https://github.com/krustowski/rou2exOS/blob/6f85955dd339f09d...


Yeah it looks like it needs to be assembled and written any time the kernel file's position on disk changes (`current_lba`), or different kernel cmdline is required.

I seem to remember having to do something similar with lilo… not hand-editing assembly, but running a command to rewrite the boot sector when the kernel moves on disk.


Yep: https://github.com/basecamp/gh-signoff/blob/0e402078ad1483cf...

  HTTP POST …/repos/:owner/:repo/statuses/${sha}
  state=success
  context=signoff
  description=${user} signed off


As other comments mentioned, the content is written in Markdown and rendered in the browser. So “blog with raw HTML” feels like a stretch... that said, View Source in the browser shows the exact HTML document that's presumably hand-written in the source repo [1], so I guess it comes down to the definition of “raw”. It could mean “not pre-processed”.

[1]: https://github.com/poga/devpoga.org/blob/58a202485cedeae9157...


> so I guess it comes down to the definition of “raw”.

And the definition of ”HTML”. Document is markdown.


There's a menubar UI that appears while the camera is in use, to control the digital zoom and pan/tilt; zooming all the way out to “0.5x” shows the extent that can be potentially in-frame.

Anecdotally, the auto-tracking Center Stage feature is more distracting than useful, and best turned off.


What you're describing sounds like sandboxing, which Wikipedia vaguely suggests is an existing anti-cheat technique:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating_in_online_games#Sandb...


Sometimes the best answer really is a faster Corolla!

https://www.toyota.com/grcorolla/

(These machines have amazing engineering and performance, and their entire existence is a hack to work around rules making it unviable to bring the intended GR Yaris to the US market.. Maybe just enough eng/perf/hack/market relevance to HN folk to warrant my lighthearted reply. Also, the company president is still on the tools.


There's no replacement for displacement.


Apparently there is, because that car only has a 1.6L 3-cylinder engine and yet produces a whopping 300 horsepower.


When? In the RPM sweet spot after waiting an eternity for the turbos to spool? There's always a catch.


I didn't expect to be writing this comment on this article hah, but apparently there is such a thing called a surge tank for storing boost pressure to mostly eliminate turbo lag:

https://www.highpowermedia.com/Archive/the-surge-tank

https://forums.tdiclub.com/index.php?threads/air-tank-or-com...

It's such an obvious idea that I'm kind of shocked it took them until 2003 to do it. Surely someone thought of this in like the 60s.

I would probably do it differently with a separate supercharger to intermittently maintain another 1-2+ bar of boost to make the tank less than half as large, but that would add complexity, and what do I know.


Afaik the general solutions to turbo lag are 1) a smaller turbo, 2) two turbos in stages, one spools earlier, the other later, 3) a transmission/differential/tune tailored to be in boost near-constantly during acceleration (something like a 10-speed cvt designed to keep you in high revs when accelerating in sport mode; not only keeps you in boost but is the ideal power band for these non-diesel boosted sports cars)


> 10-speed cvt

CVTs shouldn't even have a concept of "speeds". I absolutely hate how manufacturers will build cars with CVTs and then make them only go into discrete gear ratios. It completely destroys the entire reason for having a CVT.

I understand that they do it because people don't like how CVTs sound/feel, but maybe they should all have 3 modes:

1. Eco - optimizes gear ratio for maximum effeciency

2. Performance - optimizes for maximum power

3. Sport - pretends to be a normal transmission for a better "feel".


> If novelty in music is actually important to you, this won't happen to you.

Assuming what's "actually important to you" remains fixed as you age. The article suggests otherwise, with caveats:

> At the same time, stagnation is not a certainty. Research suggests that open-eardness and the discovery of new songs can be cultivated. Finding new music is a challenge, but it is achievable with dedicated time and effort.


Under the "Recreational Fun" heading at the bottom:

> Out shopping or sightseeing and need to leave Motocompacto outside? The steel welded lock loop on the kickstand is designed to be compatible with most bike locks.


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