Its used to indicate that someone of importance to the community has died.
Readit Newsrichardjam73 commented on Ask HN: What is thick black row above top of header? · Posted by u/guiambros
richardjam73 commented on The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying acko.net/blog/the-l-in-ll... · Posted by u/LorenDB
I think it says a lot about this opinion piece that the people agreeing with it are posting short comments saying "So true!" and "Great!" whilst the people criticizing it are writing paragraphs of well-spoken criticism.
Verbosity doesn't equate to correctness.
They already got the content blocked in Australia. The overstepping is demanding that it be blocked in other countries too.
But it is not really blocked in Australia though it is only geo blocked. People using VPNs can still see it in Australia.
richardjam73 commented on Ask HN: How to model interplanetary light delays in a game? · Posted by u/bloopernova
I would probably do it via raycasting. You don't need to calculate all of the information sent just one ray per entity (ship, missile). project those rays through the battlefield and see if they collide at the correct time.
richardjam73 commented on Warn HN: DuckDuckGo is doing AI summaries for search results now? · Posted by u/Nullabillity
It is appears to be pulling random text segments from the page because I got text that included Steam Communities censorship. The text appears exactly the same as on the page so it is not autosummarised.
Happened in Australia as well. Makes me wonder just how widespread it was.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_adoption_in_Australia
richardjam73 commented on Who will build new search engines for new personal AI agents? interconnected.org/home/2... · Posted by u/freediver
"hey go book me a place for drinks tonight in Peckham, it needs to have food and not be insanely busy"
The information needed to answer this request often just doesn't exist on the web. Often the true answer is obscured by lies. Personal agents don't have the ability to perform due diligence in a web of lies.
Mind you the game is running on Source engine (v1 not v2) which had several RCE exploits in the past
Those exploits require a client to connect to a hacked server, but Apex Legends has dedicated servers. You can't just randomly hack a client on the network. So it is not likely an RCE unless EA themselves got hacked.
richardjam73 commented on Command And Conquer: Red Alert 2 remaster on the horizon gamingbible.com/news/plat... · Posted by u/DenverSWE
"After the launch of the first C&C Remastered Collection,"
I read that to mean that the C&C Remastered Collection is of the first games (C&C 1 and Red Alert 1) not that it is the first Remastered Collection (Remastered Collection 1).
Unfortunately this is just a rumour.
richardjam73 commented on The Simplest Math Problem Could Be Unsolvable scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/hackernj
I would have thought that the actual simplest math problem was to prove that 1+1=2 not the collatz conjecture.