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Half-Life 2 is currently 100% off for its 20th anniversary, plus a major update
  • Nah this is pretty concrete. There's a flat screen single player game in active development with features being added like vehicle physics, surface temperatures, NPC AI handling for non standard gravity, etc. And there are half life related strings all through it. HL3? Who knows, but it would explain why they actually acknowledged their two anniversaries...

  • Are academics more likely to answer emails from ‘Melissa’ or ‘Rahul’? The answer may not surprise you.
  • We also found that, unlike similar US studies, there was no significant bias against female students. In fact, there was some evidence of positive bias, or preference, for female students.

    And then, in the caption:

    Our study found academics did not discriminate against potential candidates based on gender.

    Some mild irony there

    But in seriousness, really good to see this quantified, but sadly not a huge surprise

  • Cloudflare's new marketplace will let websites charge AI bots for scraping
  • Them being able to offer this service, and them proxying 30% of the internet are completely unrelated. Any other company could offer this scrape protection if they wanted, with roughly the same cost of entry.

    You can hate cloudflare all you like, but only a certified dumbass would try to pretend this feature is somehow enabled by their market dominance...

  • "Quick" security check... I had to do 15 of these...
  • To answer your question without being a dickhead: The given x indicates the point on the curve you need to find the slope at. In other words, find the derivative and then evaluate that function at the given x.

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  • If rust code relies on a C API (as it necessarily does), then a breaking change to the API requires changing that rust code. This is common sense.

    If a process is set up for deferring rust maintenance to a rust developer, this can only last as long as rust maintainers are willing to staff it.

    If C developers are unwilling to accept any risk of needing to touch rust code in the future, then rust contributions should not have been allowed in the first place.

    Allowing rust contributions and then imposing restrictions on what can be done with it? That's not reasonable.

  • What effect would a stochastic metronome have on its listener?
  • This is similar to some popular exercises for improving your internal pulse. E.g. having the metronome drop out for a number of bars while you're playing.

    My prediction:

    On its own, it would be hard to derive the underlying pulse. Even a trained musician would take a little while (my guess is 4+ measures). In the context of a song it would probably have little to no effect.

    I could probably test this if anyone's interested

  • My own cryptic "There's No Business"

    Not sure how this will be received in this community. Happy to remove if it's not a good fit.

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    Material design

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    Tricky But Fair #5 (Reddit hated this one)

    This puzzle was incredibly polarising when I posted it on reddit. Some hated it with a fiery pashion, others loved the twist.

    I like to think that the haters just didn't get it...

    As always, perfect score is possible. Good luck!

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    Tricky But Fair #4

    As always, these are tougher than official puzzles, but a perfect score is 100% achievable. Good luck!

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    Tricky But Fair #3

    As always, these are tougher than the official ones but a perfect score is 100% achievable! Good luck

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    Does this community like custom puzzles?

    Apologies if this is a purist community. I'll delete my post if this is out of place.

    I've started making custom puzzles which take a little bit more thinking than the NYT ones, but are not quite as hard as OnlyConnect. Would love feedback on whether people want more!

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    Pillar of the community

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    DJs @lemmy.world themusicman @lemmy.world

    Engine DJ 3.2 and SoundSwitch 2.8 First Look: Here's Day Mode! | Beatsource Tech

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    Lemmy

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    Beans?

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    Reddit @lemmy.ml themusicman @lemmy.world

    Deleted my reddit account and over a decade of comments

    I'm all in on Lemmy

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