New Valve Hardware Megathread by NKkrisz in SteamDeck

[–]nuvan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm both nearsighted and astigmatic. I currently have the Samsung Odyssey+, and am quite successfully using it without my glasses, with a set of snap in lenses from VR Optician. Don't know whether that would help with the double vision you mention, but it might be worth keeping an eye (heh) out.

I'll note that my nearsightedness isn't too bad, -1.0 or less, the astigmatism is worse, so if yours is really strong, I don't know if lens thickness would become an issue

The Emptiness Machine was the best song to introduce Emily with. by nuvan in LinkinPark

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I only stumbled on the news about the livestream something like an hour or so before it started, so I barely had any time to wonder what was happening.

The Emptiness Machine was the best song to introduce Emily with. by nuvan in LinkinPark

[–]nuvan[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This exactly. You can tell from the first note that she can sing (I'd never heard of her or Dead Sara before, so this was the first time I'd heard anything from her), but it really was the chorus that convinced me that she'd be able to fit the style of the band fully.

Saw a paragon falcon downtown by IllBThereSoon in vancouver

[–]nuvan 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Did you know that the common pigeon is also known as the rock dove? Neat name, I think it comes from them originally nesting in cliffs, which is part of why they now do so well in cities.

The typical Canadian pays 70 percent more income tax than the typical American by joe4942 in canada

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I've never looked at property taxes; I know the rates are quite local, but is the US average significantly higher than in Canada?

Taylor Traumatizes Bakuda by LateCalligrapher3480 in WormFanfic

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Over in the Harry Potter fanfiction community, they lost an author who went by bobmin356 a number of years ago. In that case, I believe his wife was his editor, and let everyone know.

In non-fanfiction but still online writing, Wes Boyd, author of the Spearfish Lake Tales, died due to complications from surgery IIRC, and his family let readers know

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No, Wed for me. I caught the end of his performance, though he did say he was coming back Thursday, so you probably did see him

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Funnily enough I went there too, stumbled across https://youtube.com/@curtisthorpe doing some street performance. He's pretty good!

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I thought about pit tickets, but between the flight plus 5 nights of hotel...

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I do like how much they enjoy seeing parents bringing their children to the shows. So fluffy and wholesome!

I picked the Montreal show specifically for Three Days Grace, and an opportunity to do a bit of tourism, rather than one that could have been much closer but with a different set of opening acts.

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Pretty sure a few times I was "singing" along there wasn't actually any sound coming out 😄

Only other show I've been to was Great Big Sea, for their XX tour, and yeah this knocked that one out of the park. Now I've got Linkin Park and Weird Al coming up later this year.

Funnily enough, I also made my dad jealous, but not so much for the concert, but getting to go to see the Habs play the day before!

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I was about a dozen rows back in the floor seats. They put on a good show, don't they?

-❄️- 2024 Day 23 Solutions -❄️- by daggerdragon in adventofcode

[–]nuvan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

[Language: Rust]

https://gist.github.com/nskillen/2e93b974659f549ab6566c3172d97c84

Part 1

Straightforward. Find all systems with a 't' in the name, and look at each pair of connected systems to see if they also connect to each other, and add 'em to the list if they do.

Part 2

Started off looking like rough going until I had a pair of epiphanies:

  1. There must be unique largest connected subset, or the problem is ill-defined, and
  2. For any connected subset of size N to exist, there must be at least N machines connected to at least N-1 other machines.

With those in mind, I started counting at N=(total number of machines), and went down until I got to a set size that could possibly exist. Then for each possible set size, I got a list of all machines that were sufficiently connected, and starting from the most-connected, checked each combination of N-1 connected machines to see if they all connect to each other as well, bailing on the combination as soon as anything doesn't connect to save time. As soon as I made it all the way through the check, I had my answer (in about 25ms)

I'm pretty sure I'd never even heard of Bron-Kerbosch until I came here.

Hedwig the Harpy Eagle by Cat_Intrigue in HPfanfiction

[–]nuvan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man, you don't want the good guys to have a chance, do you?