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Pregnancy Test Doom: Doom running on a pregnancy test
- _trampeltier 6y agoJust last Friday. It was pretty quick. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24371703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24371703
- royletron 6y agoI saw Doom running on a pregnancy test 7 years ago... But I've subsequently learnt to love him.
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- throwaway_dcnt 6y agoGive it another 6 years. 13 years is when the monster comes out.
- royletron 6y agoIT GETS WORSE?!?!?!?!?
- dr_dshiv 6y agoI'm always so stunned by this. Young kids are so hard, but they say teens are the hardest! 11 years old is so nice. You can still cuddle, they like to be read to and mostly listen the 3rd time you say it.
- bad_user 6y agoWait another year or two, when the judgemental rebel comes out.
- mumblemumble 6y agoI've only got young kids, so I have only experienced tired and frustrated. But even our bad days only last a day, tops. What I haven't experienced, but do observe in colleagues with teenagers, is utter despondency and emotional collapse due to a cloud of rancor that's been hanging over the family for weeks on end.
- markus_zhang 6y agoTeenages tend to revolt against their parents no?
- phkahler 6y agoYep. People like to think we are more sophisticated, but we have built-in animal behaviors. Teens revolting and making their own way is a big one. Hard for parents but important for the kids. I still find it weird how hard wired some things are.
- faitswulff 6y agoI’ve heard (can’t remember the source now) that the rebellious teen phase is a cultural phenomenon. I find it believable. In general, ascribing human behaviors to biology is shaky science. Ah, here we go: > Although Westerners may expect from adolescents a certain level of delinquency, antisocial behavior and sometimes violence, cross-cultural research demonstrates adolescent behavior and experience is actually quite variable across the world. Adolescent misbehavior does not appear to be a cultural universal. https://hraf.yale.edu/are-teens-always-troublemakers-cross-culturally-considering-bad-behavior-in-adolescents/ https://hraf.yale.edu/are-teens-always-troublemakers-cross-c...
- untog 6y agoI agree that ascribing human behaviours to (particularly animal) biology is shaky. But the changes going on in teenage years (ie puberty) lead me to think teenage rebellion isn’t just cultural.
- ashtonkem 6y agoThe hormonal changes are hard wired, but certain behaviors aren’t. As an interesting corollary, did you know that the symptoms experienced by schizophrenics is extremely culturally dependent? Here in America the voices heard by someone with schizophrenia often urge violence, but in other countries (India is the one I’ve heard) they say nice, positive things. Same condition, culturally dependent outcomes.
- evo_9 6y agoYeah they literally stop listening to you and usually do the opposite. I was no different. I heard my mom complaining about her friends kid getting his ear pierced and she looked at me and said ‘never while you are living under my roof!’. My dad immediately realized the error but it was too late. I had never given it a thought before and maybe even thought it was stupid. After dinner I literally drove to the mall and got my ear pierced and went straight home and paraded around our house. I honestly don't think I had a choice, my brain insisted on doing it.
- objclxt 6y agoShould probably be noted this isn’t actually running on a pregnancy test, it’s a pregnancy test plastic shell with a replacement CPU and display.
- p_l 6y agoIIRC only the display is replaced, the cpu remains the same.
- DanBC 6y agoThis tweet suggests otherwise: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1302453246536028160?s=20 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1302453246536028160?s=20 In the original thread Foone said the IC was the "mask rom version", and thus not re-programmable. https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1301713156822032385?s=20 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1301713156822032385?s=20
- trollied 6y agoThe CPU was changed. https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1302453805057896448 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1302453805057896448 "The existing CPU can't be reprogrammed and the existing LCD can only show 4 things, so I had to replace both to make any changes. And the current version doesn't even fit into the shell! (although I'm certain it will when complete)"
- p_l 6y agoAhhh, I stand corrected :) Sometimes Foone's threads go on so long that twitter UI just gives up on linking them, or so it seems.
- unhammer 6y agoThere's a Twitter App for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/nn-NO/firefox/addon/nitter-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/nn-NO/firefox/addon/nitter-redire... that makes it possible to view several 160 char messages at the same time. Computers are so fast these days it is amazing.
- dep_b 6y agoIt's a movie of somebody playing Doom, not actually Doom running on it.
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- pacificmint 6y agoThe tweet clearly states that it is not a movie, but the actual game. > Yesterday I had a lot of retweets and reddit posts and such for playing Doom on a pregnancy test. > But as I explained then, it wasn't really PLAYING on a pregnancy test, it was just a video being played back, not an interactive game. > Well, now it is. It's Pregnancy Test Doom!
- audunw 6y agoBut it's still not actually running on the pregnancy test, or even the MCU he replaced the electronics with. It's still playing on a PC and transferring the picture: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1302834931421175809 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1302834931421175809 So it's for all intents and purposes still playing back a video, it's just a live recording instead.
- awb 6y ago> and to get it; you have to pee on it Is this a joke? Is there no other way to start the CPU?
- LukeShu 6y agoIt seems that the "power switch" is the moisture conducting between two leads https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1301709777383292928 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1301709777383292928
- m463 6y agoSo is the only way for two-player to... you know
- moron4hire 6y agoThat comment was about other ideas for hacked electronics stuffed in a pregnancy test, e.g. a keyboard ("but it would be only one character" in the previous tweet, and the "and to get it, you have to pee on it". Later, he names the idea "peeboard".)
- mrweasel 6y agoRegardless of the CPU being replaced, am I the only one who thinks this to much electronics to put into, what I assume, is a single use pregnancy test? This has so be sorted as "small electronics" when you dispose of it. Even before you can start dealing with the the e-waste part, someone has to manually open the thing and separate plastics and electronics.
- celticninja 6y agoEspecially when you know that all the electronics actually do is interpret the result of a standard paper based test.
- danielheath 6y agoI was surprised to discover that the tests as used without expert supervision had a 25% misread rate, vs 1% with the display. I think that’s a dire indictment of the education system, but we need to make stuff for the people we have, and a quarter of them can’t read the test.
- reanimus 6y agoIt eliminates a wide variety of sources of error, including user ignorance but also possible issues with colorblindness, poor lighting conditions, or a positive result that's not as easy to discern with the naked eye.
- srtjstjsj 6y ago> a positive result that's not as easy to discern with the naked eye. Those are false negatives in the machine.
- Maxion 6y agoCheck out https://www.reddit.com/r/TFABLinePorn/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TFABLinePorn/ A subreddit where users post positive or probably positive pregnancy tests. Pregnancy tests generally measure hCG concentration in urine, early in the pregnancy concentrations are low and the test line will be very faint if visible at all. It's only later on in the pregnancy when the line will become more visible. Pregnancy also involves a lot of emotion, hope & fear, in combination it's not that surprising that a portion of people misread pregnancy tests.
- hliyan 6y agoIt's amazing how the brain can fill in the details. I had no problem identifying the levels and the enemies. I wonder what the images look like to someone who has never played Doom?
- noneeeed 6y agoIt sounds a bit like having a cochlear implant fitted late in life. I've heard that you can listen to music you know well and your brain will fill in all the details, but anything new just sounds terribly low def and isn't really enjoyable.
- bausano_michael 6y agoI've heard about phonemic restoration, but this is even more interesting. Thanks for sharing
- underyx 6y agoI find the user's earlier threads to be more interesting. Foone deconstructed a digital pregnancy test and found that it's actually just a <$1 pregnancy test strip in the shell, with light sensors that check whether it shows one or two stripes, and then display the result on a screen.
- philshem 6y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24371703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24371703
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoHow else are you going to do a chemical assay in a portable device? Breathalyzers are even jankier.
- bencollier49 6y agoI agree with this. It confirms that most "digital" devices like this (for example, scales) are just introducing greater inaccuracy whilst conveying a false sense of certainty.
- theshrike79 6y agoCounting down to the moment some unicorn SV startup does this, but with WiFi and cloud access =)
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- astannard 6y agoCongratulations it's a Cacodemon
- encom 6y agoBoth CPU and display has been replaced. Nothing about the headline is true. 100% clickbait.
- jasoneckert 6y agoDuring the latter half of the 1990s and onwards, there was a saying in tech circles along the lines of "It isn't a computer unless it can run DOOM." Perhaps that was the original motivation behind this tweet, even if it isn't running natively.
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- kumarvvr 6y agoAnyone know what board he is using in the pic?
- yuchi 6y agoMandatory comic reference: https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2158 https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2158
- ufmace 6y agoMore interesting was that before the current chemical strip-based test, apparently the best way to test for pregnancy was to inject the urine into the leg of an African clawed frog, then see if it laid eggs in the next 24 hours. https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1301844281540239360 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1301844281540239360
- Zeebrommer 6y agoOne wonders how this method was discovered...
- acdha 6y agoIt’s a good read about what scientists do when they have an idea of what they need but not a direct way to measure it, and it was a lot better than the mouse/rabbit tests which involved killing the animal: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/05/how-a-frog-became-the-first-mainstream-pregnancy-test/525285/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/05/how-a-fr...
- temporallobe 6y agoThat’s it, I’ve finally seen all of the internet.