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by DerekL 8y ago
I was wondering if it was about this story: “Man Dies from Extremely Rare Disease After Eating Squirrel Brains” https://www.livescience.com/63831-squirrel-brains-rare-disor... https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by DerekL 8y ago
> One company single-handedly revived video games to mainstream prominence. That company was Nintendo. They’re ostensibly seen as the “savior” of the video games industry, despite the fact that microcomputer games were still thriving (hi
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by DerekL 8y ago
Actual title is “Free Solo the Movie”, not “This film will kill people”.
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by DerekL 8y ago
> I might add a lack of dedicated PgUp/PgDn/Home/End keys on larger laptops. Yes, and then you can put full-sized arrow keys below them in the inverted-T!
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by DerekL 8y ago
By the way, on Apple keyboards you can get six extra keys by holding down the “fn” key: fn + delete = forward delete fn + return = enter fn + up/down arrow = page up/down fn + left/right arrow = home/end
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by DerekL 8y ago
That probably means that PHP is the first programming language created specifically for web programming, as opposed to languages created before the web, or originally intended for something else.
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by DerekL 8y ago
The HashMap docs say: “This class makes no guarantees as to the order of the map; in particular, it does not guarantee that the order will remain constant over time.” This utility function depends on the order of the entries, so it can retu
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by DerekL 8y ago
Though HyperCard itself is long gone, the HyperText language did inspire AppleScript.
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by DerekL 8y ago
Not in the US. $0.25 in 1972 (Pong) = $1.48 today $0.25 in 1978 (Space Invaders) = $0.95 today $0.25 in 1984 = $0.60 http://cpiinflationcalculator.com Though now cabinets are bigger and the controls are more sophisticated.
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by DerekL 8y ago
You can upgrade to a Metal-capable GPU, if you want. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208898 I’ve tried this recently, but then I found I needed a new PCIe power cable, which I had to order from NewEgg.
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by DerekL 8y ago
Read this: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-dakota-voter-id-law-uphel...
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by DerekL 8y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18168925
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by DerekL 8y ago
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18188831
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by DerekL 8y ago
Since June 2017, an app can also run the downloaded code on its own interpreter, and it can be any language, not just JavaScript.
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by DerekL 8y ago
> Interestingly, vector graphics like in Atari Asteroids did not hit the market until 1979. Not true. The vector graphics game Space Wars was released by Cinematronics in 1977. https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.ph
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by DerekL 8y ago
Don't make up your own title.
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by DerekL 8y ago
I have that brown Pyrex casserole dish, shown in picture #23 at the bottom. It was a hand-me-down from my parents for when I left for college. I never had the lid, because it broke long before that.
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by DerekL 8y ago
Previously discussed when it was published in the New York Times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17888777
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by DerekL 8y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16591733 As noted at the bottom, the article is reprinted from Quanta Magazine.
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by DerekL 8y ago
The title has a mistake. The actual version is “macOS 10.13.6 High Sierra”. I'd be very impressed if a modern browser ran on an operating system from 2009–2011.
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by DerekL 8y ago
Another purpose of the Z-machine is code size. The virtual machine instruction took up less space than the equivalent machine code. From “How to Fit a Large Program into a Small Machine”: > A good benchmark for the storage saved by rewri
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by DerekL 8y ago
> That I Robot movie with Will Smith as an abomination. Funny thing about that movie. The movie is based on a spec script called Hardwired , and it originally had no connection to I, Robot . Also, the writer of that script wrote the sc
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by DerekL 8y ago
The link goes to an entirely different article.
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by DerekL 8y ago
The actual title of the post is “Find images on chrome cache files (or any other file!)”. Also, referring to these images as “JPG” is incorrect. The actual name for the compression scheme is “JPEG”. “JPG” is merely a common file extension.
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by DerekL 8y ago
Just so you know, the phrase is “toeing the party line”.
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by DerekL 8y ago
Title has a typo. Should be “than”, not “then”.
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by DerekL 8y ago
Banh mi is one instance of a newly popular food that often uses mayonnaise.
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by DerekL 8y ago
No, it should have been better. The Atari 2600 Ms. Pac-Man port was what Pac-Man should have been.
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by DerekL 8y ago
> a 3D platformer, Zaxxon Zaxxon is better described as a scrolling shooter.
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by DerekL 8y ago
> … and Nintendo of America still published their own sweet of terrible games. Did you mean to write “suite”? (Or did Nintendo get into the candy business?)

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