DrBoring

8 ms·

31.
by DrBoring 4y ago
I would argue that many people today already have their own form of Soma. Alcohol being the most popular one due to its abundant supply. A lot of people just need to step out of their own minds every now and then.
32.
by DrBoring 4y ago
In 2001, I submitted a AIM password decryption program to patorjk.com . It's still there today. Ctrl+F "AIM PW Decrypter" @ http://patorjk.com/programming/vb6examples.htm I recently rewrote the code in
33.
by DrBoring 5y ago
I beat all the Lucasfilm classics them without looking anything up. I think Loom was the hardest for me.
34.
by DrBoring 5y ago
I find Elon Musk to be a fascinating person. I cannot pretend that I understand his motives for any of his actions, be it buying a 9.2% of Twitter, or tweeting something strange. No more than I can understand the motives of my next door nei
35.
by DrBoring 5y ago
Error report: on hole 3, I was able to ramp off a bump and hit the hole with enough velocity that the ball clipped through into an underground area.
36.
by DrBoring 5y ago
Zany Golf
37.
by DrBoring 5y ago
> Should be fine so long as he isn’t profiting I don't think that is a valid legal argument. Based on the last ownership of Westwood Studios, EA probably owns the rights to the Red Alert sprites. So "should be fine" depend
38.
by DrBoring 5y ago
I immediately recognized the Tesla coils from the game C&C Red Alert. Watch out for copyright there. Some feedback The game is a bit visually-loud. It's overstimulating for me, I can't immediately figure out what I'm su
39.
by DrBoring 5y ago
I foresaw this attack years ago. It makes me feel a bit smug to see it implemented. My idea used the same modus operandi: sniff the victim's OS and browser, and present to them a UI custom tailored to fool them. I always thought the ab
40.
by DrBoring 5y ago
Thanks for the great tips everyone. I like my idea for a local cache with HTPC client because there are plenty of clients to choose from for Fire TV, and my kids are more comfortable with a 10ft interface.
41.
by DrBoring 5y ago
This script would be good for my kids. Would you be willing to share? I want an easy way for them to watch their favorite channels, without seeing the suggestions from youtube. It often suggests similar content, but not child appropriate. S
42.
by DrBoring 5y ago
> teach 'everyone' to code. I wonder if coding classes will be the new "shop class" . https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/shop_class In 8th grade, I took a compulsory wood working class. I
43.
by DrBoring 5y ago
I'm the co-author (Walter) of the Ultimate Simpsons Doom mod. We were never sued by Fox (now it would be Disney). Hopefully there is some sort of statute of limitations. Although these days Disney seems to be pretty cool about fan-art.
44.
by DrBoring 5y ago
It's my experience that when a buyout occurs, product quality usually suffers. I wonder if there is a directory if beloved companies whose quality goes down after a buyout. This past weekend, I was lamenting with a friend about how two
45.
by DrBoring 5y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I'm not much into meme culture so the reference went over my head. I guess his comment was innocent. It's strange how a I interpreted it as a slight against the LGBTQ+ community.
46.
by DrBoring 5y ago
For me, backlit keys on a laptop is nice because I'll use a laptop in a dark environment and they layout isn't the same as my desktop keyboard so my touch typing isn't always 100%. When I'm at my desktop, the room is alw
47.
by DrBoring 5y ago
I understood your reference to the rainbow lights. I just thought it was odd/hostile to describe them in the manner which you did. Perhaps you were attempting humor and it missed. I suspect the ubiquitous rainbow LEDs are just there to
48.
by DrBoring 5y ago
How are the Namecheap services taxed in Russia ? What if you were to charge $0.00 to existing Russian customers for their existing services ? Would there still be a tax levied on services ?
49.
by DrBoring 5y ago
> LGBTQ+ lights WTF?
50.
by DrBoring 5y ago
I don't understand the function of LEDs on keyboards. Is it purely aesthetic ? How much cost does the LED add to an already expensive split keyboard? Think of the engineering and coding that could be saved without the LEDs. The sales
51.
by DrBoring 5y ago
I use Authenticator (on my phone) for multiple accounts. Some accounts will give me the 3 integers challenge, and others will make me enter my phone unlock code.
52.
by DrBoring 5y ago
What a fun term "MFA fatigue". One day I counted the number of times I needed to authenticate in order connect to my client's web server. The count was 8. 1 Unlock my PC 2 Login to client corp VPN 3 Unlock my phone 4 Enter PI
53.
by DrBoring 5y ago
Thank you for building failscout. I had a similar web-app-idea after my the computer on my Kenmore dishwasher broke after 13 months of use. My goal was to identify products that have a catastrophic failure after an unreasonably short amount
54.
by DrBoring 5y ago
:) While writing my original post, I tried to mention that copy/paste wasn't common knowledge at the time, but couldn't form a communicative sentence on the matter. I certainly didn't know how to copy/paste at the t
55.
by DrBoring 5y ago
> Stop telling yourself that. You wouldn't be #11 out of 25,000 if you weren't talented. I like this advice. I used to think I wasn't as good a programmer than a friend of mine because he had a larger breadth of skills tha
56.
by DrBoring 5y ago
I still have my Mr. Flash 64M cart. Sadly it requires Windows 95 or 98 to run the flashing software and a PC with a parallel port.
57.
by DrBoring 5y ago
From personal experience, the easiest way to sprout an avocado pit is to throw it in some moist dirt and put clear plastic over it to keep the moisture in. They take about 30 to 45 days to sprout. And the success rate it about 75%. (though
58.
by DrBoring 5y ago
Hmm, interesting point. You're probably correct. Incidents of death by poverty induced starvation in the US have got to be low. Incidentally, my name is Walter too.
59.
by DrBoring 5y ago
One of my earliest memories is of a TRS-80. I was 4 years old when I saw my first computer program. My brother (10) showed me a program he wrote a that would print a pattern of Xs on the screen. It blew my mind that he was able to tell the
60.
by DrBoring 5y ago
Could you imagine if Disney decided to open source one of their 3D films? How much fun would that be to play with? It would be like when Doom was open sourced (I pick Doom because it's one of the first major video games that I can reme

More ›