SoSoRoCoCo

11 ms·

61.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
What were the problems that repelled him? I see some discussion about immediate vs retained mode, but what where the gripes that led to re-inventing something? Maybe start with X and explain what's so bad about that. Athena is pretty d
62.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
> one-time chance to pick up bubblegum in the first area of the game isn't something that is done anymore. This is what I said in peer post a few hours ago. That's because the genre has been critically analyzed over the past 50
63.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
> As you can see, you can't see anything. Thank you. I wanted to get one to (a) find creatures outside at night while camping, and (b) fix my house energy leaks. But that rez seems awfully low. So amazed at the OP for doing such an
64.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
> but so much fun in small groups. In my 40+ years playing IF, I never considered this. What an interesting idea. I did play an email correspondence campaign in the early 90's but that was a ton of work for the DM since he was writi
65.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
Too bad so few people turned up to play the Interactive Fiction Competition this year. Only about ~50 votes per game were recorded on average. I think people like to reminisce rather than play I.F., or maybe we've all been broken by 3D
66.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
H2G2 was medium difficulty compared to Starcross and Deadline, it just required patience. And MAN was it satisfying to win as a 13 year old. Long before accomplishments were measured in twitch response rather than deductive logic. Spellbrea
67.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
I was just considering buying one. Would you share your thoughts?
68.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
It's $570: https://www.amazon.com/Seek-RQ-AAA-Thermal-Revealpro/dp/B07B...
69.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
Sorry, I was off by one decimal place. http://info.omax.com/precision Average of ±0.003" (±0.08 mm) and up to 0.001” (±25 µ) About the same as a laser cutter. You set it to cut very slowly and it angles the head to acc
70.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
Same here. I thought it sounded great because I have zero knowledge of monetary policy, which has been at it in modern form since Isaac Newton. So naturally I thought it was a godsend. Truth is: financial institutions aren't just somet
71.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
That's on my list to try! I made a rotational-to-linear translator with adjustable linear depth using 1/4" HDPE and a gigantic OMAX waterjet cutter. The pitches were perfect to within 0.0001", but the design was five lay
72.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
As a maker, this is very impressive. Custom builds with gears and motors sourced from various sites is very, very tricky. Matching bores and tooth pitches is hard enough, but mountings can really take a lot of physical trial-and-error. I te
73.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
> I’m Thinking of Ending Things Watched this over the holidays. I found the third act really deviated from the rest of the story compared to how tight the other mentioned films were. Did you think it seemed out of place? It was a fun wat
74.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
Is there any country that makes weapons that doesn't sell them for a hefty profit? Hell, in the past decade the Americans have funded the death of their own troops by selling rocket launchers and bombs to the Saudis that are resold&#x2
75.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
Really? YAY!!! I upgraded to Big Sur and it is still there... but I don't know if it is a legacy since I've been TimeMachining my machines since 2012 and things persist.
76.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
macOS still ships with Py2.7 and has dependencies, and npm-gyp only recently switched to 3.x. same with python SDR. it depends what you use: less popular packages are still languishing. but that discounts the tens of thousands of projects t
77.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
Absolutely. I worked at Intel and our distributed computing pools went from a combination of SunOS and AIX machines to Linux in about 3 months, essentially overnight, (back in the 90's). It was an astonishingly fast deployment. Linux d
78.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
It is great that you respond with succinct reasons. People who have used Python for some years seem to forget just how clunky it really is. I've been using Excel since 1990, and sure, it has its own warts, but Python is a very rudiment
79.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
> I try to make eye contact That's a really good point. I forget how often when I'm walking, running, or biking I will try to make eye contact with a car to make sure we're aware of each other. Now how do I do that with a
80.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
> I expect that in the end it will come down to a business decision, and that decision will be informed by an actuarial exercise: Will profits and insurance be able to cover the costs of defending and settling such cases. I'm seeing
81.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
Absolutely agreed. It's a different topic though. Amazon even steals top sellers, copies them, and pushes out the originator! (I think there was a radiolab about a guy who invented a bunch of grill tools that Amazon duplicated, and bot
82.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
Here's one solution: don't buy cheap garbage. Yes, someone makes a $23 drone. It is cheap plastic shit from China. Do you really need to buy it, and then throw it in landfill a week (or two days) later after it breaks? Did OP reee
83.
Ask HN: How would you design a proof-of-vaccination protocol?
4 points by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago|8 comments
84.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
Totally! I have a friend who does sound engineering for hollywood and he has two firesafes full of HDDs, SSDs and TAPE with hundreds and hundreds of terabytes of data. I couldn't even finish the sentence "Have you tried the cl...&
85.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
This is odd: night would be the time when I would think people don't want to hear "whirrrrrrr...' of drones flying over their houses.
86.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
> Unilever are VERY hard to boycott. Not really, but this depends on two things: what kinds of products you desire, and where you live. Almost everything in the link you sent is a "novelty" or "luxury" product. I read
87.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
Imagine what happened that WASN'T documented. This is totally off-topic but related to your post: The CIA LSD testing was completely off the books. The journalists who uncovered it relied on hundreds of interviews. The CIA simply hired
88.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
Just to close the loop, I started playing EQ yesterday and hoo-boy does it feel like 1999: the graphics, the music, the interactions! I'm blown away by how similar it is to WoW, it kinda feels a little like the later Might & Magic&
89.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
Exactly! Why does the author not tell us how the McKnight model works? This is the only substantial claim the author makes, yet the result is delivered in two measly sentences. I feel snookered.
90.
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
> a big-endian unsigned 32-bit integer This is how embedded stacks (LWiP) store IPv4. Didnt' know browsers could respond to it thought. Mixing IPv4 and IPv6 is just evil.

More ›