TazeTSchnitzel

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by TazeTSchnitzel 7mo ago
There isn't ROM per se. The “ROM” image is always loaded into RAM and is free to self-modify as much as it feels like.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 7mo ago
This article is from 2018. Previously: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16094925 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27480448
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PEGI expands age rating criteria with interactive risk categories(pegi.info)
1 points by TazeTSchnitzel 7mo ago|0 comments
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by TazeTSchnitzel 7mo ago
They weren't standard yet. Sending messages containing Unicode Private Use Area glyphs that not even other Apple products could display, let alone other vendors' (non-Japanese) phones, would be an interoperability nightmare.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 7mo ago
I think I remember using one of these apps around 2010 or so, and I think it just triggered the emoji keyboard to appear somehow? And once it was opened once, the ability to use it persisted. But that was just my guess as to what was happen
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by TazeTSchnitzel 7mo ago
A really cool feature of Windows Live Messenger (perhaps also MSN Messenger before it?) was you that smileys were viral. You could add your own, and people could right-click on the ones you used to copy them to their own collection.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 7mo ago
If they have the predisposition for it, a month or two of bad sleep and a particularly compelling idea may be all it takes to send a person who has previously seemed totally sane into an incredibly dangerous mental and physical state, somet
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by TazeTSchnitzel 7mo ago
Lights in video games are real, but only if you're using an OLED or CRT.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 7mo ago
Someone wrote a satirical article in 2017 around the same concept: https://www.der-postillon.com/2017/12/bgh-bahn-gluecksspiel....
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by TazeTSchnitzel 7mo ago
I guess some folks at KTH have been looking at this topic for a while now, there was a story about it on SVT (Swedish equivalent of the BBC) two years back: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/sa-latt-hackas-ditt-ba
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by TazeTSchnitzel 7mo ago
That's around $85 more expensive once you account for the fact Danish advertised prices include VAT at a rate of 25%, whereas the US advertised price excludes sales tax.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 7mo ago
Speaker grilles, one on each side. Shame it's not an SD card slot.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 7mo ago
The 2015~2017 MacBook (I own one and love it) was a similar thing, but with a passively-cooled Intel chip. With Apple Silicon this will be amazing.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 8mo ago
Stripe and PayPal have pretty different sets of tradeoffs. There's plenty of reasons to dislike both, but at least right now you get a choice between them. I really hope they won't merge.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 8mo ago
In a sense this is reinventing digital sound-on-film, but without the continuous feed and with a much lower tape speed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound-on-film
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by TazeTSchnitzel 8mo ago
Is the lack of a perspective projection option deliberate? CSS can do that too.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 8mo ago
What is an “actual file format”? Every file format is a serialisation of some kind of data-model. I'm sure the OpenDocument data-model might be simpler and cleaner in some ways than the Office Open XML one. But for something with the c
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by TazeTSchnitzel 8mo ago
LibreOffice, descendent of OpenOffice, descendent of StarOffice, has a project leadership that believes OpenDocument is the best and most open format. That's very convenient for them, considering that OpenDocument is a standardisation
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by TazeTSchnitzel 8mo ago
Apple already had that "strategic moat" with Objective-C. It was already a language you could effectively only use on Apple platforms (the runtime and the standard library only run on Darwin) and for which Apple controlled the com
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by TazeTSchnitzel 8mo ago
Go famously tried to bypass macOS's libc and directly use the underlying syscall ABI, which is unstable, and then a macOS update came out and broke everything, which taught them the error of their ways ( https://github.com&#x
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Tell HN: Attackers using Google parental controls to prevent account recovery
23 points by TazeTSchnitzel 8mo ago|4 comments
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by TazeTSchnitzel 8mo ago
Another example of tiny details being used to catch sex offenders is this story about marks on people's hands: https://www.wired.com/story/sue-black-forensics-hand-marking... / https://archive.is&#
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by TazeTSchnitzel 8mo ago
Why on earth does the HTML sanitiser allow blacklisting?! That can't ever be safe to use, the set of HTML elements can always change.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 8mo ago
The most interesting thing to me wasn't the equals signs, which I knew are from quoted-printable, but the fact that when an equals sign appears, a letter that should have been preceding or following it is missing. It's as if an of
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by TazeTSchnitzel 8mo ago
In one of the email PDFs I saw an XML plist with some metadata that looked like it was from Apple's Mail.app, so these might be extracted from whatever internal format that uses.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 8mo ago
Adobe Animate also has HTML5 export features.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 8mo ago
Does anyone remember a similar commercial(?) application from maybe 10~20 years ago that was focussed specifically on point-and-click Myst-like adventure games? I think it didn't have scripting, at least not of the kind that AGS has. I
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Beta Release: Predicated Recursive Descent for Rust(wareya.wordpress.com)
1 points by TazeTSchnitzel 8mo ago|0 comments
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by TazeTSchnitzel 9mo ago
Very cool! This reminds me of Ejecta, which was something like this for 2D games on iOS, a very long time ago: https://impactjs.com/ejecta
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by TazeTSchnitzel 9mo ago
And their system has the same problems as all the others: https://estoniaevoting.org/

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