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by aasasd 4y ago
Optimal ordered problem solver: http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/oopscode.c (From http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/oops.html )
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by aasasd 4y ago
Art for RCT 1-2 was made by Simon Foster, and most of the objects were made in 3D, then rendered into frames. http://www.chrissawyergames.com/feature3.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UKKaTGwIqc https:
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by aasasd 4y ago
Here's also a demonstration of using a sampler and a tracker with an Amiga, all from around 1990: https://youtube.com/watch?v=i9MXYZh1jcs “Aaaand we're out of memory.” (There's also the humor of sampling Co
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by aasasd 4y ago
I really don't understand who are the people that solve all their computing needs with drag-n-dropping. I would just paste the URLs instead. Plus, currently the site can't be used on a phone, even though it vaguely has a phone-opt
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by aasasd 4y ago
> UFOs concentrate in the U.S. Obviously it's because when the aliens want to talk to the authorities, they go to the Supreme Democratic Leader of Earth.
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by aasasd 4y ago
At least in zsh, there are also !:1 for the first argument, et cetera with the rest of natural numbers, and something like !:* for all the arguments without the command. The generic form is !n:m for n-th last command line and m-th argument,
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by aasasd 4y ago
In reggae, melodica is also vaguely popular, primarily through Augustus Pablo: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MiaekG1Q0UE
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by aasasd 4y ago
Aside from the Janko keyboard, there are instruments with the ‘harmonic table’ layout—a honeycomb of hexagonal keys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_table_note_layout The general principle is called ‘isomorphic
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by aasasd 4y ago
You can select text of links on a webpage if you hold Alt while doing that.
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Steven Pinker in “How the Mind Works” describes a bunch of phenomena that uncover how the brain is structured and how it processes information. The book doesn't quite have a lot of detail, but is pretty interesting nonetheless.
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And other open-source clones of popular games: https://osgameclones.com
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> I'll let our account rep know that this makes us hate them even more. “Glad we could help! Just remember to continue making regular payments.”
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by aasasd 4y ago
After all websites started requiring email for interactivity, it became a proxy for the identity, propped up by some trust in Google and whoever else. No one is interested in letting you ‘confirm’ your identity. This is more evident now tha
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by aasasd 4y ago
Old software can frequently be found on archive.org—with much more focused selection than ‘the whole web’.
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by aasasd 4y ago
Thanks for this. I knew that ‘rounded squares’, which have the circle's constant turning radius immediately change to infinity at the connection points, are an unnatural way to represent such a shape and look bad once you learn to noti
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by aasasd 4y ago
Yeah, it's a continuous process, called ‘euphemism treadmill’ (not a technical term though): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism#Lifespan However, personally I'm pretty sure that the US is overdoing it.
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by aasasd 4y ago
I heard that there is indeed an option to do that, with help of some apps. You keep your real contacts list in these apps. Presumably this also means that you have special dialer and sms apps integrated with this contact list app, since oth
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by aasasd 4y ago
Pretty much vast majority of apps in Play Store have permissions to see the contacts—they vacuum up the whole address book and sell it to companies doing correlation with data from other services. This only became worse as ‘big data’ was po
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by aasasd 4y ago
> their friends' machines had malicious android apps harvesting contact addresses Basically the majority of apps in the Play Store have permissions to see the contacts, then they vacuum up the whole address book and sell it to com
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by aasasd 5y ago
> the author had to _type out_ the name of the repo they wanted deleted Where does it say that they deleted any repo?
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by aasasd 5y ago
maybe more people will start using Mastodon For sure. Dozens of users will migrate to Mastodon.
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Well, if you just open Rotten Tomatoes once in a while, you'll find that the critics are all ecstatic over comic superhero movies.
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by aasasd 5y ago
‘Catch-22’ really benefits from a good audio reading, as any book with lots of dry humor. Best if the reader can make their voice both ‘straight-faced’ and nearly-over-the-top comical at the same time. ‘The Good Soldier Švejk’ works similar
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by aasasd 5y ago
> basing the guess mostly on the turns in the swipe Btw, a consequence of Swype&company's algorithm is the bit of entertainment that you can get by dragging the thumb whatever which way over the keyboard: they still pop up som
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by aasasd 5y ago
It's baffling that there are no open-source implementations of proper swipe typing, at least for Android. AnySoftKeyboard has it, but it's not nearly the same as Swype and such, and is prone to mistakes. It could use some kind of
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by aasasd 5y ago
Ah, yes, a glimpse of the world where sites exist to placate Google into delivering some traffic, and Google is the supreme judge of whether a site gets a piece of the webs. Might be funny to see the dissonance when people begin to make dec
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by aasasd 5y ago
Forget the machines: I'm vaguely impressed by the controllers with lots of weird buttons, with analog knobs, and I think with some LCD screens—casually sitting before the monitors. These days every home video editor can buy such things
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by aasasd 5y ago
For some reason I keep seeing people on HN showing their sites that recreate desktop environments—almost always in the style of Windows, and frequently in the 90s ‘concrete slabs’ look. It's gonna be hard to beat https://www
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by aasasd 5y ago
I actually was more traumatized when I discovered that artists with the same name are filed under the same ‘profile’, and just have a textual explanation that they are actually different. You'd think that a service purporting to do ‘bi
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by aasasd 5y ago
Oh, easily—whole careers are probably made of ‘untitled’ tracks. Afaik, in edm a more common identifier for such unnamed records and tracks is the catalog number and track number or the side (for a single). Here's one of the best album

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