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by andy800 5y ago
Nice. I turned 50 this year, I created a custom Tecmo Super Bowl ROM (for original NES) with my college friends as the players and a bunch of custom graphics and mods referencing our jokes and incidents from back in the day. There is a comm
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by andy800 5y ago
I've worked at casino resorts for the past 15 years. With a vast number of functions and departments within a single resort, just about anybody can find work at one, if they choose. So I built a job search engine just for this industry
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Speeding up Python Jupyter notebooks 25x with simple concurrency and AWS servers(thehousesometimeswins.com)
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Speeding up Kotlin console apps 10x with coroutines and fast AWS servers(thehousesometimeswins.com)
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by andy800 5y ago
Yep, exactly, all the home users know what a sata toaster is and a ddrescue and a rsync hardlink script. No problem!
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by andy800 5y ago
RAID-1 always survives a single drive failure too, and it can also survive 2 (or more) disks failing, if they aren't two mirrors of each other (not that I would wait to allow that to happen). But what about when the NAS itself fails (a
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by andy800 5y ago
This advice makes me extremely unpopular in NAS forums, but I strongly recommend you never use any other RAID option than RAID-1. When a disk goes bad, you have a single mirror disk that you can directly and immediately connect to your comp
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by andy800 6y ago
asking a Tecmo guy about Madden, that's like asking a vegetarian how to cook a great cheeseburger :) all I can say is that the Tecmo community has been chipping away for 30 years at learning all the internals without any source code or
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by andy800 6y ago
There's an active community at tecmobowl.org, they have been releasing updated versions of Tecmo Super Bowl (originally 1991) annually. Updated player rosters. Lots of graphics mods. Tons of gameplay "hacks". Mostly focused o
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by andy800 6y ago
>> We have lost a number of high-profile games, where the predictive models suggested a 99% probability of winning near the end. If it's any consolation, I don't believe the Falcons were ever truly at 99%+ win probability, i
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by andy800 6y ago
I'm Andy, I like to eat out but I really like to compile lists of the best deals and days. For example, a pizza place that serves $5 pies from 3-6pm, a chicken place that does BOGO on Tuesdays, a sushi bar with 30% off after 10pm. I cr
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by andy800 6y ago
I still have 1 or 2 unused Office 97 licenses, and lots for NT 4, from one of those Action Packs. A Visual J++ cd-rom too.
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by andy800 6y ago
The problem I have with "America's Most Dangerous" is that factually, it wasn't even New Jersey's. Six Flags Great Adventure had 10 confirmed fatalities during the years that Action Park operated, the documentary cl
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by andy800 6y ago
Went a dozen or so times. Go-carts were fantastic. Surf Hill probably the sneakiest danger, it just didn't have sufficient runoff, people regularly slammed head-first into the back "padding" at very high speed. Cannonball Loo
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by andy800 6y ago
>> I'd been contracting/self-employed for 20+ years, How did you convince companies & clients to hire you? What are the questions you were repeatedly asked? I'd think you actually have plenty of experience in the re
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by andy800 7y ago
Second mention of Muji I've seen on HN this week. Just about everything Muji is absolutely terrific, even many of their plastic products.
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by andy800 7y ago
+1 for Muji pads, pens, and everything else. I like to think I'm generally a healthy adult male. I enjoy football, eating steak, driving fast. But inside a Muji store, I'm like a hysterical teenage girl at a Backstreet Boys concer
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Ask HN: UI Face-off – 2 sites, same function. Which UI is superior?
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by andy800 7y ago
Might there be a future version which can be embedded in a larger web site or app? In other words, being able to drop in contact management features within a mobile app or React/Vue site?
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by andy800 7y ago
U.S. based brick and mortar casinos use a lot of older tech and at many of them, Access is still a vital component. One I contracted with recently had sort-of a data warehouse (a SQL Server db primarily consumed by Tableau reports) but the
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by andy800 7y ago
Not too excited that you just doubled the prices, but the service is very good and I've found it to be much more effective than running locally. And you've also been very very good with personal replies to support requests. Congra
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by andy800 7y ago
Location: Las Vegas Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Tech: JS, Vue (+Quasar), Python, Flask, Java/Kotlin, Cordova & Electron, d3, pandas & R. Extremely experienced writing SQL. Many very smart & talented people here. My
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by andy800 7y ago
Location: Las Vegas, NV Remote: OK Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: SQL, Python, Vue, many more Resume: cfnine.com Email: 'andy' @ the domain one line above 13 years of financial & marketing analytics (former corporate V
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by andy800 8y ago
Thank you! The LE site is terrific (as is LE itself). Because it is open-source, I essentially cloned it for a professional association. https://casinoanalytics.org Credit to LE is on the FAQ page. Thanks again.
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Severely flawed slot machine study, unsurprisingly, reaches incorrect conclusion(thehousesometimeswins.com)
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by andy800 10y ago
The hiring manager needs you to do that for typical corporate CYA reasons. If you turn out to be a great hire, it's all good. But if not, then the hiring manager can say, "he was top 10% (or 5%, or 1%) at HackerRank, blame it on t