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by aquova 5y ago
I could not disagree more. I'm very pleased that things such as markdown exist and are being widely used. All of the tools used by 'other professions' as you say, are in some nonsense proprietary format that works in their ap
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by aquova 5y ago
So two new pieces of evidence are offered up by this article, firstly that Zodiac was identified by several witnesses as having a forehead scar, including being drawn on the famous sketch of him, which matches a scar Poste had at the time.
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by aquova 5y ago
> There are a few security features in Brave worth highlighting, such as its automatic HTTPS connection upgrades (which Firefox also offers by extension) This information is a bit outdated, Firefox has offered HTTPS mode built-in for a f
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by aquova 5y ago
X-15 pilots who flew above 50 miles were awarded astronaut wings, by the military at the time and then to the civilian pilots by NASA more recently.
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by aquova 5y ago
I'm inclined to agree. While I agree that that sight of these two billionaires patting themselves on the back is rather distasteful (with their own self-made astronaut wings to boot), this feels like someone at the FAA just wanted to s
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by aquova 5y ago
I'm of several minds about this change. On the one hand, I am rather fond of the 'original' Twitter layout. You had your feed of people you followed displayed in chronological order, retweets would show a post to your followe
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by aquova 5y ago
I'm a few years out of high school, but during my time anything other than physical calculators were explicitly banned due to the potential for kids to be accessing the internet during exams. I even had a friend who won one of TI'
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by aquova 5y ago
Assuming the gas giants remain roughly the same as they are now, what would happen to them as they left the solar system and the heat of the sun? Would the gases condense down turning them from gas giants into rocky planets?
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Near, the emulator developer of bsnes, higan, and more, has died(twitter.com)
390 points by aquova 5y ago|148 comments
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by aquova 5y ago
For anyone else looking to make a game in Lua + Love2D, a developer wrote an entire tutorial for how they made their game, which is also released on Steam: https://github.com/a327ex/BYTEPATH . Both the game and the tuto
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by aquova 6y ago
As a side note, I've been playing around with interesting mathematical functions like this as fun, visual coding projects. I had discovered the Lissajous curves[1], but I was curious if anyone else had any functions of this sort that a
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Flutter is the default choice for future Ubuntu apps(twitter.com)
28 points by aquova 6y ago|1 comments
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by aquova 6y ago
An indie developer announced today that their Super Monkey Ball-inspired game will be going into early access on Steam later this month: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN_XnekG6Ac It looks to be incredibly close to those o
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by aquova 6y ago
Out of curiosity, what is it that makes Firefox 5% worse than Chromium-based browsers in your eyes?
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by aquova 6y ago
I downloaded and looked at the raw data. The biggest reason seems to be the new Edge browser gaining popularity. It went from 5.8% to 7.4% market share since October. I'm not sure why this chart displays both IE and the old Edge, when
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by aquova 6y ago
The failure of the Sega Saturn scared away the big 3rd party developers like EA and Square, combined with the huge success of the PlayStation 2 forced the company to cut their loses and leave the market entirely.
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by aquova 6y ago
To put that into perspective, it took Voyager 2 8.5 years to reach Uranus, and 12 years to reach Neptune.
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Poom – A Doom clone made in Pico-8(freds72.itch.io)
2 points by aquova 6y ago|0 comments
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by aquova 6y ago
We're already there in some respects. Octo is a Chip-8 + extensions IDE/emulator which runs as a web app. It's been used for game jams and things like that. https://johnearnest.github.io/Octo/
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by aquova 6y ago
I was curious about this as well, and found an article from OP about how to set one up: https://datacrayon.com/posts/programming/rust-notebooks/setu... It's a Jupyter Notebook running Rust via an extensi
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by aquova 6y ago
> Just like if you didn't get a stimulus check you deserved because of IRS mixup (like me), you'll just get it as an additional refund on your return next year. Can you elaborate on this? After months of waiting and calling the
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by aquova 6y ago
Asking for a friend, what's the experience installing Linux onto a 2018 MacBook? Last I heard it was nothing short of torture, but I'm hoping the situation has gotten better as time goes by.
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by aquova 6y ago
I feel the same way about it. I was a student when I first heard about it, and I definitely feel that making my own (terrible) Pico-8 games made me a much better programmer than I would've been otherwise, and also helped me grasp conce
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by aquova 6y ago
I'm curious on what opinions are on Dear ImGui's bindings in other languages, namely Rust. imgui-rs seems to be one of the only mature-ish GUI libraries, but I found myself struggling with it. The multiple window "debug view&
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by aquova 6y ago
To go even further, here's a breakdown on engine use on indie games on Itch. - Unity - 25,954 tags - GameMaker - 6141 tags - Godot - 4192 tags - RPGMaker - 3979 tags - Unreal Engine - 3915 tags - Pico-8 - 2446 tags - LÖVE - 1581 tags
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by aquova 6y ago
I wanted to counter some of the child comments who say that it's a bit of a child engine with some real world results. After all, people are making great games today with Pico-8 or on a Game Boy, surely there must be some great indie P
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by aquova 6y ago
I've been somewhat thinking of getting one of these handheld Game Boy-esque systems, so it's nice to see some options and opinions, thank you. Does the RG350P provide any other software besides emulation (Pico-8 support for exampl
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by aquova 6y ago
While its good to get a backup of the source code, youtube-dl is one of those projects that quickly becomes useless as Google mixes stuff around within YouTube, which they like to do. Without an active developer base, the project will quick
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by aquova 6y ago
I agree in principle, but the statement "there is doubt about the quality of the radio detection" implies that there have been concrete issues pointed out about the basis of these findings, which I haven't heard anywhere else
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by aquova 6y ago
Source on these doubts? This discovery is backed by the Royal Astronomical Society and MIT, which seems to imply the observations have been sound.

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