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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
At least they don't generally require constant attention though. You can generally check in once every hour or so and it won't be the worse for wear. Definitely not as attention-hungry as a smartphone thankfully ;) (and, at least
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
You can still buy Tamagotchi models from the 90s 'new in box', never been opened by human hands, and they almost always still work. The only issue is that the LR44 batteries can leak and corrode the motherboard. But depending on w
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
The newest model (Tamagotchi Uni) just dropped a few months ago, so that probably explains the uptick in interest.
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
Tamagotchis never exactly 'went away' except for a few years between the late 90s and early 2000s. They've actually been making new models pretty steadily every few years. Although not all of them make it out of Japan.
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
I used it for years (basically since its inception) without issue through High Sierra. The only really annoying thing they did in all that time, IMO, was remove the ability to easily view artwork. I still haven't figured out how to see
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
Are any HNers involved in environmental orgs? There are a bunch active in my area, but the most organized seems to be Citizens Climate Lobby. (my metric for 'most organized' is that 'they actually reached out to me personally
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
Yes, that's exactly it. The search is greedy and even partial hits (or hits with the word order not matching your search, etc.) will show up.
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
I came here to say this. There's so many things wrong with it: 1. If a user left the server, you can no longer specifically search for stuff they posted. 2. Even if a user is still in the server, it can still be hard to search for stuf
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
I know the Playstation 2 did -- Persona 3 for example, in Japan, had its expansion content released as a separate disc. (I think there was also a version released that was both the base game AND the expansion content)
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
It's actually fully functional in Banjo-Kazooie, it wasn't until Donkey Kong 64 that Rare was told to remove it from the game. The game is constantly writing to a certain region of memory with information about which hidden locati
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
For anybody who didn't read TFA: the original series is at https://if50.substack.com/ This is a great series, definitely worth the read if you are at all interested in interactive fiction. I need to pick up a copy of t
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
TCP/IP Illustrated by W. Richard Stevens has sequence diagrams, although that book dates to 1994 which is right around the time UML was originally being developed. So, it's not a strong data point. I'm positive you're ri
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
I'm definitely thinking about getting a Framework, I could use a decent Windows / Linux laptop for random hacking (and some light gaming). Might wait until the next model comes out though since I don't have any immediate need
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by atribecalledqst 4y ago
I've been working on a hobbyist project to analyze a ROM for an architecture that wasn't covered by Ghidra, and let me just say. I had a hellish time trying to work with Sleigh, the language you use to define new architectures for
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by atribecalledqst 4y ago
Yes, this article definitely reads like the writer watched that "The Completionist" video on YouTube and then concocted the story without doing any further research. The archival problem for 3DS and Wii U games is basically solved
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by atribecalledqst 4y ago
I think not all Dell laptops are like that, at least the older ones weren't. The last one I had for work could be closed and carried around just fine without fear of it catching on fire. Unfortunately though my company deployed new Del
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by atribecalledqst 4y ago
I feel this barely qualifies but I still think back on it as a formative moment. My dad had parental controls installed on the family computer, and they were pretty strict (I remember at the time that, for example, IGN was blocked). One day
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by atribecalledqst 4y ago
I got SUPER excited about the NSScrollViewRubberbanding option, because I really hate that rubberbanding animation; sadly it looks like it hasn't worked for several years now.
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by atribecalledqst 4y ago
A lot of folks are disagreeing with you in the replies but I actually agree with you to be honest. I recently got a new Macbook Pro after my old one unexpectedly died and there are a lot of things in Monterey that I find highly annoying rel
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by atribecalledqst 4y ago
I can't speak for the original iTunes (I used it but not heavily and too long ago to remember), but I've been a consistent user of iTunes between Snow Leopard and Monterey and my experience is that it's gotten worse with ever
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by atribecalledqst 4y ago
I haven't seen mine lose Internet entirely, but I have seen it randomly switch between the two Wi-Fi networks I have set up where I live. I eventually got frustrated with this and then told it it can't automatically connect to one
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by atribecalledqst 4y ago
I self-studied his book "Foundations of Analog and Digital Circuits" a few years ago and really enjoyed it. Very accessible. I also tried to self-study Art of Electronics first but it's not really friendly to beginners. Been
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by atribecalledqst 4y ago
Shot in the dark -- could it have been TCP/IP Illustrated? That's a pretty well-known book from that era. I actually read it in 2014 to nail down the fundamentals of networking and it paid off handsomely (despite its age).
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by atribecalledqst 4y ago
I work as a systems engineer, so it always tickles me to see the rare SE-related link make the front page of HN. I think my org is pretty good at the informal SE process described in TFA. We used to be more strict about it, and I definitely
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by atribecalledqst 4y ago
At least for me, my primary hangup for going back to the office is that COVID -isn't over-! Since I can do my job just as well from home as from the office, I'd far prefer to stay in an environment where I have control over my lev
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by atribecalledqst 4y ago
I'm not really interested in Mr. Beast's content but there is a video from one of the engineers involved in his Squid Game recreation that I thought was pretty interesting. Seems like this guy went for three whole weeks without sl
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by atribecalledqst 4y ago
It's actually been remastered a couple times. Wikipedia says there were remakes in 2001 and 2015. (Though of course, 2015 was seven years ago... old enough to remaster again?)
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by atribecalledqst 4y ago
Are you thinking of pizzatool? https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-...
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by atribecalledqst 4y ago
When I was growing up AIM was the method to chat with my friends online. I don't think I knew any of their email addresses. If someone was offline, I would just have to wait until they came online. I could definitely see a bot like t
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by atribecalledqst 4y ago
Nice writeup. I've been self-studying SQL lately for kicks -- I can bumble my way through a SELECT, INSERT, CREATE TABLE, etc. but things like joins and subqueries are foreign to me. Always neat to see something I'm studying turn

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