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by byuu 10y ago
A max-width: 80em; is a nice readability enhancement so that users don't have to resize their browser windows after each tab change. The problem is they don't use max-width, they end up using width instead. And as you said, the fo
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by byuu 10y ago
And as usual, all for nothing. The site makes 43 separate GET requests and transfers 562KiB of data over the span of 8.25 seconds to load ... wait for it ... 3.7KiB of text. And the site is solid black text on a solid white background. This
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by byuu 10y ago
Something that caches dynamic responses will certainly work as well. Usually those are situations where you want content changed on every reload, though. My site is actually dynamic as well, but it's just C code that concatenates thr
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by byuu 10y ago
Unfortunately, it's just bad design that's very typical of the 'modern web' these days. My site didn't even top 5% of its resources when it was on the front page of HN, Reddit, Kotaku, Destructoid, Eurogamer, The In
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by byuu 10y ago
We have fairly decent CRT emulation via pixel shaders already. Scanlines, phosphor glow, barrel distortion (curvature), shadow masks/aperture grills, etc. And yeah, all of that at 4K can strain a top-end video card. That and using a sh
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by byuu 10y ago
Believe it or not, I actually sold them to a museum. I listed them on eBay as defective along with a detailed description of their issues, and they were both purchased by some sort of museum place in New York I forgot the name of. They sent
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by byuu 10y ago
My PVM-2530 was hell to get. The first one shipped and had massive geometry and brightness problems. Every few minutes the entire screen would flicker -- like the image would zoom in by 5%, zoom out by 5%, repeat -- really disorienting. I t
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by byuu 10y ago
I'm sorry to be the bad guy here and point this out, but ... this article is completely wrong :/ An emulator outputting 100% perfect RGB pixels onto an LCD screen is very different than running an analog RGB output to a CRT televi
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by byuu 10y ago
Thanks for that advice, I'll have to try that next time. I too have had kidney stones that hurt to the point of vomiting and being unable to even speak. Same thing, given opioids that barely helped with the pain. And in my case, they e
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by byuu 10y ago
The scary part is I keep saying that each and every year. They just keep getting more and more insane. Even two years ago when I bought Iron Commando for the Super Famicom, the $240 asking price was insane. It's at $1500 now for a comp
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by byuu 10y ago
In all, it's been going for over six years now. I've collected around 2,200 of 2,800 games without incident. This lot puts me up to 2,300. So ... yeah, fingers crossed at there being no more drama.
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by byuu 10y ago
That is also correct. This is when I found out the sender had reused my old two boxes, on February 16th: https://board.byuu.org/viewtopic.php?p=38012#p38012 In hindsight, I should have guessed from the label they sent me th
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by byuu 10y ago
I received the letter with the torn off label about six hours after having published that article, and after Kotaku ran the original story. I was swamped with updates so I didn't get the chance to get to my mailbox sooner in the day.
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by byuu 10y ago
It's always been $5,000 - $10,000. It's extremely difficult to assign an exact value because PAL game prices are extremely fluid. One day a game can go for $50, the next day the only copies are all $200 and another copy won't
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by byuu 10y ago
Do you think my address being plainly visible and highly legible right at the top left of each box counted? Because they had it for at least 40+ days just sitting there collecting dust. Even though I had my missing mail search in, just idli
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by byuu 10y ago
Yes, it was under insured. But do you feel the $1000 insurance we had was not enough insurance for them to locate the box that has my address clearly written on it? :/ If not, then I'm not sure $10000 would have been either. There
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by byuu 10y ago
They do it all online now, and all the big-time retro game sellers on eBay know about govdeals.com now. The auction would have gone for thousands of dollars, easily.
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by byuu 10y ago
We actually did. His collection was 400 games. I asked to split it into four smaller shipments. But what I failed to take into account was that I really could not afford to replace even 100 PAL SNES games. They're just too expensive an
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by byuu 10y ago
Yep. The guy is not a big-time games distributor. He's a guy with a childhood collection that offered to lend it to me for a few weeks. There were definitely mistakes made on our part. But what I really can't forgive is ... once t
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by byuu 10y ago
Heh, several people accused that note of being fake because of an obvious spelling error on it ("where the weight of the contests rest.")
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by byuu 10y ago
I was really stunned that Deutsche Post in Germany not only accepted the package, but were the ones to recommend it be shipped this way. They really should have known better, what with doing this for a living and all. It wasn't reasona
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by byuu 10y ago
Thank you very kindly. But I mean, it's not fair in the sense that other people have packages they really care about, but can't get help on. That and the fact that I probably took someone else's place in the queue to find the
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by byuu 10y ago
Oh man ... I am so regretting the fact that I wrote an article instead of making a music video now :P
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by byuu 10y ago
Yep. Mine was sitting there for 45 days ... of the 60-90 required before items can be auctioned off. It had my address clearly visible on the package still. They could easily have delivered it. If not for the media attention, these most lik
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by byuu 10y ago
I definitely agree with that. I offered a $500 bounty to anyone who could help me locate the package. It was worth that much for me to recover it. In the end, both USPS employees that really helped me out the most turned down my offer to se
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by byuu 10y ago
It very deeply concerns me as well. Very few people have the audience to even do what I did. And I do not like abusing the tiny bit of notoriety I have for personal reasons like this. If it weren't for the fact they aren't my ga
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by byuu 10y ago
Let's see ... I want a regular title bar in my application with the full title of the current tab. I don't want rounded curves on my tabs. I'd rather they just look like normal tabs. I want the tab bar beneath my address bar.
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by byuu 10y ago
Version 41. List of misfeatures off the top of my head, in rough order of annoyance: * Australis GUI (Chrome clone) [1] * Loss of tabs on bottom (Chrome has this issue too) [1] * Ads on home screen [2] * Forced integration of extensions I d
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by byuu 10y ago
Many sites broke with Firefox 28 due to missing features. Most sites added version checks and would bounce you to an "update your browser" screen, but most worked just fine by faking the user agent version. Sites like Dropbox, Pat
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by byuu 10y ago
Firefox turning itself into a pale imitation of Chrome helped Google do this. It's not fair to put all the blame on Chrome users. I don't want to use Chrome, but I really don't want to use Chrome's ugly sister Firefox.

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