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by detritus 6y ago
I still occasionally play Total Annihilation (97) and, somewhat more amusingly, Populous II (91) via an Amiga emulator.
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by detritus 6y ago
I had a run in with a client who kept sending me packages that I didn't receive. Turns out she was using the address listed in the automated Google info box for my business - something I had no hand in, and which was incorrect. It look
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by detritus 6y ago
Exactly what I thought when I read that it was in Italy. I mentally rolled my eyes and thought "here we go again". - (My partner's from Italy and I spend at least a month there each year, so I hope I don't come across as
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by detritus 6y ago
Actually, where the laser is concerned - probably not. Most commercial laser cutting machines have a print driver that handles all the conversion between Creation and Output. I only ever deal with GCode when outputting to my CNC.
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by detritus 6y ago
As someone who spends at least a few hours every day working with vectors that are then output to a laser cutter or a CNC, I'm having a hard time working out what exact problem this solves. To my - very likely entirely ignorant - eye,
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by detritus 6y ago
Huh, I had no idea, thanks. I guess that goes some way to explaining the announcement last year that Sweden might join UK/Italy to develop a 'sixth Generation' fighter, the so-called 'Tempest'. Not knowing any bette
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by detritus 6y ago
'Adolescent' seems a bit dismissive, although I'm sure you didn't mean it that way. Flash opened up digital experience creation for a multitude of people of all ages - th emost interactively interesting web rode off the
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by detritus 6y ago
True, but those interstellar velocities are mercilessly pitiful in respect to much of use there.
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by detritus 6y ago
Why, they'd have had the perfect accessory for one of their vacuum cleaners to do just that!
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by detritus 6y ago
Aye, that's it! The huge and wonderful mass of a Starship plonking down three spindle-thin legs onto and into luna incognita. I'm sure smarter people than I have thought about this, but it was a thought that struck me when I saw t
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by detritus 6y ago
Principal negative as I can imagine it is the constitution of the regolith. I remember reading that one of the concerns about the original lunar programs was how soft and deep the regolith might be at the landing site - if it's loose a
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by detritus 6y ago
It's one of my all-time favourite songs, since I was a kid. Italian partner looked at me oddly first time I played it at home, as her memory of it was all bundled up in grim negativity. It's not a song that gets played much at hom
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by detritus 6y ago
Perhaps, but OP is absolutely not wrong to have done so either - the characterisation and exposition across the trilogy is generally awful and sub pulp fiction quality. That said, I did enjoy the books and I thought some of the 'scienc
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by detritus 6y ago
There was a good link to another Aeon article posted here on HN last year about the role a silver-rich Bolivian mountain played in the Chinese tea trade... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20582387 - ed Might help if I
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Runaway Latvian drone found meditating in tree after shutting down nation's skie(theregister.co.uk)
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by detritus 6y ago
I thought that we were fairly sure there's water at the poles, frozen in the permenant shadows created in some craters? checks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_water suggests we have a lot of evidence to impl
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by detritus 6y ago
I could as well suggest the same about Nasa :) For all HNers that the distinction will be incredibly obvious, to Joe Schmo from Idaho, perhaps less so.
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by detritus 6y ago
If we don't perceive this event using the electromagnetic spectrum, is it fair to state that it remains un'seen' as such? We need a verb for gravitational perception!
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by detritus 6y ago
Well I'm a fucking idiot, it's right there. Thanks!
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by detritus 6y ago
> my imagination sprung to life to fill in the gaps That's pretty much exactly what I've said for years about 8-bit and 16-bit graphics when I was younger - there was so much more invested imagination back then, necessarily. Th
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by detritus 6y ago
Yes, I distinctly remember rotating this model around on an original PS1 many (many) years ago.
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by detritus 6y ago
Explains what how, exactly?
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by detritus 6y ago
Hmph, are you on Pro? I've only got the consumer version of Win10, and I can't see that option... .
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by detritus 6y ago
It drives me nuts how complicated it is to simply have ALL of those 'spotlight' images at login nixed. I don't want any stock photography of landscapes or whatever, thanks - I just want a plain black background. Unless someth
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by detritus 6y ago
Well, until someone trips over the power cable.
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by detritus 6y ago
Possibly something to do with his having been dead for nearly 80 years?
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by detritus 6y ago
It looks terrible? The Firefox prompt is broken. It doesn't realise I'm on firefox, so doesn't preferentially serve me a primary focus?
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by detritus 6y ago
As a Firefox user (on Windows) this is not a particularly encouraging prompt x https://imgz.org/iqHHPwcE-1280.png
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by detritus 6y ago
Oh, damn you. *twitches.
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by detritus 6y ago
I think you just cost me a few hundred quid..!

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