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by dole 5y ago
In 1993-1994, BBSes started carrying GRASP and FLICK animation files. Bsically CGA, often 16-color grayscale (laptops and luggables were still mostly monochrome/grayscale) and loops a few seconds long. GIFs were around but always still
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by dole 5y ago
C64 Artworx Strip Poker and the pirated data disks that were always corrupted. I think I'm actually pretty good at (video) poker now because of years of playing through these in their different incarnations.
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by dole 5y ago
That Bob Nyquist has a pretty cool roguelike on github called Hauberk written in Dart, amongst a number of other good related dev articles and best practices on his blog. https://github.com/munificent/hauberk Edit: I r
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by dole 5y ago
I thought if you got an mRNA-based shot like Moderna or Pfizer, you should boost with the same type, JNJ isn’t. Is mixing and matching between the two still effective? (Question directed to anyone) Edit: nm, you should. https://w
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by dole 5y ago
The constrast of this reminded me of my city and the “urban prairie”, where previously crowded, close-to-downtown urban neighborhoods began to be abandoned, where 16 houses stood before, now maybe two or three, and the lots around those get
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by dole 5y ago
Stock firmware and the 5Ghz band dies on me every few months requiring a reboot. interesting.
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by dole 5y ago
iOS Safari, the detail view worked for the first image I clicked on, but just gets stuck on the last image you closed out of. You can still scroll to a new image, but it won’t update to a newly clicked one.
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by dole 5y ago
You can’t search for other BBS communities on BBS, but you can see the top 10 or so. You have to go to twitter or insta and search for #bbs to find different, smaller communities. I don’t get it, the omission of any kind of community, post
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by dole 5y ago
More than likely Johnny Got His Gun, although The Fly or Predator could apply.
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by dole 5y ago
The shareware version of Snow from Windows by Rick Jansen linked here doesn't work well with Windows 10, lots of image artifacting from (I assume) old Win32 display calls attempting to animate sprites across the desktop. Looking for al
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by dole 5y ago
The 2018 Honda Pilot’s infotainment system was all touchscreen, they added a physical volume knob back in the 2019 model by demand.
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by dole 5y ago
UX Stockholm Syndrome.
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by dole 5y ago
Nice ambient and piano sample flipping in Drake's Started from the Bottom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v_hUNxHuDA
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by dole 5y ago
BMP and PCXs begat JPGs, GRASP animations begat GIFs. Grayscale, super low res seconds-long loops, but yes, I can fap to this.
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by dole 5y ago
The 3D printed gun movement is fascinating in itself as far as the potential influence on the gun industry, society and legislation. I feel like there’s no way entities like the ATF (and Justice Dept) will be able to keep up in about 10 yea
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by dole 5y ago
The big deal about the Journey arcade game at the time was that it had some of arcade video gaming’s first “photorealistic” pictures of the band’s heads for the game characters… which I’d estimate were probably like 32x32 3 or 4 grayscale c
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by dole 5y ago
My dad built one of the large Heathkit 27”(?) console TVs, I remember being 3 or 4 and watching my cat chase the airplanes around the TV in Spitfire, noting how weird it was, an animal chasing electronic dots around the screen that they’d n
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by dole 5y ago
It seems a little easier to go from embedded to app dev than vice versa, harder still to think up a personal project involving embedded to get you excited enough to invest the time into learning by hands-on trial and error. I’d be intereste
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by dole 5y ago
"when you stare into the abyss..."
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by dole 5y ago
"Regular firmware updates" Archer C7 v4's last firmware update, Dec 2019. Archer C7 v5's last firmware update, Jan 2021. Might be solid, but I guess "regular" is relative.
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by dole 5y ago
Kind of a niche for HN, but there's a few watchmaking programs catering to US military veterans that began after WWII, dried up a bit but seem to be making a bit of a resurgence. https://www.veteranswatchmakerinitiative.org
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by dole 5y ago
Praise Electron. I can't imagine the cross platform headaches Teams has induced on its developers. Sometimes you have to wonder whether Win11's new hardware requirements and Electron/Teams' crappy performance are related
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by dole 5y ago
Curious how saline that rain would end up being, detrimental to plant life, considerable corrosion for metals/cars/etc.
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by dole 5y ago
Youtube's homepage reminds me of the television broadcasts in Idiocracy. Just another fulfilled prophecy.
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by dole 5y ago
I recall some recent codec or project that addressed anime compression, something similar to the following: https://github.com/nikitaa30/Image-Compression-using-ML-and-...
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by dole 5y ago
Windows for Workgroups/NT.
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by dole 5y ago
I'll second TaxSlayer (2nd year) after being a online TurboTax user for 12+ years, desktop app user years before that, and afraid and skeptical of jumping ship and losing "history", tired of the fake delays and dialogs. Relat
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by dole 5y ago
While using an RPi is fun to get into and set up yourself, there's starting to be cheaper and better hardware featured controllers for doorbell projects like these, such as the TTGO, an ESP32-based board with camera, display, wireless,
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by dole 5y ago
Just recently they changed the submission date display format from “7 months” to “7m”, not like that’s ambiguous at all. One of my favorites is how it’ll load a basic profile with just your name, 0 karma and no subs when the site seems to b
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by dole 5y ago
Can I just get Alexa on a drone that perpetually follows me around and broadcasts (or projects visually) occasional targeted advertising? /s

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