doodpants

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by doodpants 1y ago
It made me feel dumb when I couldn't even understand the tl;dr at the top.
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by doodpants 1y ago
Sure, I'd accept that for now.
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by doodpants 1y ago
Yes, I understand that. Let me play the game as much as I want without enforced delays, without having to pay a recurring subscription price. I'll gladly pay a one-time cost for that.
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by doodpants 1y ago
Wow, the original DropZap was one of my favorite iOS games ever! I was able to keep playing it for years after the final release, because I didn't upgrade my phone for a long time. By the time I stopped playing I was #1 or #2 on most o
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by doodpants 1y ago
My favorite Asteroids clone was a game for the Macintosh in the 90s that featured hemispherical rocks, titled "HemiRoids". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Llp_jHv1c
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by doodpants 1y ago
I miss the days of Kaleidoscope. I even created a couple of themes myself; the one I'm proudest of is Crayon OS: https://macthemes.garden/themes/a83c1d81e770-crayon-os/
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by doodpants 1y ago
> Flowcode is a visual programming platform that tries to combine the best of both worlds (code and visual). Over the years I found myself repeatedly drawing architectures and logic. It was always my dream to just press “run” instead of
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by doodpants 1y ago
From the last paragraph of the article, it's availabile in Microsoft Office. It seems that they're not distributing it separately.
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by doodpants 2y ago
Agreed; needs a tutorial.
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I do not want AI to "polish" me(thebloggess.com)
415 points by doodpants 2y ago|263 comments
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by doodpants 2y ago
Off topic, but now I want a screen saver of the animation at the top of the article...
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by doodpants 2y ago
How come after you roll but before you move, the Strokes value at the top shows the current roll value instead of the stroke count? Is this a bug?
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by doodpants 2y ago
To be fair, the curl license doesn't mention "curl" anywhere in it. It seems reasonable for someone to interpret "this software" as referring to the software product that includes the license.
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by doodpants 2y ago
Link?
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by doodpants 2y ago
Neat, but the "Diffictulty" slider is a bit of a misnomer, IMHO. Puzzles with more pieces just take longer. I'm not sure what would be a better label, though. (If I were feeling uncharitable, I would propose "Tedium&quot
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by doodpants 2y ago
This article contains links to https://ss64.com/ , which is an amazing resource that I wish I'd known about sooner!
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by doodpants 2y ago
Peeve of mine: blog posts that lack a date stamp. The only date appearing anywhere in the article is at the bottom, where it says "Last modified: August 29, 2024." So for all I knew it was a brand new post, until this comment. How
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by doodpants 2y ago
It seems that the Clay website ( https://www.nicbarker.com/clay ) can't be scrolled via keyboard.
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by doodpants 2y ago
Interesting choice; I would have expected Ode to Joy, or Hallelujah Chorus.
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by doodpants 2y ago
Genuinely curious as to why this was submitted to HN, and even more so why it made it to the front page. Was it written by an AI, and is being showcased as an example of such? As a good example, or a poor one, in terms of resulting quality?
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Why I left Google(fogknife.com)
103 points by doodpants 2y ago|81 comments
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by doodpants 2y ago
Apparently so. https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/airpods-caused-permanent-hea...
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by doodpants 2y ago
As is the "numerology and astrology" quote by Stan Kelly-Bootle.
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by doodpants 2y ago
"But his ideas that animals are conscious in the same way humans are have long been shunned." ...except by every single dog or cat owner ever. Seriously, I've never understood how anyone could interact with or observe animals
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by doodpants 2y ago
I assume that those are placeholders for characters not yet present in the font?
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by doodpants 2y ago
As someone who first learned to program in the early 80's, C# is far from my first language. But it is my favorite as well!
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by doodpants 2y ago
Well, it's not really about the UX. My purpose for using a feed aggregator is to keep up with blogs that I want to read, not to replace the sites on which I read them.
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by doodpants 2y ago
...But I don't want to read blogs in my feed reader. I always click the permalink to read the post at its original source. What's the purpose of forcing me to endure my reader's inferior UX?
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by doodpants 3y ago
Sounds to me like you're no longer interested in playing games, where a "game" is something that has formal rules, mechanics, and physical equipment. You'd rather just sit around a campfire and tell stories. Which is of
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by doodpants 3y ago
Selling hardware at negative margins is not a "necessary" evil; it's just a business model that some manufacturers choose to impose on consumers, and then we end up with things like DRM-encumbered printer ink cartridges.

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