eriknstr

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   by eriknstr 10y ago

   Japan-only just means that there was a marketing and distribution effort by Nintendo there and nowhere else. Third-parties could still have imported the GB Light consoles to places like Germany. Could also be that the GB Light consoles you
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   by eriknstr 10y ago

   >It was the first Game Boy to have a backlit screen, which meant I could finally easily sneak and play on it in the night without alerting my parents Actually, there was another Game Boy with backlit screen released much earlier -- just
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   by eriknstr 10y ago

   Personal servers are more prone to intermittent operation, caused by things such as an OS upgrade gone bad and the owner not finding the time at the moment to fix it. If on the other hand you have a repo on GitHub that one can go get then u
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   by eriknstr 10y ago

   The user who posted the bounty has not had any activity on bountysource outside of that bounty as far as I can tell from their profile [0], and it was two years since he and others talked about it in the comments (not including the comment
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   by eriknstr 10y ago

   CIS 198 or something else? https://cis198-2016f.github.io/ I am currently "attending" the above mentioned course by following along online. I am enjoying it very much so far. There have been three assignments so f
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   by eriknstr 10y ago

   I notified the author about it on the uLisp forums. He has now updated the link.
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   by eriknstr 10y ago

   The article links to http://www.technoblogy.com/list?1GLV calling it the full code listing for this Tiny Lisp Computer, however, that link leads to code for a ATtiny841 "I2C Display Module" which is from the &quot
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   by eriknstr 10y ago

   I would like to read a blog post about your virtual game console if you have or ever write one.
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   Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap – Reverse engineering the 1989 original(thedragonstrap.com)

   83 points by eriknstr 10y ago|22 comments
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    Do you have any examples of the kind of board game inspired video game you have in mind? When I think about a video game for this, I imagine a RTS game which would be somewhat similar to Age of Empires II and Empire Earth II in the graphica
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    Imagine a list of RNN resources curated by a RNN.
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    I agree. My first reaction when I read the headline was, I thought Apple had put it there, which I found disturbing seeing as how Apple has publicly spoken out against backdoors. I think a better title would be something like "Sophisti
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    I should probably have phrased what I said a bit differently. I have not had trouble understanding relative offset and how to use it. What I've always wondered about and finally got an answer to in this video is how the implementation
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    I think the most interesting thing in this video was the explanation of R1C1. I've always thought of the apparent automatic changing of references as almost magic. Now I know. For me, the most useful things he talked about was, in orde
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    I meant to say that listening to headphones for long periods is damaging, yes. Here is an article by Popular Science that talks about relationship between volume and period of time: http://www.popsci.com/limit-headphone-time
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    Also, uninterrupted listening to music for several hours straight can be damaging to your ears, even if you're not playing at a high volume, or so I've heard. I enjoy listening to music but I think it's important to take brea
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    I submitted the URL for archival as have a lot of other people done, but what I found strange is that there are archived versions of "page not found" results going all the way back to 2014. http://web.archive.org/w
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    Via https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/519m7r/arewegameyet_i...
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    Arewegameyet? Game Development Using Rust(arewegameyet.com)

    2 points by eriknstr 10y ago|1 comments
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    I found a video with a full play-through of King's Quest IV without commentary. The video is almost an hour long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCqDIRMRTTY Interesting to watch, but I can certainly see what they mean
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    Thanks for your blog post. I'm going to try the power management things you did for your laptop and see how they work for my model. I too use root on ZFS. Boot environments and using powerd++ are things I've been meaning to but ha
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    Thanks :)
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    I've been running FreeBSD servers for several years now and have previously tried to use FreeBSD on the desktop as well. Recently, I bought a laptop and put FreeBSD 11.0 with a graphical desktop on it. This is my one and only laptop I
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    >Also: Nokia If not for your comment, I probably would not have noticed the favicon. I Google'd Nokia Bell Labs and found that Nokia Bell Labs is now the name of Bell Labs. Apparently, according to the Wikipedia article on Bell Labs
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    I began investigating DNS records to determine if there was some way there to conclusively ascertain that dropboxmail.com was legitimately owned by Dropbox. I could not find a way to determine this through DNS. Next, I went to dropboxmail.c
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    >The owner of www.jonathanturner.org has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website. I added an exception as I pretty much always do but in case the owner
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    Is it ok if I ask about something totally unrelated to the article? I was wondering, for the hotel booking companies that Trivago collects data from, do you have an agreement with them about it? Do they pay anything to you, or you pay anyth
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    Here is a direct link to the comment I think you are talking about: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3NZHDP4ALNJ4I/re...
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    I guess it's time for tptacek or some other high-karma user to write a book and start mentioning their book in the HN comments a lot. They would quickly rise to the top of your list and hopefully rake in some money ;)
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    It's been about a day since I found this blog post. I considered using it today as I began writing a CRUD application for some data that will be modified over time and where I might want to see older revisions, but I then quickly reali