exDM69

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by exDM69 4y ago
I won't disagree, but there's a bit of rose tinted glasses of nostalgia here. A few years back I tried playing The Secret of Monkey Island again (special edition from Steam), and it wasn't quite as great as I remembered. The
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by exDM69 4y ago
They are available on Steam today, surely they've upgraded or rebuilt the engine to run on modern machines? Disclaimer: I haven't actually tried.
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by exDM69 4y ago
In the main menu of the game, there's a "scrapbook" feature with a brief history of Guybrush Threepwood's adventures if you haven't played the earlier editions. But the game (as far as I played it so far) contains a
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by exDM69 4y ago
I guess they have some superficial similarity but the vehicle dynamics are really different. In a scandi flick, the weight transfer is used to unload weight from the outside tyres to make them slip. In two wheel counter steering it's t
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by exDM69 4y ago
The article was about bicycles and motorcycles, not opposite lock countersteering in a car. I don't know what exactly you mean by "losing traction" (understeer or oversteer) but your advise does not sound correct to me. But w
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by exDM69 4y ago
The original article is about counter steering in bicycles and motorcycles to initiate a turn, not counter steering (or "opposite lock") in a car (or motorcycle/bicycle) in response to oversteer. That said, they're quite
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by exDM69 4y ago
Head tracking is quite a nice middle ground. TrackIR is the best known commercial product but you can find free alternatives with DIY hardware. With TrackIR (or equiv) you can see your surroundings, including your flight controllers. VR sur
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by exDM69 4y ago
No. But you can use MSFS as a client to join VATSIM as a pilot, where someone else is the air traffic controller (using another client app). Being a controller needs training, even when doing it online.
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by exDM69 4y ago
This book is available at archive.org https://archive.org/details/art-of-electronics-3e The first four or five chapters are quite nice. Beyond that it's too advanced for me, but I mostly dabble in analog guitar an
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by exDM69 4y ago
War games and movies mostly focus on the soldiers. But they are a really small part of the people involved in it. Being exposed to this faux imagery of war messes with people's perception of war. This is especially true for people from
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by exDM69 4y ago
I visited (trespassed) in an underground bomb shelter with accomodations for 11000 (eleven thousand) people. It was mothballed and parts of it were used as storage, but most of what would be needed for housing people there if war or nuclear
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by exDM69 4y ago
Couple some spatial hashing with Morton codes and fast parallel Radix sorting and some binary search derivative and you can do all sorts of fancy queries for collision detection and graphics stuff.
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There will be a fuel fire inside the engine. Just a regular fire at atmospheric pressure. But jet engines can and do backfire spectacularly at times. You can find lots of cool footage from hobby turbine engine enthusiasts on the tubes.
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Because the compressor is on the intake side of the combustion. The compressor increases the pressure more on the intake side than the resistance from the turbine does on the output side.
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by exDM69 4y ago
Not right away and I don't have the time to search for it. Youtube is notoriously secretive about their contracts. There was a big outrage among the creators about the changes in 2017 or so. The revenue split may have stayed the same b
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by exDM69 4y ago
The ones I follow are mostly getting paid by Patreon subscriptions. Some are doing content for niche platforms specific to the hobby they dabble in. Some use YouTube for free previews of paid content available elsewhere. But a lot of creato
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by exDM69 4y ago
Yes it has. It seems like the downturn was a few years ago when they made their monetization system pay less to the content creators and introduced a high barrier to entry for monetization (1k subscribers). Add in the algorithm preferring n
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by exDM69 4y ago
Pick a wall in your new house, design a display shelf to cover that wall and populate it with your favorite vintage computers. What doesn't fit in there should belong to someone else's collection.
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by exDM69 4y ago
Mostly a good article but one piece of advise is dangerously wrong: blinking lights. Do not use a blinking light as your only front or rear light. Have a solid white light at the front and a red one in the back. You can have a blinker in ad
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by exDM69 4y ago
I also cross compile and remote debug windows software on Linux (C and Rust programs). Using gdbserver --multi (extended remote mode) is quite comfortable. The biggest advantage is not having to use different tools for different target plat
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by exDM69 4y ago
Yes, same here. It's my disconnected hobby where I let my creativity flourish. If I do plans, it is using a pencil. But mostly I just improvise. There is only so much value in doing plans for one off projects.
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by exDM69 4y ago
You can do a lot of woodworking without dangerous machines. I am terrified of table saws and router tables and do most of my work with only hand tools. I used to go to a weekly class where I had stationary machines at my disposal, together
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by exDM69 4y ago
Smoothing plane and cabinet scraper! There are times when there is no alternative to sanding but flat surfaces are a bit faster and certainly less dusty when you're making shavings.
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> I tend to store references to other objects using indices instead of pointers/references anyway, so the borrow checker isn't really that important for me. C++ references only help you with null pointers and they are a pain in
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A regular switch is no match for a lightning strike, there is only a small air gap and it does not take much for an arc to jump over it. You can often see this even with your regular mains voltage, especially if you have some inductive load
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by exDM69 4y ago
I only recently bought my first oscilloscope (Telequipment analog CRT scope circa 1964), but I've done electronics for years without one. Mostly audio stuff so I've poked an audio probe in the circuit and listen to the signal rath
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by exDM69 4y ago
A hobbyist grade electronics lab doesn't need a lot of space and it's not super expensive either. You can get a lot of projects done with tools and components that fit in a shoe box. Learning electronics is easier than ever before
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by exDM69 5y ago
You can power a smartphone or a flashlight for a very long time with the energy it takes to boil a liter of water. The latter is easy to do with firewood but charging batteries is not.
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by exDM69 5y ago
Getting to the printing money stage is pretty easy in vanilla OpenTTD. For added challenge, try the FIRS mod, which requires your production chains to be working from raw materials to production to retail. A lot more planning is needed to m
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by exDM69 5y ago
> What are the trade offs of embedding a Prolog interpreter versus having a library that implements prolog logic without having to have another language. A library that implements Prolog logic is an interpreter. The difference here is th

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