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   by frik 9y ago

   Video games in the Free2Play niche inherited a lot of slot machine and casino gamification mechanics. Now even proper video games of the triple-A full prize segment $70 come with "loot boxes", helix points, DLCs, trading cards, al
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   by frik 9y ago

   MySpace, Tripod, GeoCities, LiveJournal, and similar free hosted/services had a lot of interesting, weird, etc pages. It was easy and friction free to create a new site. Everyone had a copy of Frontpage/Dreamweaver/GoLive&#x2
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   by frik 9y ago

   I favor IPS panels any day over the ill-fated burn-in-friendly OLED panels. IPS also has no off-angle hue, and a better color range. Only HDR (very black and white parts) looks better on OLED.
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   by frik 9y ago

   When will the first ship crash because of a BSOD? You think I am joking? No, unfortunately several types run on general purpose OS, and the possibility is there. http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/
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   by frik 9y ago

   "Timber Towers" work for up to about 10-story building (depending on architecture, building technique). It's similar to brick and mortar buildings, only with the introduction of cement and steel we got the first high rise sky
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   by frik 9y ago

   While Ion Storm had an extravagant office at the top of a skyscraper, Warren Spector had great ideas and a track record of awesome games. And Ion Storm created one of the very best games ever made, Deus Ex 1, and Thiefs 3 was great too.
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   by frik 9y ago

   What should they use instead? Email isn't secure enough. Email got not forced TLS/GPG upgrade (compared to the web's HTTPS)
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   by frik 9y ago

   > The problem > ● Linux no longer controls the x86 platform > ● Between Linux and the hardware are at least 2 ½ kernel Please release it for general public, so that everyone has the choice (for Intel+AMD CPUs).
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   by frik 9y ago

   Thanks to the hype and bubble around ICO and digital mining, all the AMD graphic cards are way overpriced.
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    by frik 9y ago

    > My old 1st gen iPad fared a little better My iPad 2 runs on iOS6 and has perfect battery time, and runs as fast as in 2011. Only some ad-laden websites crash the browser from time to time, but that's a problem with all 512MB memor
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    by frik 9y ago

    "One of our guiding principles in developing Microsoft Edge is that end users should never have to worry about which sites work in which browsers. This philosophy—”the Web should just work for everyone“—led to our choice to target the
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    by frik 9y ago

    W3School is very good to quickly look something up - short and always with a simple example. MDN is very good for details and in general as reference.
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    by frik 9y ago

    The same is true for agricultural. Company lobbyists try to sneak in laws and publish studies and reports. Then we wonder why bees die left and right, and humans get sick. "EU report on weedkiller safety copied text from Monsanto study
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    by frik 9y ago

    Isn't it well understood that Monsanto with its gen manipulated crap is very bad for humans and animals (like bees). "EU report on weedkiller safety copied text from Monsanto study" https://www.theguardian.com&#x2F
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    by frik 9y ago

    "Most of the editors out there are based on ContentEditable, including CKEditor 4 and its previous versions. But ContentEditable is bad and ugly, though. It’s implementation among browsers is not standardized and its behavior for end u
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    by frik 9y ago

    I use w3schools and MDN, both. w3schools improved a lot over the years, and it's easy to find something fast. MDN is more in depth. CanIuse.com is another very useful resource. Google should keep all three resources in the top results.
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    by frik 9y ago

    We are still not there. Press pause button on a CGI heavy movie like "2012". The effects work if they are in motion. But looking at them in "pause mode" on 1080p it looks like shit hits the fan. The same for Transformer
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    by frik 9y ago

    Interesting! Re "Local" Please add support for WikiData dumps instead of requiring internet access to Wikipedia API service: https://github.com/DragonComputer/Dragonfire/blob/master/dra...
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    by frik 9y ago

    A Samsung smartphone of mine burned up the Qualcomm CPU due to heat. A Windows Mobile PocketPC of mine burned up the Qualcomm CPU due to heat. And I never broke any of my phones mechanically.
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    by frik 9y ago

    Pascal language has a LL(1) grammar, typical for Wirth and other 1980s work. LL(1) grammars are of great practical interest, as parsers for these grammars are easy to construct, and many computer languages are designed to be LL(1) for this
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    by frik 9y ago

    I first though it was about "Gex: Enter the Gecko" 1998 (a Super Mario 64 like early 3D platformer): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gex:_Enter_the_Gecko But the article was about Gex 1995 (2D platformer): ht
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    by frik 9y ago

    Windows Media Player 12 of Windows 7 (and v11 of XP) are perfect. The UI is very nice, the star rating well integrated, the playlist functionality good. It plays mp3 audio, it plays avi, wmv, mpeg and mp4 videos, (and does all the advanced
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    by frik 9y ago

    Well their investment basically killed Cyanogen inc and Cyanogen mod. Good that it's open source, so they forked it, and is now known as LineageOS.
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    by frik 9y ago

    "Constraints make us more creative" See classic Lego and it's spiritual digital counterpart "Minecraft" for how constraints to only classic brick blocks inspires one. I had two red Lego brick buckets (and a handful
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    by frik 9y ago

    WinForms, WPF, Silverlight, ... it doesn't matter. The whole .NET Framework 4.x and .NET Core 1 have the "legacy" tag on. Their new thing is .NET Core 2. The rest moved on to cross-platform.
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    by frik 9y ago

    Windows Mobile 6 (2007, CE based) was pretty good. iPhone changed everything. Then Microsoft destroyed v6 with Windows Mobile 7 (CE based but incompatible to CE apps, Silverlight-only apps) Windows Mobile 7 got replaced by incompatible Wind
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    by frik 9y ago

    Shopping a lego brick box - unfortunately I am under impressed by today's selection. Only traditional shaped box I found - unfortunately littered with too many special parts, little traditional bricks: https://www.amazon.com
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    by frik 9y ago

    Exactly. What really helps are speed bumps.
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    by frik 9y ago

    Postgres has toxic fanboys. Instead of going for closed source competition like Oracle, DB2, MSSQL where Postgres is a valuable competitor, these really stupid fanboys go for friendly open source databases. Unfortunately toxic Postgres fanb
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    by frik 9y ago

    "iOS 11: toggling wifi and Bluetooth in Control Centre doesn't actually turn them off" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/21/ios-11-ap... "Quick switch simply disconnects