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by gxqoz 4y ago
I enjoy the breadth of the reviews in the back but typically only read 1 or 2 of the main articles. Sometimes there's an article that's in-depth on some country you don't hear that much about in other sources which justifies
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by gxqoz 4y ago
You can use DALL-E and other models to make pixel art ("as pixel art"), although it can both be overkill and hard to get consistent results that you'd put into animation. I'm guessing that starting from more of a video m
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by gxqoz 4y ago
Control + T is an easier way to do this
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by gxqoz 4y ago
You could write longform content in Print Shop?
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by gxqoz 4y ago
I use NewPipe on Android and it has an option to show a chronological list of all new videos from all channels I'm subscribed to.
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by gxqoz 4y ago
Yeah I think Nintendo, like Disney, benefits from a mystique that there are "secrets" of the company. They know they can monetize things by introducing scarcity and then officially releasing them, even if those releases are not as
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by gxqoz 4y ago
The fact that they were making ROM patches led to a lawsuit from Nintendo that the Game Genie was copyright infringement. Nintendo lost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Galoob_Toys,_Inc._v._Nin... .
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by gxqoz 4y ago
Any particular highlights from this?
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by gxqoz 4y ago
I suspect you'll still have academics doing it, but with less overall cultural relevance. There are still historians of early film, TV, etc. doing great work. Often it's by consulting new types of sources or using newly available
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by gxqoz 4y ago
This fascinating article [1] on the history of SMB hacking in Japan gives some more details on Minus World-like worlds and how they could be manipulated by "hot swapping" Famicom cartridges. "Players quickly figured out that
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by gxqoz 4y ago
I find this trend against "power users" increasingly more common in almost all software as companies have the incentive to just design for users more susceptible to the default, nudged experience. I understand the downsides of &qu
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by gxqoz 4y ago
Yeah I really hate this. And they've had just stupidly obvious bugs to fix for so long. For instance, in the web client their logic for handling quotes is broken. So you literally can't search for an "exact match" (even
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by gxqoz 4y ago
I pay for the premium tier. I've been disappointed by their promises about content being retained forever. There's a big caveat that they don't actually keep paywalled content forever. This is annoying because I might save so
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by gxqoz 4y ago
Bummer, though, since it looks like Pocket's API doesn't export the highlights or any metadata about them. Unless it's hidden in the "fts" or whatever that is.
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by gxqoz 4y ago
I don't suppose Raindrop has a read-aloud feature? This is one of my most heavily used features in Pocket. Looking at Raindrop's features I might be inclined to move if it does support this.
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by gxqoz 4y ago
Awesome, I've been looking for something like this forever! I use Pocket a ton and make lots of highlights. But its search and archive features have been practically unusable for 3 years for me despite frequent complaints to support.
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by gxqoz 4y ago
For me it's mostly been good. The exception is scams about renewing my Norton subscription. It's odd that with 20+ signals of this exact type of message being spam / phishing they keep getting through.
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by gxqoz 4y ago
"Wow, who is this Ralph Manheim guy I've never heard of and why is NYRB obsessed with him?" Oh, apparently he's a translator.
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by gxqoz 4y ago
The new agreement says: "provides that you will only be permitted to pursue claims against PayPal on an individual basis, not as a plaintiff or class member in any class or representative action or proceeding; provides that you will on
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by gxqoz 5y ago
Not really a hack, but AOL provided some free web hosting at members.aol.com/~[your screen name]. When they increased the character count in screennames from 8 to 10 I immediately created some to "domain squat". My most succe
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by gxqoz 5y ago
There was a related service around this time that basically paid you to use the internet. But they only paid you if you were actively running their banner ads. Of course, this was rife for abuse through scripts that faked your activity. I e
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by gxqoz 5y ago
Perhaps you might want to read Command and Control, a book about the terrifying history of near misses in terms of nuclear weapons. It may well be true that nuclear weapons have reduced hot wars. But it can be equally true that had a few sm
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by gxqoz 5y ago
I don't play too many games anymore, but as a player I've been able to have more than enough content in the last 15 years of gaming without literally ever encountering a lootbox. This is mainly due to my preference for Nintendo an
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by gxqoz 5y ago
As an example of this, I can access Chapter 0 in this book: https://www.google.com/books/edition/You_Could_Look_It_Up/aT... The first paragraph mentions "Walter J. Ong". I then search for it. I get
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by gxqoz 5y ago
Lots of stuff. For "pure news" New York Times, Seattle Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian. Lots of somewhat more general interest subscriptions also have news angles like Slate Plus, Th
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Ask HN: Has Google Books restricted in-book search?
4 points by gxqoz 5y ago|1 comments
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by gxqoz 5y ago
I subscribed at one of their cheap rates last year and didn't find much in it unique from other sources I'm already subscribed to.
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by gxqoz 5y ago
For me I'd rather it just remain independent. It already does what it does well enough. There aren't any obvious features that would improve the site for me, just a lot of further monetization crap for users who fall for that stuf
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by gxqoz 5y ago
There was an FT long read recently that covered similar ground that I thought was a bit better. HN thread and archive link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30213690
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by gxqoz 5y ago
Yeah I think I'm mixing up my stories here. There was a "Disney Version" of Toy Story 3. And there was a very different Pixar version of Toy Story 2 that this story applies to.

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