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by gxqoz 5y ago
The way I heard this story is that the movie being saved wasn't actually the theatrical Toy Story 2. Instead, it was Disney's version that was mostly scrapped when they resolved their dispute with Pixar.
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Ask HN: How do Norton phishing scams get through Gmail spam filters?
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by gxqoz 5y ago
I think a car is definitely one product that the typical consumer does at least some research on, given that it's such a large purchase. Consumer Reports certainly grades infotainment systems and maybe that's having some impact in
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by gxqoz 5y ago
I believe moving to digital also allows stations to broadcast more channels. For instance, KUOW, the source of this bug, has KUOW-2 and KUOW-3 only accessible via HD Radio that broadcast things like the BBC news feed and classical music. Of
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by gxqoz 5y ago
I wonder when the trend of funny names for this type of stuff is going to end. I find these names mildly amusing but I have to think that at some point a younger audience is going to find this type of naming convention really cringeworthy.
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by gxqoz 5y ago
I read a book recently on technical advances in early Hollywood. One chapter was on cinematographers. To start, they were using off-the-shelf consumer tech. It was the responsibility of the cinematographer to provide their own equipment (an
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by gxqoz 5y ago
There are a bunch of Substack newsletters that are basically collections of links to longer pieces. The one that most matches my interests is "Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends": https://linksiwouldgchatyou.sub
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by gxqoz 5y ago
Longreads seemed to have an editorial shift a few years ago. Among other things, it no longer commissions much (if any) original stories. And the linked stories mostly fall into the personal essay camp which I'm personally less interes
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by gxqoz 5y ago
Where is LastPass's account history?
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by gxqoz 5y ago
A recent 99% Invisible episode on alphabetical order was pretty fascinating. It's based on Judith Flanders's new book about alphabetical order, A Place for Everything. Among things I hadn't considered is how in Chinese "
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by gxqoz 5y ago
Rachel Weil, who started the FEMICOM Museum to highlight "girls games", has done extensive research on the Loopy. There's a good overview of her work on this recent episode of the Video Game History Hour podcast: https:&#x2F
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by gxqoz 5y ago
The support for "third party integrations" seems like the exact opposite of anything I'd ever want in a password management app.
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by gxqoz 5y ago
When American pinball was basically just gambling it was also a big market. This led to the mob controlling pinball in many parts of the country. Some cities banned the game, including Chicago, ironically home of most of America's big
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by gxqoz 5y ago
I've listened to enough TTS for non-fiction that it doesn't really bother me. In fact, I sometimes prefer the TTS over a low-quality narrator. TTS for fiction less so.
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by gxqoz 5y ago
It's been a while since I've listened to something on librivox. When I did, it was hit or miss in terms of narrator quality (as you'd expect from a volunteer-led initiative). If you have access to something like Overdrive or
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by gxqoz 5y ago
I hate a lot of the new paradigms with passwords. This includes things like letting you sign up for an account and placing you in an in-between state until your email is verified (with no indication this is the case until you check your ema
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The Complete History of Kaizo Mario(glitchcat7.com)
1 points by gxqoz 5y ago|1 comments
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by gxqoz 5y ago
The infamous Super Mario World hack has a much longer history than you might think. Japanese gamers were using hot-swapping to create new minus-world style levels in SMB1 shortly after the game was released. And a gray-market tool let hacke
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by gxqoz 5y ago
I sometimes watch an iPad (velcroed to the rowing machine) with standard bluetooth headphones. I don't find it too loud. You don't even need noise cancelling headphones unless you have a really loud machine.
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by gxqoz 5y ago
If I recall correctly, some of the unused Super Mario Bros. 3 content showed up as eReader levels in the GBA port of the game.
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by gxqoz 5y ago
I'm reading this interesting book on the global history of prohibition that challenges a lot of traditional narratives. [1] One novel thing in the air at the time was the rise of social science and scientific thinking. Before the early
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by gxqoz 5y ago
I actually get more enjoyment these days reading about games than playing them. Or at least I spend more time reading about them than playing them. For instance, reading an issue of Retro Gamer magazine is highly pleasurable. Picking up a r
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by gxqoz 5y ago
On the subject of changing tastes, I suspect that in 10 years anything in a corporate Memphis style [1] is going to look horribly amateurist and outdated. This shows up a lot more in landing pages and tutorials than ads, but I'm sure t
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by gxqoz 5y ago
Maybe they're being fooled by toddlers who love rewatching the same video over and over again.
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by gxqoz 5y ago
This is also considered in Keith Houston's entertaining book Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks. It traces the history of some other common symbols such as the at sign and asterisk.
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by gxqoz 5y ago
That is surprising to me. I'd expect that your peer getting a promotion over you drives a lot more people to leave than someone external being hired for that position.
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by gxqoz 5y ago
I was reading a recent article on the NSTB's increased focus on reducing injuries from airplane turbulence and was surprised how low the baseline currently is. "Accidents on U.S. airlines have become increasingly rare except for o
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by gxqoz 5y ago
And a small update from last week on how they discovered some rare "white band" copies of the original magazine at a high school named for Hersey: https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/a-rare-discov
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by gxqoz 5y ago
I wonder if some of these decisions are driven by their business model. My understanding is Spotify's agreement with record labels means they have very low margin on a typical song stream. I've heard that some of their playlists a
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by gxqoz 5y ago
One of my main use cases of Pocket is basically using it like a podcast app (via text2speech and syncing across different devices) with highlighting capability. I've created some of my own workarounds for its failings (such as not bein

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