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by gxqoz 5y ago
I use Pocket a lot. There are like 10 easy feature requests I'd love for them to do but I find it at least usable for storing stuff and finding it later once you get used to it. Most of the problems in that post have been at least part
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by gxqoz 5y ago
That was one of the games I played. I did have a Worm Light for playing in the car but don't recall otherwise using it. Of course, I later modded my GBA twice to make it more satisfying to play. The first added a TV out. The second was
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by gxqoz 5y ago
I remember that discourse but not really having a problem at the time. I was generally able to see the screen. But I did recently go back to playing an original GBA after years of backlit screens and it was close to unplayable.
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by gxqoz 5y ago
It's conspicuously lacking testimonials. I personally hate testimonials and never have understood their appeal. I don't care what some person I've likely never heard of has to say about this product. I'd rather see what
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by gxqoz 5y ago
Licensed videogames before around 2000 commonly had this problem. They'd get an early script and have to build a game based on it. Sometimes, like with Ghostbusters 2, the script would change significantly over the course of the shooti
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by gxqoz 5y ago
Sounds similar to Doctor V64. Although mainly used for piracy, it was also a much cheaper dev machine than Nintendo's official Silicon Graphics workstations.
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by gxqoz 5y ago
There's a new book out [1] that examines the role of technology in the early film industry. One of the tensions is between the camera, sound, and lighting technologies mainly based in East Coast cities such as Rochester (home to Kodak,
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by gxqoz 5y ago
Is there a YouTube video of this somewhere? Didn't see one linked from the github page.
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by gxqoz 5y ago
I thought this particular anecdote came from a recent authoritative biography of Law and thus not likely to be exaggerated.
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by gxqoz 5y ago
The wildest story from the Mississippi Bubble, the subject of this article: "The Paris financial district at times became so agitated that soldiers had to be sent in to restore order. Another news article told of a hunchback who grew r
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by gxqoz 5y ago
Based on another recent article, my impression is that indoor air pollution in general is severely understudied. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-hidden-air...
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by gxqoz 5y ago
I've seen several articles recently highlighting problems with gas stoves. Some of these are environmental critiques--gas needs to be retired to deal with climate change. Another critique is around indoor air quality: "On the air-
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by gxqoz 5y ago
It's interesting that the author mentions ADHD as a reason to not post full blog posts. I don't have ADHD but I certainly find a Twitter thread much more distracting than a blog post to read. I need to untrain my mind that the ent
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by gxqoz 5y ago
Or even more egregious the channel logos and promos that routinely appear over content. It had been a long time since I had watched linear TV and saw one of these again. I forgot how annoying they are.
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by gxqoz 5y ago
It's worth keeping in perspective what's already done to many films. Namely, air them on television in an edited form with lots of commercial breaks. This was certainly not the original intention of the directors--at least until m
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by gxqoz 5y ago
Surely the best song (mostly) with this title, Bad Religion's "Atomic Garden": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhzhiQA6-Aw
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by gxqoz 5y ago
Console Wars has some interesting reporting in it, but it's otherwise a terrible book. Absolutely filled with cliches, invented dialogue and business speak. It's also very clear that this book emerged from getting access to Sega o
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by gxqoz 5y ago
There are some good stories like this from other countries like Poland and Mexico in the book Video Games Around the World: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/video-games-around-world
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by gxqoz 5y ago
Fun song by Tacocat inspired by this article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJH1WKSugNo I saw them perform it at a concert in front of the Space Needle. Really felt I was tempting fate there.
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by gxqoz 5y ago
Huh. I've listened to this song many times without really internalizing the lyrics.
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by gxqoz 5y ago
I get this, but I refuse to believe that 80% of websites that employ this are actually using this technique.
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Ask HN: Why split username and password to separate pages?
7 points by gxqoz 5y ago|6 comments
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by gxqoz 6y ago
I believe recovering unsaved files was another somewhat recent feature.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
My impression is that even reasonably well-selling non-fiction books typically do not sell a lot of copies. To make it onto a best-seller list you only need to sell in the tens of thousands of books.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Link?
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by gxqoz 6y ago
I really feel that Zoom and other audio conferencing software should give you a "you sound bad" message every once in a while. You otherwise have no feedback about this unless someone tells you.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
I have enough space on my desk to be able to fit a second wireless keyboard when I need to type and talk at the same time during meetings. This keyboard is much quieter than my mechanical keyboard. One thing I need to get around to doing is
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by gxqoz 6y ago
I attended a conference last August where almost all audio was terrible fidelity. It made the conference like 3x worse than usual. I think one of the main issues here is it's hard for people to realize what they sound like on the other
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Yeah it's amazing how bad people are at this without practice (including myself). Reading complicated / unfamiliar words aloud is a key skill in reading quizbowl questions (a type of trivia). Often these questions will have pronun
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by gxqoz 6y ago
McWhorter is a linguist (as well as a political commentator). His argument isn't that English is easier because people already speak it natively. Instead, English lost a lot of its complexity (especially around suffixes) during the Vik

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