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by haunter 5mo ago
The more close you are to the fire the more you understand how dangerous it is. HN always have had a sizable anti-tech crowd (I don't want to say luddite because it's borderline pejorative). If you see the technology from close an
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by haunter 5mo ago
> most cars require stepping down on the brake pedal to start the car I've never ever seen that but I also never drove an car with automatic transmission just manual, probably a thing there
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by haunter 5mo ago
What you actually need is copyparty, nothing else https://github.com/9001/copyparty
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by haunter 5mo ago
Read what the others offer GUI config, load games from zip and image files, controller support, save states, various sound, graphics, and network enhancements etc. There is more to this than simply being a DOS emulator.
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by haunter 5mo ago
>install DOSBox for Mac Mind you there are countless DOSBox forks out there and the vanilla original one is probably the least interesting one. Nowadays the three most popular one would be DOSBox-X, DOSBox Pure, and DOSBox Staging https
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by haunter 5mo ago
You need an adblocker https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adguard-pro-safari-ad-blocker/...
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by haunter 5mo ago
And this is one of those CPUs which had dual slot motherboards so you can have double the fun (and power bill) https://pcpartpicker.com/products/motherboard/#s=20028,20029...
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by haunter 5mo ago
The music from the new Boards of Canada album (which just got released this weekend) was the cherry on the top for me
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by haunter 5mo ago
What I always loved about Werner Herzog documentaries that how he just lets people talk. He just listens. Most people will talk and tell their story if you let them do it and that's exectaly what he does without any fanfares. But he ne
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by haunter 5mo ago
The Ebola virus is not simply a health issue but a cultural and eudcational "problem" too. There is a reason people eat bushmeat because 1, it's their culture 2, they would otherwise have nothing to eat especially not meat pr
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by haunter 5mo ago
I don’t think this is politically motivated but posting this on HN (and the 2nd time reaching the front page) sure is
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by haunter 5mo ago
Insert "we live in a society" meme
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by haunter 5mo ago
1996 The village is pretty much gone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZTFgZ9zl74
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by haunter 5mo ago
And peope wonder why auto battlers and generally gacha with auto gameplay loops are popular.
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by haunter 5mo ago
Indeed, he actually adresses that in the first video >This presentation is one of a series which is intended to present you the systems engineer and salesman some of the advantages of Systems/360
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by haunter 5mo ago
The earlier video from the series, GG46955 IBM SYSTEM/360 READ ONLY STORAGE, is dated to 1964 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcc_SAy-I80
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by haunter 5mo ago
Passed away in 2012 so he saw the modern internet age >Pearson LeRoy Wood, 81, passed away April 4, 2012. He was born May 12, 1930 in Detroit, MI. A graduate of Detroit Institute of Technology, Pearson served two years in the US Army. He
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The Alaska Permanent Fund as Loose Precedent for AI Data Center 'UBI' Payments(daringfireball.net)
6 points by haunter 5mo ago|2 comments
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by haunter 5mo ago
I wish they'd look into footedness as well and if there is some kind of correlation. Like orthodox vs southpaw in combat sports, goofy vs regular in skateboard, or just simply left vs right in football (soccer)
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Nintendo trying to obtain touchscreen-specific patent on monster capturing(gamesfray.com)
3 points by haunter 5mo ago|0 comments
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by haunter 5mo ago
> it sounds like the only architecture suitable for the internet age, where you can download and run anything from anywhere Wasn’t that the reason why Microsoft went allout against Java? Write once, run anywhere. JVM was a “trojan horse”
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by haunter 5mo ago
On Mercari it’s more about reaching the domestic market which will not ship outside of the islands. Buyee helps with that so you can buy items otherwise never showing up on eBay
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by haunter 5mo ago
Buyee is mostly used with Mercari https://jp.mercari.com/en You can use it with Amazon.jp but most of the time Amazon ships directly to everywhere, no proxy needed In fact you can use it with any japanese store that has a l
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by haunter 5mo ago
You can actually ask Buyee to discard the batteries after they inspected the items (you can communicate with them while the order is in their warehouse) but they only do it if it’s easily removable. Otherwise you can end up in a situation w
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by haunter 5mo ago
Buyee is great! Bought a lot of stuff through them. Electronics, clothes, blurays, even food lol (shio kombu is still not very common outside of Japan). Never had a problem! The only downside if you buy electronics with batteries: Buyee str
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by haunter 5mo ago
https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/15528
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SDL Library Adds Support for the New Steam Controller Without Depending on Steam(phoronix.com)
4 points by haunter 5mo ago|1 comments
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by haunter 5mo ago
I just use it to watch iPlayer outside of the UK lol
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by haunter 5mo ago
Same...
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by haunter 5mo ago
> We’re working with Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo to make the first Googlebooks. I'm sorry but these Taiwanese brands Acer and Asus are the bottom of the barrel. Bad build quality, clunky keyboard, bad speakers, everything plast

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