khedoros1

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by khedoros1 2y ago
I've got a map full of redstone gadgets that I made like...13 years ago, I suppose. Few of them work in the current version of the game. I played a bunch around the 2010 timeframe, then around 2015, then around 2021. It was a strange m
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by khedoros1 2y ago
An up-to-date Firefox install gives me this message when I even go to the site: > Sorry, your browser does not support the File System Access API. Plese consider using another browser for installing this app. Firefox also seems to requir
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by khedoros1 2y ago
> Over 80% of people in Japan > In Japan, many restaurants refrain from encouraging customers to take leftovers home because there was no clear rule for such a practice.
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by khedoros1 2y ago
[2020] could go in the title (or even [2017], looking at other comments in the thread in the following discussion link). There was also a discussion in 2021 of the same repository: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=266319
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by khedoros1 2y ago
Bedrock has self-hosted servers available too: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock They're pre-compiled Windows and Linux binaries, but if I'm remembering correctly, I think they
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by khedoros1 2y ago
This picture is from Yelp, posted in 2023: https://s3-media0.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/46rjANZM2fcMkvCzvEjw... The machines are still there, behind the counter.
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by khedoros1 2y ago
Assuming the details of the DX7 are similar to some of the PC Yamaha FM synth hardware, you could do things like set the attack/decay of a modulating operator to be very slow, the attack of a carrier to be fairly fast, and subsequent k
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by khedoros1 2y ago
I started my first job in 2008. I had a friend who got a job doing software development for a city government at $60k. I interviewed at a big tech company. I don't remember even being asked about my salary expectation. The offer came a
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by khedoros1 2y ago
A couple of my early ones that come to mind: A program to transform several QBasic PLAY strings into a single longer string using arppeggio to imitate harmony. I wanted to see how well it would work, and transcribed a few songs worth of she
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by khedoros1 2y ago
My "fast" computer uses a 5-year-old Ryzen 5 3600. The laptop I'm using right now is a Lenovo T460 from 2016, with an i7-6600U and 16GB of RAM. It's been perfectly fine for web browsing and some little programming projec
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by khedoros1 2y ago
Better, I have one right in front of me!
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by khedoros1 2y ago
That's why I open search results in a new tab, and close the tab to go back to the search.
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by khedoros1 2y ago
There were a couple posts on this yesterday too (although no discussion there either). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40438604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40437834 It's weird how stories
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by khedoros1 2y ago
It's a shifting of the goalposts, to make "just" meeting the expectations of your job seem like you're being lazy and unengaged from the work.
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by khedoros1 3y ago
Why does it ask for a birthdate as the first interaction with the site?
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by khedoros1 3y ago
I've been using solely Linux on my gaming PC for the past 4 years. After about 15 years of waiting, the experience got good enough for me around then.
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by khedoros1 3y ago
> but it stays lighthearted enough to make you feel good about it. There were plenty of parts that were dark enough to make it difficult to watch. There were lighthearted parts, but that's not a description I would've applied t
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by khedoros1 3y ago
> DOOM, which came out in 1996 1993.
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by khedoros1 3y ago
I've written a software emulation of a Yamaha YM2413 (OPLL) for use in a Sega Master System emulator, although that was a couple of years ago. What I remember is a table for the sine wave (1/4 of the full cycle, since the rest can
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by khedoros1 3y ago
That was one of the things I did when I added audio support to my NES emulator; add NSF support as a mapper with some special case code (doesn't display video, uses controller inputs to switch tracks). It seems like it only took me a c
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by khedoros1 3y ago
I like solving problems, and some of my original interest in computers came because of my grandfather, who worked as an electrical engineer for IBM, so there's a possibility that I would've followed him more closely and entered in
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by khedoros1 3y ago
> Would you figure out how to code on an iPad or a phone with an external keyboard? What exactly are you counting as a "computer"? I would've called both of those computers. Install the right software, and I'm back to
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by khedoros1 3y ago
I remember playing with that. It was awesome as a little tech demo on the original Pi. I remember playing around with the modding API a little bit, doing things like making a rainbow of blocks follow behind my character, or spawning objects
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by khedoros1 3y ago
Same person posted that thread as this one.
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by khedoros1 3y ago
"Calculator" doesn't quite cover it. CHIP-8 was developed to run on the COSMAC VIP home computer, and later similar ones like the Telmac 1800, which were shipped as kits for users to build at home.
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by khedoros1 3y ago
> how people start with game emulators? I had some Computer Organization and Architecture classes in university, and a previously-existing burning desire to understand emulation. I decided that the NES would be a good target; it was the
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by khedoros1 3y ago
I used to use ReiserFS, basically because a friend told me that it dealt well with large numbers of small files, and I liked to do things like compile the kernel myself. I moved away from it around the time that distros stopped using it as
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by khedoros1 3y ago
That's gonna be a long, long list. I'll pick a few of my earliest that I still remember: Ernie's Big Splash, Oregon Trail, and Alleycat.
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by khedoros1 3y ago
I eat my peas with honey; I've done it all my life. It may seem kind of funny, but it sticks them to the knife.
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by khedoros1 3y ago
I try not to; there's usually a good alternative.

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