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by mattbee 5y ago
The PlayStation Dual Analog controller, with its dual thumbsticks, didn't come out until a year after Mario 64. I had totally forgotten that, and of course that's all the more impressive. Like cavepeople, Playstation users were
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by mattbee 5y ago
I took from this that the OP assumed Jobs wouldn't be too price-sensitive. And that he would be happy to pay a small premium to get the feature into iTunes faster. And that a little - err - negotiating fudge in the opening meeting
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by mattbee 5y ago
My first memory was that it was the first 3D platform game that didn't suck - they designed platforming challenges that worked without the player feeling like they'd been screwed over by the camera. You barely needed to touch the
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by mattbee 5y ago
That wasn't their first response - it had to go to court first! I used to run a hosting company in the UK, and we have a precedent from 1996? where once a hosting company is informed of a libellous statement served from its network,
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by mattbee 5y ago
Haha exactly, you joke but... If you want a society where it's even possible to take down "low-hanging" content, and where physical enforcement of that takedown might span international boundaries, the legal goalposts sometim
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by mattbee 5y ago
The judgment talks about Cloudflare's services in terms of caching, speed, security and so on, but seems to ignore the vital service that Cloudflare provide to shady sites - anonymity. This victory adds to the impression that Cloudfl
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by mattbee 5y ago
13 years ago I wrote a nice reference implementation for BGP "client" use - I just treated it as an API onto Cisco routers: https://github.com/BytemarkHosting/bgpfeeder is 1300 lines of Ruby, one file, no dep
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by mattbee 5y ago
They also have a web site and it's exactly what you'd hope for https://www.bohmerwald.nl (the HTML must be from a 1990s version of Word!)
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by mattbee 5y ago
The headline & picture made me laugh because I've seen these for years in the UK and never seen them as arrows. Actually looking at these lights as sold in the UK, they have a vertical bar on the inside, so it's not quite as
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by mattbee 5y ago
I love these too, I've got a "Future Computers?" print in my hall - https://i.redd.it/ia6vwdigsjfz.jpg For a while http://tinney.net/ had a catalogue of available prints, then it went down fo
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by mattbee 5y ago
I miss my Nokia E61. I maintain that in 2007 I fell into a parallel & incomprehensible reality when people started valuing slightly bigger video screens over self-expression. Back in the original universe, everyone is happy with a varie
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by mattbee 5y ago
I took the comment as a resigned "that's why these platforms will continue to grow". Not as support or condemnation. I agree that Roblox profits off the creativity of children without giving them a meaningful share or dealin
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by mattbee 5y ago
Usually 99 years? I bought a new leasehold in 2004 with a 999 year term, and I don't think that's unusual now. The government announced plans in January that leaseholders will have the right to renew leases for a standard term o
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by mattbee 5y ago
Can confirm, I co-founded and ran one. I spent an inordinate amount of time trying not to be That Boss, and I'm sure 50+ ex employees could pick plenty of failures on that front. Still, our nearest competitor was run by a sketchy Napol
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by mattbee 5y ago
My mind went to the A.F.R. from Infinite Jest, surely the most sinister Canadians ever imagined.
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by mattbee 5y ago
This policy even extends to stresser/booster/DoS-for-hire services services - try searching for some and see who fronts them? 20 years ago the transit providers of the internet would have spotted Cloudflare for what it is, and cut
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by mattbee 5y ago
Yes this was a disappointing watch - they seemed to have gone to some effort to simulate a lot of accounts with interests, and testing some handwaving unspecified theories. But then they only detailed _one_ of those fake accounts, and it
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by mattbee 5y ago
I'd be wary of .io too: https://fortune.com/2020/08/31/crypto-fraud-io-domain-chagos... I launched a service on .io in 2012 and moved away to a less-good .com in 2016 - apart from the political issues, i
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by mattbee 5y ago
There's a registry (or group policy?) tweak to turn it off for good. It was absolutely necessary on my 2015-era laptop, especially in the era of WSL1 where every Linux-side file operation caused a Defender operation - made a huge dif
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by mattbee 5y ago
I'm now a crack shot at hitting the "Reader mode" button after an article loads, but before the no-adblock script wheezes into life & tries to pull it away from me.
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by mattbee 5y ago
I remember about 15 or 20 years ago when Alpha was new, they were advertising in newspapers and on buses. It seemed weirdly un-British and didn't last long. (The course is still going, I just only see the branding on actual churches n
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by mattbee 5y ago
They still booted to a desktop from ROM, but the hard disc boot sequence had to update lots of kernel modules that had since been updated. Acorn would roll those updates back into the next version of the RISC OS ROMs, and (for some compute
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by mattbee 5y ago
Seconded, I've used it for a couple of years and it's a great package that I find quite understandable (a docker-compose stack).
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by mattbee 5y ago
I mean I'm a fan, but about 50% of MGS is being absolutely harangued, at inordinate length, by the codec characters smashing at the 4th wall with a sledgehammer.... so no it doesn't break the immersion when they give you control t
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by mattbee 5y ago
That's true - though most apps I use on my phone respond like like webviews.
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by mattbee 5y ago
I came here to say something similar. The question I need answered in the README is - why would I invest time in learning this instead of Powershell? My muscle memory for bash is pretty strong, but when I have to do Windowsy stuff, I end
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by mattbee 5y ago
Me too. But this rant still resonates and speaks to a snobbery that's still occasionally alive. I am surprised that high quality web apps still seem just as rare in 2021 as they did in 2009 despite the explosion of tools. i.e. apps
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by mattbee 5y ago
because your mom might have brought you up differently if she'd wanted to join a nunnery.
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by mattbee 5y ago
There were loads of vendor-neutral identity ideas that all fell flat because nobody wants to sign up just for an identity. This one is hilariously complicated; the thread ends with this call to action: Want to get a portable web3 account?
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by mattbee 5y ago
Nice, I will give them a try. I've broadly assumed VWs & Mercedes cost more, and Toyotas are reliable. But it'll come down to the specifics I guess!

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