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by mgdlbp 3y ago
Reminds me of sdate for the Eternal September epoch. 10000 Sep 1993 was 2021-01-16. http://www.df7cb.de/projects/sdate/ one commit message for the QDBs: From 14df411817feda9decf9dd8a6cd555d71f199730 Mon Sep
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
Solarmax 2 made the strongest aesthetic impression among the flash games I can recall - abstract, well-eased animations (including map transitions), strong lighting to avoid the Flash sprite look, and a soundtrack of piano and strings. The
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
Every time I pick up my pinephone I feel immense disappointment in what forms of interaction most devices are stuck with today, despite how easily alternatives can be implemented in an open platform as the pinephone has shown. But for just
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
Glimpses of very fast output can still be read by persistence of vision while staring at one part of the screen (you can still get a sense of what's being compiled at the moment, for example), which added motion blur would defeat. Mayb
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
Ah that makes sense - the first video was only uploaded 3 weeks ago. It's known that, on youtube, formats become available in increasing resolution after upload as they finish encoding. Your experience now shows that the higher-res str
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
What filter the player uses for scaling (and chroma scaling) affects sharpness. Playing a native resolution stream fullscreen should eliminate differences here for monochrome edges. Depending on OS you might be able to toggle rapidly betwee
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
- "Worthless" in The Brave Little Toaster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UfsEj7AOGI - the chant in The Dark Knight Rises https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXxw-zXRqOs&t=130s Probably a lot
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
The UUID is all that's significant, technically may be watermarked still https://wcnc.com/article/a/b/c-eb35781b-ac79-4399-955a-dcece... Of course, this url is now assuredly unique
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
> Canada ... out of fuel Referencing the Gimli glider. But does vim have any analogous issue? In matters of technical correctness FOSS is usually the more exacting. You won't find a 1 TB hard drive full at 931 GB of used space on Li
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
The site's own comments section, which existed from 2006 to 2009: https://web.archive.org/web/20090422143519/http://www.greem....
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
Seagate
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The ascendancy of Hacker News and gentrification of geek news communities (2008)(web.archive.org)
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=238723 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=250507 cf. "The Gentrification of the Internet" (2019), https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
Eh, do Superprotect and Framgate count? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_revolt#Wikipedia Reddit section needs an update. The page was created following Reddit's 'AMAgeddon', too. 'APIcalypse&#x27
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“Anonymity is Part of the Magic” (1987) [pdf](etchouse.com)
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
Docstring would prevent it from rambling, but you'd then be required to write the signature first. PEP 257 prescribes the imperative mood: The docstring is a phrase ending in a period. It prescribes the function or method’s effect as
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Wikimedia Russia director starts fork of Russian Wikipedia(en.wikipedia.org)
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
That's a different lensless camera art project than yesterday's ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36139729 ). Related list of lists: https://github.com/golanlevin/ExperimentalCapture/b
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
old thread, but: Sascha Pohflepp's “Buttons” (2006/2010)? Searches Flickr for same time, any location. https://web.archive.org/web/20061005142442/http://www.blinks... At a hilarious intersectio
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
Err, the first I can see (having no personal experience), but AFAIK the only unmodded mice with toolless switch replacement are certain Asus gaming models. Forums tend to conclude that Asus holds a patent, but I've yet to see anyone
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
possible with the current deepf^Wparody technology
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
a quick search might find that there are (asus) mice with socketed switches
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
A small number of consumer keyboards, and lots of DIY designs, some with prebuilt offerings, can run QMK or other open source firmware.
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
FWIW logitech now also offers mice with optical switches, which are claimed to never double click
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Imgur, please don't be the next TinyPic or ImageShack (2014)(web.archive.org)
4 points by mgdlbp 3y ago|1 comments
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
At the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8189644
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
Most comments will disappear. A disappointment: contrary to the meme, I found them informative and insightful in a broad variety of contexts. And going with them should be the last vestiges of the site's social networking era, unceremo
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
If you listen to the individual tracks it just sounds like people "normally" making noises https://www.bicyclebuiltfortwothousand.com/ Maybe intent plays a part in the perceived musicality of the result, consideri
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
This thread nerd-sniped me into looking up the exact definition of the dimensions. Neither standard gives the formula used to obtain the specified sizes (for A4, precisely as above, ±2 mm). But what's interesting is that we can tell
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
> N/A (Know where this came from?) https://eycndy.com/splitscreen?itemId=axdz1h5b22ecka9q12voxj... Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse (2015) https://eycndy.com/splitscreen?itemId=71ke0wcliam5bx1hd2wvaj..

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