mister_mort

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by mister_mort 7mo ago
Managing to recreate Pitboss mode is a neat achievement. How do you handle the turn time creep problem? If people complete their turns and the game moves to the next 24 hour bloc after the last player submits, the submission window creeps e
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by mister_mort 8mo ago
"Dead Internet Theory" is, even if it wasn't real 5 years ago, now hyperstitioned into truthfulness as the days go on.
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by mister_mort 8mo ago
AFAIK the native Podcast app for iPhone is the only way to make PC-phone podcast file syncing work. This stops you downloading the same podcast file twice, once on your PC and once on your phone.
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by mister_mort 8mo ago
Did Hotmail offer email redirection at that time? I can't remember whether that sort of thing that would make it easy to switch away was offered.
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by mister_mort 8mo ago
For a similar fun set of reviews of past predictions of future tech, I recommend looking through Youtube channel "KnowledgeHusk" Selected videos: "People in the 80s Making Fun of Predictions From the 60s" - https:/
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Gyre(vgel.me)
3 points by mister_mort 8mo ago|0 comments
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by mister_mort 8mo ago
You're right about that, Anki is named after the Japanese word for memorisation. (暗記 - あんき "anki") https://jisho.org/word/%E6%9A%97%E8%A8%98
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Tell HN: YouTube disabled advanced subtitling, and is stripping it from old vids
10 points by mister_mort 9mo ago|0 comments
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by mister_mort 10mo ago
Was the demo version a separate story campaign like the Starcraft one was?
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by mister_mort 11mo ago
Code golf is fun as a challenge, but it's obviously hell to find in a script someone else wrote that you're supposed to maintain.
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by mister_mort 11mo ago
FFMPEG does autodetection of what is inside a file, the extension doesn't really matter. So it's trivial to construct a video file that's labelled .mp4 but is really using the vulnerable codec and triggers its payload upon pl
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by mister_mort 11mo ago
I think this effect might not be limited to video games - I remember when I was learning 3D modelling and rendering a few decades ago I started to break down scenery in my mind automatically, a permanent "how would this be made or fake
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by mister_mort 11mo ago
Have you ever played the bizarro dungeon RPG "Kowloon's Gate"? Navigating through that madness might be right up your alley.
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by mister_mort 11mo ago
For a lot of young people the screen is social - the equivalent of the long after-school phonecalls from the before times. Be it games or just Discord, it's still comms.
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by mister_mort 1y ago
If this is truly per application, the companies that try to boost their chances with the lottery by creating multiple applications for the same person are going to get hit hard . Phantom companies that only exist on paper so people can twe
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by mister_mort 1y ago
Minecraft solves the issue by making the bottom layer of its maps a special kind of block ('bedrock') that cannot be broken with any tool in the game without use of admin-level commands or the 'creative' mode.
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by mister_mort 1y ago
I'm curious about this - do you have the name of the charity in question?
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by mister_mort 1y ago
Every so often Apple will themselves feature a selection of popular pay-once-and-get-it-all games in the store as an ad capsule. ... actually, I just checked, and if you scroll down enough in the Games tab on your iPhone's App Store ap
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by mister_mort 1y ago
You can do it, I did it fairly recently with a phone I did a full wipe of. You need to manually open the phone entry in iTunes and look for the tones category in there, and drag the files into it. You used to be able to put the tones direct
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by mister_mort 1y ago
The Telecom guy might have been pulling your leg, but microwave dishes are known to be dangerous if you're in the wrong spot in front of them. (The traditional story is that Percy Spencer noticed a chocolate bar in his pocket get melte
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by mister_mort 1y ago
FYI there is an offical high(er) res version of METACHAOS available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsOSsiJAe9E
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by mister_mort 1y ago
Opening the site and immediately seeing it drawing a frame from Bad Apple was amusing, I suspect someone will attempt to automate submissions of frames from that video at some point.
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by mister_mort 1y ago
I guess the big question for me here is - what is the state of stuff like "implied licenses" in Britain?
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by mister_mort 1y ago
I suspect the heat of the dryer would be more of a problem than the water.
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by mister_mort 1y ago
Some of the hidden stuff in Goldeneye was available without memory hacking, it just required a long sequence of button presses that was unknown for a fair amount of time. I believe stuff like invisibility in multiplayer or the special dev
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by mister_mort 1y ago
Always leave a message in "impossible" code paths, you never know who might read it in the end.