msephton

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by msephton 2y ago
The paper they quote doesn't contain all the images they're showing. Be wary.
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by msephton 2y ago
The paper they quote doesn't contain all the images they're showing. Be wary.
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by msephton 2y ago
A great read. Even today in the indie game developer scene there's a huge range of opinion about what constitutes borrowing, copying, stealing, ripping, and grifting.
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Digging Up the Past with DiscMaster(blog.gingerbeardman.com)
2 points by msephton 2y ago|0 comments
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by msephton 2y ago
TIL — thanks!
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by msephton 2y ago
Lots of new content going up daily. Great to see as the original incarnation of DiscMaster was static for ages
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by msephton 2y ago
Cowabunga!
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by msephton 2y ago
Well, it's a bookmark ...I guess. One that can be used to select a book from a list and set a page number. But, yeah. I just don't see the need for it.
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by msephton 2y ago
No idea. But here's an article on the recipe book barcode scanner app (2016): https://www.superbcrew.com/scan-recipes-allows-you-to-turn-b...
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A few words about indie app business(blog.charliemonroe.net)
84 points by msephton 2y ago|22 comments
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by msephton 2y ago
Yeah I responded to that the other day about a recipe app that tried something similar. It allowed people to scan the barcode of recipe books they owned to add the contained recipes into the app. They were busted.
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by msephton 2y ago
(author) thanks for posting. I'm half way through writing a shmup using these apps. 90% of it was done on my iPhone whilst laying in bed.
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by msephton 2y ago
They have a database of books but it's limited. This is the Achilles heel that they don't really mention.
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by msephton 2y ago
But it only needs to be done once on eject. If you clean periodically the files will return in between.
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by msephton 2y ago
How and when did you hook up with Raw Fury?
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by msephton 2y ago
I'd guess the founders want to keep it because of a sense of pride/attachment.
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by msephton 2y ago
It's phrased in a way that indicates the Humane brand and company is not part of the deal? Just assets (patents, software, staff) but not the name or brand? I would not be surprised if it rose from the ashes at some point.
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by msephton 2y ago
Where is the 200 figure from?
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by msephton 2y ago
Originally half-half, then later fully software. I don't know all problematic games but the ones I do know of had some hard coded expectations for the hardware that the emulator didn't fulfill. Even going from original PS2 to slim
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by msephton 2y ago
No worries, as the OP I added the old threads simply for my own curiosity.
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by msephton 2y ago
Did you consider reaching out to that person and saying hi?
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by msephton 2y ago
(author here) I'm interested to know how you'd do it differently? Always interested to hear about new angles and approaches. Cheers!
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by msephton 2y ago
(author here) I go into why I care in the blog post: the files cause various software and devices to misbehave in unfortunate ways.
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by msephton 2y ago
I don't mind a garbage hidden file/folder
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by msephton 2y ago
Safari is quite memory efficient and only stores metadata for inactive tabs, mostly the URL. I currently have 262 tabs in a single Safari window. Memory usage nothing or of the ordinary, a small fraction of my total.
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by msephton 2y ago
I built a modern equivalent of an old classic Macintosh app—Stapler—and the file size is roughly the same if you take unty account the fact my new app contains both Intel and Apple silicon architectures. https://news.ycombinator.
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by msephton 2y ago
I see your point, but… > There’s just no reason to waste time tuning software for optimal efficiency if the users hardware is powerful enough they’d never even notice. …but users do notice. They notice that their browser is slow, 8GB RAM
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by msephton 2y ago
Exactly! Qix 1981
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by msephton 2y ago
Previously: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24599679
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by msephton 2y ago
It gives Claude a new ability—allowing it to get data from any web URL using this structured query language. So web scraping of sorts.

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