neckro23

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by neckro23 2y ago
Left-handed scissors are a thing. I own a couple of pairs but they feel funny because I've simply used right-handed scissors backwards most of my life. One big difference is visibility. On right-handed scissors you can see the cut from
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by neckro23 2y ago
On Windows I use whisper-standalone-win: https://github.com/Purfview/whisper-standalone-win It has a few customization features that are nice: https://github.com/Purfview/whisper-standalone-win&#x2
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by neckro23 2y ago
Those are remakes and not remasters. Different beast. The trouble with remasters is they're usually farmed out to third-party devs who don't always give it the same attention to detail as the original developers. A prime example
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by neckro23 2y ago
Lance McDonald (@manfightdragon) is the someone, I don't think the patch is shared publicly though. He plays it sometimes on his Twitch channel. I've seen LobosJr play the 60 fps version too.
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by neckro23 2y ago
VLC is sometimes so unreliable for me, especially when seeking or frame-stepping, that it stops responding to playback commands entirely (although it pretends to still work) and I have to kill the zombie process before I can even re-open th
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by neckro23 2y ago
It's a short story, a brief one (~32 kB): https://gist.github.com/neckro/0f3a9ec60be34e3164c6677d4ecc1... CW though, it is pretty grim. Very early example of the "AI takes over the world, decides humans are
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by neckro23 2y ago
GP is not quite correct. It wasn't completely re-recorded, but Dave Mustaine re-recorded many of the guitar solos on the album, and the whole album was remixed. At any rate, it's not the same (classic, imo) album that was released
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by neckro23 2y ago
There's a dead pixel on my 4k monitor. It's so small that I think it's just a speck of dust, if I notice it at all.
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by neckro23 2y ago
This is actually an old idea, minus the AI angle (1930s). It’s what voders and vocoders were originally designed for, before Kraftwerk et al. found out you can use them to make cool robot voices.
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by neckro23 2y ago
This is demoscene, it won first place: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=96944
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by neckro23 2y ago
This is very similar to how noise cancellation works on cell phones. The secondary mic is typically on the back of the phone and picks up the ambient noise to be subtracted from the primary mic’s signal.
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by neckro23 2y ago
And if it the model is supposed to be so attentive to context, why did it show a desert instead of "dessert"? After all, they just ate "launch".
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by neckro23 2y ago
It wasn't quite a TSR, it was more like a subshell. I remember using a similar feature in Telix in the early 90s. It was a bit limited because you were still restricted to the usual 640kB memory space, and the original program remained
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by neckro23 3y ago
> AFAIK there's Wine-based solution for win16 on 64 bit windows winevdm: https://mendelson.org/otvdm.html
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by neckro23 3y ago
I imagine in modern devices adding a "fully fledged video camera" is a lot simpler than adding a laser that has moving parts and regulatory baggage.
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by neckro23 3y ago
The link is simply malformed a bit (http instead of https), it's available (from the original site) here: https://aduprat.com/pub/The_Sheep_and_the_Flower.zip It's truly 8kb, the zip contains several versions
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by neckro23 3y ago
Interlaced GIFs. Early browsers only rendered the single lines as they came in (leaving the unloaded parts blank), but eventually browsers started doubling the lines so the image seemed to increase in resolution as it loaded. I think MSIE
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by neckro23 3y ago
What codec? It's PCM. You could also use that PCM stream to transmit Dolby Digital or DTS, but that's up to the device, not TOSLINK.
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by neckro23 3y ago
I wasn't expecting this explanation. I always thought it was just a silly "shoot the moon" gag.
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by neckro23 3y ago
I was about to correct you saying "icloud.com works on any browser, even an Android phone", but then I went and looked and you can't locate AirTags (or people) using the Web version of Find My, just Apple devices. An odd omis
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by neckro23 3y ago
There’s a modernized fork of it: https://getwacup.com/ The official one is still around, but last I checked it had a crash bug in the media library plugin.
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by neckro23 3y ago
It's an early game by Arkane Studios, who went on to make the Dishonored series, Prey (2017), and Deathloop. It's basically their first iteration on what would become their trademark "stealth/combat with superpowers and
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by neckro23 3y ago
> most stuff from the Win 9x era has almost entirely vanished due to the difficulty of running it on modern hardware. The tricky part is that this applies even if you're using a VM. I learned the hard way that Windows 98 isn't
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by neckro23 3y ago
I host a weekly 80s/90s obscure movie night (mostly Hong Kong action Z-movies, Godfrey Ho and the like) and RARBG has come in surprisingly clutch. If the movie got a HK theatrical release it's the first place I look. Japanese stu
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by neckro23 10y ago
Wikipedia has a great visual aid for this. No part of the film was untouched: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:35mm_film_audio_macr...
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by neckro23 10y ago
Tempest is my favorite "golden age" game, and I've been trying to find a working copy (to play!) with a vector monitor. Sadly the monitors that were used in Tempest are (apparently) particularly failure-prone. I came close o
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by neckro23 10y ago
This is a longer and more lucid version of a quip I have about my procrastination: "I can do anything in the world... as long as there's something more important I'm supposed to be doing instead!"
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by neckro23 10y ago
Playing Spelunky on my Macbook. No, really. It's pretty killer for running older / less demanding games. Lots of older games work better in Wine than they do in modern Windows, if at all. Also, for some indie games with half-as
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by neckro23 10y ago
"git pull" is just a shortcut for running "git fetch" and then merging (or rebasing) the current branch to its upstream. IMO this is a stumbling block for a lot of people new to Git -- for example it covers up the fact t
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by neckro23 10y ago
That would be equivalent to disabling lag compensation, which isn't possible anyways if you're just streaming video. Some older FPS games (Quake 1 original netcode, Halo) don't do lag compensation, and it's not pretty.

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