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by neversaydie 5y ago
I use a Fnatic MiniStreak TKL (no numpad). I never used numpads much, and I like to be able to keep my mouse hand in closer. Switches are Cherry MX Browns. Custom keycaps, though that's only for appearance (pudding caps to diffuse the
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by neversaydie 5y ago
Another while to go - 2 weeks left to its destination, but several months (~5?) of setup and calibration once it gets there.
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by neversaydie 5y ago
Use-case wise, I'm a developer by trade and a gamer/PC enthusiast (is that still a thing?) off hours. I.e. I spend a lot of time in front of this thing. I also have something of a fascination with physical workspaces and desktop e
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by neversaydie 5y ago
For the Space Shuttle part of the space program specifically, Rowland White's Into the Black is a great recounting of how that program got started and came to fruition with the first flight: https://www.amazon.com/Into-
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by neversaydie 5y ago
Yep. Never had much hope for Star Citizen and only moderate interest as a consequence, but my particular remembrance is some random line in one of the dev updates a while back. It mentioned how environment humidity would affect character en
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Google confirms an issue with WebView is crashing many Android apps (Fixed)(xda-developers.com)
88 points by neversaydie 6y ago|43 comments
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by neversaydie 6y ago
Just in case you're not already familiar with it - there's a niche sub-genre of games called "bridge simulators" that involve co-operative team play on a simulated starship bridge. Each player taking a different crew sta
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by neversaydie 6y ago
Yep, C# and Windows Forms recommendation from me too. Excellent tooling, fine language, mature and straightforward tech, very popular over very many years so wide resources online. WPF seems like a nice idea, but it's tricky to get int
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by neversaydie 6y ago
Created this account around 9 years ago (I've been in tech for 20 years or so). Never really used the site up until the past couple of years though, when I got in the habit of browsing it regularly (along with Reddit and a few other ve
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by neversaydie 6y ago
Scientific and peer-reviewed. Some random civil servant from some random country slinging random stories? Zero interest in hearing them. Life's too short to click links for that sort of stuff, let alone engage with it.
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by neversaydie 6y ago
Winamp visualisations. Spent a lot of hours in front of that app a couple of decades back. I'm sure there's better stuff somewhere out there nowadays, but my music consumption has simply moved away anyway - period on iTunes/G
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Ask HN: What's some good content for a background/ambient projector display?
1 points by neversaydie 6y ago|1 comments
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Finding the 'invisible' millions who are not on maps(bbc.com)
75 points by neversaydie 6y ago|52 comments
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Coronavirus: Largest study suggests elderly and sick are most at risk(bbc.com)
15 points by neversaydie 7y ago|12 comments
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Mount Vesuvius eruption: Extreme heat 'turned man's brain to glass'(bbc.com)
65 points by neversaydie 7y ago|17 comments
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This Has Been the Best Year Ever(nytimes.com)
3 points by neversaydie 7y ago|0 comments
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by neversaydie 7y ago
Might have been, sorry - came across this via a fresh story on Gamasutra this evening, just realised the original blog post is from last week.
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On-Device, Real-Time Hand Tracking with MediaPipe(ai.googleblog.com)
306 points by neversaydie 7y ago|67 comments
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by neversaydie 7y ago
Yep, pretty cool - it's a very popular tool in the "interactive fiction" genre of game development/writing. It's widely used for "choice-based IF" (also called "CYOA" after the Choose Your Own Ad