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by qmr 1y ago
Falcon 4.0 source code leak led to Falcon BMS, still actively developed today.
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by qmr 1y ago
Jordan's books "The Making of Karateka" and "The Making of Prince of Persia" are delightful stream of consciousness journals of his time working on these early pioneering titles and are a fascinating look into the h
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by qmr 1y ago
Not a fan of XYZ service deciding what you can or can not say / host online. Freedom of speech is not about protecting speech you find agreeable.
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by qmr 1y ago
Ah yes I love when half the internet falls over because everyone is mindlessly relying on a black box they have no control or understanding of.
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by qmr 1y ago
Personally anything since Quake II / UT / HL era impresses me.
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by qmr 1y ago
One of the best games of all time. Play it.
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by qmr 1y ago
One of the best games of all time. This is what Warren Spector made while Romero was busy pissing money away and constantly rewriting Daikatana. The one worthwhile thing to come out of Ion Storm. Lots of emergent gameplay. Almost always mo
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by qmr 1y ago
First time (only time?) a game made me cry, Floyd's death. 13-15 or so, Up way too late, hiding under my blanket to muffle the noise from the folding Stowaway keyboard, playing on a glowing green 160x160 LCD display on a Palm VIIx runn
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by qmr 1y ago
Stop saying engineer when you mean programmer. It’s an insult to real engineers.
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by qmr 1y ago
Oops. Just switched to iPhone the other day still learning the keyboard.
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by qmr 1y ago
Nah, Apple has far too much hubris. “You’re holding it wrong.” — Steve Jobs re antennagate
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by qmr 1y ago
Absolutely despised that nonsense. Useless and no physical ESC for vim. It also wasn’t optional, if you wanted a higher spec’d MacBook it was coming with a touchbar. The keyboards of that era also had problems.
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by qmr 1y ago
Well duh. https://www.vibilagare.se/english/physical-buttons-outperfor...
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by qmr 1y ago
You could be hosting the cure for cancer and I wouldn’t make yet another throwaway account just to see behind the curtain.
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by qmr 1y ago
Virtualization existed long before virtualization instructions. Not strictly necessary.
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by qmr 1y ago
No need for so much CPU power, any old quad core would work.
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by qmr 1y ago
Borderline militant atheist, my children are the great joy in my life and the best thing I’ve ever done.
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by qmr 1y ago
There’s a real monopoly issue here. I just switched to iPhone and saw EU has forced apple to allow third party app stores. No such luck for those elsewhere.
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by qmr 1y ago
There is no need to use the play store.
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by qmr 1y ago
Call me crazy, (“you’re crazy!”) but I still zero all storage before destruction, sale or repurposing. Belt and suspenders.
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by qmr 1y ago
Android does not require an account to download apps, as grandparent pointed out. I haven't "signed in" to Android phone in 10 years.
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by qmr 1y ago
> I still get everything that I need from a "Unix like" standpoint Everything except a package manager!
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by qmr 1y ago
Thanks, I hate it.
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by qmr 1y ago
Standard HN bikeshedding.
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by qmr 1y ago
Since when are iPhones status symbols? Even the very poor all seem to have new-ish iPhones. Also not sure what you're on about with "huge bulky phone".
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by qmr 1y ago
You're an idiot if you think owning a $1k phone is a status symbol.
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by qmr 1y ago
Naw, I'm good.
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by qmr 1y ago
You're wrong. My hardware. My decision.
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by qmr 1y ago
Go directly to steam and download Kerbal Space Program. Thank me later.

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