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by robterrell 1y ago
My immediate headcannon was: Dedra goes to prison for sedition and builds parts of the second Death Star; is liberated after the death of the emperor; as a (purportedly) rebel-aligned political prisoner is held in esteem (that Loni should h
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by robterrell 1y ago
My uncle is Paul Terrell, the owner of that Byte Shop. He showed me the photo and told me who was in the window. But I don't have an independent verification of this -- dunno, maybe Captain Crunch is a lurker here?
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by robterrell 1y ago
Here's a fun fact: in the photo of the Byte Shop, the person in the window with their back to the camera is John Draper, the legendary hacker known as Captain Crunch.
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by robterrell 1y ago
I got a travel CPAP and it's been a huge unlock for me for international flights. Last flight I took to Europe I picked a 9 pm flight and had 6 hours of actual good sleep on the plane.
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by robterrell 1y ago
Dozens -- probably hundreds -- of games use this. There are case studies you can read at https://heroiclabs.com (Not sure why it was posted today -- it was first posted on HN 8 years ago.)
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by robterrell 1y ago
Didn't FoundationDB get a clean bill of health?
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by robterrell 1y ago
In the game industry, "C-like C++" is the norm. Games often don't use modern C++ features like exceptions, RTTI, multiple inheritance, etc. for very good reasons.
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by robterrell 1y ago
Yeah, I get that this is a re-creation of an existing title focused on C64 (also published out of the same office as the one I worked in). What's odd to me is that there's no connection to the original magazine -- no IP rights acq
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by robterrell 1y ago
TI-99/4a was the worst for me, but I think the entire reason I was hired was that everyone else hated porting to the Apple //.
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by robterrell 1y ago
I worked for Compute! magazine when I was in high school (an excellent job, porting games for one PC to another) and so maybe it's just a me thing, but it seems weird to name this "Compute's Gazette" when there's no
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by robterrell 2y ago
Come on. First place has gotta be the PowerBook 100.
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by robterrell 2y ago
"Chimes at Midnight" is a clever Orson Welles film that combines all of the Falstaff scenes from the various Shakespeare plays that he appears in.
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by robterrell 2y ago
Mimestream is a fantastic native app. Mac only though: https://mimestream.com/
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by robterrell 2y ago
If you look at the blinking LED sample, it's pulling in the freertos header: #include "freertos/FreeRTOS.h" So presumably yes?
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by robterrell 2y ago
> The smarter you are the more elaborate a prison you can construct for your own brain. Amazing one-sentence summary for so much of what is going wrong right now. Brilliant, rich people trapped inside their own mind palaces, spending vas
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by robterrell 2y ago
What are you not getting imported? Strava does import activities from Apple Health and it's treated no differently than an activity recorded in the app. (Feel free to email me with details, my first name at strava dot com).
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by robterrell 2y ago
Nice. I appreciate that it's a loving recreation and not an emulator.
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by robterrell 2y ago
This is an incredible point. Instead of using this crisis to pressure Beijing to crack open the China market to US companies or even just get some concessions, Trump just folded to look like a champ.
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by robterrell 2y ago
The author is the creator of D, so he's probably fine with D. And D is something like 25 years old. Whereas Zig is just a toddler.
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by robterrell 2y ago
Strongly recommend this. I enjoyed "Master & Commander" (and read the first three books in the series, which are really one continuous story) before finding "A Sea of Words" and was astounded, on a re-read, at how mu
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by robterrell 2y ago
This has me hoping the Vesuvius prize finds an ancient Roman bond that needs to get paid out.
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by robterrell 2y ago
> analyzed data from the U.S. Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) Maybe not for the "reasonable person" but government data is available and if you are here you likely know some statistics, so go nuts: https://
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by robterrell 2y ago
Re-reading Stanislaw Lem (i.e. The Cyberiad) in the era of LLMs has been a joy for me.
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by robterrell 2y ago
You don't see the majority of tokens it is generating.
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by robterrell 2y ago
I clipped it years ago but found it again here with google: https://sites.google.com/site/cultoddities/home/carrie/carri... Aaaand... there's actually a much more relevant set of quotes about The Sh
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by robterrell 2y ago
Directing a movie requires very different skills. Even on just a personality level: an author can be reclusive, but a director has to be extremely social, because a film is made by a large crew of people. And there's the obvious other
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by robterrell 2y ago
Literally a report from government experts: "It is important to note that biofuel production and consumption, in and of itself, will not reduce GHG or conventional pollutant emissions, lessen petroleum imports, or alleviate pressure on
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by robterrell 2y ago
It's thanks to Judge Albright: https://www2.law.temple.edu/10q/how-the-west-became-the-east... Plaintiffs file in Waco to get Albright -- if they filed in Austin, they wouldn't get him. Then they make a motio
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by robterrell 2y ago
Removing just your data probably isn't enough? Despite my curiosity, for privacy reasons I made the decision to not use 23andMe. (Basically - feels like information an insurer will inevitably want to use against me.) My wife did, howev
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by robterrell 2y ago
Great opportunity for someone to make a side by side comparison video & go viral.

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