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3y ago
Phew!
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3y ago
Fusion produces helium, you fill party balloons with it, they lift an anvil which falls on a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of string in half...
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3y ago
Parent might be thinking of those Gallium-Nitride FETs that enable manufacturers to build suspiciously small power bricks.
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3y ago
urn:xkcd:1172
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3y ago
Awesome! I started the original in an emulator in the meantime, which reminded me that it had a quite slow simulation rate, which is also tied to responding to keyboard commands.
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3y ago
What kind of modes does the viewer cycle through when I press the space key?
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3y ago
You can also get inside the bookcase for the ultimate Matthew McConaughey experience.
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3y ago
Source code for the method: https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/blob/c5ebdb8ba77afa5745eb0... Asyncify docs (different from the emterpreter-async option mentioned in the comment block): https://emscr
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Mine was Soldier of Fortune. It blends smoothly between high alert and sneak-around segments, eg. tracks 2 and 3 on the first level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI_14lp1U2w&list=PLALRZSnKU7...
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In the case of cars (the go-to object for all analogies) the bad guy is charged with "unauthorized use of a motor vehicle". That's not stealing either.
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It's... flips through the list of officially recognized fallacies "tu quoque": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
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Yep! The German version contains a tutorial and a manual, that's why it's larger; unfortunately the Wayback Machine did not go back in time (since I last saw this page) to capture the source code from 2002. :)
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3y ago
Injured Engine is a similar game where you have to maintain a car engine and repair any part that breaks due to wear (but don't need to put it together): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injured_Engine
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3y ago
There are some user-submitted levels in The Powder Toy that cover a subset of your requirements: https://powdertoy.co.uk/Browse/View.html?ID=5170
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My favorite classic NPP simulator is SIMULA-C by Ralph Reuhl. I'm only finding this report [1] (from my comment history, hah), but both the C source code as well as MS-DOS executables were available. Back when I knew what the URL is, t
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There's a demo that plays entirely out of the 1541, you can disconnect the rest of the computer: https://youtu.be/zprSxCMlECA
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HP partnered with SK hynix in 2010: https://news.skhynix.com/hynix-collaborates-with-hp-on-next-... These ReRAM products did not seem to emerge however.
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3y ago
No vacuum and glass envelope? I'll believe it when I see one.
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The Quest for Gold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckTales:_The_Quest_for_Gold
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Is there any connection to the level in DuckTales where you are traveling between locations on the map with the help of Launchpad McQuack? The flight mechanics are very similar.
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Alley Cat has a remake called the "Remeow Edition", which looks pretty good and also has some levels that weren't in the PC version. However the executable is flagged by online scanners and I'm afraid to run it: https:&
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The Damn Interesting article covering the event appears as a footnote reference: https://www.damninteresting.com/remember-remember-the-22nd-o... I loved their stories back in the day, tons of intriguing topics.
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If you want to test SMTP mail delivery, there's MailCatcher: https://mailcatcher.me/
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You can when the car is in neutral (hopefully some rev limiter is in place to prevent you from destroying the engine in a relatively short amount of time).
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If you put some liquid on a solid surface and it doesn't form a bead, the tiny attracting forces between the two materials overcame the innate desire of the liquid to keep its own bits and pieces together, and so the surface is now wet
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That's another rabbit hole altogether: is water wet or does it merely make other things wet?
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The bare metal library is mentioned in the repo in different places, but might be worth adding a link to it as well, it's Circle: https://github.com/rsta2/circle
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grimpressive? improsse?
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It's a forgotten Wolfenstein sequel!
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These are very similar things to the features the MaxxAudio control panel offered (and now that I think of it, my ancient Windows 8 tablet had Dolby-badged software on it with a similar feature set): - Custom response curves for the built-i
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