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811.
by rzzzt 3y ago
I beg to differ, it is "Chat Guanosine TriPhosphate", a talkative nucleotide composed of guanine and three phosphate groups (the tri- prefix indicates three of something).
812.
by rzzzt 3y ago
Someone in the comments section usually asks for it to be put up: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
813.
by rzzzt 3y ago
Posts where the title starts with "<name>, <occupation>" gives me a sense of unease each time I see one.
814.
by rzzzt 3y ago
Infrastructure that lets applications open the door for themselves like NAT-PMP and UPnP are also available, but not many people turn them off.
815.
by rzzzt 3y ago
H2S is also a byproduct of crude oil processing. The nose is easily overwhelmed by the smell even at low concentrations, and it becomes hard to notice before it strikes.
816.
by rzzzt 3y ago
Ballas mentions in a neighboring reply that the eGPU from the paper is using an Agilex 7: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/217645/...
817.
by rzzzt 3y ago
I tried LFS on a 486 box when I still had it. Compiles went on for so long, time lost all meaning and I lived about 70 lifetimes as the clouds flew by to the motion picture soundtrack written by Philip Glass.
818.
by rzzzt 3y ago
Introducing the MegaStick: 15 streaming services in a convenient cube!
819.
by rzzzt 3y ago
"Attempted to kill init!" https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/0b5547c51827e053cc754...
820.
by rzzzt 3y ago
Flying door handle first, with Déja Vu roaring in the background. (I might be exaggerating a little. Also not a pilot.) It looks like you have to use the rudder and bank slightly so that the plane is still flying "forward" but the
821.
by rzzzt 3y ago
"ASUS POST Reporter" was one incarnation: http://web.archive.org/web/20081121022828/http://www.asus.co...
822.
by rzzzt 3y ago
This is also a little menacing: https://youtu.be/9bHV4KIIDtE?t=9 (I would freak out if the intro of Forbidden Forest started blaring from the speakers on startup)
823.
by rzzzt 3y ago
Réaumur gets very little mention these days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9aumur_scale (I'd like to know what these guys were thinking when it came to deciding on the number associated with the boiling poin
824.
by rzzzt 3y ago
I'm not sure, it could be a reference to the dynamic terrain loading that adds and removes pieces of the land as they are visited by the player.
825.
by rzzzt 3y ago
From https://www.froyok.fr/blog/2012-10-breakdown-shadow-of-the-c... : > Well, SOTC is a game whose frame rate can increase and decrease > wildly. Actually, we have incorporate the variable frame rate &
826.
by rzzzt 3y ago
I also see Intel IGD and AMD stuff in the list on my machine. According to the article, they are considered to be 3rd party libraries: "other uses include hardware drivers" and "any DLL not digitally signed by Mozilla or part
827.
by rzzzt 3y ago
It looks like you get to decide which DLL can stay and which one will be blocked from loading. When do you expect the shiny ball of control to be taken away from users?
828.
by rzzzt 3y ago
Neither is 420
829.
by rzzzt 3y ago
HTTP 527 Railgun Listener to Origin
830.
by rzzzt 3y ago
Also the starting point. IIRC the technology already existed for SARS-CoV-1, but it went on a hiatus before producing a vaccine became necessary.
831.
by rzzzt 3y ago
Settings like which version of Windows to impersonate, what TrueType fonts and DLLs need to be downloaded, what runtime to use (classic Wine or Proton), etc. can change from one application/game to another. DOSBox also has similar fron
832.
by rzzzt 3y ago
G#
833.
by rzzzt 3y ago
Didn't a version of this exist where you could collaboratively draw over any website using its contents as the background? (You can also guess the end result.)
834.
by rzzzt 3y ago
My mind also jumped to this post. But can you name another company that did so recently?
835.
by rzzzt 3y ago
Far Cry 2 starts to diverge from CryEngine roots with the introduction of Dunia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubisoft#Dunia_Engine
836.
by rzzzt 3y ago
Songbird is another cool piece of software that didn't survive the test of time (also the slow disappearance of MP3 blogs). One of the sites that was bookmarked by default IIRC was the Hype Machine, which surprisingly is still up: htt
837.
by rzzzt 3y ago
Cat on keyboard?
838.
by rzzzt 3y ago
Probably not, in the 10 years retrospect post he writes that he built it :) In an Echo Nest company blog post he is referred to as "The Echo Nest director of developer platform". I have no first-hand information however.
839.
by rzzzt 3y ago
The Echo Nest had lots of cool toys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Echo_Nest Edit: I remember a multitrack file format from the past that allowed following both a composer-defined path as well as random/infini
840.
by rzzzt 3y ago
The actual implementation is closed source. The backing idea is described in the inaugural paper which third parties have used to build hosted and open source alternatives that you can try.

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