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3y ago
Please explain like I'm five: if continuously charging and drawing power at 100% hurts my laptop's battery, why doesn't the laptop bypass the battery circuitry, keeping it idle, and use the incoming juice directly?
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3y ago
I really miss the Infinite Jukebox. The original had MP3 upload support though, and this one doesn't...
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I might be the only one thinking this but in my opinion seeing more than a single screen at once doesn't really suit Link's Awakening. The entire gameplay is built up around restricted scrolling: the screens are designed as puzzl
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Opera GX: This is how to turn off Eric Andre startup jumpscare
(old.reddit.com)
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I with the website used proper URLs so it would be possible to use permalinks as a reference for individual items...
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Btrfs, the file system I use, utilizes zstd for transparent compression. That's using a lot of CPU all the time on laptop. So more efficient compressing is great news! Is this for future CPUs?
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UMG, Sony, Capitol File Copyright Lawsuit Against Internet Archive
(consequence.net)
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StopTheMadness appears to be a Firefox extension that's only available for Mac users?
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3y ago
This is tangential, but seeing the 8086 opcode table organized in octal groups made me realize the same applies for the instruction set of the Z80 (my home CPU). Your articles are always very insightful, thank you!
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3y ago
I don't use my HP 200LX much, but one of the reasons is definitely the constant risk of data loss. Are those backup macros available anywhere?
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3y ago
John Lin's voxel engine showed a lot of promise in this department: https://m.youtube.com/@johnlin9665/videos
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3y ago
From a Czechoslovak video game archivist, well done! We have our own databases of video games and even a dedicated person reviewing every single public release on 8-bit micros, but no website with such a clear presentation. Inspiring!
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4y ago
Flathub is also having issues: https://status.flathub.org/
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Major GNOME infrastructure outage
(status.gnome.org)
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The Strange History of Photo CD Games
(cdrom.ca)
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Quantum Mechanics – Simple English Wikipedia
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Download an archive of your Twitter data
(twitter.com)
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Nat-Again: IRC NAT helper flaws (CVE-2022-2663)
(dgl.cx)
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Decompilation of the first Touhou game completed
(rec98.nmlgc.net)
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Recursive Internetwork Architecture
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Appocalypse Now – Losing our history at record pace
(medium.com)
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Bulbapedia was launched in February 2005[1], while Wikipedia reached the consensus that "not all Pokémon are notable" in mid-2007[2]. [1] https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Main_Page [2] https:/&#x
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Amid global hellscape, Bill Gates to tank his wealth ranking, gives away $20B
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That looks great so far! Pair it with open cloze with translation once you determine that the user should know the word and you've got magic going. You could even "beep" the word out of the recording (I'm assuming they
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It's a paid app, but I enjoyed Speakly's approach of "endless stream of open cloze exercises". It forces you to actually type words in the target language (unlike Duolingo which is mostly translations into the source la
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Fabricated Minecraft Chat Reports
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Oooh, that's a cool way to visualize branching playthroughs. Great inspiration for potential future projects!
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Lorien – Infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding app
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Unfortunately, in my experience Wireshark sometimes fails to reassemble TCP streams after a retransmission or out-of-order event, despite the presence of a checkbox to do just that...
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4y ago
In particular, he compared it to Quake: >Quake does something well instead of many things poorly...The VRML community has failed to come up with anything this compelling -- not despite the community's best intentions, but because of
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