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by sehugg 8y ago
Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God. It even has a watermark.
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Mount Everest is a ‘fecal time bomb.’(washingtonpost.com)
14 points by sehugg 8y ago|1 comments
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by sehugg 8y ago
My Samsung Chromebook 3 is a pretty poor performer, but I love the matte screen and battery life. I use Termux all day long with Typescript background-compiling. I wouldn't run Xcode on a non-SSD MBP, though.
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by sehugg 8y ago
Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman Okay, this is real? (apparently so)
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by sehugg 8y ago
If you've ever been to a resort with a wet bar, you might see people drinking for several hours without getting out of the pool. One can draw conclusions.
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by sehugg 8y ago
Human-cat hybrids: https://imgur.com/a/mqBA8IM
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by sehugg 8y ago
Copperheads are bad, especially since many other species look like them. They can put you in the hospital. Avoid the triangle head.
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by sehugg 8y ago
Great way to spread the word about your game. IIRC Minecraft went viral when people started posting videos of their houses catching on fire...
219.
by sehugg 8y ago
Not if you wanted your site to work on MSIE -- I don't think setTimeout() was even supported until IE4.
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by sehugg 8y ago
A content warning for HN's German speakers would have been nice.
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by sehugg 8y ago
Let's also not forget the credit rating agencies' role: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/14/moodys-864m...
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by sehugg 8y ago
If you absolutely need a single 4116 16kbit DRAM chip right now (well, in several days) eBay is the place.
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by sehugg 8y ago
I wonder if this could be retargeted to retro CPUs like the 6502 and Z80? Seems the assumption of 32-bit integers might make things less efficient though. (EDIT: never mind, it does support smaller int types!)
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by sehugg 8y ago
Interesting -- I wonder how this would work for sharing on social networks, given that they often recompress images. You could also hide the data in a proprietary PNG metadata chunk, but this also might not survive recompression.
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by sehugg 8y ago
The 2600 didn't have a built-in RNG, but many games took advantage of uninitialized registers on powerup to seed their own RNG.
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by sehugg 8y ago
They weren't all in assembly. Lots of games were published in BASIC or Pascal or even custom interpreters like Z-Code. But most arcade games and cartridge titles were coded in assembly back then.
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by sehugg 8y ago
Also the price of RAM dropping nearly tenfold from 1977 to 1981.
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by sehugg 8y ago
There's one at the Barcade in Jersey City, too. You can even reboot and switch it to the Empire Strikes Back ROM.
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by sehugg 8y ago
I did one of these many years ago, basically just abusing lex/flex: https://github.com/countrygeek/stegparty/blob/master/stegpar...
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by sehugg 8y ago
I use Verilator to run simulations in the browser, which is useful to people who want to learn Verilog without installing anything: http://8bitworkshop.com/blog/release/2018/12/15/verilog-prog...
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by sehugg 8y ago
That's still the case, but open-source tools are useful for simulation, and there are synthesis tools for the Lattice iCE40 family: http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/
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by sehugg 8y ago
Also there were things like the "Clean Up Britannia" event, where players were encouraged to cull their item collection in exchange for neon hair dye and other goodies: http://www.uoguide.com/Clean_Up_Britannia_(19
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by sehugg 8y ago
Economies are hard, as are game economies: https://www.raphkoster.com/games/snippets/the-evolution-of-u...
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Show HN: Verilog simulation in 8bitworkshop IDE(8bitworkshop.com)
2 points by sehugg 8y ago|0 comments
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by sehugg 8y ago
I would guess that even on the most inexpensive FPGA (iCE40 for example) you could run a 6502 at at least 20 MHz, and fit some display logic on there as well.
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by sehugg 8y ago
The IceStorm tools are open source, based on the reverse-engineered Lattice iCE40 FPGA architecture: http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/ I found it very easy to get started, although first you have to buy a compatible FPG
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by sehugg 8y ago
I would post "these are very reasonable gripes" but I can't decide whether to make my string a unicode object or a UTF8-encoded bytes object...
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One Man's Quest to Outrace Wind (2011)(wired.com)
2 points by sehugg 8y ago|0 comments
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by sehugg 8y ago
Could just link to the original IGN article: https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/12/05/souljaboy-is-selling...
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by sehugg 8y ago
Logic Gates Under (Air) Pressure: https://hackaday.com/2017/08/19/logic-gates-under-air-pressu...

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