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by slazaro 9y ago
I think a lot of games used to play tracks on the CD unit if you put an audio CD, so you could listen to your own music while playing. I think even some Playstation games did it, not sure if that's common nowadays.
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by slazaro 9y ago
I didn't know that, I'll check it out, thanks! :)
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by slazaro 9y ago
I use jdownloader, which can also download from many other sites.
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by slazaro 9y ago
Damn these new drinks with their DRM, that you need to buy each time you want to consume them...
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by slazaro 9y ago
But you get the rush from playing those games, not developing them. I mean, you do get a rush from releasing something you finished and believe in, but it's not what you're looking for, right?
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by slazaro 9y ago
Small question. The call you got, was it from the State Department of your country or from Somalia?
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Ask HN: What do you use to clean up webpages to read?
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by slazaro 9y ago
https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/22/mapsception/ Apparently it's been doing this for years, and in different platforms.
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by slazaro 9y ago
#2 is called Dead Reckoning [1], in case anybody wants to know more about it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_reckoning#Dead_reckoning_...
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by slazaro 9y ago
Being Irish, Jewish, gay or black are not choices (for the most part, anyway) and do not inherently imply that you're intolerant of any other group. Being Nazi, on the other hand, is clearly a choice, and intolerance is inherent to it.
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by slazaro 9y ago
Wouldn't the bandwidth be close to infinte? As soon as the first byte gets there, the last byte also gets there. You'd have to account for the length of the truck and separation between consecutive trucks, right? The latency is si
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by slazaro 9y ago
It seems it's in the works: http://simonrodriguez.fr/dragon/
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by slazaro 9y ago
I know this is such a little nitpick for a huge project like this one, but every time I see ReactOS screenshots I notice that the taskbar looks off. Comparing this [1] screenshot from the article to this [2] random Win98 screenshot, the sta
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by slazaro 9y ago
Not intended, but I do think Ubuntu was a missed opportunity by trying to innovate instead of focusing on stability, familiarity, and user-friendliness.
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by slazaro 9y ago
We just need a billionaire benevolent dictator to fund a distribution of Linux and relevant programs that turns it into something stable and user friendly.
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by slazaro 9y ago
It's Schrödinger's gender, it's both when unknown, until revealed.
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by slazaro 9y ago
They might be comparing cycling in a hot humid place with driving inside an air-conditioned car. In that case, you are going to sweat more outside than inside.
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by slazaro 9y ago
Bresenham's algorithm is for rasterization, and I think the article refers to the function f(t) -> (x,y), which is just a linear interpolation in 2D.
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by slazaro 9y ago
Naked mole rats are very interesting, if I remember correctly, they behave just like social insects (bees, termites, ants, etc.) in many ways, but they're mammals.
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by slazaro 10y ago
I initially thought that you said they sunset Calendar (Google Calendar) and I freaked out thinking that I'd missed the announcement.
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by slazaro 10y ago
OT: Again, HN changing the title to the original title makes everything worse. "A new vantage point" means nothing to me unless I go to the article or comments. "Canonical CEO steps down" is short, to the point, and is a
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by slazaro 10y ago
> (in case you're wondering about the name: in a nutshell, "science-based medicine" is the position that "evidence-based medicine" is an insufficient rejection of quackery because it leads to a lot of effort bein
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by slazaro 10y ago
This is why there's been lots of talk about basic income in relation to fears about unemployment because of automation.
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by slazaro 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that videogames do this by using lots of samples that they combine to have variation, same thing that realistic drum samplers do, they take hundreds of samples and combine them.
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by slazaro 10y ago
Primitive Technology, I presume. It's a great channel.
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by slazaro 10y ago
The only two things that I think could have prevented me from falling for this is: I don't have images loaded by default for unknown senders, and LastPass wouldn't match the domain and therefore wouldn't show the button to au
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by slazaro 10y ago
Buy Rocksmith, plug your guitar into the PC, and see if you get addicted to playing 1h+ a day like I did. You'll learn fast.
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by slazaro 10y ago
Interesting that they used both 10/4 and 4/10 for the URL... They care about internationalization!
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by slazaro 10y ago
If you're imprisoned for years and then found to be actually innocent, you can go home. That can't happen if they already chopped your head off.
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by slazaro 10y ago
Nice! It also works in at least a few other romance languages, I'm going to use it in the future.

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