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by starkparker 3mo ago
Happy 10-year anniversary to this repo being shared on HN. Most significant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048945 , 652 points, 145 comments on July 7, 2016 All previous submissions: https://ne
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by starkparker 3mo ago
Can't help but see hurricane-prediction spaghetti plots in those charts.
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by starkparker 3mo ago
It's wild how differently the press release you linked to frames that. > WASHINGTON, D.C. – Nearly half (49%) of cancer patients and survivors report being burdened by medical debt alongside some (13%) who report expecting to incur
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by starkparker 3mo ago
Insurance refused to cover imaging to identify my spouse's squamous cell carcinoma on an ovary because initial bloodwork didn't come back positive for ovarian cancer (squamous cell required different bloodwork, at least at the tim
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by starkparker 3mo ago
So effectively a downtime session of D&D where everyone levels up and goes shopping for gear.
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by starkparker 3mo ago
Couldn't find a discussion yet on Wikipedia about how slop books with ISBNs and publishers are more authoritative sources than primary sources by the letter of its rules, but I expect there'll be one by the time I finish popping a
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ID dev claims relegation to support studio size as 136 layoffs confirmed(videogameschronicle.com)
1 points by starkparker 3mo ago|2 comments
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by starkparker 3mo ago
Beyond previous submissions, this includes further confirmations of the layoffs' scope and more detailed claims on the departments affected. In particular, this unconfirmed but detailed tweet of layoffs by number per position: https:&
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by starkparker 3mo ago
Sounds like Digital Foundry's also looking into it, without much detail or confirmation: https://bsky.app/profile/dark1x.bsky.social/post/3mpyvnrbwds...
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by starkparker 3mo ago
We might not hear much on that until tomorrow, since most iDTech development was out of the Frankfurt studio. If they're shutting down Frankfurt, it'd be worth getting antennae out. Looking at LinkedIn, I see mostly people from te
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by starkparker 3mo ago
ZeniMax, the parent holding company of Bethesda Softworks/Bethesda Games, bought iD in 2009.[1] Microsoft bought ZeniMax for $7.5B in 2020 and assigned it to the Xbox division.[2] ZeniMax's board was subsequently dissolved, so it&
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by starkparker 3mo ago
I've seen Brandon James (KillMe) credited in multiple places.[1][2] James left iD mid-development of Quake 3, so the rest of the level design team likely also contributed after that point.[3] 1: https://www.quora.com/Qu
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OpenFoundry 2.0(m.open-foundry.com)
3 points by starkparker 3mo ago|0 comments
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by starkparker 4mo ago
"Sorry, Sandy" Sandy Petersen's side of it comes out in a few interviews, like https://medium.com/@unkndoomer/back-to-the-past-e3c421fb2e70 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUeu96TKQwU
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by starkparker 4mo ago
About half of Americans lack any access to intercity transport that isn't a private car.[1] About 15% of rural Americans aren't within 25 miles of any intercity transit, much less interstate; low-income residents are disproportion
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Stairwell In C# with Ultracontrapipe in A (Lydian) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by starkparker 4mo ago|0 comments
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by starkparker 4mo ago
The ESA, which covers only the US ages 18+: 53% male, 68% white, 87% straight, median age 37. https://www.theesa.com/resources/essential-facts-about-the-u... A female share of around 40-48% has held steady in this repo
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by starkparker 4mo ago
All of the films without spine numbers, see https://www.criterion.com/shop/browse/list More specifically: Eclipse Series films i.e. https://www.criterion.com/films/2959-a-colt-is-my-passport ,
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by starkparker 4mo ago
The demo widget right now is botted with people spamming nonsense to the point of breaking browsers, much less the intended use. "let people talk" is not the same as "give disruptive people the tools to prevent others from ta
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by starkparker 4mo ago
Missing quite a few compilations,
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by starkparker 4mo ago
Not rumors: https://www.theverge.com/games/816118/valve-steam-frame-vr-h... > The Frame’s four outward-facing monochrome cameras and IR illuminator seem to provide excellent tracking, though in a brief demo, th
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by starkparker 4mo ago
I've heard about the Document Foundation from HN three times this year, each time through some supposed drama presented devoid of useful context that never seems meaningful enough to follow up on
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by starkparker 4mo ago
you'll hit the RAM limit at some point, and you'd almost certainly want to mod it to alleviate the heat issues that kill sustained performance
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by starkparker 4mo ago
some of these genuinely excite me, like the slate recognition (chore-reduction), clip search (although I'd want to see how reliable it is), and deblur (a typical PITA post fix). anything that makes masking, tracking, and level-matching
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by starkparker 4mo ago
https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/article/napa-mountain-... > Napa Valley’s most contentious political battleground — winery and vineyard development — has potentially reached a significant turning poi
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by starkparker 4mo ago
Data centre noise is a mix of low- and high-frequency intake and exhaust fan noise at the structure level, diesel or turbine generators for the centres supplementing their own power or running backups (sometimes with cooling towers), and no
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by starkparker 4mo ago
it's not, at all this is the entirety of what this extension does, from its code: // Extract the search query from the DuckDuckGo URL const url = new URL(tab.url); const searchQuery = url.searchParams.get('
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by starkparker 4mo ago
working at a fully remote company, this happened all the time in slack. people used slack constantly, socially and professionally. channels filled up with context, and it was not only easy but asynchronous to search or even just go back thr
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by starkparker 4mo ago
it's an 8BitDo product in the Framework store that wasn't designed or manufactured by Framework
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by starkparker 4mo ago
my partner is a non-tech woodworker and fucking brutal on hardware, so she was addicted to Chromebooks. they cost nearly nothing, they came in weird small form factors, and they had a knack for lasting forever. she had a day job that requir

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