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by wanderer_ 5y ago
What a labor of love. It's a good thing that money is not the only motivation for people to build software, because things like this might never see the light of day! Very sneaky, embedding that YT link as a screencap of the video play
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
And why not? It's not even cheating in my book - if I can understand the process well enough to write a program for it, then I shouldn't have to do tedious and repetitive work. One time, the teacher was giving out a piece of candy
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
LOL, did anyone else ever make programs in TI BASIC on a TI calculator?
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How picking up your phone could reveal your identity(lancaster.ac.uk)
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
Just the other day I was working out a Java numerical-operation logic error and decided to type it out in a simple online Python shell. Unfortunately, I had forgotten that the ints and doubles I was working with in Java didn't exist th
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
You can already be unlocking it as you pull it out of your pocket! So much better.
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
I'm glad they're making a new one - not so I can buy one, but so that the previous gen will be cheaper now. This next 'generation' is perhaps the smallest upgrade ever done in the iPhone line. At first I thought that was
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
Anyone who can retain their dignity while also using something called a dongle can probably do anything.
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
Ah. I didn't see the context, however I was referring to the Brexit debate later on.
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
Ironically enough, that thread devolved into an irrelevant political argument.
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
I love me some packet-sniffing fun!
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
Other sources of power have the potential environmental dangers during conflict - Remember Kuwait? I think we should be using nuclear power and then using the resources that would free up in order to get the world to a more stable arrangeme
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
Yeah, OP should probably have provided cyberbanjo's link, I was confused too.
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
I loved looking at that laptop - a translucent chassis, crazy!
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
OP should probably try over a cellular connection, to control for that blacklisted-ip possibility and the MITM one as well.
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
Just FYI, it is technically against the rules [0] to reply to one's own comment to complain about being downvoted. Probably better to just delete in future instances. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
That's true. Python is no speed demon. However, languages like C are (for the most part) faster, and they need no emulation layer. I just think it's kinda strange to teach a language that is part-compiled-part-interpreted to kids
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
You could potentially fit an entire song in there (apparently mp3 works out-of-the-metaphorical-box).
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
I would think it's something like coil whine. I often get annoyed by crappy chargers making high-pitched noises, and high pitches definitely have the propensity to cause headaches.
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
There's gotta be some law about the finite set of "truly different" mobile games that can be created - forget oil: the real disappearing resource is game concepts!
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
As discussed in the article, it's slow and has compatability/portability issues. And I don't really want to play the log4j card, but...
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
High school AP Computer Science classes are still teaching Java today. I suppose many of the skills it develops are applicable to other languages, but this still needs to change. However ... Minecraft, anyone?
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
Dang it, he beat me to it! I have been toying with the idea for quite some time, but this implementation is great, better than mine would have been, so I'm glad he did it. Maybe I'll make a CLI implementation (sorta like wget but
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
This has a real chance to be a successful mobile game, if I were you I may start thinking about an app. Every project has to stop somewhere, though, so leaving it as a fun little game in the browser would be fine too!
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
If it helps me to learn something that might help me in a project that I care about, then I'd go for it.
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
Same vein: the best way to get a knowledgeable person to talk about a subject is to ask an "ignorant" leading question, such as ' Don't they do x with y ? ' that has an inaccuracy or just outright falsehood.
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
> Android being open source Well, it's not exactly like that. Things like cellular modems are almost always closed source, and those are normally integral parts of the phone itself. Then there's proprietary parts of Android its
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
Well, I wouldn't be going anywhere with no supplies at all. Considering that just one cooler's worth of food can last me at least a week but almost certainly longer, I wouldn't be really 'roughing it'. I could tak
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
I see. Well, it looks like I would probably just end up dead then :)
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by wanderer_ 5y ago
I am rather experienced. Eagle scout, that sort of thing. Maybe I should have been more clear: That wasn't advice, just what I think I would do.

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