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Re:George Carlin's "Soft Language"
on Sunday October 22, 2023 @08:21AM (#37974727)
Re:Connecting a 1980s Pinball Machine to the Internet
on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @02:54PM (#34901664)
Can this be used on any System 11 game? And can it be used to read the current state of the alphanumeric display?
Re:We regret to inform you that your choice of Deathday is no longer a...
on Saturday June 18, 2022 @01:18PM (#31791824)
Even gods eventually get bored.
Re:A prank cursor resulted in an employee being fired before they star...
on Monday June 13, 2022 @05:48PM (#31732220)
The fact that Tom Arraya bares a resemblance to RMS probably had something to do with it. :)
Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
on Saturday June 04, 2022 @11:42PM (#31627802)
I was in the affected group. Quite fun when my phone's notification sound is this:
meow meow meow meooow
Re:Analyzing the legal implications of GitHub Copilot
on Thursday July 15, 2021 @01:54PM (#27847744)
Here's an inquiry for those more knowledgeable about IP law than myself: what's the state of the law regarding training an AI on copyrighted material besides code? I was debating this with someone in relation to the high definition texture packs for old games people have been making using models such as ESRGAN - do these infringe the copyright of the rights holders of the original assets? Or are they considered sufficiently transformative to be considered an original work?
Re:Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "fe...
on Thursday May 20, 2021 @11:08AM (#27222127)
Something tells me Mr. Carmack himself wouldn't approve of such engineering practices, no?
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:07PM (#25692921)
>I hold no opinion on Trump,
Everyone has an opinion about Trump. Are you too afraid to say yours? I'm asking in good faith here - not trolling.
Re:Gallery-dl – download images from several image hosting sites
on Sunday November 29, 2020 @09:04AM (#25245147)
This strikes me as the FOSS equivalent of trying to piss off the volcano.
Re:Engineers, not racers, are the true drivers of success in motor sport
on Friday October 16, 2020 @07:51PM (#24806144)
As a child in the ancient days of the early 2000s, I would often setup botmatches consisting of 16 'players' in Quake 3 and spectate the resultant carnage. I wouldn't venture to say it was educational or intellectual in any sense, but it was still pretty fascinating - even as a ten year old - to observe what was essentially a bunch of fake people run around on my little P3. IIRC there were user made characters that had custom bot files with distinct 'personalities', so you could throw together different combinations of bots in different maps and come away with some very different encounters.
Re:How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries
on Monday August 31, 2020 @10:31PM (#24337988)
"I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at."
Re:TikTok, Trump, and the Future of Open Source Surveillance
on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @12:19PM (#24283932)
Linux has over 25 million lines of code (as of 2018 [1]). Would an audit be straightforward?
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Ke...
Original Mold for “Ernie's Rubber Duck” (1977)
High Performance (Potato) Chips
Re:Show HN: Interactively select the quality and format for youtube-dl
on Monday May 27, 2019 @12:26PM (#20023268)
'Because remembering CLI flags is hard.'
Indeed. :)
Sonic 3D's Intro Sequence Is Impossible to Fit on a Cartridge – Right?
Big Box Collection
30 Things I Hate About Your Game Pitch
Re:Using Unix as an IDE (2012)
on Thursday June 21, 2018 @12:22AM (#17362145)
But the idea of an OS in and of itself is the ultimate IDE, is it not? I can't say I like the idea of writing software without any system calls at my disposal.
Re:Wolfenstein 3D – Gameboy cartridge with co-processor
on Sunday December 18, 2016 @02:41PM (#13207201)
He should seriously consider replacing the Wolfenstein content with his own stuff and release it as an independent title! I know I would love to see a new release for my GBC...
Re:Wind Waker Graphics Analysis
on Saturday November 12, 2016 @07:53AM (#12937624)
Yoshi's Island?
Re:Wind Waker Graphics Analysis
on Friday November 11, 2016 @09:15PM (#12936195)
Here's a post on Polycount that analyzes other parts of the game:
http://polycount.com/discussion/104415/zelda-wind-waker-tech...
Re:Lonnie Johnson: The father of the Super Soaker
on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @09:29PM (#12301901)
"I had no idea what to say to him. In the end, I said, 'Well… you know… I think we should have more of that.'"
I love it.
Narbacular Drop Technical Design Document [pdf]
Spoiled Rotten (2012)
Re:Simple instructions for freezing a Skylake Processor
on Sunday January 10, 2016 @12:58PM (#10876255)
I just had a newly-built Skylake desktop completely lock up twice in the past week while using a resource intensive development tool. I'm curious as to whether this is related - I was freaking out over the possibility of my ~1200$ machine being defective in some way.
The Lonely Death of George Bell
Re:Lego Universe's Dong Detection Problem
on Saturday May 30, 2015 @11:25PM (#9632930)
>dong detection software
Screw the next Twitter. Whoever successfully writes such a piece of software will make billions.
Re:Death March: The Long, Tortured Journey of Homefront (2012)
on Monday March 30, 2015 @09:12AM (#9289212)
Why does it seem that every game development post mortem I come across read like the Rocky Horror Picture Show? After reading a million and one of these you inevitably come to understanding of what not to do - it would be nice to find an example of what actually to do!