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Re:Pixel prevented me from calling 911 on Thursday December 09, 2021 @08:22AM (#29497024)
Maybe someone has died and we will never know. Not many people go on debugging why 911 wasn't working.
Re:Adventuron – Text Adventure Authoring in the Browser on Thursday October 14, 2021 @05:40AM (#28862147)
Can I give an AI a bunch of drawings and it will make a text adventure out of it?
Re:New in Git: switch and restore on Monday August 02, 2021 @05:54AM (#28034723)
Well, that's why it's called git. Everybody has to get-it.
Re:Zsh Tricks to Blow Your Mind on Thursday February 18, 2021 @08:23AM (#26179501)
The author is probably dyslexic.
Re:Why Jira Sucks on Thursday December 31, 2020 @04:35AM (#25591126)
It always seems to me that Jira was used to produce Jira itself and that's why it turned out this way.
Re:ZX Spectrum Next – Issue 2 on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @09:12AM (#24131700)
As the GPU!
Re:A (possible) solution to Covid-19 on Friday April 10, 2020 @05:18AM (#22831297)
Can't the attenuated strain mutate back to a strong dangerous one after we spread it? (Hope this isn't a stupid question)
Re:How to program a text adventure in C (2016) on Sunday March 22, 2020 @06:50AM (#22654064)
I suggest to look into https://ifcomp.org/ - the annual interactive fiction competition is running for 25 years now and there are some great games and resources over there.
We had a bug that would pop up only when we weren't working (at lunch breaks, meetings etc) but when we were at our desks it never reproduces. It ended up related to the screen saver starting up. It took us too long to find that out but that was a very good laugh.
Re:Tin Found in Israel from 3k Years Ago Comes from Cornwall on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @08:12AM (#22117208)
The name "Palestine" was given by the Romans. The area was known to it's inhabitants as Judea. During the iron age the kingdoms of Judea and Israel existed in the area. The name "Israel" first appears in the Merneptah Stele c. 1209 BCE: "Israel is laid waste and his seed is no more."
Re:Protobuffers Are Wrong on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @11:37AM (#21873129)
Ha - I just had this exact argument yesterday. Why indeed?