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Re:Dice Baseball – A Tabletop Tradition on Friday November 18, 2022 @11:08AM (#33656757)
Echoing this, it's a fantastic game for what it is. The author also just finished funding a Kickstarter for a "Junior" version of the game as well.
Re:16-inch MacBook Pro on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:53AM (#21523968)
Why not both? My QMK mechanical keyboards (and, I just noticed, Karabiner Elements) can support turning Caps Lock into Ctrl+KEY if pressed with something else, and ESC if pressed by itself. Best of all possible worlds.
MTG Arena, their latest online effort, also has a "learn to play" mechanism built in.
Re:Zachtronics: Ten Years of Terrible Games (2017) [video] on Monday October 07, 2019 @12:47AM (#21177598)
It's also available in ZACH-LIKE [0], a free compilation of a bunch of his earlier flash games. Windows-only, however.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1098840/ZACHLIKE/

Re:United States v. Microsoft Corp. Dismissed [pdf] on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @05:26PM (#16862453)
Providing a link for this because it was something I was interested in doing: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_audio/2...
Re:Solving Minesweeper and making it better (2015) on Friday February 02, 2018 @01:40PM (#16293003)
There's an iOS version as well for those of us on the other side of the smartphone aisle, which is similarly free and ad-free: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simon-tathams-portable-puzzl...
Re:H3: A Hexagonal Hierarchical Geospatial Indexing System on Friday January 12, 2018 @03:36PM (#16136082)
So MGRS[0] with hexagons? Pretty interesting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Grid_Reference_System

Re:Working with time in Postgres on Thursday June 08, 2017 @06:51PM (#14517782)
Remove the comma before the SELECT?
Re:Where the hell are the new MacBooks? on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @12:14PM (#11903011)
They'll hold off on hardware announcements until they can ship them with macOS 12 already on them. Why would they announce new hardware that you'd have to do a full OS upgrade on in a few months?
A sequel implies some sort of continued story or major overhaul, not what would be 1.99 DLC in this day and age.
Not sure about the team bits, but Worms in the 2000s was basically ultra-DLC before DLC even existed. Every 'new' game for a long time kept the vast majority of the old bits from the previous games, added a few new items, and charged full retail for the privilege.
If you feel like you can't make the jump straight to 0 yet, some places make 1.5mg liquid.
It's amazing, but at the same time it's OOP with a reprint anytime soon being unlikely. It would probably be very easy to rig up a print-and-play copy however.
Couldn't you simply stipulate in your ToS that if you reside in that area that you are not allowed to use said service?
Re:The Little Printf on Monday October 12, 2015 @12:16PM (#10375466)
Some of these characters are hitting a little too close to home.

What a great read.

Re:100M games played on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @05:25PM (#10349217)
Take the existing list and add a sixteen-character word to it.
Re:Netflix – Chasing 60fps [video] on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @11:09PM (#10052067)
Not to mention the nightmare that accessibility would be if you were just rendering polygons on a canvas.
Re:Agar.io Clone DMCA on Thursday July 30, 2015 @02:26PM (#9976950)
Probably an honest mistake considering it's GitHub's 'dmca' repo.
Re:1/999999999999999999999998999999999999999999999999 on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @07:31PM (#9815967)
I've seen it both ways- "Divide four by two" is equivalent to "Divide two into four" in my experience.
Re:MonolithFirst on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @03:46PM (#9655307)
We experienced similar to this at our company. When my coworker and I first arrived, the prior engineers had built the system as a set of microservices but it was completely overarchitected. Our first act was to pull all the parts together into one application.

Now that it's grown, we're starting to look at the microservice approach again, but it's been almost four years since we pulled everything together so it makes much more sense given the load/functionality we have now relative to then.

Re:Assignment: Creating a D&D Character on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @05:54PM (#9187654)
Providing a scanned copy of the most recent Player's Handbook probably isn't the best idea for something like this. Any of the System Reference Documents from the 3rd Edition era could stand in its place without many material changes.
It will take 1e4 times as long to completely fill that device proportionally to an older one, yes, but that's still two orders of magnitude faster than it would be to fill that equivalent amount of space with the older write speed.
Re:South Korea bans unremovable mobile bloatware on Sunday January 26, 2014 @04:46PM (#7127093)
Are you implying that parent should be charging his or her parents for the work, or that he or she should cover the difference out of pocket?
Re:Show HN: Ridiculously cheap bulk geocoding on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @01:41PM (#7097259)
The part I was unclear about, actually, is whether or not one is charged for the first 2500 if one were to hit that threshold.
Re:Notch Playing Ludum Dare [video] on Saturday December 14, 2013 @04:44PM (#6907235)
This new title is absolutely ridiculous.
Re:SteamOS: It's here on Friday December 13, 2013 @07:12PM (#6903705)
I've had this happen with me- I preordered Leviathan: Warships, and upon launch was completely unable to access multiplayer through their buggy account system. The publisher acknowledged my issue but declined to answer further support requests. Valve issued credit to my account in exchange for removing my game from the library within hours of asking for it.
Re:Go Advent Day 2: Performance Improvements in Go 1.2 on Monday December 02, 2013 @08:24AM (#6833433)
Fairly solid gains for the most part, although the regex performance regressions are curious.
Re:Go 1.2 is released on Sunday December 01, 2013 @11:33PM (#6831614)
And merged.

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