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Unlocking the NES (For Former Dawn)

Posted by davikrr on Thursday February 03, 2022 @08:27AM
from the somethingnerdy.com dept.

https://somethingnerdy.com/unlocking-the-nes-for-former-dawn/

Re:Settings are not a design failure on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @08:05PM (#30186928)

Every time an application (i.e Firefox) removes a feature due to "low user adoption" I feel the extents of this kind of UX misunderstanding.

Re: on Friday January 21, 2022 @05:02PM (#30030546)

I'd like to point out that the first author, Stephanie Seneff, "began publishing controversial papers in low-impact, open access journals on biology and medical topics" with "heated objections from experts in almost every field she's delved into" [1], and that the second author's "Naturopathic Physician" degree is not a very good indicative for experience conducting Immunology (or) medical research.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Seneff

A Hardware Accelerator for Tracing Garbage Collection

Posted by davikrr on Friday January 21, 2022 @04:40PM
from the ieeexplore.ieee.org dept.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8416824

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MiniVM: “Minivm Port to Dlang”

Posted by davikrr on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @03:32PM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/FastVM/minivm/commit/bbc0f51c50823b564f20183d0a41161cdd542675

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The Real Dunning-Kruger Graph

Posted by davikrr on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @07:52AM
from the graphpaperdiaries.com dept.

https://graphpaperdiaries.com/2017/08/20/the-real-dunning-kruger-graph/

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BCHS: OpenBSD, C, httpd and SQLite web stack

Posted by davikrr on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @09:04PM
from the learnbchs.org dept.

https://learnbchs.org/index.html

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Over the Waves – Chevrolet Suspension (1938)

Posted by davikrr on Monday January 17, 2022 @08:38PM
from the youtube.com dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej7CRAIGXow

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Roblox Is Suing Me for $1.6M

Posted by davikrr on Friday January 14, 2022 @10:32PM
from the youtube.com dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mr4a84prMc

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Confessions of an Abstraction Hater

Posted by davikrr on Thursday January 13, 2022 @09:05AM
from the 250bpm.com dept.

https://250bpm.com/blog:144/

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Semantic Compression

Posted by davikrr on Thursday January 13, 2022 @08:58AM
from the caseymuratori.com dept.

https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0015

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EAStdC implements library facilities similar to those in the standard C library

Posted by davikrr on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @01:03PM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/electronicarts/EAStdC

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GPUs stolen in California truck heist turn up in Vietnam retailer

Posted by davikrr on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @10:32AM
from the pcgamer.com dept.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gpus-stolen-in-california-truck-heist-turn-up-in-vietnam-retailer/

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Why Do Game Developers Prefer Windows? (2011)

Posted by davikrr on Monday January 10, 2022 @06:48PM
from the softwareengineering.stackexchange.com dept.

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/60544/why-do-game-developers-prefer-windows/88055#88055

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Burnout, self-care and being productive

Posted by davikrr on Monday January 10, 2022 @05:36PM
from the openpunk.com dept.

https://openpunk.com/journal/burnout/

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What headsets are Discord certified?

Posted by davikrr on Sunday January 09, 2022 @09:57AM
from the support.discord.com dept.

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/222152987-What-headsets-are-Discord-certified-

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DXVK Native: D3D9/11 but it runs natively on Linux

Posted by davikrr on Saturday January 08, 2022 @11:01AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/Joshua-Ashton/dxvk-native

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Knock Knock Who's There? – An NSA VM

Posted by davikrr on Sunday December 26, 2021 @08:04AM
from the reverse.put.as dept.

https://reverse.put.as/2021/12/17/knock-knock-whos-there/

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Cyclone is a safe dialect of C

Posted by davikrr on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @12:48PM
from the cyclone.thelanguage.org dept.

http://cyclone.thelanguage.org/

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What a Brazilian state can teach the world about education

Posted by davikrr on Monday December 20, 2021 @08:48AM
from the economist.com dept.

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2021/12/18/what-a-brazilian-state-can-teach-the-world-about-education

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Body Integrity Dysphoria

Posted by davikrr on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @01:41PM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_integrity_dysphoria

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Change in attitudes to cognitive enhancement in the 1950s and 1960s in Brazil

Posted by davikrr on Monday December 13, 2021 @12:47PM
from the blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk dept.

http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/09/guest-post-pervitin-instead-of-coffee-change-in-attitudes-to-cognitive-enhancement-in-the-50s-and-60s-in-brazil/

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TikTok Tics: A Pandemic Within a Pandemic

Posted by davikrr on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @02:26PM
from the movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com dept.

https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mdc3.13316

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C++ in the Linux Kernel

Posted by davikrr on Monday December 06, 2021 @09:45PM
from the threatstack.com dept.

https://www.threatstack.com/blog/c-in-the-linux-kernel

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I asked an AI to tell me how beautiful I am

Posted by davikrr on Monday December 06, 2021 @09:04PM
from the technologyreview.com dept.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/05/1020133/ai-algorithm-rate-beauty-score-attractive-face/

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Excel-Virtual-Machine: C Compiler which targets Excel

Posted by davikrr on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @09:11PM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/mrthefakeperson/Excel-Virtual-Machine

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Sometimes you gotta fix it yourself

Posted by davikrr on Monday November 29, 2021 @11:20AM
from the pedrovhb.com dept.

https://pedrovhb.com/posts/fix_it_yourself/

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Retrotechtacular: How Solidarity Hacked Polish TV

Posted by davikrr on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @09:19PM
from the hackaday.com dept.

https://hackaday.com/2016/07/05/retrotechtacular-how-solidarity-hacked-polish-tv/

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Friday Facts #366 – The only way to go fast, is to go well

Posted by davikrr on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @09:38AM
from the factorio.com dept.

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-366

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Re:Tim Cook Says Apple Is Looking into Cryptocurrency on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @12:45PM (#29164800)

With $130 gas costs - oops, that's already the gas price for Ethereum :-)