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Re:Resetting Xbox on Monday July 06, 2026 @01:34PM (#48807899)
I'm hopeful (but maybe not optimistic) that Arkane gets out of this with the ability to do what they're really good at again.
Re:Doom has been ported to an earbud on Sunday January 25, 2026 @02:23PM (#46757268)
Single player, but stereoscopic? One display from each bud.

"VR Doom has been ported to an earbud(s)" ;)

from the abstract....

"In this paper, we study the stability of the public IP addresses a user device uses to communicate with our server. Over time, a same device communicates with our server using a set of distinct IP addresses, but we find that devices reuse some of their previous IP addresses for long periods of time. We call this IP address retention and, the duration for which an IP address is retained by a device, is named the IP address retention period. We present an analysis of 34,488 unique public IP addresses collected from 2,230 users over a period of 111 days and we show that IP addresses remain a prime vector for online tracking. 87 % of participants retain at least one IP address for more than a month and 45 % of ISPs in our dataset allow keeping the same IP address for more than 30 days."

Re:Gears on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @01:48PM (#22311522)
The minute hand would be one revolution an hour.
Re:The light is off. War is over on Monday January 20, 2020 @03:13AM (#22097260)
I would love to do some sort of homeAssistant type automation, but I've been dithering for ages because everything I read up on all the various light and appliance control protocols make me feel my entire home would become a massive UI/UX nightmare for myself and visitors. I want smarts, but I also never want to have to reboot a lightswitch.
Re:A Raspberry Pi-powered live train station sign on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @01:50PM (#20576599)
I'm working on a pi zero version of my own at the moment. The National Rail Enquires api's (Darwin) are free to use at personal (and surprisingly large) scale. They may be SOAP but still easy enough to talk to with some simple python. https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/46391.aspx
Re:Thank You, Robert Voit, Creator of Paint Shop Pro on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @02:06PM (#17655495)
It's still available if you dig around on Adobe's site.

Despite having the full creative suite I still turn to Fireworks for quick jobs sometimes when I need to do a fast crop or slice job, or put together a simple 'constructed' image element.

Re:What do Unix command names stand for? on Saturday June 16, 2018 @03:54AM (#17326490)
Also in the UK. The last Yellow Pages we received, about two months ago, had a large ‘Final Issue‘ highlight on the front. They’ve finally given up. I tried to dredge up some nostalgic feelings for it’s demise, but flicking through the contents I really couldn’t. About 40% of the ad space throughout the book was for one advertiser, Gas Safe Register, and I can only assume that got sold at a song to fill the space. I’d love to know the percentage of the population that are going to miss it. I can see why it’s no longer effective with search engines being what they are, but there must still be a decent number of (presumably older) people who don’t google when they need contact details.
Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @08:49AM (#16324326)
Thanks for that one.
Re:Apple, Amazon Join Race for James Bond Film Rights on Thursday September 07, 2017 @03:23AM (#15189736)
My bond dream team would be a screenplay/script by Charlie Higson and Mark Gatiss and directed by Edgar Wright.
Has your cache/proxy fallen over? I'm getting a 404 for the base domain

404 Not Found

Code: NoSuchKey Message: The specified key does not exist. Key: index.html RequestId: 759C55C7EA94F7D8 HostId: 2i2HH8A3vp5KFvhHhHeoQ+6AiFL/kjd5iByJy6Ouo/pbKwE2xaKP8Es4SU3//1/P7M/5KWJXQv8=

Re:2038: Only 21 years away on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @01:53PM (#13924527)
At which point we'll all still be too distracted by deciding which JavaScript build system to use.
Pun intended?
Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk? on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @03:52AM (#12642182)
Dan Abromovich sort of introducing Redux in this talk. https://youtu.be/xsSnOQynTHs
Re:Nintendo Developer Portal on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @03:32AM (#12084495)
Hopefully that's a good thing though. It's not a completely inaccessible price but hopefully it should be enough to stall an Apple Store type race to the bottom of flappy birds and other clones.
Re:Basic Rules to Develop Simple and Appealing Games on Sunday May 22, 2016 @05:29AM (#11747931)
Interesting read.

I've recently decided to start taking the plunge into game dev myself, coming from a purely web/app dev background and to try to blog the process in the hopes it will turn in to a useful resource for other completely green game Devs.

The first of the two (somewhat insubstantial) videos I've made about it is here if anyone's interested https://youtu.be/PliCYTiCxKk

Re:Sample programs in the Piet programming language on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @04:53AM (#11342947)
We just throw some Pollock on the box at random, but there's some more detailed Seurat dotted around the stack.
Re:Show HN: Generate React forms from JSON form schemas on Saturday August 22, 2015 @06:02AM (#10102092)
Really sorry, down voted you by mistake with a loose finger. App I use has moved the vote buttons right where I scroll.
Re:Show HN: Create a perfect meal with linear programminga on Thursday February 05, 2015 @09:41AM (#9003410)
This is generally quite nice. To add to some of the other feedback, I felt it could do with more verbose help text and more importantly for my brief play with it, more focus bringing basic staples to the top of results for food search.

I tried to add just bacon and it took rewatching the demo video and some guesswork to figure out searching for 'bacon raw' would get to basic bacon. Trying just 'bacon' or 'pork' only gets lots of babyfood and soup related answers in the generated dropdown.

This is one of those tiny off-topic feedbacks that might just be me, but the colour choice on the inactive tick boxes means that when I'm scanning through the text and the ticks are in my peripheral vision they 'strobe' in a really distracting mildly off-putting way, like a subtle version of the dots in this illusion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_illusion

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