Feneric

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by Feneric 4y ago
Thanks! I don't know of anything exactly like that, but there are plenty of hackathons and the like that are similar. It's not to hard to sit down with the docs and/or tutorials for systems like Godot, Inform 7, Ren'Py,
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by Feneric 4y ago
Definitely. I slake my thirst for game dev by creating games in between job contracts as well as on some weekends. I've written a few interactive fiction pieces, but my most downloaded titles are in the category of retro RPGs in the st
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by Feneric 5y ago
I think his point is that our society is putting too much value in entertainment sorts of goods like art, sports, literature, etc. and not enough in things like infrastructure maintenance, science, teaching, etc. He's not saying we don
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by Feneric 5y ago
I can understand the ruling, but it sounds like it also means it's now pretty trivial to bypass restrictions by getting a massive list of numbers to dial from a third party.
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by Feneric 8y ago
Nice. It reminds me a bit of GEOS Warp http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/archive/geoswarp/
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by Feneric 8y ago
How well does it work with Linux? I didn't see anything about it on the site. It'd be neat to hook up to my laptop, but if Linux isn't supported at all there'd be no point.
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by Feneric 8y ago
This was a mammoth effort by 80+ authors and programmers organized by Ryan Veeder and Jenni Polodna to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the classic work of horror interactive fiction "Anchorhead" by Michael Gentry. It was written
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Cragne Manor, Massive Collaborative Tribute to Anchorhead, Released(rcveeder.net)
1 points by Feneric 8y ago|1 comments
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by Feneric 8y ago
Other languages can be compiled into WebAssembly, too, including Nim: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17314581
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WebAssembly with Nim(spiria.com)
3 points by Feneric 8y ago|0 comments
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by Feneric 8y ago
Disposable diapers are actually a burden on society in many places even beyond the obvious problem of essentially putting sewage in the trash; https://www.nearta.com/Papers/GovernmentDiapers.pdf
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CommanderSong: A Systematic Approach for Practical Adversarial Voice Recognition(arxiv.org)
1 points by Feneric 9y ago|0 comments
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by Feneric 10y ago
It's surprising that even with the energy it takes to generate a plasma strong enough and in enough quantity to achieve the desired effects, it can still result in an estimated 25% energy savings. It goes to show how much energy just d
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by Feneric 10y ago
What's amazing to me is that even with broadcast TV, theoretically the medium that they have the most experience with, they still delivered an abysmal product that the author was kind in describing as "tolerable".
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by Feneric 10y ago
I guess this shouldn't be too surprising considering the fraction of our waking lives that we spend in work, driving to or from work, or lunching at work.
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by Feneric 10y ago
The stricter syntax allows JSON to be directly parsed outside of JavaScript in other languages like Python. This is a nice feature and one of the selling points of JSON.
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by Feneric 10y ago
The Nissan Altima Hybrid (2007-2011), the more efficient, better performing cousin of the regular Nissan Altima: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Altima#Hybrid This is one I'd like to see come back.
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by Feneric 10y ago
You mean like ZEO? Yes, it's probably been around for a couple of decades now.
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by Feneric 10y ago
Not even a mention of ZODB. While it's true it's Python-only, it's certainly one of the most mature NoSQL databases around.
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by Feneric 10y ago
How did I miss that "Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu" was released? If you've never played it, the standard "Pandemic" is an engaging, clever puzzle of a cooperative game with random elements.
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by Feneric 10y ago
There were systems that embraced both models. Remember the Amiga? When using it for work it'd run off of hard drive and would multitask between productivity apps. Some games though required the isolated boot model. Personally I always
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by Feneric 10y ago
One of these scared the heck out of me as a kid. I had just gone to bed and was staring up at the ceiling and a small ball of intense light with crackling tendrils around it flared in the middle of the room and was gone. I ran out and got m
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by Feneric 10y ago
Just a white screen for me too, Safari on a Mac.
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by Feneric 10y ago
The potential benefits of combining the properties of the two (circuits that are more robust even when damaged, etc.) are intriguing, but there aren't any mentions of the potential negatives that will also undoubtedly arise. Will such
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by Feneric 10y ago
I suspect that if VR / AR continues to take off, the need for good quality generated binaural sound will make it more and more attractive to put a greater percentage of sound processing onto the GPU.
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by Feneric 10y ago
Just wondering why you rolled your own gesture recognition system rather than using something off-the-shelf like the Leap Motion. Also, your comments about the Python environment are maybe a little unfair... You have an unusual (and some mi
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by Feneric 10y ago
This looks like a great document to help one get started on the road to using Python for lots of STEM type tasks. Pandas fans: don't be put off by the lack of mention of it on the title page, as it is covered in there, too.
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by Feneric 10y ago
Glasses-free 3D has potential in a number of applications and it's surprising to me how little penetration it has in the market at large. Just as adding color to a display is a means of providing more information, adding depth to a dis
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by Feneric 10y ago
The sample run on the video frame-by-frame is pretty fun and worth watching.
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by Feneric 10y ago
There's also the expectation that ports have all been vetted for security issues and the like. That's the tradeoff that ordinary users see -- not as many packages have been ported, but they're safer. I don't always think

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