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by a1r 7mo ago
O cool! This approach was used in WASTELAND too, on four floppies (the progenitor of the FALLOUT series).
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by a1r 1y ago
If you are a small personal site, you can request a free upgrade to the Plus version (which can remove ads) by emailing publisher-success@disqus.com and asking. I did this in late 2023 and got a response in two days. This does remain an a
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by a1r 2y ago
This. The 'black circle' in the tutorial is no good, maybe a dotted circle instead to make it clear you're supposed to be tapping empty space and not a black bubble.
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by a1r 2y ago
Paul Graham's essay today: "We should have a conscious bias against defining new forms of heresy. Whenever anyone tries to ban saying something that we'd previously been able to say, our initial assumption should be that they
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by a1r 3y ago
Another approach using spreadsheets: https://aaronbell.substack.com/p/visualize-your-life-the-eas...
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by a1r 3y ago
My side project was to remake the Commodore 64 game, ENCOUNTER from scratch in three.js, adapted for both mobile and desktop. I got pretty far. Then in 2017 I interviewed for an Engineering Manager role at Facebook (now Meta). The role was
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Visualize Your Life(aaronbell.substack.com)
1 points by a1r 3y ago|0 comments
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Visualize your life, the easy way(aaronbell.substack.com)
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by a1r 3y ago
The writer & comedian Richard Herring devised a fairly complete set of rules for this, calling it Consecutive Number Plate Spotting (CNPS). It's amusing, https://www.richardherring.com/cnps
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by a1r 3y ago
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross used a SID (in an Elektron Sidstation) on the soundtrack for THE SOCIAL NETWORK, https://reverbmachine.com/blog/trent-reznor-social-network-s...
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by a1r 4y ago
You can convert a cheap USB floppy drive into one that reads Amiga disks using a Drawbridge from https://amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk/ - I've done this and it works. Notice Amiga Forever 10 adds direct support for this setu
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by a1r 4y ago
I recently did this and found pretty much everything still worked. The creator of AMOS is still around at https://www.aoz.studio and their Discord will help you with any AMOS issues!
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by a1r 4y ago
Wow this has a ton in common with my port of the C64 game ENCOUNTER, https://github.com/air/encounter Look for the Play link in the README. Great job on the aesthetics!
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by a1r 5y ago
It's really excellent as an emulation machine for retro gaming. I have an X-Arcade dual arcade controller attached. It's great because 1. there's a compact keyboard built in, and 2. the 400 comes with a giant heat sink and I
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by a1r 8y ago
Fun fact: the Minecraft client has for years supported SRV to discover the server port number. Thanks Notch.
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Secret colours of the Commodore 64(aaronbell.com)
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by a1r 10y ago
Update from Google status page: We're still actively working to resolve issues with Identity/Authentication. Future updates will follow when there is significant progress to report. To summarize; some long-lived OAuth tokens have
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by a1r 10y ago
Why use Gallium over crouton? I've used crouton/XUbuntu as my main laptop OS for a couple of years. I've pushed it pretty far, running Steam with a removable SD card to play things like DotA 2 - http://www.aaronbel
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by a1r 11y ago
Absolutely! We're actively working on this here at Mesosphere, in partnership with Google. You can check out the project at https://github.com/mesosphere/kubernetes-mesos You might also be interested in a talk I g
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by a1r 11y ago
Hi, Chronos Product Manager here ('air' on github). Status: Having fun creating issues in the wake of the Jepsen post : ) I can say that Mesosphere is 100% committed to both Marathon and Chronos. You're right that Marathon ge