coroxout

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by coroxout 7y ago
Yeah, with the problem Amazon US (maybe elsewhere too?) has with fakes which get mixed in with the real stock at the distribution centre, and the problem I have on Amazon UK where no matter what household product I search for all the result
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by coroxout 7y ago
I thought this link was going to be this article: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n07/jon-day/operation-columba which is an interesting article about pigeon service in WWII from a different British literary review
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by coroxout 7y ago
Some fun updates on the "rock family trees" [0] idea but it might have been interesting to have more technical detail - for some of them it says what technologies are used, which is interesting to know, but I'd love to see li
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by coroxout 7y ago
I've definitely noticed the rise in alcohol-free beers (normally only one or two per pub, but now usually prominently marked on the drinks list or blackboard), alcohol-free wines (only seen one once in a pub, but my local small superma
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by coroxout 7y ago
On one hand, I don't 100% miss those times unless I can have as much spare time as I did aged 14 to spend walking round a game without necessarily progressing. (It helped that I only got a new commercial game every few months and maybe
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by coroxout 7y ago
I'd love that too - although I have to say I didn't really like the endings to MI2 or Thimbleweed Park, so I might love it even more if RG writes everything except the ending...
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by coroxout 7y ago
I think the site author comes from an interactive fiction background, so I suppose there were text adventures that did switchable playable characters and time travel before DotT [1], but I don't know of a graphic adventure that beat Do
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by coroxout 7y ago
Another stereotypically-opposite but actually possibly related pairing I find interesting: the OCD stereotype is "neat freaks" (not all that accurately, because hoarding is also compulsion-related, and many types of OCD operate on
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by coroxout 7y ago
This sounds disturbingly familiar. You try, but it ends badly repeatedly, sometimes unobtrusively, sometimes suddenly and catastrophically and in public, until the memories of those times plus fears of everyone's second-guessed reactio
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by coroxout 7y ago
I guess they mean that most people can smell freshly sprayed cleaning products but think the products don't smell of much when still in the bottles. The aisle has a faintly bleachy/detergenty smell to me, but not usually oppressiv
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by coroxout 8y ago
It went down and lost control of its domain, eventually reappearing at a different TLD. A lot of people probably got lost in the move.
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by coroxout 8y ago
I miss mp3.com and still have a few favourite mp3s by other people saved on a hard disk somewhere (or so I thought - doesn't seem to be on this hard disk so I'll have to check for them tonight). I wish I'd archived the band b
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by coroxout 8y ago
"We're constantly thinking about all of the stuff that's gone wrong with our applications previously, what new things could go wrong with them now" I really feel this. I'm supposed to be half coding and half support
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by coroxout 8y ago
This is really cool, nice work (and sorry about your dog). It reminds me that once upon a time the roguelike dev newsgroup had a "1k (source code) roguelike challenge". The thread is here [1] and submissions are here in a slightly
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by coroxout 8y ago
Nice to see Space Debris as a selected demosong. A few other favourites: Oldschool classics: heatbeat/rebels - street jungle https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.m... Banana/TeK - Echoin
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by coroxout 8y ago
Buzz was around in 1999 (I think - I first used it in 2000/2001) but circa 2001 the coder had a hard disk crash and lost his code, and finally resumed work on it in 2008 from a much older codebase or possibly from scratch. I assume tha
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by coroxout 8y ago
This is relevant to my interests: I live a few minutes' walk outside the delivery radius for my town, and the nearest identifiable location within the radius is a pub car park. I've heard of people getting deliveries to the middle
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by coroxout 8y ago
I sadly concur, as someone who did fine at Computing A-Level with no work, found Further Maths difficult and was lucky to get a B with extra tuition and some juggling of module results to maximise my two final grades, and dropped out of a C
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by coroxout 8y ago
"Ted Nelson kept all his junk mail, for some reason" I'm glad he did, I love the design on a lot of these! Reminds me of the story of the John Johnson collection of "printed ephemera" at a library in my town: https
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by coroxout 8y ago
I'd love to agree, had this not happened just a year ago: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/26/uk-governmen...
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by coroxout 8y ago
Yes, that's what I meant, thanks, and I was thinking particularly of the 2nd game - though on closer inspection I think UW2's walls are all only 45 degree and 90 degree just like the 1st game, except the UW2 map is higher res and
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by coroxout 8y ago
"The year of 1993 was a magical one ... The engine was revolutionary in that it represented a type of world that no one had seen on a computer screen before. Angled walls and halls that darken in the distance." (obligatory old-man
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by coroxout 8y ago
I was just reminiscing with a friend about 3d landscape generator/modeller VistaPro last week, and here it is, along with a great many other nostalgia-inducing things. Thanks!
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by coroxout 8y ago
You've been downvoted but I laughed because this is exactly the inner monologue I have whenever I try to start a Dreaded Task. "I don't know where to start! Well, I could start with document A, but then I'd need some inf
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by coroxout 8y ago
So does the free photo backup hosting which comes with Amazon Prime, iirc. A friend who's a (mostly) retired semi-pro photographer has all his photos automatically uploaded there, so that clause worried me a bit.
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by coroxout 8y ago
I am suddenly nostalgic for the Googlewhack fad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack "A Googlewhack is a contest for finding a Google search query consisting of exactly two words without quotation marks that
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by coroxout 8y ago
The markup flags up abbreviations. I'm not quite clear on the distinctions between the different tags but it looks like "ex" is for expansions/excluded letters and "sl" is something to do with superscript lette
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by coroxout 9y ago
In my experience the books tend to have some pages which are always shown in the preview, some pages which appear never to be viewable in preview mode, and some pages which you may be able to preview if you have not reached your limit. So a
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by coroxout 9y ago
Thank you for the study. That's exactly my worry: not that it causes inflation, but that if everyone is given a sum to cover the cost of accommodation then accommodation prices will just get pushed up to beyond the reach of UBI. As I s
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by coroxout 9y ago
In addition to the contradictions already highlighted by many posters, I don't like the way the only economist they've quoted is Patrick Minford. Not because he says UBI won't work (I'm on the fence about this, because I

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