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by hotwire 4y ago
Ok, that's cool! I've been using Jumpcut since 2008 when I switched to macos, and I'm pretty prone to app inertia, but that might actually make me switch. thanks.
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by hotwire 4y ago
I still remember and miss http://bluemars.org/ I discovered so much beautiful ambient music back in the early/mid 2000s.
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by hotwire 5y ago
Much of that baseline test actually comes from Nabokov's "Pale Fire" - which is also the book Joi picks up when she says "do you want to read to me".
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by hotwire 5y ago
Here's his actual keynote speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnSUk0je6oo As always, John is a master of communication and clear thought.
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by hotwire 5y ago
It reminds me of the thread about the Quake 3 bots, who left alone for several years, figured out that the best approach was to not kill each other. https://i.imgur.com/dx7sVXj.jpg
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by hotwire 6y ago
A station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway...
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by hotwire 6y ago
In Ubik by Philip K Dick, the door of his apartment won't open unless he pays it five cents each time. Life imitates art. “The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’
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by hotwire 6y ago
I still hold that the scene where Grant and Sattler first see the Brachiosaur is one of the best acted (and I suppose directed) scenes ever. That subtle feeling of vindication when his theory is proven right against all the critics[1]... &q
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by hotwire 6y ago
hah, reminds me of http://www.csszengarden.com but simpler.
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by hotwire 7y ago
I take it to mean that they're composed well: there's a balanced and sensible spacing/padding, the lines are a good weight, they are easy on the eye, there's a consistent look and feel between all of them etc etc. For in
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by hotwire 7y ago
Thanks for ZZT Tim. That game changed my life when I was starting high school in the mid 90s; it was one of the ways I learnt to really have fun with computers as well as to program and make my own games. Also, Unreal Tournament still holds
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by hotwire 7y ago
...it doesn't just open up the Options menu?
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by hotwire 7y ago
My wife started buying Who Gives A Crap for our household a few months a go and we love it. We went the "mid-tier" quality (although we experimented with the the lower - 1ply tier at first wasn't that bad either). We also get
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by hotwire 7y ago
Great project! there's definitely some interesting things to explore here. I had an issue though, I clicked the top link on: https://sideprojects.net/posts/7YZPLbcugbCyf94GY/non-vocal-m... to visit the site a
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by hotwire 8y ago
It kind of sickens me that we only have this because some smart person dumpster dived behind the building of a bankrupt game company... Who threw this stuff out?! How much other irreplaceable source code has been lost because some janitor t
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by hotwire 8y ago
I agree, although it was a different episode. Duncan trussel's Tesla episode was masterfully done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gOR91oentQ the other few episodes I bothered with didn't do it for me.
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by hotwire 8y ago
yep, these are the kinds of posts on HN that I really appreciate, not the contrarian "well akshually" kind that usually appear.
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by hotwire 8y ago
yeah but.... actually, crap you're right. tech is better than ever. pity that it's being wasted on today's trivialities.
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by hotwire 8y ago
He was such a visionary that I can pretty much take whatever news headline from the last 10 years and link it directly to his work... It hasn't been updated in a few years, but this site used to regularly take recent news articles an
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by hotwire 8y ago
oh gee, i just LOVE websites that have about 300 pixels of readable space. get rid of the huge fixed headers and fixed footers garbage. PLEASE. fuck this stupid trend.
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by hotwire 8y ago
This guy is a genius and also freakin hilarious, I knew I recognised his voice from somewhere; watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGI-GqAK9c
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by hotwire 8y ago
I'm in the same boat as you my friend. Mid thirties guy, hit adolescence right as the net was blowing up mid 90s. I still remember the first mp3 I found on a computer in the library at school and it blew my freakin mind how small it wa
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by hotwire 8y ago
personally, i order my co founders off amazon prime
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by hotwire 8y ago
John Carmack is an absolutely brilliant speaker. Conversational, captivating and effortlessly natural. I could listen to him talk all day about the most arcane bits of graphics development which i'll never understand but am fascinated
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by hotwire 9y ago
- You can identify trends and patterns in your traffic - You can figure out where in the world your traffic is coming from - It can be helpful in responding to security incidents
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by hotwire 9y ago
Just want to say; I'm checking in after a few days of using it and... if i think about it, i guess i'm clicking that "killsticky" bookmark less and less. its funny, suddenly i don't even have to think about it, whic
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by hotwire 9y ago
that one looks better than the one i pasted - i've noticed that some sites are using "sticky" instead of "fixed" and my bookmarklet (which I copied off someone else) doesn't remove them. thanks.
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by hotwire 9y ago
holy shit dude. if this is as awesome as it looks, i'm actually excited. thank you.
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by hotwire 9y ago
I just have a bookmarklet to kill all "fixed" position divs. I'm clicking it more and more these days - even those damn fixed navs that take up a stupid percentage of the screen give me the shits. If clicking the bookmarklet