khedoros1

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by khedoros1 9d ago
> My previous work with PWM relied on being able to set a hardware timer to control when the speaker turns on and off. I've got an Arduino project where I did that. The output is on a single digital pin, audio encoded as PWM. It tur
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by khedoros1 9d ago
I don't see how the availability of AI has anything to do with whether you have a use for a personal computer.
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by khedoros1 2mo ago
Those are the ones that I learned, from the magic system in Ultima Underworld. I think that H and W are swapped, and that Tolkien's alphabet includes a few more letters. They're both similar to the Elder Futhark runes, if I'm
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by khedoros1 2mo ago
Outer Wilds is exactly what came to mind for me, too. Made a jump...missed. Thrown into a decaying orbit around the black hole. Absolutely terrifying, and panicking didn't help in the least! And getting close to the upper atmosphere of
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by khedoros1 3mo ago
> They all have DRM which make it essentially encrypted with no decryption service available. Not all do. Games for a lot of systems can be read directly from the storage media. > Likewise, the game isn’t usually 100% contained on di
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by khedoros1 3mo ago
I had a few reasons, when I tried tackling RE of a DOS-era game a number of years ago. I wanted to document the file formats, look through the data and find unused media, identify and fix some of the more egregious bugs in the game, build m
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by khedoros1 5mo ago
A lot. Often a couple dozen for pages that are currently queued up to read, with pages further to the left being older and often forgotten (or they're pages that I would like to have read, but don't want to take the time to read,
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by khedoros1 6mo ago
The aspect that I especially like is covering the 3-state aspect of the logic. Studying CS, it was kind of vaguely mentioned, and we skipped over to doing logic diagrams with gates and the assumption of 2-state logic really quickly...and it
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by khedoros1 6mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1139580 (2010) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10867791 (2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14697789 (2017) https://news.ycombin
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by khedoros1 6mo ago
I went from a 19" CRT capable of 1600x1200@75Hz to a 17" LCD capable of 1280x1024@60Hz, basically because that CRT would've taken up a huge chunk of desk real estate in my dorm. My first impressions were that the screen was b
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by khedoros1 6mo ago
Probably because they're advertising their product, and the comment also sounds like it was written/edited by AI itself.
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by khedoros1 7mo ago
I definitely only care about a handful. I've got categories like "beaten", "in-progress", "maybe someday", and "meh". You accumulate a lot of free stuff over the years, things you got because the
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by khedoros1 8mo ago
> ANYWAY, people have lost the ability to write in cursive, or even write in print neatly. By 2nd grade, I had good, clean print handwriting. Third grade is when they started teaching (and requiring us to use) D'Nealian cursive. My
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by khedoros1 8mo ago
Wow. Your old PC is more powerful than any computer I own. Faster version of my CPU, double the RAM, newer generation GPU. A fraction of the storage, though. I built it in 2020 to replace the desktop that I built in 2008.
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by khedoros1 9mo ago
There was one "Walking through the graveyard at midnight" ("stitching up some zombies" ?) or something, with a necromancer collecting zombie parts. To the tune of "walking in a winter wonderland". Not what I wa
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by khedoros1 9mo ago
Since friction in creating a new account is so low, the only real signal about the controller of the account is their behavior on the platform. Bots trying to sell things are rampant. Advertising (including self-promotion) is seen as a kind
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by khedoros1 9mo ago
I think I found, and memorized, that about 25 years ago. There was a list of other songs in the file too.
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by khedoros1 10mo ago
I remember getting "The Complete Ultima VII" on CD and never figuring out how to get it running. I think I've still got the box, but I think the disc has been missing for years. I bought it on GOG some time ago, though.
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by khedoros1 10mo ago
I went from Ubuntu to Mint around the same time on my laptop. I took my desktop from Ubuntu to Fedora. A later laptop followed it, because I was tired of the little differences. Ubuntu is completely off my radar too. So many dumb things tha
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by khedoros1 10mo ago
My first thought was "How is this different from Exult?" (which is a relatively vanilla reimplementation of the game). Some of the video segments here make differences clearer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mbJc
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by khedoros1 11mo ago
I'm not quite old enough to have needed to use this while writing my own software. But I've come back to it repeatedly while learning enough about the operation of DOS PCs to try my hand at reverse-engineering some games. That was
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by khedoros1 11mo ago
"Video card" was the more general word. "VGA" is one of the IBM video cards for PCs that later became a de facto standard, as its behavior was cloned by other companies. It's sometimes used descriptively to talk abo
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by khedoros1 11mo ago
I've got a desktop that I built in 2008 that I only replaced in 2020 because I wanted to play newer games. That 2020 desktop is still going strong. My laptop was produced in 2016. I bought it for about $80 to replace my previous 2016-v
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by khedoros1 11mo ago
I was recently working on some x86 emulation code. This is one of the best links that I found to summarize how it works, skipping the giant Intel instruction set references.
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by khedoros1 11mo ago
Algorithmically-generated remasters? No. That sort of thing (e.g. upscaling algorithms) was really cool when I was first getting into emulation, but I'm pretty much over it. Even handmade remakes often dampen the magic of the original.
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by khedoros1 11mo ago
I've got a computer that I built in 2008 and upgraded in 2012. It's pretty solid for higher-requirement games up until about 2015, and can still handle lower-requirement indie stuff today. I built its successor in 2020, using a GP
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by khedoros1 11mo ago
> If you ever exchanged messages on ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Hangouts, GChat, BlackBerry Messenger, or Campfire your messages are now gone. I've got archives of transcripts, from when I was using Gaim
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by khedoros1 11mo ago
I've never really understood people spending hours on a phone. I get fed up and move to a computer. At the very least, it's got a bigger screen and a keyboard, making it easier to respond to a post than the phone does. I recognize
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by khedoros1 11mo ago
I did. But my family was miserable, so we moved back. Right now I'm working remotely for a job on the other end of the same state.
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by khedoros1 1y ago
Do your glasses get so dirty that it's visible in a webcam image before you clean them yourself? In typical lighting conditions, I don't think my lenses' smudges are visible until well above the threshold where I'd clean

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