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by samch 2mo ago
“The actual Doom engine (ViZDoom) runs the real shareware DOOM1.WAD — with the BSD-licensed Freedoom WADs covering the episodes shareware doesn't ship — and renders headlessly; every frame is placed on the Windows clipboard and pasted
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Doom in MS Paint from Mark Russinovich(github.com)
2 points by samch 2mo ago|1 comments
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by samch 3mo ago
The war on drugs, due to its targeting of specific socioeconomic and racial groups, is probably not the best analogy here. While I do get your point about the FUD it generated, a better parallel might be the rise (and eventual fall) of the
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by samch 3mo ago
It seems like there are fairly regular posts on HN about splatting, and most appear to be fairly technical or proof-of-concept level. While the outputs look nice, I’m not sure that I could distinguish them from a nice ray-traced scene. What
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by samch 3mo ago
The author should’ve known that we already have an accepted unit for measuring things in terms of a person’s stature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot
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by samch 4mo ago
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/974/
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Governor Newsom signs order to prepare workers for potential AI disruption(gov.ca.gov)
6 points by samch 4mo ago|1 comments
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by samch 5mo ago
Nice database (got a brief glimpse before it was hugged to death). Personally, I’ve always really liked this apple rating site (no affiliation): https://applerankings.com/
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by samch 5mo ago
Agreed - like the sibling comment, we also used cloth diapers with our two kids. They were actually great. The ones we had were basically two-part construction: there was an outer shell with adjustable snaps for appropriate sizing, and an i
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by samch 5mo ago
One of my kids has science project due each quarter in school, and this is our go-to app. We’ve measured acceleration in an elevator, sound attenuation of an audio source in a small vacuum chamber, and the Doppler effect. The app makes it e
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by samch 7mo ago
Copilot is not a model, to my knowledge. When you’re asking about the data that it was trained on, you are most likely referring to an OpenAI or, in some circumstances, an Anthropic model. Customer data is not used for training the models t
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by samch 7mo ago
I hadn’t thought about using their first-party API offering, but I will look into it. Personally, I’ve used AWS Bedrock as the fallback when my plan runs out, and that seems to work well in my experience. I believe you can now connect to Az
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by samch 8mo ago
Some of this could be related to laws that necessitate updated location data for emergency calling. Since a common component of Teams is Teams Phone, there can be a compliance gap. I’m sure this isn’t the whole story, but it is likely one f
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by samch 9mo ago
Can anybody speak to the current best practices around running underground power lines? I see these types of articles about above-ground distribution systems from time-to-time, particularly in California. I feel lucky that my area has unde
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by samch 1y ago
Copilot in Excel is getting some significant updates. It can write Python now that Excel has support for that. There’s also a new “COPILOT()” function in Excel that works pretty well.
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by samch 1y ago
The same M365 Copilot app is installed for both “free users” and the premium licenses that have access to all of their Graph tenant data. From the sounds of it, you only have the basic Copilot Chat (web grounded) that comes with the E3&#x2F
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by samch 1y ago
My wife had PRK done on both eyes over a decade ago, and it was great. At the time, she had the choice between LASIK and PRK (I’m not sure that everybody has both options given their particular conditions). After reviewing the long-term pr
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by samch 1y ago
Maybe they’ve thought about this and measure that too? Maybe they can adjust measurements based on data from multiple sensors? https://gml.noaa.gov/obop/mlo/programs/esrl/volcanicco2/volc...
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by samch 1y ago
Yes, as is OneDrive and Teams file sharing. Those, however, are part of SharePoint Online. SPO is distinct from this CVE, which only applies to the standalone SharePoint Server.
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by samch 1y ago
This is what precisely why I willingly pay more to Google for their fiber optic service than AT&T for an equivalent, albeit less expensive, plan: Google readily allows me to use my own equipment. I am voting with my dollars on this one.
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by samch 1y ago
So many of the comments are focusing on Office products. Okay, that’s fair. People can talk Calc vs Excel for example, and that’s fair. What I don’t get is how you replicate knowledge worker collaboration without using a major commercial pr
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by samch 1y ago
Since you asked, I use Cloudflare for my registrar. I can’t really say if it’s objectively better or worse than anybody else, but they seemed like a good choice when Google was in the process of shutting off their registry service.
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by samch 2y ago
This is precisely what’s happened with the educational system in many U.S. states: 1. Reduce funding and investment in public education. 2. Claim that our educational system is broken and we need to privatize. 3. Fund charter and private sc
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by samch 2y ago
One Windows shortcut that I use habitually is Ctrl + left or right arrow keys and optionally with shift in order to navigate by or select entire words at a time instead of single characters. I’ve looked into MacOS approaches to achieve the
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by samch 2y ago
This is my favorite DIY robot arm at the moment. The parts seem to be fairly high quality, and it has a leader / follower arm option if you build a second one: https://github.com/AlexanderKoch-Koch/low_cost_robot&#
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by samch 2y ago
A company called TechEmpower used to run periodic web framework benchmarks and share out the results using nice dashboard. Not sure why they stopped doing these. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#hw=ph&test=f
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by samch 2y ago
I’ve backed this product, the Flux Keyboard, on Kickstarter - it allows for the type of dynamic changes that the author is describing in case others are interested: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fluxkeyboard&#x2F
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by samch 2y ago
Reminds me of the 2600 back covers. There is something of the phreaking / phracking culture to this. https://web.archive.org/web/20210312063737/https://www.2600....
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Intel Keychains with Computer Chips(chipsetc.com)
1 points by samch 2y ago|1 comments
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by samch 2y ago
Instead of disposing of or recycling sub-standard chips, Intel used to repurpose some into keychains.

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