shdon

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by shdon 10d ago
In Dutch culture it is far more common to keep shoes on literally everywhere, so perhaps I'm biased, but I would think that in an emergency where every second counts, these people can be forgiven for not adhering to the strictest etiqu
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by shdon 12d ago
It's a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Which, funnily enough, is of British origin instead of American.
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by shdon 21d ago
Apart from RHPS, his role in Clue was a highlight for me. And him giving Gabriel Knight.
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Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full(fabiensanglard.net)
493 points by shdon 1mo ago|226 comments
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by shdon 2mo ago
Completely off topic, but I love your username.
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by shdon 3mo ago
Cool video, though the AI voiceover is jarring.
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by shdon 3mo ago
Somebody obviously coined the word as a self-referential joke. And somehow it stuck. That makes it memorable. Speaking of things that stick... arachibutyrophobia is the feat of getting peanut putter stuck to the roof of your mouth. (I admit
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by shdon 3mo ago
I thought that one was pretty well known. But then, I can also rattle off Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch at will.
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by shdon 5mo ago
Bill Gates famously said something along the lines of "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight". Now we're measuring AI effectiveness by the number of tokens gene
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by shdon 5mo ago
I have been eaten by many of those.
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by shdon 8mo ago
I've created my own adventure game engine starting in the late 1990s. Only learned about the existence of AGS many years later. Although my own engine allows much more flexibility than AGS, there is no userfriendly IDE and besides the
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by shdon 8mo ago
Thank you for reading it.
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by shdon 8mo ago
https://www.shdon.com/ I post infrequently, but have been maintaining a site for nearly 30 years now, 25 of which at this address. It contains random musings, some tech content, my game development efforts, and showcases so
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Eurofiber admits crooks swiped data from French unit after cyberattack(theregister.com)
2 points by shdon 10mo ago|0 comments
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Rebecca Heineman has died(pcgamer.com)
980 points by shdon 10mo ago|193 comments
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by shdon 1y ago
Because it would make scrolling more frequent? For multicolumn text to reduce scrolling, the column height would have to match the available viewport height. And if your text exceeds what can fit in multiple columns on a single screenful, s
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by shdon 1y ago
The third common CD-ROM interface that wasn't IDE was Mitsumi.
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by shdon 1y ago
I run several job boards, and though there hasn't yet been any postings requiring the candidate's using AI (also not all that likely in the particular field), I am noticing a definite increase in the number of lists with emoji pre
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by shdon 1y ago
Post on his actual channel: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxlxGXbAp493rLsgFSTZkLyuz_dEw...
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Retro-gaming YouTuber PatmanQC has died, aged 53(vanhoe.com)
4 points by shdon 1y ago|1 comments
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by shdon 1y ago
How long before spam filtering is also done by an LLM and spammers or black hat hackers embed instructions into their spam mails to exploit flaws in the AI?
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by shdon 1y ago
And for cows
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by shdon 1y ago
Technically there still is, for a few more months. There is a 32-bit version of Windows 10, and that won't end mainline support until October (and then a while of extended support, for those who wish to pay for such).
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by shdon 1y ago
These were existing MS-DOS programmes that had already shipped. They wouldn't have shipped with a Windows icon as they were made before that Windows version existed (or at least shipped) and weren't even intended to run on that pl
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by shdon 1y ago
Surely that's Doom8088 rather than the original version if this thing truly emulates an XT level machine (or rather an 80186 CPU)?
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by shdon 2y ago
I do indeed check against both DNT and Sec-GPC (and navigator.doNotTrack and navigator.globalPrivacyControl in JS) basically treating them identically. GPC is ostensibly not about tracking itself, but about sharing data, though I just figur
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by shdon 2y ago
I wonder how many web developers actually honour Do Not Track. I do, in all the websites I've made for my employer too, but I think I'm only getting away with it because my employer doesn't know. I've even made it so tha
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by shdon 2y ago
Then it would make a lot more sense to check event.pointerType == 'mouse' vs event.pointerType == '' (for keyboard)
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by shdon 2y ago
The CD-ROM version of SQ4 was especially insidious. It has many timing issues that the floppy version just plain didn't have (including the one you mention). Also, the scan quality of the VGA backgrounds was just better in the floppy v
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by shdon 2y ago
Mullenweg calls it a fork. I could see that being somewhat okay if it's indeed for security fixes, but removing the upsells is petty at the very least. But a fork doesn't take control of the original, so I wonder what they did the

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