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by zedr 1mo ago
Perhaps we could host it jointly in Milan and Rome?
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by zedr 2mo ago
Great news! Thimbleweed Park is a lovely game. I played it with my children and manage to recreate the atmosphere of those evenings in 1990, spent in front of a Commodore Amiga 500 running Zak McKraken and Maniac Mansion.
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by zedr 2mo ago
Some features of the Amiga that are peculiar even today: 1. The mouse is a hardware sprite and its movement stays responsive and smooth even under heavy load and even when the OS freezes 2. A screen can be divided into multiple resolutions,
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by zedr 2mo ago
I'm sure they are 3d models and are rendered using the CPU. You can check by entering the secret Options Mode and selecting the Polygon Test, which will allow you to freely rotate your ship and the enemies, including the end of level b
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by zedr 2mo ago
I think there is realtime 3D used for the player and enemy "sprites" (really 3D objects), including the end of stage bosses. They are small and extremely simple, as this was the maximum the Genesis/Megadrive's 68k CPU co
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by zedr 4mo ago
Another: Thunderforce 4. IMHO the finest horizontal shoot 'em up ever made on any system.
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Show HN: A jewel matching game for the terminal(github.com)
1 points by zedr 2y ago|0 comments
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EciAdsl, story of a driver unlike any other (2004)(flashtux.org)
1 points by zedr 5y ago|0 comments
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by zedr 5y ago
> think I could come up with a python example that maps 1:1 My take on it: class Stuff: def __init__(self): self._list = [1, 2, 3, 4] @property def each(self): for el in sel
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by zedr 5y ago
Archive.org copy: http://web.archive.org/web/20211021141127/https://www.calver... My favourite brutalist building is in Belgrade: the Western City Gate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by zedr 5y ago
I had this for years a my default ring tone.
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Dieter Rams' design principles applied to software engineering(github.com)
161 points by zedr 5y ago|60 comments
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by zedr 5y ago
He could also donate it to the Internet Archive's collection of documents.
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by zedr 6y ago
I agree with your preference. I too lean towards a pragmatic approach to REST, which I've seen referred to as "RESTful", as in the popular book "RESTful Web APIs" by Richardson.
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by zedr 6y ago
> Easily discoverable data, e.g. user ID 3 would be at /users/3. All of the CRUD (Create Read Update Delete) operations below can be applied to this path Strictly speaking, that's not what REST considers "easily disco
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by zedr 6y ago
Bill Booth's rule #2: "The safer skydiving gear becomes, the more chances skydivers will take, in order to keep the fatality rate constant".
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by zedr 6y ago
Cython has a similar feature: https://cython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/tutorial/pure.ht...
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Show HN: Dieter Rams' principles of good design applied to software engineering(github.com)
3 points by zedr 6y ago|0 comments
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by zedr 6y ago
> how would this work at scale? Homeopathy
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by zedr 6y ago
Do you have an impacted wisdom tooth? Consider getting it extracted, even if it doesn't appear to be causing any problems. It can be the root cause of chronic migraines.
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by zedr 6y ago
Kivy: https://kivy.org Write your app in pure Python. Deploy on desktops and mobile devices. The main disadvantage is that it does not use the native widget toolkit, although there are projects like KivyMD that attempt to replic
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by zedr 6y ago
I made a email dispatcher for web forms hosted on shared hosting providers, like Namecheap. I originally did it for a site my wife did, and then decided to open source it. It's here: https://github.com/zedr/simple-
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by zedr 6y ago
I created a Dockerfile to run Unreal Tournament 1 in Linux using Docker. It works quite well. https://github.com/zedr/docker-unreal-tournament-99
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by zedr 6y ago
Do you believe one cannot appreciate Michelangelo, Shakespeare, or Dostoevsky without believing in a supernatural being?
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by zedr 6y ago
> "God" may not be a "he" sitting "on a cloud", but may indeed just be the New Question beyond every Old Answer. Excuse my frankness. That's not a fact. That's unfalsifiable woo-woo.
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by zedr 6y ago
Great book! What's science's modern verdict on this theory?
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by zedr 6y ago
I appreciate your opinion. I think the book gives a very convincing explanation on how evolution works and how it shaped what we call "life". I do not remember Dawkins degrading human achievements in that book, so you might be ref
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by zedr 6y ago
The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins. It describes what science believes life to be, and it can be very upsetting. Understanding it, however, made me a more confident and happier person than I was before.
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by zedr 6y ago
GET can also be cached by intermediate proxies. This can cause failures that are very hard to troubleshoot. POST cannot be cached and therefore is more suited to this type of action.
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by zedr 7y ago
Is there a marketplace for ideas for fighting COVID-19 or mitigating its effect on people?

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