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Thanks! I don't know of anything exactly like that, but there are plenty of hackathons and the like that are similar. It's not to hard to sit down with the docs and/or tutorials fo…

Definitely. I slake my thirst for game dev by creating games in between job contracts as well as on some weekends. I've written a few interactive fiction pieces, but my most downlo…

I think his point is that our society is putting too much value in entertainment sorts of goods like art, sports, literature, etc. and not enough in things like infrastructure main…

I can understand the ruling, but it sounds like it also means it's now pretty trivial to bypass restrictions by getting a massive list of numbers to dial from a third party.

Nice. It reminds me a bit of GEOS Warp http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/archive/geoswarp/

How well does it work with Linux? I didn't see anything about it on the site. It'd be neat to hook up to my laptop, but if Linux isn't supported at all there'd be no point.

This was a mammoth effort by 80+ authors and programmers organized by Ryan Veeder and Jenni Polodna to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the classic work of horror interactive fict…

Other languages can be compiled into WebAssembly, too, including Nim: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17314581

Disposable diapers are actually a burden on society in many places even beyond the obvious problem of essentially putting sewage in the trash; https://www.nearta.com/Papers/Governm…

It's surprising that even with the energy it takes to generate a plasma strong enough and in enough quantity to achieve the desired effects, it can still result in an estimated 25%…

What's amazing to me is that even with broadcast TV, theoretically the medium that they have the most experience with, they still delivered an abysmal product that the author was k…

I guess this shouldn't be too surprising considering the fraction of our waking lives that we spend in work, driving to or from work, or lunching at work.

The stricter syntax allows JSON to be directly parsed outside of JavaScript in other languages like Python. This is a nice feature and one of the selling points of JSON.

The Nissan Altima Hybrid (2007-2011), the more efficient, better performing cousin of the regular Nissan Altima: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Altima#Hybrid This is one I'd …

You mean like ZEO? Yes, it's probably been around for a couple of decades now.

Not even a mention of ZODB. While it's true it's Python-only, it's certainly one of the most mature NoSQL databases around.

How did I miss that "Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu" was released? If you've never played it, the standard "Pandemic" is an engaging, clever puzzle of a cooperative game with random el…

There were systems that embraced both models. Remember the Amiga? When using it for work it'd run off of hard drive and would multitask between productivity apps. Some games though…

One of these scared the heck out of me as a kid. I had just gone to bed and was staring up at the ceiling and a small ball of intense light with crackling tendrils around it flared…

Just a white screen for me too, Safari on a Mac.

The potential benefits of combining the properties of the two (circuits that are more robust even when damaged, etc.) are intriguing, but there aren't any mentions of the potential…

I suspect that if VR / AR continues to take off, the need for good quality generated binaural sound will make it more and more attractive to put a greater percentage of sound proce…