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> These songs don't have any hooks. Melodies don't get repeated. They all just meander along. I've been playing around with it for a few days now. While I agree that it seems impos…

Ninja Gaiden was so fraking hard! At some point I used an invincibility hack and still gave up at some point! But it was pretty cool. Played Halo 1 & 2, PGR a lot, JSRF was just aw…

It's built into the CPU, what did you expect them to do, burn it with a laser? .... well in hindsight that might've been a smart thing to do :o)

This sounds like all of you are living in Berlin, which is known as "failed state" to the rest of Germany. ;-) It varies form city to city, I live in one that I'd say is an excepti…

It's hypothetical. There is no difference between those two scenarios, we could also just assume the hacker pulled it out of their ass...

Sure, but this is a hypothetical scenario, focusing on the legal aspects.

What I always liked about HDMI is that it's basically backwards compatible all the way to DVI, just using passive adapters. I think that's the reason why HDMI dominates on laptops,…

> AMD obviously needs to license the logo for their GPU boxes This poses an interesting question, maybe some of the hobby-lawyers on HN like to chime in and post heir theories :o) …

I've worked and developed on Linux, for Linux, for 10+ years, I've seen my fair share of panics, especially using the bleeding edge releases. Most (not all!) of them were my own ma…

You're directly contradicting your sibling comment. I guess I'll experiment with this in the coming days, although I'm a little worried tinkering too much will just completely lock…

This is surprisingly non-shitty by Google. I must admit that I didn't know that before. Can you limit such a passcode to just IMAP/SMTP, or can it be used to log in to other parts …

Not just that; I'd be OK with closed source firmware if I can just put it on an isolated network and be done with it, but from typical listings on Amazon et al you cannot even tell…

So will the 256bit one be dollar or euro?

Obviously, if you get paid to implement this you don't want the cognitive dissonance of knowingly doing something bad, so I'm sure those folks have already laid out their justifica…

I do, and I keep having those tiring conversations, but it's really hard to get the point across in layman's terms. I have enough friends in tech who stick with Chrome out of conve…

> 2. It lost control over its culture, and that culture was crucial to its functioning. This might strongly depend on the corner of usenet you were in, but there were large and imp…

As a random data point, I registered a new domain about a month ago and didn't do more than add a simple landing page yet, and it is properly indexed by Google.

Well sure, in essence that's just a "works for me" thing. Also, no idea how much this is a regional/cultural thing, I exclusively use a German site for this. It doesn't seem to suf…

> How is a reddit link relevant? It appears the video in that post shows the bug, so, rather relevant? The according issue seems to be[1], which has indeed been fixed two months ag…

I use recipe websites. When I want to try something new, I read a handful of recipes there, usually those with high user ratings. But what I really pay attention to is the writing …

If you don't have the time/patience to look for new music then I guess nothing will ever work for you. Otherwise, I'd join the bandcamp camp. :o)

> Along with a switch to use SDI instead of MDI. You monster!

I think one of the things you learn on your way to C) is when it makes sense to roll your own. It is difficult, and maybe something that actually happens after c. It seems to be ve…

Plus 400 layers of abstraction because the lowest bidder doesn't know any actual software engineering and every time they face a problem they add yet another library to the project…

That solves that one problem, but you still get the feedback only when you pressed it, you cannot feel where the button is without looking. I can blindly turn the AC on or off, adj…