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I definitely remember doing that as a kid, and I remember bending the thin metal off some broken ones. Whatever brand I was using allowed that metal to work a bit like a spring, yo…

It all sounds like having to rely on a dodgy housing contractor that wants to steal from you, take shortcuts AND choose the gold-plated options from their supplier friends, and wil…

I think they could get a close-enough effect by removing the horizontal lines on the text glyphs themselves. This would still keep the colorscheme and slight glow, but drastically …

I think some of the Youtube thumbnail stuff is lazy-loaded, so depending on the speed of your browser and connection it can just hang there doing nothing for a while.

Well, this has been true (to a lesser extent) for decades. See "Worse Is Better" and all the subsequent essays and writing following on from that

This has been a core belief of the EA/LessWrong/Rationalist people for many years - that above a certain level of intelligence you effectively get hypnotic powers, and people will …

Like hitting pinball bumpers, except the high score in the end is the bill you pay the token provider.

I think it's just one of the standard JP voice synthesisers available. I know I've heard almost exactly the same one on other Youtube videos using text-to-speech for Japanese.

Bitburner, the Javascript-based open source hacking game, has released its major version 3. It's a cyberpunk-themed idle game, where you crack open servers to loot them and explore…

This is pumping someone's metrics up inside of Microsoft, somewhere . The question is - will their boss revert it or encourage it when they discover the source of the stats being j…

I've never seen it spelled as "oftentimes".

Perhaps this is due to Youtube's alternate titles or A/B/C testing scheme feature? YT videos have a canonical title, but can have other one assigned randomly (as well as alternate …

Perhaps you can add a check to see if the stream is behind a login/agegate? I pushed the random button and got a stream that I was locked out of.

"I have one memory system remaining. Delay-line." https://vgel.me/fiction/gyre/

I think IF games tend to be more puzzle games with some story segments. Gamebooks are much closer, but still often have proto-RPG mechanics. (I remember tracking inventory and HP f…

Managing to recreate Pitboss mode is a neat achievement. How do you handle the turn time creep problem? If people complete their turns and the game moves to the next 24 hour bloc a…

"Dead Internet Theory" is, even if it wasn't real 5 years ago, now hyperstitioned into truthfulness as the days go on.

AFAIK the native Podcast app for iPhone is the only way to make PC-phone podcast file syncing work. This stops you downloading the same podcast file twice, once on your PC and once…

Did Hotmail offer email redirection at that time? I can't remember whether that sort of thing that would make it easy to switch away was offered.

For a similar fun set of reviews of past predictions of future tech, I recommend looking through Youtube channel "KnowledgeHusk" Selected videos: "People in the 80s Making Fun of P…

You're right about that, Anki is named after the Japanese word for memorisation. (暗記 - あんき "anki") https://jisho.org/word/%E6%9A%97%E8%A8%98

Youtube supports several basic forms of subtitling for videos, but the most advanced form comes from their YTT / SRV3 file format. This format supported options not available in an…