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rocky1138

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About rocky1138

NERD https://johnrockefeller.net

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    Comment #45741340

    Perhaps there is an opportunity for an open source reimplementation like OpenMW or OpenRA?

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    Comment #45741280

    You will be absolutely fine

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    Comment #44154495

    As a counter point, Doom was developed on a different platform than the target. Let's say that the lead dev was ahead of the curve.

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    Comment #43071406

    Someone above mentioned all models are jailbreak-able.

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    Comment #41675280

    This is what the test covered in the article is set to discover.

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    Comment #41675035

    How much energy would be required to provide a localized magnetosphere to protect the garden from cosmic rays?

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    Comment #40637877

    I'm reminded of this quote, often attributed to NASA: "Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor."

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    Comment #40520562

    How does physics say it works?

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    Comment #40467731

    Goodbye from 7478741

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    Comment #40467729

    DOS Game Club on AfterNET is still really active, for those who have an interest in checking it out.

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    Comment #40385041

    Someone mentioned macamp. I have no idea though

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    Comment #40385017

    I've felt for a long time that hacker News was dead, then I read your post and it made me warm inside

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    Comment #40385002

    They tried to shove that in at the end but it's easy to one click it away the first time you turn it on

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    Comment #40369675

    I use an old 1st gen Pi Model B+ as a ppp server for my Tandy 1000 SX to connect to the Internet. I can telnet in and adjust stuff if needed. Very handy and fun to play Zork on sdf…

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    Comment #39505715

    From the article: > No other industry builds a world designed to maintain a customer’s fantasy so that they continue to partake in an activity that, in the long run, advantages the…

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    Comment #39433930

    I do this as well, except I tend to stick to markdown for formatting. This file is routinely committed to git.

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    Comment #39264588

    Your story reminds me a bit of what the working environment of Atari was like according to those who were there during it's heyday.

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    Comment #39016365

    Very happy to read that it uses the same form factor and connections as CM4 did. I was hoping we wouldn't even up with yet another socket.

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    Comment #38943188

    I agree. Netflix died the day they switched to thumbs-up and thumbs-down versus 5-star rating content. My recommended list was so solid for so long and all of that went down the dr…

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    Comment #38545727

    This is neat, but why would I want this

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    Comment #37725979

    The Agon Console 8 springs to mind. It boots to BBC BASIC. https://www.hackster.io/news/the-agon-console8-is-an-educati...

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    Comment #37515121

    What's OpenXR support like in Godot?