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rzzzt

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    Comment #49219920

    You can find recorded presentations on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_eSAF_qT_FY

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    Comment #49215628

    Tester tester kits will need to include a known good and a known bad reference cable for comparisons.

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    Comment #49204290

    Also a few free-but-cut-down versions like 5 (which still recognizes MS-DOS executables). I'm not going to recommend downloading it from any of the locations mentioned here but it'…

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    Comment #49204255

    But how can we know which tester is good and which one is scammy?

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    Comment #49202478

    How many hours did you play when you found out you can dismiss the "computer updated" notification?

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    Comment #49161345

    Was copying to the clipboard disallowed back then?

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    Comment #49146898

    This gets me thinking (although there is not much to divine from three letters). Maybe it's a Jennifer Lawrence GIF-inspired "Yeah, right" then? Downplaying the significance?

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    Comment #49146768

    OK, that I can relate to! :)

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    Comment #49146745

    Affirmation?

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    Comment #49146038

    I had a Crystal Semiconductor-based clone card that supported the SB Pro 2.0 features around that time.

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    Comment #49145986

    Not sure when the switchover happened, but IIRC I started out with SDL2 on Homebrew and recently got this compatbility shim instead when it updated: https://github.com/libsdl-org/s…

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    Comment #49145971

    Tell us about the great Sound Blaster shortage! I thought they threw one after you each time you left a PC parts shop. (Could be a different time period.) The GUS on the other hand…

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    Comment #49145940

    Schism Tracker as well: https://github.com/schismtracker/schismtracker/

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    Comment #49101904

    Do you want my honest, load-bearing opinion?

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    Comment #49052190

    But this is an issue with all legislation (or tabletop game design), right? You also don't want to fall on the opposite end of the scale where the people tasked with prosecuting th…

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    Comment #49051996

    What is your proposed time limit (when someone has to be hired to fill the position) and "cooldown period" (when hiring can re-open after someone does not meet expectations in prac…

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    Comment #48948393

    ...computing, quantum machine learning, and quantum chemistry (probably a title length limit)

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    Comment #48903584

    This is how Lumacode works, for home computers and consoles that don't have a digital display output. It encodes data in brightness levels of the composite video signal that can be…

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    Comment #48870668

    Related work (all involve noise and flickering images, photosensitive eyes/brains beware): - "This game disappears if you pause it": https://youtu.be/Bg3RAI8uyVw - "Illusion: If Yo…

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    Comment #48865014

    We had Denver and Barney and The Land Before Time but kids suddenly memorizing all the latin names of each species was not a thing before Jurassic Park. (I think.)

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    Comment #48851038

    I guessed HOPTO and PHOOT but none of them worked unfortunately

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    Comment #48850960

    Then we'll have to decrease the radius a bit.

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    Comment #48850725

    Whenever leap seconds were added, Google was running the clocks on their servers slower/faster over a longer period of time (hours) so they would slowly drift back in sync with the…

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    Comment #48810371

    Does Andy know what Jeff thinks is going to happen?

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    Comment #48810242

    What is making it complex for authors to sell directly? Edit: hah, only 15 minutes late with my attempt at Socratic spiel: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48810056