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zedr

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About zedr

https://www.zedr.com

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    Perhaps we could host it jointly in Milan and Rome?

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    Great news! Thimbleweed Park is a lovely game. I played it with my children and manage to recreate the atmosphere of those evenings in 1990, spent in front of a Commodore Amiga 500…

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    Some features of the Amiga that are peculiar even today: 1. The mouse is a hardware sprite and its movement stays responsive and smooth even under heavy load and even when the OS f…

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    I'm sure they are 3d models and are rendered using the CPU. You can check by entering the secret Options Mode and selecting the Polygon Test, which will allow you to freely rotate …

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    I think there is realtime 3D used for the player and enemy "sprites" (really 3D objects), including the end of stage bosses. They are small and extremely simple, as this was the ma…

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    Comment #48285341

    Another: Thunderforce 4. IMHO the finest horizontal shoot 'em up ever made on any system.

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    Comment #29201680

    > think I could come up with a python example that maps 1:1 My take on it: class Stuff: def __init__(self): self._list = [1, 2, 3, 4] @property def each(self): for el in self._list…

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    Comment #29047372

    Archive.org copy: http://web.archive.org/web/20211021141127/https://www.calver... My favourite brutalist building is in Belgrade: the Western City Gate https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

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    Comment #28784419

    I had this for years a my default ring tone.

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    Comment #27050143

    He could also donate it to the Internet Archive's collection of documents.

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    Comment #26468456

    I agree with your preference. I too lean towards a pragmatic approach to REST, which I've seen referred to as "RESTful", as in the popular book "RESTful Web APIs" by Richardson.

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    Comment #26467512

    > Easily discoverable data, e.g. user ID 3 would be at /users/3. All of the CRUD (Create Read Update Delete) operations below can be applied to this path Strictly speaking, that's …

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    Comment #26340623

    Bill Booth's rule #2: "The safer skydiving gear becomes, the more chances skydivers will take, in order to keep the fatality rate constant".

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    Comment #26238664

    Cython has a similar feature: https://cython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/tutorial/pure.ht...

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    Comment #25196535

    > how would this work at scale? Homeopathy

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    Comment #25196508

    Do you have an impacted wisdom tooth? Consider getting it extracted, even if it doesn't appear to be causing any problems. It can be the root cause of chronic migraines.

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    Comment #23769795

    Kivy: https://kivy.org Write your app in pure Python. Deploy on desktops and mobile devices. The main disadvantage is that it does not use the native widget toolkit, although there…

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    Comment #23593963

    I made a email dispatcher for web forms hosted on shared hosting providers, like Namecheap. I originally did it for a site my wife did, and then decided to open source it. It's her…

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    Comment #23269575

    I created a Dockerfile to run Unreal Tournament 1 in Linux using Docker. It works quite well. https://github.com/zedr/docker-unreal-tournament-99

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    Comment #23153599

    Do you believe one cannot appreciate Michelangelo, Shakespeare, or Dostoevsky without believing in a supernatural being?