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Re: Show HN: Tetris, but silly

#51
I didn't know how to trigger https://unit520.net/deadtrees/ at first (focus the page then use arrow keys). Oddly the first page load hung at a static canvas that stretched as I resized the window, while reloading worked. F12 showed a (false positive) warning:

> wasm streaming compile failed: TypeError: WebAssembly: Response has unsupported MIME type 'application/octet-stream' expected 'application/wasm'

Is this something you want to fix?

Re: Show HN: Tetris, but silly

#53

If you hammer away at the boxes such that it fills up the entire screen the weight of all those boxes is enough to crush the ones at the bottom. Coolness to the max!

Nice! I tried it the patient way and, with enough luck, lines actually clear when they are completed!

Re: Show HN: Tetris, but silly

#56
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Pointless & frivolous. I love it. There used to be some plugin where you could click a button & be shown a random site that someone had tagged as being interesting for some reason. It was a great way to find all sorts of stuff off the the beaten path like this, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was called to see if it still exists. Does anyone remember it, or whether or not something similar exists toda…

You might be thinking of StumbleUpon? ( https://www.stumbleupon.com ) I used to spend hours on that site!

Yes! That's it! I can't quite tell if their site now is defunct or simply broken.

It used to be my go-to distraction when I had a job where there was literally nothing to do. (I had been hired into a group where the team lead had already automated everything. The one thing we had to do was bounce the servers every Friday & perform nationwide DB replication w/ local sites. The group was preserved because a of a pending transition that would eventually yield more work, but that was > 0.5 years in the future. The team lead was a good mentor though, and the person who taught me strategic laziness & the constant goal to automate yourself out of a job... Under the theory that you'd then find more interesting things to work on instead. But with an EOL'ed system there were no new projects that could be started)

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