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7,951karma·3,611submissions·March 15, 2012
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Sigh. That's why I stopped using — (em dash)...
4mo ago·view thread
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> German-speaking dog Impressive!
4mo ago·view thread
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Well, it's still a great idea and a cool project.
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Whoever owns the rights for Crysis should open source as much as they can. Just so that Crysis can one day run on a future computationally overpowered smart toaster.
4mo ago·view thread
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The pregnancy test had altered innards. So it was fake.
4mo ago·view thread
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I don't think GPUs are competitive at all. You need specialized mining rigs with bitcoin mining specialized chips.
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"Nowadays I can do the same with a free copy of Blender and any reasonably modern integrated GPU in probably under an hour." Try seconds or at most minutes.
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I don't use social media at all, unless you count HN as such. I think the only practical consequence is that EFF loses some fraction of audience.
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No, those are the original formats. MOD (Soundtracker [0], Protracker, etc.), IT (Impulse Tracker), XM (FastTracker) and S3M (ScreamTracker 3) are all from the nineties. [0]: Soundtracker, the tracker…
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Yeah. Otherwise Microsoft purchasing Skype made no sense.
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Those are SID etc. tunes. Not chiptunes.
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If it's a tracker module of some kind with very short looping samples, then yeah, it's a chiptune.
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MIDI songs? I checked, I couldn't find any from the link you posted. Most were different module formats, like XM, Protracker, S3M, Impulse Tracker. Those have nothing to do with midi other than t…
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Funny how all countries are adjacent to Russia...
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Thanks for the reply. Let's hope local models catch up.
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Is it possible to accomplish tagging with local AI instead of Gemini?
4mo ago·view thread
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Tables? Bah. I remember when all of this were image maps instead.
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Duh, turbo doesn't work in space. Surely you meant High Speed Pascal! https://www.fihl.net/HSPascal/ …
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That new Windows app didn’t even work for me at all. Could not connect a Windows 10 box for example.
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Later on... "Why did Windows 7, for a few months, log on slower if you have a solid color background?" https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250428-00/?p=11.…
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Are there other uses remaining for ordered dithering than retro look and perhaps e-ink?
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Take a deep breath and just learn whatever you need to learn. AI or otherwise. You'll be fine. Being responsible for someone else gives you quite a bit of boost.
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While there are always those lows, when the kids are sick, scream, have tantrums, do something stupid, I would not trade a second of that away. A lot of happiness and laughs as well, along the way. Th…
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So I guess Chuck Norris has now keys for the Pearly Gates and is the one who gets to pick the heavenly club members. I'm sure roundhouse kicks are somehow part of the process. Why do I feel like …
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Or perhaps Anders Chydenius? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Gain
5mo ago·view thread
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Precisely.
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RAM market havoc is handing Chinese manufacturers an open door. They'll generate enough cash to finally catch up with the big guys. This is not going to end well for Samsung, Micron and Hynix.
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I wouldn't be surprised if both 'adsharma' and 'jcalvinowens' were right, just at different points in time, perhaps in a bit different context. Things change.
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