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- Comment on What If Video Games Came on VHS? One Modder Is Finding Out 2 days ago:
I think it was assembly, I am not sure what it was exactly (remember but 100% sure it wasn’t basic, because I was also trying to learn Basic back then. I would have recognized it. I knew a few Basic commands, so naturally I tried to write my own operating system. Hey, I was a kid
- Comment on What If Video Games Came on VHS? One Modder Is Finding Out 2 days ago:
No idea if that was possible back then. My computer was only able to load from one cassette player. And it was slooow. Until my father (who was an electronics engineer) upgraded it somehow to support a turbo mode, it required pushing an additional button on the cassette player, and it just ran faster. The sound had a much higher pitch and the loading sometimes failed. But it was much faster.
I also remember “copying the game” by typing the machine code printed in the magazine. Funny times.
- Comment on What If Video Games Came on VHS? One Modder Is Finding Out 2 days ago:
The important question is: did it support turbo or only the slow loading?
- Comment on NO MORE 6 days ago:
My current dark horse of the UI dark patterns is Miro (diagramming collaboration tool). They added a pop-up to advertise their AI connectivity tools (of course! What else could a tech company force on users right now?). It has animated icons that distract you until you close it… but you can either agree or select “Remind me later” and once you click that… The pop-up doesn’t disappear. The text changes and shows you the progress bar “this is how long you need to stare at this pop-up, until it disappears”. Of course, the blinking icons distract you all the time. And all of this on the payid company account that I must use at work…
- Comment on Why? 1 week ago:
- once the EU will make them
- Comment on you know what pisses me off? ads on wikipedia 1 week ago:
Wikipedia is probably the only thing that was successful on the internet and didn’t turn evil.
Stop whining about ONE add and solve your problem.
Step one: install add blocker. Step two donate to wiki.
- Comment on Day 797 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Remember playing this as a kid, the gaming world was in VR phase for a moment back then. I tried VR… playing Duke Nukem with a small crt monitors slapped to my face wasn’t fun, but once the headache stopped, my dream was born: to be on the Myst Island in the VR (the imaginary VR, not those blurry CRTs) moving around freely this beautiful island!
- Comment on How can we see other galaxies, and how do we know how many galaxies there are? 4 weeks ago:
Others have already answered, but if you are interested in the topic you might also like this project: www.zooniverse.org
- Comment on Annie please!? 1 month ago:
Heeereee’s kitty!
- Comment on Famous hit song. But you are probably too young to get it 1 month ago:
just
- Comment on Is a web browser using another scripting language feasible? 2 months ago:
Your browser wouldn’t be able to load any js based sites
You could make a browser capable of loading both, and I think it already happened. The problem is, that a browser supporting more languages than necessary, was never successful enough to get mass adoption and on the internet you need mass adoption to survive.
- Comment on Face-off 2 months ago:
It’s neat how adding Nicolas Cage face, increased resolution of the entire picture!
- Comment on Are datacenters in space more lucrative than on earth? 2 months ago:
Even the “energy generation benefit” is dubious. The solar panels in space might be more efficient, but if you consider the cost of transportation, installation and maintenance… It won’t add up. You could just build more panels on earth and get similar results (still much cheaper). It’s not like we are running low on space on earth.
- Comment on I can't believe this is the only comm that will not throw a hissy fit about this. 2 months ago:
And I would walk 500 hundred miles and I would walk 500 more… to avoid ambulance cost
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 2 months ago:
Looks like the technology of color photography got lost in the meantime. I’ve seen photos from 1850 that look much more colourful than this.
- Comment on America and it's racism and Israel? 2 months ago:
she HATED
I am baffled how “Love your neighbor” has the small print below that says “as long as they are exactly like you, otherwise stone them to death”.
- Comment on Weapons for defense only 2 months ago:
“Defence only” gives an attacking side 100% initiative and control over what’s going on. They can focus on one place, attack when you are the weakest, take control of that one place (city, village or even a building) and even if it costs them a lot, you have no way to punish it. They can take their time to recover and wait and attack again whenever they want.
- Comment on What happens when you just refuse to pay and go ... ? 2 months ago:
When mobsters visit a local business they also collect payment for protection.
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 3 months ago:
They know. They just don’t care. North Korea might be a poor shithole but Kim is an Emperor for life, and can do whatever he wants. I would guess that’s what Donny aims for.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Kojima’s ancestors in this part of the world?!?
- Comment on Why are some Linux community so toxic? 3 months ago:
Back, in good ol’ days (5 years ago, or so), if you were a software developer you could ask any question on Stackoverflow, by any, I mean any question worthy of time of other users. If your question was considered too easy you would meet multiple beginner unfriendly answers. The portal is probably dead right now, I didn’t bother checking. It was killed by the AI since it will answer any of your simple questions and praise it instead of telling you that you should read the manual. AI is often wrong, but it helps a lot with the issues that most Linux geeks would consider unworthy of their time.
- Comment on Before the revolution 3 months ago:
In Afghanistan
- Comment on where does your bus line bring you? 3 months ago:
I heard it’s a highway, but the last time I visited Hel, it was mostly a small local road
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Ah as a Russean (is that how you call a person living on the Russian continent?), I do not like this map.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Did you know that the length of the column is inversely proportional to the length of… ah, nevermind
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 4 months ago:
Looks interesting, anyone knows if it can run on Linux?
- Comment on What exactly is a third party launcher? 4 months ago:
Damn, now I need to write my own launcher, just to have the unique second party launcher
- Comment on There was a time when people had to deal with all of these being separate 4 months ago:
Well, the headphones are still a separate thing. They are even more separate now, than they ever were (each one earphone is separate now)
- Comment on How do studio's get people who are so called ugly or fat or pimpled face do they just take an ad out? What about if another adaptation of Christ is done do they call up actors and just offer that role 4 months ago:
So you tell me I can be a movie star!
- Comment on How do studio's get people who are so called ugly or fat or pimpled face do they just take an ad out? What about if another adaptation of Christ is done do they call up actors and just offer that role 4 months ago:
They are doing it poorly, most “ugly” people in movies are just super-models with thick glasses and bad haircuts.