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MurrayL

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  • Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600

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  • Very old article, but still a great one.

    Contrary to common internet opinion, E.T. is not a bad game, and certainly not one of the worst of all time. It’s not even one of the worst on the 2600! It’s an okay game that’s let down by some frustrating bugs and design decisions (forced by the absurd development deadline), and this article shows how close it was to being actually good, if only HSW had been given more time to cook.

  • which phone should i buy?

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  • I looked it up and the ROG phone 8 pro isn’t even smaller or lighter than the other two - if anything it’s slightly bigger and heavier. Truly useless as a positive point.

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  • Despite the downvotes (post was at -2 at the time of this comment), this is actually an interesting article that talks about the differences in approach between platforms.

    “Overwhelmingly, Chinese social apps are competing with traditional e-commerce platforms,” he said. “The fact that U.S. lawmakers aren’t talking about this signals that Western apps are going to be playing catch-up for a very long time, no matter what happens to TikTok.”

  • GTA 5 Liberty City Mod Taken Down by Rockstar Games - IGN

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  • Based on previous actions and statements, I believe their complex legal reasoning is: ‘fuck you’

  • macOS No Longer Ships with Emacs

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  • macOS shipped with emacs?

  • What is the point of Windows recall?

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  • Because it’s not just desktop search in the conventional sense, it parses and indexes EVERYTHING that is shown on screen regardless of app.

    Normal desktop search is fine for ‘where is file X?’ or ‘which document contains Y?’ but the point of Recall is to be able to deal with far more wide reaching queries, like ‘what website did I order a cake from last week?’ or ‘where did I see a great idea for a pizza recently?’, where it can find sources for natural-language queries across anything that was shown onscreen, whether it was a website, an email, a slack message, or something within any other app.

  • Human thought crawls at 10 bits per second, Caltech study finds

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  • True, but I wouldn’t call that conscious counting - you’re not literally counting out multiple simultaneous time signatures in your head, it’s done by feel.

  • What sensory thing(s) annoy you?

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  • This is a specific thing called misophonia

  • Apple might be working on a smart doorbell | TechCrunch

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  • Only if you put it outside the basement door

  • Do not throw away your old PCs

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  • If you put crappy AI art in your article, I’m just going to go ahead and assume the article is also AI generated crap.

  • The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’

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  • Pretty sure that’s the model Apple News+ uses, but the price has always seemed pretty steep to me compared to other subscription services.

  • What is something that people think is scary, but isn't?

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  • I don’t think anyone is out there scared that they’re going to find themselves present at the heat death of the universe, they’re scared of the implication: the idea that nothing matters, even on the grandest of scales, because everything will be lost in the end.

    The fear isn’t physical, it’s philosophical.

  • What was cancelled or discontinued that you wish wasn't or that they brought it back?

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  • Bit of a deep cut, but Schmigadoon! was utterly brilliant and I wish they’d been given another season or three to explore more styles.

  • Should you or should you not make friends in your workplace?

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  • Yes, absolutely. Why would you not?

    You’re going to see them regularly anyway, so might as well be on friendly terms. Depending on where you work it’s possible or even likely that you’ll share some common interests too.

    Yes, you or they will probably leave the company at some point, but that’s no reason not to make friends in the meantime. People come and go all the time; that’s life! If you’re lucky, you’ll make a friendship that survives even if you have to part ways at work. If not, just be happy with the friendship you had for as long as it lasted.

  • Nintendo targets Reddit pirates in piracy crackdown

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  • On the other hand, r/switchpirates is transparently a community for the express purpose of pirating Nintendo games for their current system. It’s one of the rare cases where I think they probably can make a slam-dunk legal case to shut it down.

  • Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now

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  • Because Windows doesn’t support OS-wide text formatting/manipulation like macOS does.

    The system already existed in macOS so it was easy enough to plug writing tools into it, but to do the same in Windows would mean completely rewriting how Windows handles text display and editing (and no doubt causing an avalanche of compatibility issues with old apps).

  • Microsoft Sucks at Everything

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  • Onward isn't licensing every single one of Microsoft's computer peripherals. Some classics, like the Intellimouse or its modern iterations, for example, don't make the Incase reboot list.

    That sucks - the Intellimouse Pro from a few years ago was a fantastic mouse.

  • What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger?

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  • Yep, early 2000s in the UK and everyone was using MSN. I didn’t know a single person using AIM or ICQ!

  • Man learns he’s being dumped via “dystopian” AI summary of texts

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  • I think the intended use case is summarising a series of messages, not just one