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New comment by jperoutek in "Voxatron"

jperoutek — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:14:39 +0000

I remember playing this probably 10-12 years ago with Minecraft's creator Notch donated a bunch of money to their HumbleBundle campaign. It was pretty early alpha back then, and it seems like the main pivot has been to make it more of a platform for user-created games, rather than a game itself. Interesting!

New comment by jperoutek in "How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]"

jperoutek — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:19:01 +0000

Didn't see it in the actual text of the article, but as a caption of one of the images. The actual book this is excerpted from is Privacy's Defender by Cindy Cohn https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262051248/privacys-defender/

New comment by jperoutek in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

jperoutek — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:17:50 +0000

I second this. Exhalation for some reason really resonates with me.

New comment by jperoutek in "I Miss Visual Basic"

jperoutek — Wed, 14 May 2025 21:59:13 +0000

VB.NET is still a supported platform by microsoft, with the GUI builder and everything. We still use VB.NET exclusively at my current job, for better or for worse. With the addition of tools and libraries like DevExpress, its honestly not a bad setup.

New comment by jperoutek in "Bop Spotter"

jperoutek — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:30:56 +0000

I love the styling of this page. Everything is so consistent. Sometimes you'll see someone with a similar retro approach, but rarely do all the page elements follow the style this well.

New comment by jperoutek in "TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel"

jperoutek — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 01:47:02 +0000

It blinked in and out for me in Firefox 128 (Windows)

New comment by jperoutek in "Scientists aghast at AI rat with genitals in peer-reviewed article"

jperoutek — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:23:04 +0000

To me, this is the real question. One of the purposes of the peer-review is to validate and verify results, which was clearly not done to a great extent here. Perhaps the reviewers were also using some type of AI?

New comment by jperoutek in "A Nevada Tale: Tesla, Google, and the Mustang Ranch"

jperoutek — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 18:00:37 +0000

This is called out in the article too, somewhere around the 70-80% mark

New comment by jperoutek in "Blockbench – A low-poly 3D model editor"

jperoutek — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 14:43:13 +0000

Been using this for minecraft mods for a while, main benefit of this program vs something like blender is the exports

New comment by jperoutek in "8-Part Film Adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina Is Free Online"

jperoutek — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 13:12:35 +0000

I listened to it as an audiobook over the course of a week or two, and it was pretty bearable. I know there is some debate about whether that counts as "reading" the book, but on something like this I consider it close enough.