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New comment by mistagiggles in "WinDepends – A Rewrite of the Dependency Walker"

mistagiggles — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 23:03:52 +0000

There is also this: https://github.com/lucasg/Dependencies Similar project for replacing the old dependency walker tool

New comment by mistagiggles in "Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs for Windows"

mistagiggles — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 07:57:29 +0000

Another alternative is parsec: https://parsec.tv/ Comes with an amazon AMI to quickly get started on AWS. The team behind it strive for low-latency, and has support for controllers + multiple clients connecting to a single host to allow "local multiplayer" online

New comment by mistagiggles in "Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm"

mistagiggles — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 15:31:25 +0000

Something similar does exist: http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html

It detects places in songs where the sound is similar, and can jump between these places in the track to make a seamless unending song.

New comment by mistagiggles in "Lionsgate is making its films available on Steam"

mistagiggles — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:39:47 +0000

Alternatively, you can now rent a blockbuster film using money you have made while playing games. Trading cards, skin drops, crates/cases etc can all be acquired without putting money into the system but can be sold for credit on the steam marketplace.

Personally, I have used profits from selling trading cards and unwanted tf2 weapons to buy games, why not rent films?

New comment by mistagiggles in "How to Write Telegrams Properly (1928)"

mistagiggles — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:09:25 +0000

"When groups of figures are spelled out, the chance of an error in transmission is reduced to a minimum."

I guess its easier for the receiving operator to detect the error in "One Thosand" compared to "100" when coming over in serial (Original message being "One Thousand" and "1000" respectively).

New comment by mistagiggles in "Electro Gyro-Cator"

mistagiggles — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 16:06:49 +0000

"A marking pen was also included to help make personal indicators on the map if needed."

It's disappointing that modern technology no longer supports being annotated with a marker pen.

New comment by mistagiggles in "Did Facebook Just Build a Kickstarter Competitor?"

mistagiggles — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 10:28:21 +0000

I think this could be abused horribly, the campaign and payment information appearing inline with facebook content may make a fraudulent page appear far more legitimate than they are.

New comment by mistagiggles in "PICO-8"

mistagiggles — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 07:24:29 +0000

Maybe this is the limit of the amount of data that can be hidden/interleaved into the cartridge image

New comment by mistagiggles in "Show HN: Make a rectangle – a puzzle game"

mistagiggles — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 14:43:29 +0000

Rectangle, not possible to make a square. (Count the area and try and find integer width & height that fits)

New comment by mistagiggles in "Show HN: Hypatia 0.2, a 2D adventure game engine"

mistagiggles — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 13:48:08 +0000

GUI-based editors/viewers should be your next goal if your want to capture non-programmer users. People who don't program are far less likely to be comfortable poking around in text files and matching numbers to pictures etc.

Seems like a nice engine though, I'll have a proper look later

New comment by mistagiggles in "Forgotify Only Plays Spotify Songs That No One Has Ever Played Before"

mistagiggles — Wed, 20 May 2015 10:30:24 +0000

Similar concept but for youtube: http://www.petittube.com/

New comment by mistagiggles in "WhatSim, a SIM Card for WhatsApp"

mistagiggles — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 09:28:36 +0000

Does this mean the phone needs to be a smartphone with WhatsApp installed? Or can a brickphone be used with this sim in order to communicate on WhatsApp?

New comment by mistagiggles in "Extending Van Gogh’s Starry Night with Inpainting"

mistagiggles — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:53:01 +0000

From the comments on the article: http://imgur.com/a/BfcK4

Some more tests of the algorithm with less impressive results (though still good looking)

New comment by mistagiggles in "$300k for Cracking Telegram Encryption"

mistagiggles — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 16:22:13 +0000

Slightly off topic, but I really like their icons on their front page. Very reminiscent of the vault boy icons in the newer fallout games.

New comment by mistagiggles in "Procedural Locomotion: Automating human walk cycles using machine learning"

mistagiggles — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 11:09:47 +0000

Really impressive animation generation using just a handful of keyframes and clever use of interpolation.

New comment by mistagiggles in "Reverse engineering a fake Tor browser bundle"

mistagiggles — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 12:46:49 +0000

It's all in the game

New comment by mistagiggles in "If I ever design a first course in compilers, I'll do it backwards"

mistagiggles — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 14:29:37 +0000

I kind of agree with the article, I did the Edinburgh course on Compiling Techniques and I remember the first coursework being using antler and convert something like tinyc to AST (or at least a very small subset of c). Most of this was just fiddling around with the grammar file until the output seemed sensible. The second part was writing an AST -> jvm bytecode compiler. Going back to front may have been better, because we would have had more time for the 'hard' part (being during the quieter first half of the semester) as well as giving us a better understanding of how the AST should look, as we would have had to write/modify examples of the AST in order to get the backend working properly.

New comment by mistagiggles in "PC Drivers for the Xbox One Controller"

mistagiggles — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 16:03:25 +0000

I'm more interesting in the fact that he is showing Halo 2 running on (what I'm guessing) is the microsoft surface. It seems like a strange choice to choose a game that is almost 10 years old unless he is hinting that Halo 2 Anniversary is also coming to PC?

New comment by mistagiggles in "How a Raccoon Became an Aardvark"

mistagiggles — Tue, 20 May 2014 14:57:48 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reporting Diff: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Circular_reporting...

New comment by mistagiggles in "How a Raccoon Became an Aardvark"

mistagiggles — Tue, 20 May 2014 14:55:49 +0000

The article links to a wikipedia article about the circular reporting phenomenon, and I'm pleased to see that someone has added "vicious aardvark" as another name for circular reporting.

Brilliant.