Hacker News: pearle

New comment by pearle in "OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe"

pearle — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:25:13 +0000

HN headline needs a change. It's North America, not just the USA.

New comment by pearle in "Kodak says it might have to cease operations [updated]"

pearle — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:26:07 +0000

https://petapixel.com/2023/12/07/instax-is-more-than-50-of-f...

More than 50% of it's imaging business in 2022

New comment by pearle in "Airline demand between Canada and United States collapses, down 70%+"

pearle — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:51:52 +0000

I live in Canada and I have no idea what you are talking about with regards to the Canadian economy being in tatters. Perhaps you should be paying closer attention to the actual media.

Your reality check comment is giving me hardcore "Fake News" vibes but I'll lave it at that.

New comment by pearle in "Airline Demand Between Canada and United States Collapses, Down 70%+"

pearle — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:34:18 +0000

This take is bordering on delusional. It's the annexation threats, trade war, internal collapse of law and order, border issues, and complete disrespect towards a close ally.

New comment by pearle in "CRTC considering banning Fox News from Canadian cable packages"

pearle — Fri, 05 May 2023 15:37:24 +0000

Wrong country.

New comment by pearle in "The unlikely resurgence of Dungeons and Dragons"

pearle — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 13:10:13 +0000

NWN1 is still being actively developed by BeamDog. Graphics are more dated but they are working on improving the engine.

New comment by pearle in "Dungeons Tome – Tool for generating dungeons for RPGs"

pearle — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 16:54:15 +0000

Thanks for that city generation link. I'm adding that one to my list of DM tools.

New comment by pearle in "‘Star Citizen’ Court Case Reveals the Messy Reality of Crowdfunding a $200M Game"

pearle — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 15:08:58 +0000

Elite is also one of the better VR games available.

New comment by pearle in "Samsung is the latest OEM to unlock FM chips in new phones"

pearle — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 16:22:37 +0000

Is 34 considered elderly? Asking for a friend..

Jokes aside, my girlfriend upgraded to a LG V30 specifically because I bought one and discovered it had an enabled FM tuner by accident.

New comment by pearle in "Nintendo to Double Production of Switch Console"

pearle — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:34:16 +0000

I've played all of the mentioned games except modern Final Fantasy titles and I think it's a big disservice to the TW3 to say it's at best on par with those games.

The only way I could imagine saying that is if you focus only on the mechanics of the RPG game loop and ignore world design, dialog quality, voice acting, characters, breadth of content, quests, etc.

New comment by pearle in "Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising"

pearle — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 05:24:00 +0000

Yes, I use OneDrive and I was hit with the Windows Explorer ad this morning. It's ridiculous.

New comment by pearle in "South Korean President Impeached"

pearle — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 03:12:58 +0000

United States Government

New comment by pearle in "Elite Dangerous Ship Assistant Powered by Alexa [video]"

pearle — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:09:33 +0000

Gamers typically use VoiceAttack[1] for voice control in gaming. It uses the built in Windows 10/8/7? speech recognition system and layers macros and basic programming on top of it.

[1] http://voiceattack.com/

New comment by pearle in "Some Google Pixel devices shutting down at 30% battery"

pearle — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 21:44:53 +0000

My iphone 5 does it. Tends to be around the 20% mark.

New comment by pearle in "Jonathan Blow: Jai Demo: Back End Speed"

pearle — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 23:02:12 +0000

New comment by pearle in "Happy 20th Birthday, Quake"

pearle — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 13:26:45 +0000

The Creation engine by Bethesda is still highly mod friendly. For example, there is a fan-made total conversion mod being created for TES V: Skyrim that is a remake of TES III: Morrowind [1]. Also, the SureAI team is creating Enderal, a total conversion mod in a completely different setting [2].

[1] http://tesrenewal.com/blog/blog-post-march

[2] http://sureai.net/games/enderal/?lang=en

New comment by pearle in "Oculus 'Always On' Services and Privacy Policy May Be a Cause for Concern"

pearle — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 15:40:16 +0000

HTC Vive is one alternative but it's not out yet.

New comment by pearle in "Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being open-sourced"

pearle — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 18:37:14 +0000

IMO, being faster is a significant feature that increases productivity and it shouldn't be casually dismissed.

New comment by pearle in "iPad Pro – 9.7-inch"

pearle — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:14:05 +0000

The page doesn't even render correctly in Firefox. Big boxes around the images and I assume they should should be transparent.

New comment by pearle in "Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API"

pearle — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 23:32:43 +0000

No, Atom is just slower.

16GB, 4790k with SSD.