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New comment by pimlottc in "Tim Curry has died"

pimlottc — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:18:50 +0000

The full backstory of this clip is a great read:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/an-oral-history-of-tim-curry...

New comment by pimlottc in "Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown"

pimlottc — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:25:26 +0000

CO2 sensors are not all created equal. The price of a good one is a large chunk of the cost of the device.

New comment by pimlottc in "Don't Wordle"

pimlottc — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:50:49 +0000

And yet it didn’t accept JORTS :/

New comment by pimlottc in "Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art (2024)"

pimlottc — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:30:04 +0000

Incredible, by far the most comprehensive review of techniques for beautifying and branding QR codes.

What I would love to see as a companion to this is some sort of rigors benchmark for scanning that attempts to quantify how much real-world scanability is lost. There must be some decoding benchmarks out there that simulate common types of distortion, damage and degradation. What did the original designed of the QR code use to evaluate their work?

New comment by pimlottc in "The entire city of San Francisco as a video game"

pimlottc — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:57:04 +0000

Screenshots of Vette! at MobyGames:

https://www.mobygames.com/game/799/vette/screenshots/dos/

New comment by pimlottc in "Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance"

pimlottc — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:18:14 +0000

I don't think that's quite correct; every CS program I've seen involves writing code, quite a lot of it. What they don't teach is /software engineering/: working large codebases, maintaining code, dealing with legacy code, long-term collaboration, working with product managed and designers, etc. That's stuff that you mostly end up having to pickup in the real world outside school.

New comment by pimlottc in "My Microscope Is a Dashcam"

pimlottc — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 01:52:47 +0000

Good lord, why would you make your website so intentionally hard to read?

New comment by pimlottc in "Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos"

pimlottc — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:11:16 +0000

Michael Jackson was a pop star. Selling out was never a sin in pop music.

New comment by pimlottc in "Show HN: Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yours"

pimlottc — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:46:44 +0000

Agree, this needs context. I thought this was like some sort of unclaimed government funds thing or something at first.

New comment by pimlottc in "Pressed Penny Machine Map"

pimlottc — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:04:08 +0000

There was one in Strasbourg, France, by the cathedral

New comment by pimlottc in "How I Under-Engineered My Book"

pimlottc — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:54:13 +0000

This is arguably what MVP is supposedly to mean

New comment by pimlottc in "Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People"

pimlottc — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:42:02 +0000

The episode is "Mark Zuckerberg: The Worst Person of the 21st Century (So Far)", in three parts (eps. 43-45) [1] [2] [3]

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srIt1RFE-Zo

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2icLml1LJUE

3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxNYbfYiG2c

New comment by pimlottc in "AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64"

pimlottc — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:01:32 +0000

*cues

New comment by pimlottc in "Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22)"

pimlottc — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:46:06 +0000

If the idea of spending a summer in a firewatch lookout tower sounds cool to you, I highly recommend the indie narrative game Firewatch [0]

0: https://www.firewatchgame.com/

New comment by pimlottc in "Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf"

pimlottc — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:49:52 +0000

> they're all sold out to froufrou boogies!

That's specious, Trader Joe's is cheaper than other stores for plenty of items

New comment by pimlottc in "Ordinary abundance"

pimlottc — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:21:42 +0000

For me, the images and text are out of sync; by the time the focus in the image has moved to the next item, the text is already hidden under the image.

New comment by pimlottc in "Ordinary abundance"

pimlottc — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:19:55 +0000

Does not work in Firefox's reader mode, unfortunately

New comment by pimlottc in "I built a 500k-domain search engine for makers in a weekend for $10"

pimlottc — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:17:03 +0000

Sometimes I think people forget how capable computers are. 500k is not much. You can just slap that in a Lucene instance. This is a solved problem.

New comment by pimlottc in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

pimlottc — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:17:45 +0000

Oh jeez, I hadn’t thought about the blocked element being different than the aria-tagged one. What a nightmare

New comment by pimlottc in "Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf"

pimlottc — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:31:45 +0000

I literally just left a Trader Joe’s and I couldn’t find a single tin