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New comment by randac in "Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii"

randac — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 02:00:19 +0000

Look at anything from publisher New Blood Interactive on Steam for a starting point. Mostly retro style FPS from differing eras, but there are a few other game types. Plus you'll struggle to find any that don't have thousands of user ratings in either very positive or overwhelmingly positive brackets.

Gloomwood (first person stealth) and Fallen Aces are a couple of gems still in early access.

New comment by randac in "We apologize for the confusion and angst the runtime fee policy caused"

randac — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 14:52:42 +0000

The CEO selling is a bit of a red herring.

This covers more of the shenanigans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOCTSp_U-KI

Apologies for a video link but that's all I have.

New comment by randac in "Radioactive spill near Richland WA worse than expected"

randac — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 12:01:19 +0000

Simply rephrasing the question would get better responses.

"I'm sure they thought of this, but could someone explain why they don't just divert...?"

New comment by randac in "Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering"

randac — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 22:28:27 +0000

Also using close to $1m in fuel per trip (according to the CEO), not that it changes your point

New comment by randac in "Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark"

randac — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 13:45:41 +0000

Thread with many replies, the deepest replies end up very squashed right in portrait, it's annoying to read. As is the flag/dead style but that's another matter. Obviously nothing I can't work around.

New comment by randac in "Displaying my washing machine's remaining time with curl, jq, and pizauth"

randac — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 09:11:39 +0000

The laziest tech equivalence I can think of would be buying a baby monitor and mounting it in the laundry room.

New comment by randac in "DeepMind has open-sourced the heart of AlphaGo and AlphaZero"

randac — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 12:49:30 +0000

> when that hasn't been true except for a short while after the release

Even that was debatable given the restrictions placed on the version of Stockfish it played.

Not to take anything away from AlphaZero either, self play to reach that level was quite the achievement.

New comment by randac in "HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card expires [video]"

randac — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 12:06:10 +0000

If you pay for a subscription to Audible and accrue monthly credits, they will steal the unused ones back when you cancel the subscription.

Not making a judgement either way, just adding more data.

New comment by randac in "“Fun disabled by administrator” (2015)"

randac — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 14:21:32 +0000

This looks better in the app -> We're too inept to design a good mobile interface and/or we would like more of your data please.

New comment by randac in "24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse (2017)"

randac — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 23:37:07 +0000

Wow, I've never heard anyone else describe that.. but I had the same on Win95 (iirc) after messing about with the COM port setup too much. You could try to load a website and see there was no transmission going on whatsoever.. but then if you grabbed the mouse and moved it around you would instantly see data transfer happening again and the page would start to load.

New comment by randac in "Breaking BIOS: enabling VT-x virtualization support on Acer Aspire One netbook"

randac — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 14:16:38 +0000

I dodged the Atom and picked up an Acer 1810tz. 4gb RAM, intel U4100 CPU, ran rings around netbooks at the time and I still use it here and there to this day. Probably the best keyboard I've ever used on such a small device.

New comment by randac in "Let's make the web personal again"

randac — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:18:59 +0000

Welcome to hn in recent years.

The site desperately needs some form of meta moderation.. I've barely scrolled this thread and seen multiple examples already.

New comment by randac in "On Mr. Beast and being alone in a circle for 100 days"

randac — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 13:07:56 +0000

This is similar to the Rogan interview, but I figured I'd mention it here too.

MrBeast was just on Flagrant with Andrew Schulz for 4 hours, a day or so ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGrk7Mzm4uo

This was also an interesting and fun interview which I expected to skip over fairly quickly but ended up listening to in the entirety. Some discussion over how you would lose something like 3% of viewers if somebody sneezed, went to the toilet, and so on.. Other things to avoid, like any signalling that the video is winding down will lose you a huge chunk of viewers instantly.

New comment by randac in "Twitch finally takes action against gambling"

randac — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 17:13:15 +0000

Yes. IIRC there were two low level Twitch employees who won something in the giveaway, but I believe they were entered because they performed chat moderation (yes, using the same mod tools normal channel moderators use) for the streamer in question (Trainwrecks). It's being made out like this was some form of bribe, but that seems disingenuous given they have (had, one died, one left the company) no influence over Twitch policies, and the decision to accept gifts (or not) is their responsibility as an Amazon employee either way. Perhaps they have colleagues who they could sway who are involved in policy setting, but that feels like reaching to me.

However take this with a pinch of salt too, I wouldn't like to bet on being fully correct! ;)

New comment by randac in "Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about"

randac — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 13:56:28 +0000

This is fine as long as you notify the account holder based on both a failed 2FA OR just ignoring the 2FA prompt rather than making an attempt.

Personally I don't know enough to know if that's the case?

New comment by randac in "The worst part of working from home is now haunting reopened offices"

randac — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 12:03:11 +0000

> Facebook, Google, etc would not be calling people back to the office which only serves to increase their costs, if they didn’t have the data to back it up

"They must have the data" is a very popular way to appeal to authority lately.

New comment by randac in "GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful"

randac — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 13:23:32 +0000

I'd love to know how often a 'reject all' button actually objected to all 'legitimate interest' crap too.

I expected the answer is site and consent management system dependent, so where I really couldn't avoid one of these sites, I'd manually object to all legitimate interest first before pressing it. Such a PITA and probably pointless ultimately, but hey..

New comment by randac in "Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web?"

randac — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 13:20:46 +0000

I have a feeling that OP has used this feature and that it's part of their complaint.

I've been using it for many years by now, and have essentially given up on it recently.

I'd often set for past year/month and get articles, reviews, etc that were clearly dated many years previous. I don't know if the site are responsible for the gaming of search, or Google themselves, but the result is the same. I have some doubt that PC hardware review sites are gaming dates on their old articles, although I accept it could be in their interest to do so too.

New comment by randac in "Facing sky-high connection fees, rural Ontarians go off the grid"

randac — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:35:27 +0000

I think the only module I took that was close to this, for CompSci in UK, was on technical writing.

New comment by randac in "The naughty username checking system used by Twitch"

randac — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 11:09:23 +0000

I got a CAPTCHA variant not long ago that was along the lines of "U2KYS". Pretty toxic!