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Experience the Complete Codemasters Legacy

xd — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:51:36 +0000

Article URL: https://thecodemastersarchive.co.uk/playonline/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45907280

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by xd in "Apple Photos app corrupts images"

xd — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:31:55 +0000

Bit of context. Deleting after import is unlikely to have zero'd out the data on the SD - so using photorec would have allowed them to quickly and easily recover their pictures from the SD card.

New comment by xd in "UK VPN demand soars after debut of Online Safety Act"

xd — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:43:48 +0000

The new legislation likely won't apply to you: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cdp-... - the section "Threshold conditions for categorisation of services".

New comment by xd in "I tried to make something in America"

xd — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 22:08:31 +0000

A very relevant recent story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43692677, the top comment especially.

I'm not American, I'm from the UK, but it's the same in regard to putting value in to people.

New comment by xd in "Phptop: Simple PHP ressource profiler, safe and useful for production sites"

xd — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:30:29 +0000

From a quick skim of the repo it looks to be injecting phptop_hook.php into any call to a php file with auto_prepend_file in php.ini. phptop_hook.php generates some stats on how long it took the php file to process and stores this via error_log() which can then be queried with the perl script phptop.

Defold: cross-platform game engine

xd — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 08:15:20 +0000

Article URL: https://defold.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43726051

Points: 391

# Comments: 172

Public domain technical books published before 1964

xd — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 08:56:33 +0000

Article URL: http://www.tubebooks.org/technical_books_online.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43592003

Points: 95

# Comments: 6

New comment by xd in "Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code"

xd — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:25:19 +0000

The thing with programming, to do it well, you need to fully understand the problem and then you implement the solution expressing it in code. AI will be used to create code based on a deficit of clear understanding and we will end up with a hell of a lot of garbage code. I foresee the industry demand for programmers sky rocketing in the future, as companies scramble to unfuck the mountains of shit code they lash up over the coming years. It's just a new age of copy paste coders.

New comment by xd in "SQL nulls are weird"

xd — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 11:36:16 +0000

To me, "Unknown" almost implies the possiblity of a value, whereas I've always thought of NULL as being an absence of a value.

edit: an empty string, false, 0 are all values.

New comment by xd in "Why are UK electricity bills so expensive?"

xd — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:12:16 +0000

I'm not sure where you've got this idea from. Even "new builds" in the UK, with there questionable building methods (which you may be referring to?) are mostly insulation and incredibly efficient to heat.

New comment by xd in "BareMetal OS"

xd — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:11:58 +0000

I used https://wiki.osdev.org/Resources back it the day and it looks like it's still alive and well!

New comment by xd in "SQL as API"

xd — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 14:17:57 +0000

The way the JSON filters work would be directly coupled to the JSON fix notation and SQL infix notation so it's directly coupled to SQL and doesn't really require a standard, imho.

New comment by xd in "SQL as API"

xd — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 13:52:19 +0000

It's "prefix" notation .. if you search something like "prefix vs infix vs postfix programming languages" it should return a decent explanation. For my case it's personal choice more than anything.. also easier for me to write a VM for.

New comment by xd in "SQL as API"

xd — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 08:19:42 +0000

I've a similar way of interacting with the API of my product but instead keep everything prefix notation (lispy) so for example;

"and": [ { "property": "material", "operator": "equals", "value": "carbon" },

Would be;

["and", ["=", "material", "carbon"], ...]

New comment by xd in "YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail"

xd — Fri, 12 May 2023 13:18:52 +0000

He ditched a plane on purpose for youtube likes and you think he paid the price through ridicule - but I'm not making any sense, OK.

New comment by xd in "YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail"

xd — Fri, 12 May 2023 10:04:41 +0000

My empathy is with the people who have their lives destroyed by reckless idiots pulling these "stupid prank"s for likes.. common sense says society doesn't appreciate this nonsense so deterrent is the only way to deal with it - but if you have as better idea I'm sure myself and the world are listening.

New comment by xd in "YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail"

xd — Fri, 12 May 2023 09:00:10 +0000

Only terrorism if his intention was to cause a fire for some pollical influence.

New comment by xd in "YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail"

xd — Fri, 12 May 2023 08:53:41 +0000

Someone crashing a plane on purpose doesn't amount to terrorism - there would need to be a political motivation as well.

Edit: Also the post says up to 20 years .. not sure why you've become fixated on it being simply 20. People dropping planes out of the sky for likes need to be made an example of imo, and I personally would be happy to see him locked up for life as a deterrent to others. The lengths people are going to for likes is frightening.

Elon Musk among experts urging a halt to AI training

xd — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 15:41:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65110030

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35358839

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by xd in "UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate in over 45 years"

xd — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 15:46:04 +0000

A lot of the inflation on food is increasingly feeling like businesses cashing in. For instance my old go to brand of breed increased by over 50% months ago.