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Garveyon Who owns your DNA? Privacy concerns in genetic testing services

I'm glad I read Next by Michael Crichton, or I might never have heard the story of Henrietta Lacks.

Not that I've had the need luckily but I've been wary of having so much as a blood test since then.

Garveyon Ask HN: What older games are you playing through?

Not playing as such, but currently attempting to remake an old CD-i game (Laser Lords) so I'm using it as reference, and also experimenting with extracting assets from other CD-i titles.

Uploaded quite a few bits to The Spriter's Resource, for anyone with an interest.

Garveyon Why take a compiler course? (2010)

Don't suppose you have any links to any useful resource/tools for disassembling an old CD-i game that would have been written in C for the 68000 on Microware OS-9? I've got so far with ghidra but the OS-9 plugins available are either outdated or don't fully handle the instruction set for OS-9.

If I can add any more info, let me know.

Garveyon Some Google Pixel phones are struggling to reach emergency services – again

Is there a good explainer on why this is actually happening?

Can't get my head round how it only affects 911 (000) calls, no expert on telephony networks but my naïve assumption would be that if I can call a normal landline/mobile then an emergency call would work just the same.

Garveyon “Return to Monkey Island” is out today

Custom engine called Dinky I believe I saw in the credits, as I started it earlier.

Garveyon Blender 3.3 LTS

Depends what you're after but Krita seem to do pretty well

Garveyon The First Three Discworld Games

https://www.uhs-hints.com

By any chance? Great for not getting the answer spoon fed, and being given more of a nudge in the right direction

Garveyon The need for world government

Or the US with Federal and State law

Garveyon Web Push for Safari

It does this under the guise of protecting you from certain content, like an nsfw post will require you to download the app, although I think you can get round that using the old. prefix rather than www

Garveyon Confess your love with zero-knowledge

Small idea, no idea how useful if at all but maybe it could be a simple page with a list of reasons why the sender likes the recipient, and/or a YouTube playlist of songs that remind them of the recipient etc

Garveyon Tell HN: Vitamin A Linked to Energy Levels

I'm like this with peppers, love them raw when they're nice and crispy but hate them cooked because they become soggy almost. So I guess it's more of a texture than a taste thing.

Garveyon Ask HN: Is your company ordering a hiring freeze?

UK based, and actually the opposite, company wants to hire more developers and I think QA too.

Garveyon Reversing a 2.4GHz Remote Control

No idea of the costs, so forgive me if it's not reasonable, but couldn't you get a second device to experiment with? Perhaps secondhand?

Garveyon Ask HN: Recommendations on Learning Italian

https://www.michelthomas.com/learn-italian/#michel-thomas-it...

Check out some of the promos and make your own decision, but I highly recommend the above.

Garveyon “Dune” (The Movie), Annotated

Having heard the name for only the second time, I can only assume the Stamets of Star Trek Discovery is so called as a foreshadowing of his involvement with the mycelial network

Garveyon I Built a $300K/Year Vue.js Component Library

Not sure if the link has been updated but I don't get any paywall trying to read the article now.

Garveyon Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt

Depends on your domain/dns provider, I use cloudflare so I can add an API key to the config in certbot and the DNS updates are automated then.

Garveyon Pompeii’s fast food joint unearthed in 2019 opens to public

Get 'em while hot?

Garveyon Miami Launches 'MiamiCoin' to Make Millions and Fund the Police

"...listed as $MIA..."

Potentially an apt acronym if it fails to perform

Garveyon David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies aged 98

JoJo Rabbit?

Garveyon Australia Exhumes the Somerton Man, and His 70-Year Mystery

Unblocked link:

https://archive.is/wzAqF

Garveyon “Put that in your pipe and smoke it”

"I told you to take care of him, not to take care of him!"

Garveyon Google Says Everything at Stadia Is Fine, as the Water Reaches Their Noses

Ubisoft is launching Ubisoft+ on Stadia, available in beta in the US now.

Capcom had RE Village on there same day as the other stores.

EA are also releasing games on there.

So it seems at least some of the big publishers aren't that against the idea.

Garveyon Anal oxygen administration may save lives

Pasting the article URL into the search over at archive.is seems to work for a lot of them

Garveyon The secret Thinkpad powerbutton code to bring dead laptops back to life (2007)

Did a stint at Tech Guys (Part of DSG) and this was taught as what's known as an ATX-Reset, basically clears out any left over electrical charge iirc.

Garveyon C# 9 Pattern Matching

It has since .Net 4.0, but does require using BigInteger

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.numerics....

Garveyon Ask HN: Does anyone actually use the Pomodoro technique?

Brooklyn Nine-Nine might fit your less than 30 minutes criteria

Garveyon Toast Sandwich

I did when I tried it out of curiousity, surprisingly alright with a bit of salt, no marmite for me though.

Garveyon Always Use “Buttons” for Size Selection

Yoox.com has exactly this iirc, allows you to set sizes for for shoes, trousers and shirts etc I believe.