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So are you like Desmond on LOST where every day, after you and your dad play, you have to run to the computer to type in the latest Dad-Word to keep the machine alive?

187 comments almost entirely focused on language usage, and at best two to three words.

Fascinating.

Kirby's Adventure for NES back in the day was 768KB. Metal Slader Glory (1991 Japanese release) was a 1MB cartridge.

You should see the port of Eye of the Beholder for C64/128 that shipped November 2022. It's unbelievable. (Worked on, off and on, across 16 years.)

As a designer, I find this first step simultaneously fascinating and terrifying.

What if you own, for example, a lake house? No Netflix for the same family using a different house on occasion?

Not just the bio.

I posted a tweet today that mentioned Mastodon and linked to my profile in the tweet and it was "caught" by Twitter as "sensitive content."

They said: "We put a warning message on these Tweets because they might have sensitive content — like nudity, sexual content, violence, gore, or hateful symbols."

After the shock wore off, I actually laughed out loud. Then just sat there and stared at the screen. It's completely absurd.

I find it slightly baffling (yet predictable) that Commodore wasn't mentioned once during the transitional leap from the 2600 to "home computers." It's as if the best-selling computer of all time prior to the iPhone has been erased from history.

Odd, but the second image of the sunken ship with the large area aft (where the captain's quarters was located) gave me strong vibes from Tintin's "The Secret of the Unicorn," which I read as a kid a long time ago. It concerned a ship from the 17th century with what feels like a similar overall shape. I'm sure that style spread across several centuries of ship making...

Strange thing to bubble up.

The C128/D came out before the A500. If you were in Europe, you got it at the tail of of 1985. In North America, 1986. The A500 was released in North America in the fall of '87.

My point is the C128D was available when the Amiga 500 wasn't.

The Amiga 1000, however, was out at approximately the same time. And it cost far more than a $200 jump. It must have been highly confusing for many that were trying to decide what to do.

"Should I go for the "3 computers in one" for less AND still have access to my C64 software? Or do I buy a computer "from the future" and start from scratch?"

This is going to be incredibly helpful for me to create reminders on my work's website and even hobby sites I visit often. Thank you!

"G4 lineup clown"

I assume this was a PDF copy/paste snafu where it should have said "down" not "clown". But it definitely made me do a double-take. (or triple)

Hah! That would be pretty interesting.

I guess the inbetween would be DungeonHack...

Be pretty wild to have a 3D interactive Rogue based on GeoGuessr realism.

Very cool. I wish there was a 2D "dungeon crawler" map overlay of some kind so I could see where I am and what direction I'm facing as I progress into the structure. I start to lose my bearings.

I was fortunate to go inside the pyramid as a child in 1980 when I was 9. I remember it feeling quite claustrophobic at the time, and I wasn't exactly big. Once inside you quickly lose the scale of the thing (or at least I did).

If you had some talent/training - absolutely.

In the 80s my high school journalism class used an ancient typesetting machine in order to make our newspaper. We would print things out and put things on giant white poster board with glue sticks that would later get photographed and converted to printed pages.

After one summer we returned to school and entered class. My journalism teacher, Mrs. Forehand, beamed and beckoned us to a back room.

The typesetting machine had been replaced with 2 Macintosh computers, one equipped with a MASSIVE 20MB hard drive. Inspired by Alien, we called that machine "Mother". We also had a laser printer for test prints.

Suddenly we could print out pages that were 100% perfect, without any x-acto blades or glue. It was stunning.

At home I had a Commodore 64 (with WAY better sound and color graphics). But I could see instantly at school I was dealing with a "professional" machine that was way out of my family's league budget-wise. There was no game scene from what I could tell, but I knew deep down it was a game changer.

And I knew the ground had shifted under my feet.

My god, I find simply scrolling down on that site incredibly janky.

"A legitimate business will leave a voicemail, especially if they want money from you."

Unfortunately so do the scammers - both bots and actual people. At least my phone will sometimes text-transcribe the VM so I can quickly scan it and delete it w/o being forced to listen to it.

I've used all of these tools as well. Recently I was clinging to the side of Sketch with white knuckles while bringing over stuff from photoshop and illustrator and exporting to zeplin. The process was cumbersome but created excellent results. But I finally forced myself to check out figma.

Within about two weeks I never looked back.

For me, figma was just SO much better. Some of the behaviors are so head-smackingly, "Oh my god, why doesn't Illustrator do that?!" it's nuts.

I still need PS and Illustrator on occasion, but for embracing Figma I was able to dump 2 programs (Sketch/Zeplin) and actually improve my company's overall design consistency and brand like never before. And I use the Adobe products - which I've used for over 30 years - so much less, it's stunning.

I must sound like an advertisement, but figma has been a total life/career-changer. The news of the acquisition this morning slapped me hard. I fear the unknown. I remember what happened to Macromedia, too.

Plus, small local bookstores have no idea who you are (in general) when you walk in the front door. No tracking codes, no "browsing history" in your back pocket.

You get to have full and total anonymity (even if you're a regular, your path through the store will be yours and yours alone). You can browse the aisles and look at any old book's spine you please, pull it off the shelf and read the inside cover or maybe some employee notes on a card if there are any.

And the next time you come in, that book won't be in the front window since you touched it. You can start the whole process over again.

I taught myself HTML after buying a massively thick book from Barnes and Nobles and used only Netscape Navigator 4.01, which came with something called the Netscape Composer HTML editor.

I'd just finished art school and needed to put together a portfolio website. I thought I was so clever... I made the front page contain an illustration of mine dead center on the screen of a very obese man in a jock strap. You had to click his belly to enter the site.

Anyway, that site got me a "Web designer" job at a company in Richardson, Texas, named Micografx. They were a competitor to Adobe at the time and made some pretty cool software including Picture Publisher (a very robust Windows-only photo editor). They had an entire suite of graphical tools. They also made software called Create a Card, where you could create digital postcards on your computer and email them to people.

My first job was to work on a team to convert that software from CD-ROM to 100% online. It was an incredible learning experience and launched my career into the exciting Web design world on the cusp of the dot-com boom.

I partially owe my career to Netscape Navigator 4.01, which was released in 1997.

I really miss that version of the web sometimes.

>This is also why Reddit rarely lets posters link to original content sources like YouTube, IG, and TikTok on major subs any more.

A lot of content creators spam Reddit to get clicks and eyeballs (obviously). Some subreddits have nearly become 100% YouTube threads. As a result some subs/admins have started to craft tighter requirements for the links posted to bring some sort of balance back to the content.

I've read Vitamin D can help thicken existing hair. It supposedly is good in stimulating new and old hair follicles. When there isn't enough vitamin D in your system, new hair growth can be stunted. (Or so I've read.)

Unrelated, you (the article's author) have a seriously gorgeous mane of hair.

I was not an AOL user. In the 90s my colleagues and friends used "AOL User" as a slight on folks who didn't understand tech. My dad was an AOL user and I had to show him how to use it. Often. I raged at its expensive walled garden (especially when I needed to show him how to access an actual website) but he liked it. Regardless, I love this project.

Yes, masking works in degrees. It's not hard to understand that.

Where schools break down, however, is during lunchtime. Kids - like adults - drop their masks to eat and drink (of course) and carry on as if there is something magical about holding a sandwich in front of their faces. After 30 minutes of much needed socializing, the masks go back on.

To be clear, at my both of my kids' schools in Seattle masks are 100% voluntary, yet there is a culture to wear them (even on the sidewalks while walking home from school - not joking).

It's not like the masked schools are 100% solid, no, so the tests are wobbly to say the least. Yet, my kids don't sit next to every student in the school during lunch, so their exposure is also teeny tiny. But we're anecdotally seeing cases rise at work and school here in Seattle over the past 3 weeks unlike any time I can remember during the past 2 years. Every area is different... It used to be, "Do you know anyone who has caught it?" And now I know several.

I sometimes think the UK has it right. People there have simply accepted it and deal. They have a big spike every 2 months but carry on with packed pubs, covid be damned.

Or, the article is precisely about you and you don't realize it. You might not be the son in the article. You might be the dad (hopefully with many decades of collecting yet to go).

+1 for the clever title.

When I had birds that's precisely what they did. Birds typically like to be in the highest comfortable place in a room for instinctual reasons. In my apartments at the time, that meant the tops of virtually any open doors. (They also liked company so they'd generally follow me from room to room and sit on top of doors along the way.) You really don't want ceiling fans...

So, yeah. I made sure there was generally something on the floor below them. But the sides of the doors would need to be cleaned fairly regularly. I had cockatiels, and you couldn't "potty train" them.

Birds also like to chew things sometimes, so you needed to keep a close eye on them or realize your damage deposit was going to take a hit later.

I feel like HN should peel a page from Reddit and introduce a bot that auto-informs us of previous posts/discussions about the same URL.

Ironically, the instant I loaded that article I was confronted with an e-mail newsletter subscription pop-up.