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mistagiggles··on WinDepends – A Rewrite of the Dependency Walker
There is also this: https://github.com/lucasg/Dependencies Similar project for replacing the old dependency walker tool
mistagiggles··on Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs for Windows
Another alternative is parsec: https://parsec.tv/ Comes with an amazon AMI to quickly get started on AWS. The team behind it strive for low-latency, and has support for controllers + multiple clients connecting to a single host to allow "local multiplayer" online
mistagiggles··on Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm
Something similar does exist: http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html

It detects places in songs where the sound is similar, and can jump between these places in the track to make a seamless unending song.

mistagiggles··on Lionsgate is making its films available on Steam
Alternatively, you can now rent a blockbuster film using money you have made while playing games. Trading cards, skin drops, crates/cases etc can all be acquired without putting money into the system but can be sold for credit on the steam marketplace.

Personally, I have used profits from selling trading cards and unwanted tf2 weapons to buy games, why not rent films?

mistagiggles··on How to Write Telegrams Properly (1928)
"When groups of figures are spelled out, the chance of an error in transmission is reduced to a minimum."

I guess its easier for the receiving operator to detect the error in "One Thosand" compared to "100" when coming over in serial (Original message being "One Thousand" and "1000" respectively).

mistagiggles··on Electro Gyro-Cator
"A marking pen was also included to help make personal indicators on the map if needed."

It's disappointing that modern technology no longer supports being annotated with a marker pen.

mistagiggles··on Did Facebook Just Build a Kickstarter Competitor?
I think this could be abused horribly, the campaign and payment information appearing inline with facebook content may make a fraudulent page appear far more legitimate than they are.
mistagiggles··on PICO-8
Maybe this is the limit of the amount of data that can be hidden/interleaved into the cartridge image
mistagiggles··on Show HN: Make a rectangle – a puzzle game
Rectangle, not possible to make a square. (Count the area and try and find integer width & height that fits)
mistagiggles··on Show HN: Hypatia 0.2, a 2D adventure game engine
GUI-based editors/viewers should be your next goal if your want to capture non-programmer users. People who don't program are far less likely to be comfortable poking around in text files and matching numbers to pictures etc.

Seems like a nice engine though, I'll have a proper look later

mistagiggles··on Forgotify Only Plays Spotify Songs That No One Has Ever Played Before
Similar concept but for youtube: http://www.petittube.com/
mistagiggles··on WhatSim, a SIM Card for WhatsApp
Does this mean the phone needs to be a smartphone with WhatsApp installed? Or can a brickphone be used with this sim in order to communicate on WhatsApp?
mistagiggles··on Extending Van Gogh’s Starry Night with Inpainting
From the comments on the article: http://imgur.com/a/BfcK4

Some more tests of the algorithm with less impressive results (though still good looking)

mistagiggles··on $300k for Cracking Telegram Encryption
Slightly off topic, but I really like their icons on their front page. Very reminiscent of the vault boy icons in the newer fallout games.
mistagiggles··on Procedural Locomotion: Automating human walk cycles using machine learning
(slightly) Related: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020583/Animation-Bootcamp-An-I...

Really impressive animation generation using just a handful of keyframes and clever use of interpolation.

mistagiggles··on Reverse engineering a fake Tor browser bundle
It's all in the game
mistagiggles··on If I ever design a first course in compilers, I'll do it backwards
I kind of agree with the article, I did the Edinburgh course on Compiling Techniques and I remember the first coursework being using antler and convert something like tinyc to AST (or at least a very small subset of c). Most of this was just fiddling around with the grammar file until the output seemed sensible. The second part was writing an AST -> jvm bytecode compiler. Going back to front may have been better, because we would have had more time for the 'hard' part (being during the quieter first half of the semester) as well as giving us a better understanding of how the AST should look, as we would have had to write/modify examples of the AST in order to get the backend working properly.
mistagiggles··on PC Drivers for the Xbox One Controller
I'm more interesting in the fact that he is showing Halo 2 running on (what I'm guessing) is the microsoft surface. It seems like a strange choice to choose a game that is almost 10 years old unless he is hinting that Halo 2 Anniversary is also coming to PC?
mistagiggles··on How a Raccoon Became an Aardvark
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reporting Diff: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Circular_reporting...
mistagiggles··on How a Raccoon Became an Aardvark
The article links to a wikipedia article about the circular reporting phenomenon, and I'm pleased to see that someone has added "vicious aardvark" as another name for circular reporting.

Brilliant.

mistagiggles··on How many people does it take to colonize another star system?
Very interesting, but this raises a point in my mind. If a colonisation trip takes several generations to reach its destination, would the human rights of the descendants of the original travellers be infringed?

They would be conceived, born, live out their lives and die without ever living anywhere but the ship (unless they are part of a generation lucky enough to reach the destination), and they would have no choice in the matter.

mistagiggles··on Python Maze Generator
There is a (First person, 3D) game, Antichamber, that has some elements of this. The room/corridor around you can change by looking, such as:

Walk up to dead end. Turn around. Corridor is no longer there, a dead end instead. Turn around again. There is now a brand new corridor in fron of you. (These changes never visibly happen, but happen when they are out of view)

Another (more maze like) example can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4JxhiNz8ec

(first video I found, there a probably better examples)

mistagiggles··on Just Tap Your Phone On Every Wall and This App Will Draw a Floorplan
Article says it is accurate within 1 foot, which really isn't accurate enough if you are generating floor plans for rooms.