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roghummal

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I see dead people (on HN).
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roghummal··on Researchers revive the dream of a Martian habitat in Arizona in miniature
> Jane Poynter helped design and then lived in a 3-acre dome called Biosphere 2, completely sealed off from the rest of the world, for two years and 20 minutes. Walking back into society was a shock.

>"I run over to say hello to all of these people and reel back," Poynter said in an interview with Bizwomen. "We all stink from all the chemicals we put on our bodies. It wasn't that we didn't have shampoo or toothpaste [in Biosphere 2], but it was all very organic, no perfume, no hairspray. Our noses were hyper-sensitive to it."

Just to clarify, it’s our world she said stinks. I interpreted your comment backwards.

roghummal··on Microsoft Coffee
abandoned or done?
roghummal··on The age of electric flight is finally upon us
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stall_(engine)
roghummal··on Adventures with ffmpeg and color ranges
If John Carmack started updating a .plan, people would figure out how to check a .plan.
roghummal··on We Pay You to Learn to Code
I read the 'remote' bit to be referring to where you do your course work.
roghummal··on The Aldi effect: how one discount supermarket transformed the way Britain shops
>I like the low prices and the efficiency of the checkout process.

I especially liked standing in line for five extra minutes while the customer in front of me demanded they pay a different (lower) price for their frozen pizzas because, they said, the pizzas were in the wrong spot.

They eventually got the lower price. Woo Aldi.

I hope they're kicking Temple Grandin a percentage. It's hard to shop at their stores without feeling like cattle being moved from one place to another.

(But 15%! What a deal!)

roghummal··on LD_PRELOAD: The Hero We Need and Deserve
>Useful for testing.

And as a speed hack for Quake 2!

roghummal··on Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Real
>Sure, mistakes happen, my own PhD contained a major blunder (discovered several years after submission -- at least somebody read it ...), but I'm extremely open about it.

So what was it?

roghummal··on The special effects for the computer display in “Escape From New York”
Are you converting "an unfinished never-posted blog post" into "a rambly twitter thread"?
roghummal··on Companies struggling to fill jobs 'should try paying more,' Fed's Kashkari says
This is how the many trucking companies work. They'll train you for a CDL but require you drive for them for a period (a year?) or pay for the cost of training.
roghummal··on Carlsberg glues beer cans together as it abandons plastic rings
"The Pointy-haired Boss (often abbreviated to just PHB or "The Boss") is Dilbert's boss in the Dilbert comic strip." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointy-haired_Boss
roghummal··on The Making of Prince of Persia (2011) [pdf]
I take it to mean they paused the VM, allowing them to complete the game in sections when they had the time.
roghummal··on Tinder founders sue parent companies Match and IAC for at least $2B
Imagining... a human being?
roghummal··on The Worm Ouroboros
Our Ob or Ros?
roghummal··on DJ rig with two Amiga 1200 PCs
They removed the stump joke from later (CD onward?) editions because it generated too many calls to support about missing disks. Damn shame! :)
roghummal··on The Life and Death of Teletext
I compiled "Chris Nystrom's 'C' port of Mayfield-style StarTrek, 1995" and the only adjustment needed was renaming the getline() function (getline()->xgetline()) to avoid a conflict with stdlib.
roghummal··on The NetHack dev team is happy to announce the release of NetHack 3.6.1
>"Elbereth" must now be the only engraved text on a square to function

So... "elberethelberethelberethelbereth" won't work anymore, either.

roghummal··on A silent epidemic of male suicide (2011)
X, Y, Z, A, B, C:

• hopeless.

• clearly resolved to die.

• likely to be intoxicated and thus more disinhibited.

• willing to carry out actions that might leave them injured or disfigured.

• unconcerned with consequenc­es because of a high risk-taking orientation.

• likely to have a greater capacity to enact lethal self-injury.

roghummal··on Tom Hanks on Typewriters
It can really help when the letters are handwritten.
roghummal··on Dark Patterns are designed to confuse and enroll
>A lot of sites using that technique also let you click an X button or click the darkened non-form area to continue. If that's supported, I always choose it as a tiny protest (in hopes that someone actually profiles how click-outs are happening).

I click the X/non-form area because I'm too lazy to read the text and figure out which of the buttons won't lead me to another form/sign me up/whatever.

If they ever start making that X the "haha, got you" I'll have to start paying more attention. That'll suck.

roghummal··on World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you dearly
To tie the two together (IRC/++ATH0)... /ctcp #channel PING ++ATH0

:D

http://everything2.com/title/%252B%252B%252BATH0

roghummal··on Why I’m Suing the US Government
Good excuse to break out the soldering iron.
roghummal··on Pokemon Go is a huge security risk
>I want to set up a supervised google account for my son for hangouts et al...

Why?

roghummal··on Thiel shows why tech billionaires are the new robber barons
Thanks for contributing!

It's rare that someone contributes without adding anything worth reading. YOU are BETTER. RARE isn't just how you take your eggs.

You're not a hypocrite. You're a trendsetter. It's so lame to discuss famous people's lives. Especially when they aren't SF-famous! You have set the tone for this thread and HN is better for it.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

roghummal··on Uncanny Valley
>“I feel sorry,” he says, his breath moist against my neck. “Everyone’s going to hit on her.”
roghummal··on Why Revolutionaries Love Spicy Food: How the Chili Pepper Got to China
Why didn't hecubus(OP) take the title or headline?

"How the chili pepper got to China" is a relatively small part of the article.

roghummal··on Croteam releases Serious Sam Classics engine under GPL
"Just dropped Croteam an email to ask if my Linux work can be published too. I'll report back"

https://twitter.com/icculus/status/708326894597488642

Here's to hoping!

roghummal··on The Mystery of When to Stop Antidepressants
Google for "The Mystery of When to Stop Antidepressants" and click through there. Didn't work for me in 'incognito mode' but it did when running normally. YMMV.
roghummal··on Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry Response
What do you use as a CalDAV server?
roghummal··on Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is written in C++
Down the memory hole it goes.
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