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iypx commented on Drastic DS Emulator Pulled from Google Play Store play.google.com/store/app... · Posted by u/tosh

TillE · 4 years ago

Nintendo already has developed their own emulators for various platforms. For example, the one for SNES is called Canoe, it was used for the SNES Classic (just a little ARM Linux box), and now on the Switch.

iypx · 4 years ago

Yes, I really wanted to buy something like that, the first time I heard about it.

But then, looking through stores, seeing these second-hand mini-sneses being at least 35 pounds, sometimes up to 100, even though I could definitely afford one while I was working full time in UK, just kinda left a really bitter taste in mouth.

Really? Are they really milking everything out of us? I had for a while forgot what name emulator on my phone I wanted to play some pokemon, worked fine. Why would they want to price their devices so high? Just because people can afford it?

I refuse to buy it, it's that simple.

iypx commented on Drastic DS Emulator Pulled from Google Play Store play.google.com/store/app... · Posted by u/tosh

Larrikin · 4 years ago

They seem very polarizing to the adult community. I loved video games from all kinds of companies when I was younger and had hours a day to play games. But as an adult I can't imagine buying a non Nintendo system. The few hours a month when I actually want to play video games and have the time I'd rather load up some guaranteed fun, versus sit through huge chunks of AAA game story plot points just to shoot the Nazis, monster, etc or spend those same hours researching indie games that might be as fun as whatever Nintendo has put out recently.

Only thing really worth taking the risk on these days is music games, but the good ones are few and far between. The international Bemani community has seemingly fully committed to the arcade rip and Konami doesn't seem to care to try and bring them back to the home console since they aren't cutting into arcade unit sales.

iypx · 4 years ago

I guess it's a cultural thing + buyer's remorse or how you call it, since that's what you've been exposed to for the most of your life.

I grew up in the other part of the world, the only popular games being Quake 1/2/3, Half Life, Star Craft +BW, Diablo 1/2+LoD, Red Alert, CS and later Lineage 2. I have no recollection of Nintendo at all. It was non existent in this part of the world (except the "Dendy", the bootleg hardware clone of NES for us, we all played mario and mortal kombat for a while, but then it died just as quick as it appeared).

Looking at Nintendo games now, I could see why they might be popular with younger kids, buy I'll never buy into the fact that an adult might like them, that just seems like some advertising ...

Today I can't even imagine not gaming on a computer, both AAA, indie games and big name games are shit though.

iypx commented on Covid testing firm ‘selling swabs carrying customers’ DNA’ to third parties thelondoneconomic.com/new... · Posted by u/cloutchaser

mcculley · 4 years ago

In the article there is a quote, “There is no personal data more sensitive than our DNA.“

This seems a bogus assertion to me. I can imagine many diagnostic health test results that would be more sensitive to leak than DNA (e.g., STD and drug tests).

DNA sequencing is eventually going to be so cheap and ubiquitous that it will happen to everyone anyway.

Having published my own results (https://enki.org/2017/10/17/publishing-my-genome/), I really don’t buy into the idea that DNA is the most personal data that can be leaked.

(Nevertheless, there should be more obvious warnings to customers about how their data will be monetized.)

Edit: I think I failed to make clear that while I agree that DNA is "personal" data, I don't think it is the most "sensitive" personal data. If I had an identical twin and he released his DNA, I would not care. If I had syphilis and my test results were leaked, I would be upset about that.

iypx · 4 years ago

Imagine you're 38 years old, you go like a normal person to a normal persons job interview.

Now your new employer obviously doesn't have access to your DNA, but he has an active subscription to "NaturalCheck(tm)whatever" which does have access to most people's DNAs.

Sorry, we can't hire you, your NaturalCheck came back as red.

You call NaturalCheck, after getting tossed through 2-3 support staff you finally learn your dna has some markers for some kind of cancer. Welcome to a new world.

P.S. If you think this is unrealistic: Credit check? Credit score? I see people have no problem with this stuff...

iypx commented on Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums (2020) karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/a... · Posted by u/signa11

tsimionescu · 4 years ago

I don't understand, you were looking for olive-based recipes and were happy to find a description of spaghetti with oil and garlic, with no recipe in sight?

I believe the GP was looking for specific cooking advice, while the wikipedia article you link to as expected, simply describes a dish in relatively vague terms. It happens that aglio e olio is such a simple dish that you don't really need more than that simple description, but if you were looking to bake a cake or cook a boeuf bourgignon, I don't think turning to wikipedia for help would be wise.

iypx · 4 years ago

As a matter of fact, never heard of "boeuf bourgignon", so I had to check it's wiki page.

1. Fry meat + <<whatever else usually grows in Europe, or in/around France>> (givin' it's a french dish).

2. Once done, smash some whatever red wine on top and get it into a shape that looks like food.

3. Add gradually whatever spices and herbs are known to grow in Europe at the 'correct' time during 1 and 2. (apparently nowadays it's popular to smash 3 peppers cumin coriander and some brown sugar all into one big pile and cook it, with a whole stick of butter, regardless of dish! wtf?)

0. Pan-fry separately either some onions, mushrooms or potatoes (I hate boiled potatoes, and carrots), with, again, whatever spices and herbs can grow in France. (personal preference, don't like mixing way too many stuffs together, they'll usually lose all taste)

FIN. Put both dishes together when serving per plate or table. Add another load of ground peppers and the same herbs on top while the food is still hot, for aroma.

Wikipedia still looks like a great resource for scouting recipes for me.

Except for cakes. Cakes are magic. haven't managed to get them to work properly for some reason, regardless of recipes. My best guess store cakes use some kind of cheap industrial grade oil/margarine which is not readily sold so I never managed to replicate them..

iypx commented on Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums (2020) karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/a... · Posted by u/signa11

friedturkey · 4 years ago

Any examples of a good wiki article?

For culinary history it's definitely useful, but I haven't found much generally practical info.

iypx · 4 years ago

As an example, once I bought a fresh jar of olives, but I forgot I already had like 1/3 leftover jar in the fridge. So I started wondering what I could make, so given olives are associated with Italy, I thought, there could be some kind of pasta with olives.

Now I don't remember the exact keywords I used at the time, but I ended making: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_aglio_e_olio

So, one wiki article of two paragraphs gives me enough suggestions how to make 2x2x2 dishes (apparently, I just counted the variations).

Anyway, turns out I really like the simplicity of this, so I keep making this now every time I feel fancy! Add some red/white wine, and it's a restaurant grade dish. (notice you don't have to add any x sticks of butter or any kosher whatever, delicious :)

iypx commented on Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums (2020) karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/a... · Posted by u/signa11

friedturkey · 4 years ago

Bit of a stretch. It has a lot of bot content in some places, but for Q&A stuff you'll get more relevant results than most stuff google suggest these days.

Searching for some certain cooking methods gives me endless blog spam that's usually not even remotely related to what I'm looking for and full of stories about a fictional childhood in a country the author has never been to. Meanwhile a reddit search will have a to the point comment summing up the method in 2 lines, as well as a bunch of people arguing about it.

iypx · 4 years ago

I don't think it's a stretch, he put it much better words than I could have done.

P.S. For cooking I've been using exclusively wikipedia for the last 3-5 years. It's actually amazing the kind of content you can find. Next time try searching "cooking method wiki" :)

iypx commented on Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums (2020) karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/a... · Posted by u/signa11

JohnJamesRambo · 4 years ago

Reddit is almost the only useful site left to find actual things written by humans.

If I Google my problem and put Reddit at the end I usually find my answer. Without it I’m lost in SEO blogpost hell.

Please keep posting useful things to Reddit.

iypx · 4 years ago

I'd rather encourage people to post useful things on their own sites. Maybe, hopefully, one day, both google and other search engines might start penalizing content farms and have personal blogs and websites surface again.

> Reddit is almost the only useful site left to find actual things written by humans.

The one, most important thing (the way I see it), is never actually mentioned. I'm gonna call it: "organic advertising". I will never, consciously, take any advice I see on reddit/hn.

Last time It was obvious for me, I was browsing/procrastinating throgh r/all, and somebody, a "real human" with an actual "real" account (I checked his history) posted a drawing made by his kid. Second-most upvoted comment is blatant Crayola advert (checked that guys history, every 10-15th comment he was praising $random_top_us_brand). Rest of the thread, at least another dozen Crayola mentions, by real people, who religiously believe in Crayola...

Take a lot of top threads, there's always a swarm of seemingly "real" accounts religiously promoting most American top brands. Funnily enough, usually 1 brand per thread. Somehow fans of X never see the Y threads, and vice-versa...

I refuse to believe actual people will go out of their way to defend/promote/etc their $favorite_brand. Only on reddit/hn.

iypx commented on Show HN: Windi – knowledge management and sharing platform based on short notes windi.app/... · Posted by u/losfair

iypx · 4 years ago

I started making something similar back in the time when I was trying to learn some php (self-hosted LAMP setup). Stopped mostly because I wasn't able to find a proper English dictionary for NLP.

Second reason was the inconvenience of opening my local webpage and clicking "new entry", then selecting from my tag suggestions or adding a few more new tags.. every time I wanted to add a new note.

Creating a new text document, copy-pasting into it, then closing it and clicking yes to save, then drag and dropping it onto my "notes" folder on my Desktop, somehow seems easier... No titles, no tags, but I could always rest assured that, when I'll need it, It would be there, somewhere in that "notes" folder, even years later.

Jokes aside, I didn't actually realize people are into these "knowledge management" systems.

I was wondering if one were to open source a self-hosted app like this, what license you could chose such that individual people would be able to install/modify/use/etc a copy for personal use, even commercial, even if employed, even work computers. Yet disallow a company from modifying/customizig/deploying it for multiple employees, have the company pay a formal fee? Are there any examples of such licenses in the wild?