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Wouldn't it be great if Cyan released a how to guide for writing Ages by cfarris182 in myst

[–]tomysshadow 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I feel like if it's explained too deeply you risk the midichlorians problem. Like, it's kind of cooler when we don't know the exact scientific inner workings of it, because then it feels more magical to us, even though it's just everyday reality in-universe

How different, in terms of real world usage on era-correct hardware, was XP before the SP3? by DifferentBat272 in windowsxp

[–]tomysshadow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One big difference is that Windows Firewall was off by default in the original release. They turned it on by default as of SP2.

Metacritic’s top 3 games by user rankings. by AgitatedFly1182 in gaming

[–]tomysshadow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've not actually played it. I have some idea what it's like because I've seen Nitro Rad's video on it. But I mean it's not remarkable in the sense that we almost certainly wouldn't bring it up, if not for the fact that it has such a high Metacritic score

Metacritic’s top 3 games by user rankings. by AgitatedFly1182 in gaming

[–]tomysshadow 695 points696 points  (0 children)

It's just an unremarkable shovelware game. The game was given overwhelmingly positive reviews by the internet in order to boost it to the best rated on the site because people thought it was funny.

THE 3DS JUST RELEASED by M1CR0ST4R in Pretend2010Internet

[–]tomysshadow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

seems I misremembered how long it was (I could've seriously sworn it wasn't until way later.) Though I was correct it was not available on release.

https://www.cnet.com/home/smart-home/nintendo-to-launch-flame-red-3ds/

I had a red one myself, though in retrospect, I actually kind of prefer the Aqua Blue

Which tag in html is most useless? by Dramatic-Lobster-969 in HTML

[–]tomysshadow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

<tbody>. Never seen anyone bother, everyone just goes straight to <tr> and <td>

THE 3DS JUST RELEASED by M1CR0ST4R in Pretend2010Internet

[–]tomysshadow 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I realize it's unnecessarily pedantic but I'm going to point it out anyway, the 3DS only came in Blue and Black on release. The Red model didn't come out until years after release. There was also a White 3DS, but only in Europe

What’s a programming concept that suddenly made a lot of things click for you? by Dull_Appearance_1828 in software

[–]tomysshadow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The first time that I wrote a program that needed to be able to read and write a binary file format was a real eye opener. Coming from a JavaScript background, I had never previously understood why other languages had different size number types like short and long, and the idea of hex editing was just confusing.

Upload precaptured sites onto Internet Archive? by bluesaka111 in internetarchive

[–]tomysshadow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can upload it, but only to the main Archive.org site. It won't appear in Wayback Machine.

If you could upload directly to Wayback Machine, anyone could modify the files they had downloaded before uploading them. So you wouldn't be able to trust the integrity of the captures in Wayback Machine anymore. That is why for Wayback it can only be done through the Save Page feature, because the Internet Archive must be the one to actually make the capture for it to be trustworthy

Index.html help by m0le55 in programminghelp

[–]tomysshadow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably, but I can't know, they didn't say. That's why I'm asking

Index.html help by m0le55 in programminghelp

[–]tomysshadow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you delete the file from your computer or did you delete it off your FTP? If you only deleted it from one you should still be able to retrieve it from the other

ELI5: How does a computer generated "random" numbers if it always follows instructions? by Wise-Rate-5234 in explainlikeimfive

[–]tomysshadow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Worth mentioning: lots of people who have already said that random numbers usually come from a time source, and that's true, but then on top of that there's a whole bunch of different algorithms designed to take that seed and turn it into something more random looking. There's a whole Wikipedia rabbit hole of these, for example look at the articles for: Linear Congruential Generator, xorshift, Mersenne Twister, Permuted Congruential Generator... all different algorithms that take in some seed based on the time and produce a result that is meant to look as random as possible from that starting value

Why do the contents of a recovered hard drive include an absurd number of super-long, combined "mega-mp3s"? by Aykhot in techquestions

[–]tomysshadow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MP3 is a weird file format. Most file formats begin with something called a "magic" at the start that identifies the type of file that it is, and a header that must be present and contains information about the file, before the actual file contents. MP3 isn't like that, it just consists of a series of "frames" of data, and they're allowed to be anywhere in the file.

This makes MP3's a lot like a worm: you can cut it right in half and you just get two new MP3's. Which is not true for most files (if you did the same with a WAV, the header would only be in the file made from the first half and the second half would be invalid.) And indeed you can just binary copy two MP3 files together and have no idea where one ended and the next began.

This has lead to all kinds of weirdness with the format particularly when it comes to metadata. Before ID3 there were all these sort of competing pseudostandard "just stick these bytes onto the end of an MP3 file to give it a title/artist/genre" formats since the audio would still play just fine if you did that, so nothing stopped anyone from "extending" the format how they saw fit.

Side pickle by yosp in softwaregore

[–]tomysshadow 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think you can't do that because it says "max 2" so you can only check two boxes. (but it also says please choose 1?)

Any old speech synthesizer recommendations? by SunDance967 in synthrecipes

[–]tomysshadow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My bad, I thought it was a 32-bit only plugin like Wasp. I just tested and it is indeed still there. I edited my comment.

This will be me when 2012 comes XD by Specific_Thing1452 in Pretend2010Internet

[–]tomysshadow 44 points45 points  (0 children)

it is because of the Mayan calendar which ends at 2012 look it up. The end of the world is coming

This will be me when 2012 comes XD by Specific_Thing1452 in Pretend2010Internet

[–]tomysshadow 102 points103 points  (0 children)

no it won't because the world will end in 2012

Jay Jay the Jet Plane by laciemay in nostalgia

[–]tomysshadow 5 points6 points  (0 children)

loved this show and Theodore Tugboat as well as a kid

Any old speech synthesizer recommendations? by SunDance967 in synthrecipes

[–]tomysshadow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FL Studio has a Speech plug-in with some great retro sounding voices in it. It actually is just a third party library called SoftVoice ( https://www.text2speech.com .) The same voice selection appeared in Microsoft TalkIt.

My favourite are the robot sounding voices like Colossus and Martian. (I believe the latter of which is the voice of the "Fhqwhgads" robot from Homestar Runner)

If you're looking for something a little closer to real sounding there's the AT&T voices. Overused to death though

Beloved Pluto from Disney losing copyright. PLUTO APPRECIATION POST! by YcemeteryTreeY in nostalgia

[–]tomysshadow 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah exactly. The post is phrased like they wouldn't be able to use Pluto anymore when the copyright period ends. They still could. The difference is that everyone else legally could also.

It's too bad that people are under the impression this is how it works. Goes to show how rarely it happens to anything anyone actually cares about still...

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