Tag: Games
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Links van 1 tot 4 januari 2026
Turning 20 while the world turns upside-down | Parv Mahajan I turn 20 in January, and the world looks very strange. Probably, lots of jobs will be gone soon. Probably, the smartest thing alive will no longer be human. Probably, things will change very quickly. Maybe, one of those things is whether or not we’re…
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Links van 25 december 2025
Exploring Mathematics with Python The heart of this book is Arthur Engel’s 1993 textbook Exploring Mathematics with your Computer which utilizes Turbo Pascal for its exploratory work, and is still available for purchase. The first six chapters (and Appendix A) are essentially that book, but with the programming language changed to Python, some rewording, reformatting…
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Links van 18 tot 24 december 2025
Open Access We are pleased to share an important milestone for our field. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, more discoverable, and more…
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Links van 7 tot 13 december 2025
rePalm – Dmitry.GR Pixter was quite popular, as far as kids' toys go, in USA in the early 2000s. A friend brought it to my attention a year ago as a potential rePalm target. The screen resolution was right and looking inside a "Pixter Color" showed an ARM SoC – a Sharp LH75411. The device…
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Links van 7 december 2025
What is Generative UI? | tambo blog Generative UI is an interface that adapts in real-time to the user’s context. Their natural language input, their past interactions, system data. Instead of a fixed experience everyone must learn, the software learns to fit what each user needs in the moment. ui, ux, generative UI (4218) Ivan…
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Links van 1 tot 6 december 2025
A vector graphics workstation from the 70s – jaeblog jaeblog In my mind, Tektronix is a brand that makes electronics lab equipment like oscilloscopes and logic analyzers. Turns out, they made quite a few terminals and a couple of computers! A good friend saw this one for sale local to him, and I poked him…
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Links van 28 november tot 1 december 2025
20 Years of ZBrush… And I'm Blown Away by Nomad Er zijn geen zekerheden meer — "After almost 20 years of using ZBrush, we are giving Nomad a try! This is our first impressions of Nomad after using it for a few weeks. We're covering both the ipad and desktop version of Nomad" 3D, sculpture,…
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Links van 23 tot 28 november 2025
First-ever recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks — School of Medicine University of Louisville <p>Imagine reliving your entire life in the space of seconds. Like a flash of lightning, you are outside of your body, watching memorable moments you lived through. This process, known as “life recall,” can be…
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Links van 18 tot 22 november 2025
State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions · Articles This is a follow-up to my previous article, Terminal Emulators Battle Royale – Unicode Edition! from 2023, in which I documented Unicode support across terminal emulators. Since then, the ucs-detect tool and its supporting blessed library have been extended to automatically detect support of…
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Links van 30 oktober tot 3 november 2024
How the U.S. military lost a $250 million war game in minutes – The Washington Post As a U.S. Navy carrier battle group entered the Persian Gulf, it came under surprise attack by adversaries launching missiles from commercial ships and radio-silent aircraft that quickly overwhelmed its missile defense systems. Nineteen U.S. ships, including the aircraft…
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Links van 27 tot 30 oktober 2024
Why ghosts wear clothes or white sheets instead of appearing in the nude Why aren’t ghosts naked? This was a key philosophical question for Cruikshank and many others in Victorian Britain. Indeed, stories of naked or clothesless ghosts, especially outside folklore, are exceedingly rare. Sceptics and ghost-seers alike have delighted in thinking about how exactly…
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Links van 30 september tot 4 oktober 2024
Normans and Slavery: Breaking the Bonds | History Today If you’ve never encountered this aspect of Anglo-Saxon England before, there is a ready explanation. To the founding fathers of academic history – the scholars of late Victorian and early 20th-century England – the Anglo-Saxons were ’us’, and it was from them that we derived much…
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Links van 18 tot 22 september 2024
Fable at 20: a uniquely British video game with a complex legacy | Games | The Guardian In 2004, Fable was as famous for what it didn’t deliver as for what it did. But this Python-esque fantasy game deserves to be remembered for more than that. games, Peter Molyneux Trove of dinosaur fossils found high…
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Links van 26 juni 2018 tot 28 juli 2018
Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy — Thousands upon Thousands of Titles — and My Efforts To Save ItAllow me to summarize. In less than two years from the time of this article, hundreds of thousands of games are likely to disappear from the internet, forever. Simply no longer playable. Hundreds of millions of views, likes, 5-star…
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Links van 12 augustus 2016 tot 26 september 2016
Planetfall 2 prototype : Infocom : Free Download & Streaming : Internet ArchiveDon’t get your hopes up: this is a very early prototype from the cancelled sequel to Infocom’s classic text adventure. It’s barely playable, though it does provide an interesting look at how the game would have played with a realtime 3D engine. The…