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pmx··on Show HN: 4snakes – a classic Snake game but with 4 snakes
Yes, when you eat a food your control will jump to the snake of that colour.
pmx··on Growing a SaaS: Avoid Confusing Dual Offers
The low contrast text on this site is impossible for me to read comfortably. Gave up trying to read it.
pmx··on Boston Dynamics prepares to launch its first commercial robot
Bath tubs, steps, loose carpet, electricity, swimming, eating. Anything can kill people, we're really delicate!
pmx··on Elite reveal anxiety over ‘class war’ and ‘revolution’
This worked for me :)
pmx··on Why Do People with Depression Like Listening to Sad Music?
Purely anecdotal but when I'm feeling down / sad I find that happy music annoys me where as sad music soothes me. Music too far out of my current mindset clashes with it and causes negative feelings in me.
pmx··on Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”
There is nothing stopping you from using other app stores on android. Amazon has their own (amazon underground) and samsung have their own (galaxy store). There are others out there, too!
pmx··on New Technology Uses Lasers to Transmit Audible Messages to Specific People
There is an alternative method to achieve similar results using very high frequency (40khz in the case of the video below) audio as a carrier for audio that is within the human range. It modulates the amplitude of the carrier signal (in the same way that AM radio does). The high frequency audio interacts with surfaces it hits and kind 'self decodes' into human-perceivable audio. It's doable by DIYers with a little electronics knowledge, too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBdVfUnS-pM

pmx··on Google cans the Chromecast Audio
That page says Chromecast doesn't do multiroom synchronized streaming but it absolutely does.
pmx··on Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people
The example i saw had a woman who had control of her eyes but nothing else. She had a computer monitor with eye tracking software installed. She could look at controls on the screen in order to command the robot. This was all overlayed on a live video feed from the robot. I'm assuming she also had sound since people were telling the robot verbally what their order was.
pmx··on Linux on Dex
It works well on the other devices too, you just need the dex station.
pmx··on Monzo, a U.K. challenger bank, raises £85M Series E
They have done several events in Manchester already
pmx··on YouTube and Netflix ‘Throttled’ by Carriers
I used to experience this in the UK with Virgin Media. Youtube would be unwatchable and any downloads from the Google Play Store would timeout 80% of the time. Switched my devices over to a VPN and the issue went away immediately. They deny it but thats pretty damning evidence af far as I'm concerned.
pmx··on Stripe for female founders has invited you to join Stripe Atlas
How is this not sexism? Are women somehow less capable than men and need services handed to them in order to be successful? I don't think that's the case and I'm surprised Stripe appears to!
pmx··on THT v0.2.0 – a language that compiles to PHP
>You want a JavaScript-like language for server-side development, but without the complexity of Node.js

I think if node is too complex for you then perhaps you should find another career/hobby.

pmx··on Three bad recipes generated by neural network (2017)
It failed at making recipes but it excels at comedy!
pmx··on GitLab Web IDE
Users do want this. The Cloud9 Web IDE was popular enough that amazon acquired it and now it's part of their offerings in the AWS family. There is also CodeAnywhere that has paying users.
pmx··on Show HN: Web Audio DSP Playground
Its an experimental playground. I think you may be overreacting slightly.
pmx··on Scientists can now keep brains alive without a body
This is truly nightmare material. I shudder to think how this could be used to extract information from someone once the tech progresses to where it's possible to communicate with these brains.
pmx··on Show HN: Egg Gradients – Gradient color inspirations
I really love how well it blends in with the rest of the content. I noticed it right away but it's not distracting enough to be annoying. Nice work!
pmx··on [dead]
I gave up "fizzy drinks" ( I think it's called soda in the US?) And I've noticed a marked improvement in my mental and physical health. I feel less jittery and my concentration is better. Now I can't even drink a can of diet coke without feeling weird. I still drink alcohol and coffee in the morning but that (coffee) is next on my hit list.
pmx··on Volume.gl – 3D Model from Single Image
This was a gear deal more impressive than I expected! I tried a couple of images and it got the depth very close on one and almost perfect on the other. It's weird to be able to change the perspective of an image of a place I know and it be as accurate as it is! Kudos.
pmx··on Konva – HTML5 2d canvas library for desktop and mobile applications
I was actually enjoying that game until the radiator turned up! haha
pmx··on (New) Font Awesome Website
If you're still using V4 you can get the old docs here: https://fontawesome.com/v4.7.0/
pmx··on [dead]
I stopped reading after the first couple of paragraphs. This is SEOd to hell and back to the point where it's painfull to read.
pmx··on I amplified my home's Wi-Fi with aluminum foil
My chromecasts have been acting up really badly recently, I've just gone and disabled guest mode on them all based on this information.
pmx··on The Pentagon’s U.F.O. Program
How so?
pmx··on Show HN: Ondevice SSH – Terminal emulator for devices without public IP address
ngrok is aimed at making applications that are under development available for testing by someone outside of your network, for testing webhooks, etc. It's not for production stuff.
pmx··on I'm on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality
A lot of Americans have entirely no choice in their broadband provider. Many areas have a single provider who actively prevents any other company providing access in that area. Those customers don't have the luxury of calling up and cancelling unless they're happy to go without broadband. "Vote with your wallet" only works outside of monopolies.
pmx··on Amazon seller lost $400K in sales after being attacked by 'virus of Amazon'
I think the biggest problem is that "normal" people have no clue that email is as insecure as it is. They trust that if an email says it's from a specific address, it must be.

The issue has to be fixed on a system level so spoof emails are impossible, because thats how most users think it is already.

pmx··on PopSQL – Modern, collaborative SQL editor for your team
I might if it wasn't tied to a cloud service. Sharing not that important for me unless it can be done without the need for getting a 3rd party involved.
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