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Dang. And I was looking forward to getting a Time 2 :(
Any recommendations for alternative smartwatches found by you lobsterites? Most important features I’m looking for (in order):
- Open (minimalist-ish) API/general hackability
- E-ink screen
- Long battery life
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I recently got a Martian Notifier watch (around $40 on Amazon right now). It doesn’t quite meet your requirements, but I went looking with similar requirements and ended up settling on this anyway.
It’s a traditional analog watch with a little AMOLED strip embedded to display notifications and caller ID and whatnot. The AMOLED display and vibration runs on their own rechargable battery and lasts anywhere from 4-10 days on a charge depending on how many alerts you send to the watch, with the analog clock running on its own replaceable battery that should last around 2 years (so even if you forget to charge it you still get basic time-telling functionality).
The API isn’t open, but it’s somewhat hackable using Tasker on a rooted phone, which you can read about in this Reddit thread.
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A cool thing about CopperheadOS that I didn’t see mentioned in the article is that many of the security and vulnerability fixes that they implement eventually make their way upstream into stock Android. It was easy for them to make the decision to switch from Marshmallow to Nougat, for example, because much of the work they had done hardening their Marshmallow ROM was already integrated into Nougat for them. So even if you don’t use CopperheadOS you are still benefiting from their work.
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Easter eggs evolved: Why gamers spent 3-years-plus studying GTAV's Mount Chiliad
I subscribed to World of Warcraft for a few years when it was first released. I enjoyed the game for what it was up until I hit the level cap (which was 60 at the time), at which point everyone who I played with joined end-game raiding guilds with strict schedules, seniority hierarchies, loot distribution policies and all kinds of things that I had absolutely no interest in.
Around the same time I discovered that it was sometimes possible to gain access to areas of the map that were officially off limits—usually zones that were part of future planned patches or expansions. Generally this involved exploring every inch of a neighboring zone, and jumping randomly into walls or barriers until you lucked out and found a precise coordinate and landed on it in the precise way that allowed you to clip through into the otherwise inaccessible area of the map.
Doing this became an obsession of mine, and consumed pretty much all my time in the game. It was such a rush to find these little secrets and know that I could be the only one—or at least one of just a few—out of millions of players to explore those creepy, abandoned, often only partially completed areas of the game world. Trying to puzzle out what the zones would eventually be used for, piecing together possible ties to the game lore from different landmarks, and then regaling other people in the game with tales of my excursions and what I had seen was more fun than I ever had actually playing the game and grinding my character’s level up.
Eventually I got perma-banned for trying to glitch my way to GM Island (a special zone normally only accessible by Blizzard employees). But ever since then I’ve always been fascinated by glitches and hidden things in open world games. I wasn’t even aware of this mystery in GTAV. I own it for Xbox One. Might be time to spin it back up and check out this whole Chiliad thing…
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I worked as a QA tester for a console game company about 17 years ago, and I did hours upon hours of this. I definitely learned how game geometry / collision detection is a never ending battle for game designers. People will do things you never even consider in order to trigger aberrant behavior in-game. One of my favorite big discoveries was in a 3rd person shooter I got it to crash by blowing up almost every single destructible in the map since it couldn’t allocate enough graphics memory for the texture swaps or something. Who would do that in real gameplay? Hah. It took the developers a while to find that even though I could reproduce it just because it was not at all obvious what triggered it, I was just bored running around hitting walls during testing so passed the time by blowing things up.
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More or less that technique works. If you can sorta jam yourself into corners one wall might be able to push you through the other wall (or object). The more you do it, the better you get at spotting possible places where you can clip through the normal geometry.
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Yup, they ended up fixing a variation of this. The trick was to just zoom into first person and just keep walking into the wall until you went through. I used to to get some items at C'Thun vendors before beating Twin Emps.
Another fun exploit I used to do is replace the fireplace model with the Dark Portal model, which was huge compared to the small fireplace that you could place anywhere. Since physics is calculated locally, you could use it to climb to places you normally couldn’t get to.
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I don’t completely buy the argument against
margin: 0 auto;. Often when I’m centering an element by setting the left and right margins I also do intend to remove the top and bottom margins from the same element. I can’t recall any situation where all I cared about was centering the element while allowing rules elsewhere to govern its top and bottom margins.Yep, I usually want to remove the margins at a level (and have that be inherited) so that I can specify the overrides I want later. I agree with the gist of the article, but going against all shorthand is to some extent throwing out the baby with the bathwater.