CmdrKrool

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by CmdrKrool 5y ago
That's because MAME is distributed as a single executable which combines support for all the machines it emulates. If there was a mega 'multiple arcade machine FPGA core' that supported thousands of machines in one then you w
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by CmdrKrool 6y ago
But due to its micro-size, it won't take long to learn.
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by CmdrKrool 6y ago
I have set up a keyboard shortcut to toggle my compositor on and off and tbh I find it tends to remain off most of the time, since I don't care for 'cool window effects' either. Most of the especially visual applications I us
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by CmdrKrool 6y ago
> [2] "Atomic" directories. What's this feature called in Unison's own terms? I'm also a regular Unison user, but I'm not familiar with this idea and it's not jumping out from a quick browse through the
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by CmdrKrool 6y ago
Yes, the greatest value add of comments for me is the potential time-saving, in the ideal case (re)acquainting you with a large work of code by guiding your attention from the top-down - firstly to orient you in the broad structural aspects
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by CmdrKrool 7y ago
I'm not necessarily recommending you go this route in general, but this is a fantastically actionable article for going deep on various Linux graphics APIs including X11 right on the socket: http://betteros.org/tut&#x2F
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by CmdrKrool 7y ago
The fundamentals of sound synthesis are things like oscillators, delays, filters etc as you see in Miller Puckett's book, and teaching materials tend to lean towards environments like Csound, pd, SC etc for their practical exercises be
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by CmdrKrool 7y ago
This is true. Unfortunately DDG is flatly not interested in offering paginated results, if this 2 year old post by the staff member 'moollaza' on Reddit still applies. https://old.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/
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by CmdrKrool 7y ago
Of course! I press it before starting to type a sentence that needs a lot of lowercase letters (like this one), before toggling it back to normal at the end. (On my keyboard, the key caps are all printed with uppercase letters.)
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by CmdrKrool 7y ago
> requiring an irregular scan pattern Yes - you've just made me aware of how and why scanning a ribbon always felt somehow more physically exerting to me, the 'manual work' of dragging my eyeballs around and about, instead
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by CmdrKrool 7y ago
Indeed, Cliqz appears to have a weirdly close, Pocket-like relationship with Mozilla. According to Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliqz#History ), in 2017 Cliqz was bundled in with Firefox for 1% of users down
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by CmdrKrool 7y ago
Not webfonts as such, but this site will generate you some images: https://nfggames.com/games/fontmaker/ (I feel the book must have been inspired by this site somehow, particularly when you read the various '
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by CmdrKrool 7y ago
A counter response to Beazley's quote might be, "syntax highlighting helps the syntax get out of the way so that I can focus on the logic". I suppose that's exactly what's happening in your "rainbow parentheses
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by CmdrKrool 7y ago
Yeah, if I select the cells in the way you just described then I get both the rows copied, again. It does sound like something in the Mac port. Certainly I would find that an annoying behaviour if I saw it. Tangentially, and perhaps weirdly
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by CmdrKrool 7y ago
I've just tried that row copying activity myself in LibreOffice, and it's behaving the same as you describe for Excel - row 1 copied to 5, row 3 copied to 6. I selected the rows by clicking the row numbers (while holding Ctrl for
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by CmdrKrool 7y ago
Coincidentally this video just popped up in my Youtube feed: "Before Amiga: The Story of the 16-bit Commodore 900" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OpI87v6OqA It asserts that the 900 was an initiative by the Germa
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by CmdrKrool 7y ago
I have a hobby project in Electron but agree, the forced separation of "main" and "renderer" processes with multiple methods of influencing each other (ipcMain/ipcRenderer, remote, webContents.executeJavascript&#x2F
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by CmdrKrool 7y ago
The wording of the parent comment - specifically "Wayland is a protocol fully designed around composition [...] There is no way to draw directly to the screen" - made me think that this is a case originally of idealism, that when
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by CmdrKrool 7y ago
> I really think it is a bad practice to force adoption of a new API that can't fulfill the same functions as the previous one. I agree, which incidentally is the reason I switched from Firefox to Chromium a couple years back as Moz
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by CmdrKrool 7y ago
Here's a nice example of someone playing Demon's Souls on PS3 a few days before Atlus shut down the server - a neophyte playing together with an old hand who explains lots about the game and why it was loved. Gaming Jay: Demon&#x
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by CmdrKrool 7y ago
It's being worked on, see EmuVR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAqUos4MYmc Not to disparage emulators (I use them all the time myself, and would be absolutely on this if I had a VR headset), but there is an amusing b
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by CmdrKrool 8y ago
Love that people are repeating the detail about the trolley. I too remember that almost as vividly as the computer itself :) Never saw a Concept Keyboard though, it looks both forward thinking and antiquated (reminiscent of the ZX81). But a
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by CmdrKrool 8y ago
I had a Spectrum at the time but looking back, I'm impressed by the thoroughness of the manual that came with the BBC Micro. From connecting the leads to BASIC to ROM system calls to assembly language, in one book. http://bb
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by CmdrKrool 8y ago
It's funny how the promise of multicore CPUs was that appropriately engineered workloads could hit new heights of efficiency and overall performance but the cynical reality is that I'm glad for the most part that the partitioning
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by CmdrKrool 8y ago
How common was the later revision (small saucer fires immediately when it appears, and can aim at you across the wrap around) compared to the original? MAME makes the newest revision the 'default' (in terms of their ROM naming) so
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by CmdrKrool 8y ago
When you get into the mindset that asking about precisely those kinds of things is potentially offensive - at the least, relatively nosey and prying - then that's when the real fun starts, or rather (that statement was sarcastic), ends
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by CmdrKrool 8y ago
One of the currently-trending productions on Shadertoy happens to be this recreation of the opening of Unreal, all procedurally generated (except for the geometry, though you can certainly find procedurally generated geometry elsewhere on t
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by CmdrKrool 8y ago
Lots of people saying this is for the benefit of non-technical users. For me, this is a minor inconvenience, precisely because I'm technically capable/interested enough to handle the inconsistency. But this kind of stuff (and I am
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by CmdrKrool 8y ago
"The display can’t show any arbitrary app, unfortunately. You can read and mark up PDFs with it, but that’s pretty much the extent of what you can put on the display." Sounds like one loses the ergonomics of a keyboard but doesn&#
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by CmdrKrool 8y ago
Sounds like the "named parameter idiom", the function comes with a struct that contains all the possible parameters and the caller passes one of those to the function instead of each parameter seperately. http://www.cs.

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