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by CmdrKrool 8y ago
This article makes some decent points but it's a shame that it had to be weakly and opprobriously framed as a kind of 'wealth' struggle. As the article itself says, "the tribes have become weaponized", I guess.
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by CmdrKrool 9y ago
Change the "Buffer" dropdown in the top-middle to "Geom_A", then you can find the URL in the "Textures" below. https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/videothumb_large8470/84708180....
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by CmdrKrool 9y ago
Elon says, albeit casually, here in the press conference at 5m36s: https://youtu.be/sytrrdOPYzA?t=5m36s "We didn't really test any of those materials [...] it's just literally a normal car in space"
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by CmdrKrool 9y ago
Just yesterday I was using someone's computer with Word 2013 on it and even with my existing cynicism I was surprised to find that it takes four mouse clicks to bring up an OS-native open file dialog, pointing at the user's defaul
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by CmdrKrool 9y ago
To some extent, the line between code in the browser core and code in an add-on coming from Mozilla is arbitrary. However, it's a line that Mozilla themselves have drawn. We've been trained to be vigilant when choosing and install
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by CmdrKrool 9y ago
Some people want to move and discover the world but can't because their computer is constantly bleating for attention toward make-work 'updates' that really do nothing but bump the version number to reassure the insecure sort
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by CmdrKrool 9y ago
I'm hoping these developments might eventually clear the way to a somewhat supported Firefox browser core sans UI to embed in our own applications (ala WebKit and Chromium via QtWebEngine), and then I might switch back. I'm tired
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by CmdrKrool 9y ago
You'll probably enjoy "Ruthless: The Story of Amstrad and Alan Sugar in the 80's and 90's" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiIXn9Tr5hI ), an absorbing video that offers some opinionated explanations
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by CmdrKrool 9y ago
This is my go to page for untangling the behaviour of git reset and checkout: https://git-scm.com/blog/2011/07/11/reset.html . And I find myself going to it quite often because another problem with this
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Trump Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself(antidotezine.com)
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by CmdrKrool 10y ago
The recent movie 'Paterson' is perhaps an interesting illustration of a character who is apparently content in an unskilled job. The title character is a bus driver whose passion is for poetry which he writes during breaks, partly
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by CmdrKrool 10y ago
See fabricate.py: https://github.com/SimonAlfie/fabricate Here's an earlier comment I wrote about it, which is also in the middle of a discussion about Tup, funnily enough: https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by CmdrKrool 10y ago
Loved the show as a teenager in the UK (a repeat; I'm not old enough to have caught the original broadcast). There's a great write up of an Apple II computer game of 1980 that was based on the show here: http://www.filf
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by CmdrKrool 10y ago
This sentence stuck out to me, from the 'Overview' page: "Because Vulkan is so explicit about every operation and the validation layers are so extensive, it can actually be a lot easier to find out why your screen is black co
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by CmdrKrool 10y ago
One of those iOS games was in fact a new take on Llamatron: http://minotaurproject.co.uk/Minotaur/minotron.php It's very good :). If it's not on the store anymore I hope you find some way to get hold of it.
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by CmdrKrool 10y ago
I was poised to post that site in this thread earlier on, but on googling I found not the site itself but this sadly relevant comment on Reddit from the site's former owner describing their eventual exhaustion in searching for the good
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by CmdrKrool 11y ago
I recently saw this entertaining video about Amstrad and Alan Sugar in the 80s and 90s (also by Kim Justice, not the first time he's been linked in this thread), which makes the point that to Sugar's credit, Amstrad was the only U
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by CmdrKrool 11y ago
I wouldn't mind so much if these micro-modules were written in a style of thoroughness; heavily commented, heavily documented with pre-conditions, post-conditions and all imaginable inputs and outputs explicitly anticipated and formall
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by CmdrKrool 11y ago
Man, the swell of that Shinobi tune at 25 seconds is an awesome thing. About the video, somehow it managed to describe the Commodore SID without mentioning the programmable filter, too. Having said that, there are many great SID tunes (incl
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by CmdrKrool 11y ago
> For example, one of the things you have to do is to hide the low-level event loop. This is the very point at which you cross from a library into a framework. Not to take away from anything else you said, I wonder if this evolution isn&
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by CmdrKrool 11y ago
Could someone make an extension to re-enable this config option? And... would Mozilla agree to sign it? (Since, you know, the standard response over the years to users complaining about removed functionality in Firefox has been, "use a
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by CmdrKrool 11y ago
The last thing I saw before my iPad's browser crashed out were the words, "ROLEX : Rolex value your time".
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by CmdrKrool 11y ago
This sounds like the currently fashionable argument to avoid comments because they can be inaccurate, go out of date, and after all the code itself should be self-explanatory - just shifted a bit further up the chain.
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by CmdrKrool 11y ago
Although it says "July 1, 2015" there's also a small "ISSUE 53, SPRING 2006" above the article title. It was nagging at me too, I just knew I'd read this before sometime in the past.
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by CmdrKrool 11y ago
I know the web is not print, pages are not static, user screens vary and one shouldn't try to control everything bla bla bla, but it seems all my layout woes ultimately boil down to difficulty in lining things up . That's what &#
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by CmdrKrool 12y ago
Is Linus euphemistically referring to someone specific there that everyone taking part in the conversation knows the real name of very well and who probably read that comment and recognized themselves, or is the idea of whomsoever decided t
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by CmdrKrool 12y ago
Experience with 8-bit micros also makes me curse the barriers you often find on modern machines that prevent you from really controlling the video display. Whether it's well-meaning display drivers refusing your custom resolutions to
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by CmdrKrool 12y ago
I'd love to stop using 'new' and embrace a more basic, less side-effect-laden and ultimately more flexible way of creating and returning objects in Javascript, such as Object.create(), object literal plus setting __proto__, o
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by CmdrKrool 12y ago
Rocky Bernstein's GUD rewrite may be of interest: https://github.com/rocky/emacs-dbgr I don't think it has a watch window yet, or a disassembly or memory view. It has a cleaner architecture than the original
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by CmdrKrool 12y ago
"When WIRED spoke Thursday night with Troels Oerting, head of the European Cybercrime Center, he said his staff hadn’t even had time to assemble the full list of sites it’s pulled down in the sprawling operation." That sounds a bi

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