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by Fell 2y ago
Most video games compress booleans to bitfields in the save files to save space. Depending on the game, a save file can contain thousands of objects, so it makes sense to keep it small. At runtime, booleans are 1 byte each. The additional w
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by Fell 2y ago
In order to answer this question it is important to understand the fundamental difference between XMPP and Matrix. XMPP was invented at a time, where communicating online meant sending a message from one device to another. However, the mode
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by Fell 3y ago
Wayland is perfectly ready to be used for normal desktop applications, but the devil is in the details. Lately, I struggled with: (1) a flickering bug in the NVIDIA driver only affecting Xwayland (2) streaming to my TV via SteamLink (3) red
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by Fell 3y ago
Maybe not comparable, but $120k is still very cheap for a brand new fully enclosed aircraft.
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by Fell 3y ago
When I was little (about 20 years ago) I found a website where you could download sheets to print out. They contained parts to cut out that would make an elaborate little glider airplane. You layered multiple layers of paper together and gl
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by Fell 3y ago
> A couple of months ago our washing machine produced a considerable quantity of smoke when I opened its door, which I interpreted as a suggestion that a replacement was needed. I just want to point out that what was actually needed was
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by Fell 3y ago
I used to love C for its simplicity. There was just no surprises, and the limited feature set enforced a certain programming style that also happens to run very well on modern CPUs. But the C standard library is just awful. It's so inc
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by Fell 4y ago
And yet, VSCode cannot render at 60 FPS on my 2013 laptop. Any other program does. I don't expect Teams to perform better. Electron is a waste of resources. A high price to pay for the convenience of easy multiplatform applications.
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by Fell 4y ago
I think the technology might be more portable if you use a somehow-worn camera looking at the screen. The screen could display a calibration pattern and the camera could analyse it. Maybe a phone app would work. I think on phones it might b
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by Fell 4y ago
> Our job is to write programs that run well on the hardware that we are given. I actually believe "the hardware that we are given" is the entire root of the problem. Most programmers work and test using whatever hardware is cu
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by Fell 4y ago
I disagree with almost everything in this article. Mastodon is being portrayed as a network of seperate communities, which simply isn't true. The netwotk is fully interconnected. It does not matter which instance you're on, you al
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by Fell 4y ago
I see something on HN and I get inspired. It sparks many ideas in my head and I start planning a project in my mind. But I don't write it down. Nor do I bookmark anything. I don't use bookmarks at all, frankly. I know I don't
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by Fell 4y ago
I disagree. 1. Make it work 2. Make it performant (always, but within reason) 3. Clean up your mess to prevent future mistakes I claim that "if too slow" can't be judged because you almost never have the slowest possible targ
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by Fell 4y ago
I'm also in the same boat. I've been trying to complete my Bachelor's degree since 2011. I've been working on a pre-thesis assignment since 2021. However, I recently found a solution that works for me: I commute to work
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by Fell 4y ago
I spent the past 4 years at a small studio with about 6-8 programmers. Almost all the programmers that ever joined our team came from a non gaming background. And every time I onboarded someone new, it went about the same way. They adapted
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by Fell 4y ago
I don't see how this is different from a regular minimize feature, apart from the little thumbnails. I have never used one. Was minimize hard to do before on MacOS?
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by Fell 4y ago
If all you want is network storage in your home wifi, NFS is extremely easy to set up. Last year, I wrote a blog post about it: https://furbasik.de/nfs-is-the-new-samba I would not use it in an office though.
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by Fell 4y ago
I don't think so. It would make it impossible to talk about deprecated characters ever again, even in a historical context. Unicode contains even some ancient and long forgotten scripts so historians can keep proper records of them.
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by Fell 4y ago
This is very interesting. I'd love to read more about all these failed and discontinued ideas of computing.
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by Fell 4y ago
The most important stuff is backed up by version control, obviously. For everything else I use Syncthing.