Joeboy

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by Joeboy 6y ago
He also performed several times in MASH, one of the biggest sitcoms of all time. Edit: Song for Loudon Wainwright III by his daughter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdvk7O3Tz6A . Don't know if he deserves it or not, b
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by Joeboy 6y ago
Apparently, the brief of exploring more esoteric music was somewhat foisted on him by the BBC and he was initially dubious about it. Maybe in an alternate universe we'd be poring over The Tony Blackburn Sessions.
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by Joeboy 6y ago
15, I think. "Dark black" and "light black" were the same (absence of) colour.
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by Joeboy 6y ago
I don't really know. I guess the trusty C64 disk drive would have been handy if you were developing for the C64. I don't think the Spectrum ever had a decent disk drive available, or at least Speccy owners didn't seem to have
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by Joeboy 6y ago
<classwar>, more like.
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by Joeboy 6y ago
Trying to write games for the Spectrum was pretty painful. I got as far as writing some sprite routines using the decimal opcodes in the back of the supplied manual as a reference, saving to cassette whenever I made any progress. But the en
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by Joeboy 7y ago
> I mean if all you want to do is dip your toe in the water with GPGPU programming OpenCL is probably honestly a fine place to start. I think really that is all I want at this point. But I'm taking the many dire warnings under advis
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by Joeboy 7y ago
So IIUC this announcement is actually "We're going back to the last version of OpenCL that actually has cross-platform support". Which makes it seem a bit less crazy.
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by Joeboy 7y ago
Having to buy a new laptop is a dealbreaker for me, which I think I would have to in order to learn CUDA on it.
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by Joeboy 7y ago
I think I mostly just want to assuage my embarrassment about being a computer programmer with no idea how to use most of the computing power in modern computers. Edit: And ideally I'd like to be able to learn on my "Intel Integrat
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by Joeboy 7y ago
Over the weekend I dipped my toes into the GPU compute waters a bit, tried to get to grips with the massive tangle of competing and co-operating technologies, and tentatively concluded that OpenCL was probably as good a place as any to star
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by Joeboy 7y ago
That would be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=588kZu1JeFw ? I mean, it's trying to do the same kind of thing, but this looks to be a lot better at it.
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by Joeboy 7y ago
> If you have a background picture, you have all the info you need to identify your subject - just plain subtraction It's not really "just plain subtraction", it's keying. Which AIUI basically means setting the alpha
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by Joeboy 7y ago
I don't know if they've removed the ability to do it. I don't think you've ever had to do it. You can just hit space, or just start typing your password from the lock screen.
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by Joeboy 7y ago
That's all uncannily similar to my experience porting our ~350k LOC app. "It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it".
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by Joeboy 7y ago
I don't remember us writing any new tests specifically for the python 3 port. One issue with the test suite was that it made heavy use of a thing called django_any that isn't supported in python 3, so decided to replace it with Fa
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by Joeboy 7y ago
Our product took about a year to port, from getting the go-ahead to the eventual production switch. Running modernize / futurize was like 0.01% of the work. You're right though, we're fighting our way out of technical debt an
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by Joeboy 7y ago
> Apparently almost everyone agrees I very much do not. Gimp used to be horrendous to use. It still has some usability issues, but it's become something I can use without risking my mental health.
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by Joeboy 7y ago
> Logging in on desktop now requires "swiping up" with the mouse to get the password box. What? I just type my password without swiping anything. I've I think I've upgraded through pretty much every version of Ubuntu
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by Joeboy 7y ago
Just here to add the chorus of ripgrep fans. Was initially skeptical that it'd be worth switching from the extremely available and basically functional find / xargs, but having switched I absolutely wouldn't want to be withou
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by Joeboy 7y ago
Good answers! I feel slightly more confident in the integrity of the universe now.
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by Joeboy 7y ago
What I would like to know is, how come David Bowie uses the term "space invader" in his 1971 song Moonage Daydream, when the game didn't come out until 1978? They don't seem to me to be words that naturally belong togeth
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by Joeboy 7y ago
Have you considered going through an agency? They'll lie to you and take an obscene amount of money, but if what you're looking for is a foot in the door they might be a shortcut to getting into the industry. Get on linkedin and l
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by Joeboy 7y ago
I learned to code well enough to get a job for free in the '90s and it was certainly much, much easier than it would be now.
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by Joeboy 7y ago
Also in England and Wales, since the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act of 1994 I believe.
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by Joeboy 7y ago
> I used to blame LibreOffice for how mangled Word docs looked, but then I used Office365 and realized that there's no such things as the "right" way to display a word doc, since all of the machines I opened it on using Wo
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by Joeboy 7y ago
If you don't care about open source and don't mind spending money, Izotope RX7 has much better denoising tools than Audacity. It's actually the main reason I now have Windows installed on my desktop (alongside Ubuntu).
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by Joeboy 7y ago
Also says: > Every shot in Piper is composed of millions of grains of > sand, each one of them around 5000 polygons. I'm guessing the article is just confused. The important point, I think, is about using real geometry for sand p
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by Joeboy 7y ago
Unless you're looking at it very, very closely, does 5k polygon sand look any different from 500 polygon sand, or even 50 polygon sand? Even the very close ups in the article look like they'd be much the same with a lot fewer poly
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by Joeboy 7y ago
I guess. "Merkle trees are a miserable hunk of garbage" seems like a slightly extreme view to me.

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