JohnDeHope

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   by JohnDeHope 3y ago

   Linux in 2024 may run DirectX games well enough.
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   by JohnDeHope 3y ago

   Thanks for the trip down memory lane. It’s easy to forget what times were like before home computers.
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   by JohnDeHope 3y ago

   Why isn't this built into thick desktop BT clients? Is it just a little too early for it, and next year it will be? Or is there some reason I'm missing?
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   by JohnDeHope 3y ago

   If you support the regime, then your most heinous crimes will be ignored. If you question the regime, then they'll find something to criminalize you, figuratively in the press if that's sufficient, or literally in the courts if ne
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   by JohnDeHope 3y ago

   My two cents: the web. It's not that VB died, it's that we stopped targeting the desktop for intranet line of business apps. It all went to the web. Deployment and support of web apps is an order of magnitude easier than thick cli
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   by JohnDeHope 3y ago

   The answer to this question is: you have asked the wrong question.
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   by JohnDeHope 3y ago

   I RTFA, and this is not my experience. I just built a new gaming PC for about $900 with an AMD Radeon 6700 XT and the game runs smooth at 4K on the default high setting, about 50 fps normally. An SSD has been expected for AAA gaming for yea
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   by JohnDeHope 3y ago

   Different industries have different amount of willingness to endure foolishness. For at least the first 10 years, if not the first 20, any new technology is mostly foolishness. Some technology never even makes it out of that timeframe, and
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   by JohnDeHope 3y ago

   > Can [any storage that is not physically in my possession] be trusted with sensitive data? No. You could make a case for E2E encrypted data where the storage provider does not have keys. That's pretty rare though. The point is, nob
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    by JohnDeHope 3y ago

    I bet they have already hacked the machine. They just need legal cover to release their smooth findings. Once the judge okays it, the details will be published in 3 days. I hope.
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    by JohnDeHope 3y ago

    I can't articulate this idea, because I'm not well versed enough in programming language implementation. Maybe some forth or lisp folks can help me. A programming language can be very minimal, which is great. But it does reach a c
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    by JohnDeHope 3y ago

    Which is more likely in our lifetime: aliens, or an ambient superconductor?
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    by JohnDeHope 3y ago

    This makes me think. What if there was a database of conjectures. Each has an id number. The database could link to all sorts of media, scientific studies, etc. supporting or disputing each conjecture. Then you could just give the id number
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    by JohnDeHope 3y ago

    "...with acceleration due to gravity g... A point-like unit mass slides frictionlessly over the surface under the action of gravity." If you make up funny physics problems that don't look like the real world, then the math wo
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    by JohnDeHope 3y ago

    Possibly the thing that makes C be C is that there is only one C. It is the single lingua franca of "one notch up from assembly". I would argue any language that wants to be a better C has to accept the challenge of being availa
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    by JohnDeHope 3y ago

    And just like that, poof, a thousand nerd hours of productivity go up in smoke.
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    by JohnDeHope 3y ago

    I'm sitting on a unicomp keyboard right here next to me. Do you want it?
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    by JohnDeHope 3y ago

    Eww. This looks like COBOL v0.5. Or something. It makes me want to cry.
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    by JohnDeHope 3y ago

    Don't.
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    by JohnDeHope 3y ago

    I legit use this font for work. It's a nice mono font.
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    by JohnDeHope 3y ago

    This is weird. I write a lot of technical documentation, and it often comes out reading like this. It's almost like I learned this from somewhere, but didn't realize it.
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    by JohnDeHope 3y ago

    This is not eBNF. That is something completely different.
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    by JohnDeHope 4y ago

    Here let me fix this... We need to tell people [that everyone] [is] lying to them, not debate linguistics.
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    by JohnDeHope 4y ago

    I'm in RCIA classes to convert to Catholicism. I'm skipping this Easter's big confirmation event to give it some more time. I'm chiming in to reply to this comment. Catholicism is a practical way to deal with the guilt y
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    by JohnDeHope 4y ago

    I'll allow it, since likely a fan of that Mr. Rogers probably enjoyed the article. I did.
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    by JohnDeHope 4y ago

    Yes absolutely, it'll be 5+ years before anything like this is remotely conceivable. But I'll be working on it! When it does become possible then I'll be there immediately.
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    by JohnDeHope 4y ago

    This is how I've run my 1-3 man internal corporate line of business development teams for ~20 years. I've always handled bugs first. The biggest side effect I think you'll notice is that you are much more conservative about y
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    by JohnDeHope 4y ago

    I'd begin developing a very portable, very comfortable programming language and environment. Something akin to Pascal or Python, portable like Lua or SCUMM, less philosophical than Lisp or Smalltalk. I might not become a millionaire, b
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    by JohnDeHope 4y ago

    If you're afraid of falling down a rabbit hole of complexity, look into Pico 8. It gives you everything you need to make a game, but also very solidly caps the level of complexity you can inflict on yourself. https://www.lex
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    by JohnDeHope 4y ago

    You made me think "I think: [all of python] is a terrible syntax". At some point in the past, python crossed over into perl or php territory for me. The semantics, runtime, culture, support, library availability, etc. are all grea