MenhirMike

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by MenhirMike 3y ago
I have never been murdered, and none of my friends have been either, so I don't believe that actions to stop murder are necessary. (We _do_ need laws to allow customers that can prove their purchase to unlock their parts though.)
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Somewhat OT, but I think that it's really unfortunate that North America got a 60 Hz TV standard, but didn't get the SCART Connector that makes RGB or even S-Video just natural. Composite video is one of those unfortunate mistakes
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
> unable Correction: unwilling, not unable
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
I wish there were more people that also don't and still design for desktop screen sizes, but you seem to be a rarer and rarer breed :/
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
There would be plenty of space for humongous buttons to touch and only use the hamburger when the app is really small. But yeah, it's not touchscreen, it's that everyone designs exclusively for 6" screens these days, which al
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Programmer mode is useful if you need to convert Decimal/Hex/Binary, but if you try to enter e.g, 17.95 as a decimal number, you can't. (In fact, it'll display 17 NAND 95 - so the dot seems to be a shortcut for a bitwise
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
The fact that the calculator has a $#!"@ hamburger menu to switch between Programmer and "can do floating point numbers" mode is one of those asinine UX decisions that makes me fear any app update - "Oh hey, they're
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
The main geopolitical lesson from Red Alert: Build more Tesla Coils.
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
The world can always use more Cassette 50-like Game Jams - it's really productive to just create something, anything, without having to worry about whether it's good. Just make a game, it's liberating. (Sidenote, as a Commodo
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Yeah, I think I really didn't like the "The server thinks it's crashed and will run a recovery" part, but they do go out of their way to call out "It's fine, just make sure the WAL is also backed up". Can&
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Do you know how Bacula compares to Bareos? Bacula is on my to-do list to look at (also because I need tape backups), but the Bareos fork seems to have a more modern interface - but I've not stress tested either solution. The fact that
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
CTRL+F "tape" "lto" - 0 results. I know that Tape Backups are not hip and sexy, but CloudNordic showed us just last month why they still matter even in 2023 and beyond, so you'd definitely want to look at an additio
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
To give you an example, the Syzygy tablebase for all endgame positions with 7 pieces remaining is 18.4 TB. The estimated size for 8 pieces is 2 PB. There are different applications for different things: If you want to host a website with re
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
I loved my 2015 Retina Macbook, though it sometimes feels like it's a minority opinion given the first gen butterfly keyboard and the single USB-C port, but it was exactly what I wanted a the time: an iPad-sized device with a keyboard
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
I remember the cheers in the audience when Jobs mentioned that they rotated the logo.
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
> where people make amusements that are meant to run on embedded computers. I'm glad that PICO-8 exists, which is kinda exactly that. Except that it's not targeting any actual hardware (it's an imaginary retro-system), but
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
"mostly", but there are notable examples. Intelligent Systems Fire Emblem Engage, Atlus' Shin Megami Tensei 3 HD port, or Bethesda Classic Doom re-release come to mind for bigger company Unity releases. It is less prominent i
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
I believe it when I see it. I would like to see it, but I doubt that a significant enough portion of developers are going to jump ship. For smaller indie studios, there are definitely better alternatives, but when it comes to the big packag
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Yeah, it wouldn't need ChatGPT and it wouldn't take a week - my initial post pretty much came to my mind fully formed because it's just every action movie trope of any 90's/00's Blockbuster. I can probably writ
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
This is going to be the plot of a Bruckheimer/Emmerich co-production, is it? A team of scientists needs to travel into the heart of a volcano to find the lost city of Lithium, but one of them is actually a spy for a foreign power that
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Centrino was an absolute slam-dunk success that did significantly bring x86 laptop computers forward (it may not be complete hyperbole to say that the Pentium M is the most important Intel CPU of this century), but in some ways it became ob
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
I am not sure what the real market is then, though. If it's for people that want to re-live their memories, then a system with built-in games (of which plenty exist) makes much more sense, or one with a digital store (so, the VCS, or d
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
I do like that /bin/true can actually fail and return false, which technically makes a "Not /bin/false" invocation more resilient: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/mast
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Yeah, the AAA thing definitely didn't work out for them (or for whatever company was called Atari when they were AAA publishing). I could definitely see them being a great Indie publisher, and I just saw that they bought Nightdive Stud
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That's because I completely forgot about it immediately after seeing it's just a Linux Emulation Box with a cartridge slot, so more like a Hyperkin RetroN instead of a Mister/Analogue FPGA-based product. I do wonder how compa
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Happy for Albert to get a job, but I expect this to be the end of the site in the not so far future, given that Atari seems to be more about squeezing every last drop out of their old portfolio. The homebrew community can be forever gratefu
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Isn't something like that what made the original Raspberry Pi 4 not actually USB-C compliant, because they combined two signals that shouldn't have been combined?