SloopJon

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by SloopJon 5y ago
Even outside of the recent scandal, I've long had mixed feelings about Blizzard: harassing independent servers, always-connected DRM (I got booted out of single-player CoD: MW so many times), and milking franchises with remasters. I
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by SloopJon 5y ago
> it will be incorporated in a company's proprietary project thus lowering the expenses necessary to develop it Without necessarily taking a position on the ethics, I would point to macOS and its derivatives as a clear example of th
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by SloopJon 5y ago
In the US, at least, Google Fi is essentially a T-Mobile MVNO. It was previously T-Mobile, Sprint, and U.S. Cellular, but T-Mobile bought Sprint, and U.S. Cellular divested a fair amount of its network. I saw conflicting reports about whet
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I'm trying to think of a case in which Apple has used public opinion in this way. The closest I can come up with is Adobe Flash, but Apple was the one blocking a product on its platform then.
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I tend to keep way too many tabs open in my browsers, some of which I never, ever go back and read. Once in a while I dump these evergreen tabs into bookmarks.google.com (yeah, I know), which is just enough to satisfy my inner hoarder that
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by SloopJon 5y ago
In terms of space usage and its impact on the buffer pool, storing as 128-bit integers (if your DBMS supports it, which MySQL does not) is essentially equivalent to the bin16 case in the first "UUID insertion rates" graph. Perfor
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I bought Loopy HD several years ago after seeing Jimmy Fallon and Billy Joel use it for "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." YouTube has some slide shows with audio, but I can't find a video that shows Jimmy using the app. I can'
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by SloopJon 5y ago
Neither counter nor idx strike me as an improvement over i . If you want to be descriptive, name the purpose of the loop variable. If it's an array of foos or an array named foo , then use something like fooIx . Then when you
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by SloopJon 5y ago
This is not a category of software that I'm familiar with, so I don't know how Nebulosity compares to its competitors, free or proprietary. My intuition says that 71,000 lines of C and C++ code is manageable for a person or group
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by SloopJon 5y ago
> Thankfully now the clang / lld / libc++ / lldb ... toolchain works pretty well on Windows Off topic, but I wonder if anyone knows whether it's possible to use rustc with lld, instead of link.exe? I tend not to have
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I just started looking at music streaming software last week, and installed Navidrome on an Oracle Cloud instance as a test. So far, so good, although it took a while to discover that Oracle's Ubuntu image uses iptables, after which I
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by SloopJon 5y ago
The article suggests that hashing (PBKDF2) is done client-side only, and that LastPass stores this hash directly. If true, this is very bad. However, LastPass claims that PBKDF2 is also used server side: > We then take that value, and
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by SloopJon 5y ago
This is a nice turnaround from 2015: > Werner Koch wrote the software, known as Gnu Privacy Guard, in 1997, and since then has been almost single-handedly keeping it alive with patches and updates from his home in Erkrath, Germany. Now 5
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I tried to activate an iPhone on an existing Google Fi plan using eSIM, and it was a nightmare. The frontline support is responsive, but can't do anything about it. The specialists I was escalated to were useless, and only reachable
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by SloopJon 5y ago
That Reddit thread is a better source link for this submission.
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I very much like backlit keys. My Max Keyboard Blackbird is red, which is just right at its dimmest, although when the side panels reset I always turn them back off. On the Kinesis Freestyle Edge, I actually like the per-key RGB lighting a
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I know you're pointing out the author's concern about acknowledging his LGPL library, but I otherwise would have missed what is one of the cooler features in this huge post, CenteredInterval. Indeed, the post essentially brags abo
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by SloopJon 5y ago
My favorite way to use tmux or et is with tabs in iTerm2.
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by SloopJon 5y ago
The post quotes a comment from the Python source code for the dict object: This is done by initializing a (unsigned) vrbl "perturb" Is "vrbl" a term I should know, or just a prvrs abbrvtn for variable?
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by SloopJon 5y ago
For those who like a little contemporary folk with their jazz, David Wilcox wrote a nice song a while back called "Chet Baker's Unsung Swan Song." (k.d. lang covered it as "My Old Addiction.") Worth a listen while
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by SloopJon 5y ago
> Supported for three years as the latest long term support (LTS) release. This is the first thing I look for in these announcements. .NET 6 is the successor to .NET Core 3.1.
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I made a diagram like this for a test automation system inside the firewall that talks to cloud providers. Using Graphviz (DOT), it was challenging to depict the system faithfully without a maze of lines from nodes on one side of the graph
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by SloopJon 5y ago
At the end of the post is a link to a Github issue to "support compiling and linking c++ code": https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/4786 It was closed in March of 2020.
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by SloopJon 5y ago
There's a blog post that describes this: https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replace... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27872596 previous discussion: https:&#
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by SloopJon 5y ago
The first tweet links to an InfoWorld article (pseudo-paywall and many ads): https://www.infoworld.com/article/3633002/the-future-of-rust... Steve is probably objecting to the paragraph that starts, "Given th
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by SloopJon 5y ago
This is the library I settled on for a project a couple of years ago. Although I was intrigued by the magic of expression templates, my usage is actually pretty straightforward and boring. One thing it has that some of the other libraries
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I was reminded of this post by a bullet point in the "Constexpr is a Platform" post: > There is no UB at compile-time; the compiler is required to issue a diagnostic whenever it encounters one. With sufficient coverage, you can
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Exploring Undefined Behavior Using Constexpr (2019)(shafik.github.io)
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by SloopJon 5y ago
On the flip side, $3B is a lot more than it would have cost Oracle to keep supporting the platform. Having worked on a product that at one time or another supported Windows (including IA64), VMS (including IA64), and thirty-one flavors of
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by SloopJon 5y ago
If up to $100 million of that was to places like highway medians and a "parking garage ... surrounded on all sides by multiple companies offering gigabit service," then no, it's not odd at all.

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