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by __david__ 3y ago
emacsformacos.com still uses a CGI script written in Perl which is just a very simple wrapper around Template::Toolkit. It _used_ to be CGI even in production but it had to change for silly reasons (_not_ related to speed!). The CGI script
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by __david__ 3y ago
There's a fairly popular site I run that is run like that, except we don't use github. Just `git push production production` to push the production branch to the production machine. The bare git repo there has a post-commit hook t
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by __david__ 3y ago
You are 100% right… Though I also suspect the percentage of stressed commuters is quite high. I know when I was commuting (greater LA area) that it was often quite stressful. Finding the way to do it and stay happy was kind of a tricky thin
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by __david__ 3y ago
Slint has been around for quite a while now. A few years ago it was called SixtyFPS. I used it for a cross compiled Windows app (did 99% of the development on macOS) and it was quite nice. It was a little limited as far as widget customizat
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by __david__ 3y ago
Don't forget Gracenote, who was founded on this very principle. It just keep happening and happening, too. https://thetvdb.com/ is the latest one I've seen. User generated content, open API (with request throttlin
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by __david__ 3y ago
https://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm is what I’ve been using with OpenWRT for years. It handles 1g fiber internet with no problem.
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by __david__ 3y ago
> As a movie lover, Netflix was a great way to get stuff that was either out of print or sometimes prohibitively expensive (certain Criterion discs, box sets of TV shows) that I couldn't find anywhere else. It was until it wasn&#x27
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by __david__ 4y ago
> Looking for a way to get a modern debian (something akin to non-LTS Ubuntu) Not exactly sure what you mean by modern, but I'd recommend debian "unstable" (also called "sid"). Despite its name it's pretty s
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by __david__ 4y ago
Incidentally this is the method my 6 year old nephew used to reset his mom’s Apple ID password so he could make in-app purchases. He figured it out on his own and then spent $3000 in a couple days. His mom had been very careful with her pas
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by __david__ 4y ago
It makes launching emacs practically instant because it’s always running in the background—emacsclient connects to the already running instance so you get to skip the startup process.
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by __david__ 4y ago
Setting up emacs server is as easy as: alias emacs='emacsclient -c -nw -a ""' Seriously, that's it!
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by __david__ 4y ago
> Don't mess with Dungeon Masters who have converted their campaign into 2 seasons on Amazon Prime. I’m out of the loop. What does this refer to?
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by __david__ 4y ago
I do something similar but sillier. I scan the QR code in a basic QR reader app, then regenerate it using a script I got years ago that renders a QR code using Unicode, then store that in a plaintext file (gpg encrypted) with all my other n
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by __david__ 4y ago
You’re not wrong, but on the other hand, every C compiler I’ve used for the past 25 years has at least a warning you can enable for that. And you can easily add some attribute to custom functions that make use of *printf() functions under t
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by __david__ 4y ago
The while condition is reading the pin. The first delay lets the pin stabilize before waiting for the pin to go false.
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by __david__ 4y ago
I also hate page turning animations. Maybe it's my dumb brain but it's super distracting and I never could learn to ignore it. I finally found an e-reader app that let me disable all animations and just immediately cuts to the new
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by __david__ 4y ago
I use AVR Rust and have dumped the resulting assembly output and I was suitably impressed. It optimized the living daylights out of the code and the resulting assembly was amazingly short and did exactly what you'd expect. It didn&#x27
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by __david__ 4y ago
At that point you may as well go with beats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
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by __david__ 4y ago
Sounds like you just mainlined it? I just finished up the last Gig (minor sidequest) and I have 110 hours in it…
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by __david__ 4y ago
It depends on when they made the decision. Changing your mind doesn't mean you previously lied, it just means you were wrong. Lying needs intent.
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by __david__ 4y ago
My first intro was The Jesus And Mary Chain's Psychocandy. The mix on "Taste the Floor"[1] is so crazy—the guitar is so loud it begs you to turn up the volume to "hurt your ears" levels (phone/laptop speakers w
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by __david__ 4y ago
No? I think you're trying to be clever, but literally, no, it wouldn't be a massive loss.
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by __david__ 4y ago
I was involved with digital cinema in the mid 2000s and attended standards meetings. Dolby was constantly trying to push their proprietary format for 5.1 audio into the standard but luckily everyone else at the table pushed back, correctly
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by __david__ 4y ago
The PC is for high end gaming. It's not cost effective (contrary to what you said I'm not sure it's ever been cost effective[1]) compared to consoles. It typically only gets close to consoles at the end of a console cycle b
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by __david__ 4y ago
Perhaps, but you're probably not buying a >$1000 graphics card if you can't afford your electricity bill.
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by __david__ 4y ago
First off, don’t get discouraged by it, it happens to us all. I have 30 years of professional programming experience and I’ve used a dozen languages in depth and I find myself googling language syntax if I’ve been away from a language for a
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by __david__ 4y ago
The neat thing about games is that they cover such a broad spectrum of experiences, from what you hold as good to what you casually dismiss (visual novels, walking sims, etc). I agree with you though—even if the biggest triple A game of the
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by __david__ 4y ago
So they just re-write all the server stuff from scratch because there may be vulnerabilities in the code that got leaked? And somehow the new code they replace it with won't have vulnerabilities? That doesn't seem rational.
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by __david__ 4y ago
Souls games have a templated message system, but nature finds a way ("try finger but hole", etc.).
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by __david__ 4y ago
What do you mean? You can still download a dedicated server and run it on your own infra. I would say the users are running that and not Microsoft.

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