a_e_k

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   by a_e_k 3y ago

   > at the end of the day this is the only job where you get paid to build completely nonphysical machines. I press keys that go clack clack, logic gates go flip flop, the electrons go zoom zoom, and my bank account goes ding ding. https:
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   by a_e_k 3y ago

   I rather miss this style. Back in my younger days, I had admin privileges on a UT2k4 server. There was usually a nice group of regulars around. If I was playing and one of the regulars reported someone suspicious I could go into spectator
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   by a_e_k 3y ago

   I love it for doing small experiments in C++ (the kind where everything is a few hundred lines in a single file) with images too.
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   by a_e_k 3y ago

   Something like that is the core idea behind Black Mirror S2E1, "Be Right Back" (2013). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
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   by a_e_k 3y ago

   I have a small TTF implementation in C++ that's only a little bigger than that and is open source. It's part of my canvas_ity single-header library [0] that's around 2300 LOC / 36 KB object size and implements a C++ ver
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   by a_e_k 3y ago

   Alphacross [0] is the one I keep coming back to. I don't think it's open source, but otherwise it's a nice simple no-frills crossword app. No ads, minimal permissions, sips battery, downloads puzzles on-demand and then work
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   by a_e_k 3y ago

   I saw the idea in a link and a discussion here on HN about a year ago: G-3PO: A protocol droid for Ghidra, or GPT-3 for reverse-engineering - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34250872 - Jan 2023 (44 comments)
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   by a_e_k 3y ago

   It's generally a fun game and fairly streamlined, but there are some trash fights (mainly in the fire region) where it's really easy to get stun-locked to death. Or get a game-over from having both party members get petrified by
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   by a_e_k 3y ago

   The fight with Culex re-uses the boss music from FF4, though. (Even if he never appears there.)
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    by a_e_k 3y ago

    I think it helps that the updates to the music were done by the original composer.
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    by a_e_k 3y ago

    For those kinds of cases, I love having as-simple-as-possible reference code checked in alongside it, even if it's just #ifdef'd out for common builds. Having a baseline makes it sooo much easier to understand and debug the optim
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    by a_e_k 3y ago

    The convolution of a box filter with a box filter is a tent filter. So yes, a tent filter blur can be done with two box filter blurs. And repeated box filters asymptotically approach a Gaussian filter, though in practice it converges very
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    by a_e_k 3y ago

    If you're interested in a free, but carefully hinted coding font, my Luculent font [0][1] may be worth a look. The hinting is its defining feature, since I hate fuzzy font rendering. I wrote every line of TTF hinting code in it mysel
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    by a_e_k 3y ago

    From the link: > We fit a bigger battery into the case, and the OLED display draws less power.
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    by a_e_k 3y ago

    Yes, Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon is also an excellent choice, too, and one that I'd debated referencing instead. But ultimately the "Whose soul was sad, and whose glance was glum," line in I have a song t
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    by a_e_k 3y ago

    My favorite example is Jack Point from Yeomen of the Guard [0]: Point: Oh, thoughtless crew! Ye know not what ye do! Attend to me, and shed a tear or two — For I have a song to sing, O! All:
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    by a_e_k 3y ago

    Anecdotal, but I feel like I tend to do subconsciously alter my diction a bit when the word is ambiguous from the context. I may use a slightly different voice inflection or stress or pacing to help disambiguate. Think of someone lingering
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    by a_e_k 3y ago

    And for the routine stuff I often have a pretty good idea what's ailing me from past experience and I just need someone to write up the prescription again for whatever's worked well before. I have no problems with seeing an NP fo
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    by a_e_k 3y ago

    It's crazy. A year ago I changed jobs to a company invested in the MS ecosystem. When I got my Windows machines, I decided to give Edge a fair chance and left it as the default. I gave it a few months, but I'm now back to good o
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    by a_e_k 3y ago

    For work, I keep a file called todo.org in a company-provided synced directory. For personal stuff, I use a similar local file for longer term things and Google Keep for short term, transient things (i.e., grocery lists, packing lists and p
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    by a_e_k 3y ago

    Personally, I'm fine with the simple single-lane roundabouts. They're convenient for U-turns, for example. For anything above that where I have to cross lanes to get to the center circle and then cross lanes again to get back out
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    by a_e_k 3y ago

    Not just that but I think half the fun that I had in the prior game, Breath of the Wild, was finding creative ways to navigate using the paraglider together with the amazing climbing mechanic. Climbing a nearby height, letting go, paraglid
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    by a_e_k 3y ago

    I hate this about the New Outlook, especially since I like to sort new messages to the bottom. And if I go to a different folder and back I have to deal with it all over again.
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    by a_e_k 3y ago

    Another good real-world one that I've done is something like: for (bit = 1; bit <= 128; bit <<= 1) Personally, I like the flexibility.
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    by a_e_k 3y ago

    I'd just use a for with an empty update clause for that: for (int i = 0; i < 100; ) { ... }
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    by a_e_k 3y ago

    C++17 now has standardized the [[fallthrough]] attribute: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/attributes/fallth... (For backwards compatibility, it still must fallthrough with or without the attri
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    by a_e_k 3y ago

    Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36635526
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    by a_e_k 3y ago

    Yes, that's Python's ternary. https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#conditi...
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    by a_e_k 3y ago

    IIRC, daemon mode is a headless instance of the Emacs that the clients can connect to. Server-mode is just a standard, headful, user-session instance of Emacs that can also accept clients.
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    by a_e_k 3y ago

    I think the noun phrase and wiki link you're looking for is "door-in-the-face technique", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique .