ahartmetz

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by ahartmetz 5d ago
>due to VGA Notably, the OG VGA card from IBM could already do 640×480 with 16 colors and 720x400 in text mode.
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by ahartmetz 5d ago
The idea that ideas can be stolen and that doing so is wrong is fairly new and somewhat "unnatural". So the ethics of "stealing ideas" are not entirely well-defined. I think the only thing that almost everyone agrees on
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by ahartmetz 6d ago
A great marketing opportunity for Grifty McGriftface.
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by ahartmetz 6d ago
https://invent.kde.org/sdk/dferry/-/tree/fercode?ref_type=he... serialization/fercode.py, codegen.py and argumentscgreader_t.cpp. It's in Python for easier cross builds, so that there is no nee
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by ahartmetz 6d ago
FWIW all that is barely different from German (I'm a German native speaker). These implied groups seem like a nightmare if you have to learn how they work. Since I "just know", I've never had to think about it much. Nati
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by ahartmetz 6d ago
It's because the town has one out of the set of all castles. You can also say "Our town has the castle", which... now there it gets weird. I think it means it doesn't have much, but it has that . Well I guess it'
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by ahartmetz 6d ago
I've done something similar for DBus deserialization. It turns out that I stumbled upon something called fixed-point optimization for loops (in DBus: arrays), similar to what the JVM does according to Cliff Click's very interesti
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by ahartmetz 7d ago
German blogger Fefe used to say "Software problem, nothing we can do about that"
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by ahartmetz 7d ago
> And we just want people to be safe. Heh. Real-world occurrence of Silicon Valley "We just want to make the world a better place" (also $billions, mainly that actually)
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by ahartmetz 8d ago
AFAIU, the GUS was basically a DSP + sample RAM. With an appropriate driver, it should have been possible to load General MIDI instruments (maybe only what's needed for the game you are about to play, due to limited capacity) and let t
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by ahartmetz 9d ago
But not how you think, in this instance. I think Berlin has more places of questionable legality which require cash for presumably tax avoidance reasons.
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by ahartmetz 9d ago
Yeah. It took me a few paragraphs until I checked out, but spending flair points on unimportant stuff is still obvious. If everything is highlighted, nothing is. There is also this weird incoherence - a long series of statements that don&#x
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by ahartmetz 9d ago
That has changed a little. Today, you can often play OK with minimum specs. You might need to switch to an embarrassing resolution to get 60 fps. In the 90s, with minimum specs you got like 5-10 fps at minimum details (and usually fixed res
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by ahartmetz 9d ago
Worth noting that timing-exact emulation is for, more or less, less than 32 bit consoles. The timing of newer hardware is so unpredictable that nothing can reasonably rely on details, which is just as well: it would probably not be possible
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by ahartmetz 10d ago
Schwab is the second most popular bogeyman of internet wackos after George Soros and doesn't have much formal power. So I'm gonna need some credible evidence for that.
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by ahartmetz 10d ago
Von der Leyen sucks, but not in that way. She is an unscrupulous careerist with a talent for failing upward - and she failed a lot. More of a system abuser than a system changer.
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by ahartmetz 11d ago
How does some chump who gets paid to stick potatoes into tailpipes* become a double agent? Being a double agent requires the ability to hurt the side you're ostensibly working for. The potato guy can show Telegram chats where a guy cal
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by ahartmetz 11d ago
Seems like someone got updated KPIs and decided to try the most ham-fisted enshittification move to raise registrations. Oh, it is now possible again to see about five top reviews per item. Seems like loss of traffic was rough.
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by ahartmetz 11d ago
In typical audio amplifiers, though, power is increased by amplifying at a moderately high voltage (200 V or so) and transforming it down. That's another way of increasing output current if you have the flexibility.
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by ahartmetz 12d ago
As a past passenger, I have nothing bad to say about them and the A220s (their only plane model!) are great to fly on. Hoping that they make it.
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by ahartmetz 12d ago
Nah Linux is clearly getting better, but perhaps Windows is getting worse faster than Linux is getting better. Easier to destroy than to create and all that.
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by ahartmetz 12d ago
It's compile drivers or research your hardware before you buy it. The latter is highly recommended. If you go against the common advice, it's kinda your problem. If you bought the hardware before installing Linux or it was given t
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by ahartmetz 12d ago
AFAIK, Adidas has been more niche* in the US, which makes sense given its German origin. I'm German and I don't recall a time when Adidas wasn't either #1 or #2 here. Kanye West barely registered. * It's reportedly assoc
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by ahartmetz 12d ago
They are officially called ugly sneakers and the name is very appropriate.
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by ahartmetz 12d ago
The problem with "data" as discussed here it is that powerful organizations and people own it and common people don't. It's an instrument of power for the already powerful.
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by ahartmetz 13d ago
I'd be more interested in a car, the kind that people had before they went mad. Smaller frontal area, lower center of gravity, lighter weight. More economic, faster, more fun to drive. I don't want to sit high neither, lower is mo
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by ahartmetz 14d ago
>Young people prefer phones to cars even I mean, I probably do, too. I certainly use my phone much more often (I live in Berlin). But please, can we not make cars smartphones on wheels? I don't want to throw away my car after five y
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by ahartmetz 14d ago
My guess is: progress is stagnating, so they look best if they pretend to slow down intentionally while continuing to work at full speed.
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by ahartmetz 15d ago
The .git directory does not contain plain files, so the same files may look different in different .git directories. But yeah, you could make it work if you designed for it.
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by ahartmetz 15d ago
Trump sure is an idiot, but it seems somewhat likely that Netanyahu pressured him to perform this particular idiocy that is also against his previous anti-war attitude - one of the few things that was good about his first term.

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