ahefner

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by ahefner 5y ago
SDL is great. It's such an easy way to abstract over the often ugly and always platform-specific details of how to get a window open, get it fullscreen, and get input in (including game controllers) and graphics out. Sometimes I want a
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by ahefner 5y ago
Sooner or later? You don't think the past 4-5 years, particularly the Trump presidency, isn't part of that backlash? It's only going to escalate.
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by ahefner 5y ago
Evil genius. You should work for Google.
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by ahefner 5y ago
Did you ever consider starting a small airline as customer #0 for the reservation system?
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by ahefner 5y ago
That is super cool, thanks for the information!
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by ahefner 5y ago
I guess? If I have a video player or a game/emulator in the foreground then I think it deserves direct access to the audio device and I just don't like the idea of a userspace sound server in the middle. For a music player or what
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by ahefner 5y ago
An answer to most of these might be to fix and extend ALSA rather than wallpapering over it and treating it like abandonware.
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by ahefner 5y ago
I've used casually used Gimp since 1.1 or so (more heavily between 1.2 and 2.0 or so, then falling off), and my totally subjective impression is that the early versions were fun and straightforward, and over time they got more and more
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by ahefner 5y ago
I'm not judging, but that is an amusingly non-human looking phallus that she has crafted.
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by ahefner 5y ago
Is it reasonable for institutions to begin retaliation against students for this sort of behavior? Unleash social justice media mob on faculty, risk expulsion.
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by ahefner 5y ago
I had no difficulty unsubscribing from The Washington Post.
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by ahefner 5y ago
I'm curious if you considered a 4 day fast every other week instead. The first two days are the hardest days of an extended fast (hungry, lethargic), so you might find this approach easier and more beneficial.
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by ahefner 5y ago
This is really neat. Not so long ago I happened upon a disk image containing FIG-Forth for the Atari 8-bit computers and had some fun playing with it on an emulator for a couple hours - poking registers to toggle on the hardware sprites, du
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by ahefner 5y ago
> You have to respect the hustle and ingenuity. I don't think you do. They're parasites, scarcely better than email spammers or petty criminals.
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by ahefner 5y ago
I'm curious what the last Apple products are that Ive still had a hand in. Aside from fixing some obvious missteps with keyboards, the touchbar, and whatnot, I feel like their design has been heading downhill. The iPhone 12 and 13, I r
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by ahefner 5y ago
I've wondered this too, and if it's possible for a toy implementation to help teach the concepts, but I suspect not. Probably the translation to code obscures more than it illustrates.
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by ahefner 5y ago
Maybe our for-profit private prisons are far too expensive to operate. Maybe we're also too skittish about exercising the death penalty for obviously hopeless cases.
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by ahefner 5y ago
They need nuclear weapons.
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by ahefner 5y ago
That's nothing. If he'd ever published that book of his on domain specific languages, he'd have done billions in damage.
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by ahefner 5y ago
You are really making me appreciate that my line management has never had any involvement in "scrum ceremonies" including retrospectives.
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by ahefner 5y ago
Restarts allow composable bridging, across components, of the interactive and batch/"server" worlds, because they can also be invoked programmatically. Of course you wouldn't want the debugger popping in your headless se
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by ahefner 5y ago
It's a real thing, but I think (extrapolating from my own experience) it's much more profound and tangible if you're starting from something like C or pre-modern C++ and then moving to something more modern and FP-flavored. M
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by ahefner 5y ago
You don't need the global variable (at least, the Scheme equivalent does not - I'm not going to lawyer over how variable capture would work in a hypothetical dialect of C++ that added call/cc). Any variable in scope to be cap
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by ahefner 5y ago
> We are not making enough babies in the EU ourselves... Don't you think this is the real problem that needs to be addressed? If your society cannot sustain itself, it will be replaced.
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by ahefner 5y ago
On two occasions in my career (most recently just a few years ago) I have for various dumb reasons ended up working 99% out of a single terminal ssh'd into some other machine for significant lengths of time. Screen + emacs gets it done
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by ahefner 5y ago
Could you elaborate?
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by ahefner 5y ago
Charitably, maybe he's borrowing from Taxi Driver. Puts the Padme / Anakin Skywalker relationship in an interesting light though.
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by ahefner 5y ago
I don't know the percentage, but some do prefer it, and I'm among them. I'm surprised so many people express any preference, though. My take is that the Fn key is an abomination and it's not present on desktop keyboards
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by ahefner 5y ago
So don't do that, then.
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by ahefner 5y ago
Maybe they were expecting converting to 3 dimensional Cartesian coordinates (X/Y/Z), then check that one point is inside the sphere of given radius from the other point?

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