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by apgwoz 2y ago
I've never "studied" "paddle dynamics" in these games, and when implementing pong, always just reflected, which doesn't provide good game play, but pong is always a "I'm trying out a different framewo
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by apgwoz 2y ago
It wasn't until I read the comments that I actually gave it a chance. Would love to see a "Oh, you think it's Pong? It's not!" indicator on the page.
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by apgwoz 2y ago
It’s certainly possible that there’s a valid oversight here, but Salesforce has a rather talented security team, and the company truly lives by “Trust is our #1 value”^1 I can’t speak for the implementation, but my guess is that it’s been v
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by apgwoz 2y ago
This is Sam being given an ultimatum and making a choice before being fired. Is it effectively the same thing? Yes. But technically, he left to pursue OpenAI. YC never said “You’rrrrrrrrrrrre Firedddd!!!” (In my best Spacely Sprockets voice
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by apgwoz 2y ago
Well, clearly, the assassins _made_ the weather difficult for helicopters so they could plausibly deny accountability like any good assassin.
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by apgwoz 2y ago
There's a userspace frequency scaler ( https://tildegit.org/solene/obsdfreqd ) that increases my battery life to well beyond what I actually need. I easily get 6-8 hours on my Thinkpad X1 Nano (previous generation).
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by apgwoz 2y ago
I recently read an article (can't find it, but similar to this: https://blog.reedsy.com/how-much-do-authors-make/ ) which pointed out that the publishing industry is very similar to Venture Capital where 1 hit pays
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by apgwoz 2y ago
You _can_, but if I have a reservation a week in advance, then it’s not much use. Someone could return the car with no batter at 3:15, for my 3:30 reservation.
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by apgwoz 2y ago
We use Zipcar for a second car at the moment and the closest one is an EV. I’ve only used it to go (at most) 10 miles round trip, but I’ve picked it up at 15% charge before and had anxiety the whole time… I agree that EV is a poor choice fo
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by apgwoz 2y ago
> Free as in speech When did they change this? I distinctly remember this previously being “free as in freedom, not as in beer.” It’s always had to be further disambiguated by using “libre” and “gratis” — not sure “as in free speech” is
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by apgwoz 2y ago
The point of free as in beer is that it’s not free. So, if someone is giving it to you, it’s gratis. As opposed to “free, as in freedom” to use the beer not just for drinking, but to redistribute, inspect, add ingredients to it, understand
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by apgwoz 2y ago
Perl's POD, yes. But you're right! The spec authors are Perl folx, and this is clearly derivative. What's kind of interesting is that POD stands for "Plain Old Documentation" and then there's a "lite"
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by apgwoz 3y ago
This is exactly the size I want for my second car. Bring it on. As it stands, I’ll end up spending $10k more on a used, 2023 Bolt EUV.
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by apgwoz 3y ago
They should have kept the name PlaceholderKV. I'd remember that far easier than ValKey. One is funny, the other is boring. :) Also, see the Linux Foundation release: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foun
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by apgwoz 3y ago
I didn’t think you were commenting on Drew, fwiw. This keeps happening, and the people stepping up sometimes have different motivations. I believe Drew’s are well intentioned, and am pointing it out as “I think it’s possible to go well.”
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by apgwoz 3y ago
Codeberg is more like GitHub which is where redis was previously hosted as a project.
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by apgwoz 3y ago
Ah! Good to know about contributors being free. I’d still expect the size of redict’s community to be big enough to convert some folks to paid. But maybe I am overestimating the size of that community since the Redis company took over?
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by apgwoz 3y ago
> When developers do this is it really for the good of the community or is it a career advancing move? Drew had the opportunity to make money with this fork by hosting it on SourceHut, and potentially creating subscribers out of redict c
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by apgwoz 3y ago
I think Drew recognizes that people contributing to redict are likely more familiar/comfortable with GitHub, and that this is truly not a selfish act.
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by apgwoz 3y ago
> Uh, this article is so strangely written. What part do you think is strange? To me, the article presents an alternate narrative that (in my opinion) rightly calls out relicensing of F/OSS as the actual fork since it’s being done
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by apgwoz 3y ago
I wrote a KV store on top of Bit.ly once: https://github.com/apg/bitdb -- The "todo list" example has a good description of what's going on: https://github.com/apg/bitdb/blob&#
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by apgwoz 3y ago
Not affiliated with them, but it seems this was a mistake. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39768685 -- maybe give it another shot?
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by apgwoz 3y ago
Maybe I've become incredibly biased against the 737 MAX through years of reporting / citations of substantial problems, but I'm sort of in the "ha! I'll believe it when I see it" for the MAX to do anything prop
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by apgwoz 3y ago
I guessed "Dazed and Confused," for that song, which was also wrong--sadly. I guess "School's Out" might have been a _better_ pick for Dazed though.
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by apgwoz 3y ago
> I've been digging into a weird bug, deep in Go, that causes FIN_ACK packets to get delayed by hundreds and hundreds of ms. Just going to put it out there: have you considered the problem might actually be [Nagle’s Algorithm]( http
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by apgwoz 3y ago
[RocksDB]( https://rocksdb.org/ ) isn’t a distributed storage system, fwiw. It’s an embedded KV engine similar to LevelDB, LMDB, or really sqlite (though that’s full SQL, not just KV)
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by apgwoz 3y ago
> Personally I prefer gradual type systems that need less up front wrestling so that the coding process is more productive, more time can be spent on tuning the design rather than “finally I made it work” acceptance of compiler driven de
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by apgwoz 3y ago
That’s already happening. If companies want to be assholes, we should boycott the company and demand they change. Things are worse than printer ink. Soon, I’ll have to subscribe to turn the heat on in my car. I still want an authentic pacem
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by apgwoz 3y ago
If this can help ensure that I have, say, an authentic pacemaker, and not a counterfeit, I’ll accept it.
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by apgwoz 3y ago
eyeroll you got me

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