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by boondaburrah 4y ago
There's also that Haxe is older than a lot of the stuff we take for granted today. It's roots are in ActionScript, and it started as basically a successor to AS2 before Adobe came out with ActionScript 3. It did "same codebas
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
I feel just like people become unable to see any image on a website that happens to be exactly the dimensions of a banner advert, if they hear muzak every day, they probably don't even notice /anything/ is playing if it'
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
It's weirder than that; I watched the Silicon Cowboys documentary about compaq, and the archived footage quality takes a sharp dive from the 70s to the 80s as they switched from recording on film to videotape. Tape quality was good and
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
I wish the stupid youtube compressor hadn't hit it with the "SD doesn't matter" settings. VHS should look way better than this, but there's digital macroblocks everywhere, and as sibling comment said, no longer 60i.
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
How comfortable are you with functional programming? I've found digital logic to have more in common with describing data transformations than C/ASM, though understanding bitmasks/bitflipping helps.
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
Yeah I've got beef with Unicode. It doesn't support CJK*. Since I work in games and there are a lot of Japanese games that want to be sold in the Chinese market (and vice versa), this is A Problem. I don't know where they got
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
Whether or not there is a god, the phrase "being religious about" something exists for a reason. I imagine a lot of the discipline in practicing religion allows you to make yourself keep going. Heck, it's even called "pr
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
In my gentoo days, chromium would take longer to compile then the rest of @world combined.
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
similarly, webapps have eaten desktop software because you don't have to raise a ticket with IT to get approval for a software install.
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
I mean, the BIOS sets up a perfectly usable text console back in the day when they were adding KMS, and even now UEFI will run one at the native resolution of my laptop, so you can get by without it.
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
My public highschool CS course was an honors elective taught by the calculus teacher, so I think that made it unattractive as a playground spot. However, I think it was really that the teacher was incredibly patient, kind, and unable to res
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
Note that game credits sequences are sometimes just a list of who works at the company at the time of release, and not an actual reflection of who worked on the game. This has resulted in a few problems where people get their name stripped
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
Yes, but without WSL you had to install SUA (Subsystem for Unix Applications) which gave you a shell and all the Unix things you like, so it's really not different (even if the POSIX it gave you was really old and crusty). I actually l
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
I remember KMS becoming a thing and wondering why anyone needed or wanted this. I still don't exactly know, since it seemed natural to me that the kernel shouldn't be doing any graphics things until I actually wanted a graphical c
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
Just like Abiword's document format doesn't cover all of HTML, but it is itself perfectly parseable as HTML, I don't think this editor has to.
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
It's love2d(ots)
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
I got mandatory training in Microsoft Office as part of the state curriculum for highschoolers. I don't think basic training really promotes lock-in with Office suites. (well, except for Excel, but that's a programming environment
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
Does that not also cause you to lose source code access? That's kind of a problem for people who need this for work.
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
This is at least the second time this has happened. I even have a "wallet incident" folder in gmail for this.
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
Exactly. I built my first 8-bit computer after watching Ben Eater's 6502 series and the first thing I did after "Hello! World" was look up what bare minimum serial transfer I could implement that would yell if I fucked up the
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
TBH I think people get stockholm syndrome with whatever their first assembler language is. I can't stand X86, but similarly find 6502 absolutely bonkers. My first ASM was MIPS-I, and apparently that makes me one of the few people that
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
Access to quality food is a problem. Unhealthy food is far cheaper than healthy food.
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
required to use windows for work (the software I produce must run on desktop windows machines), and only have my personal PC to do work with. I'd like to have money for a second machine but I don't. The thing with the linux commun
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
"without increasing the number of potentially fraught officer–citizen interactions" My dude, this /is/ a potentially fraught officer-citizen interaction. The police have done something unusual, therefore a chilling effec
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
IIRC this font is available in the linux kernel. Every time I build one for my laptop I set it as the system's text-mode font because it makes using a 1080p screen in 15" quite nice (and I usually have to spend some time debugging
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
I thought it was taken out by everyone defending against WannaCry
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
Did they give up on GTK? I remember Suse Linux Enterprise in particular shipped with a bunch of nice .NET/GTK apps that seemed to work well.
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
firefox containers is both the killer feature of firefox for me (I can't leave it) and also the jankyest. I don't think mozilla knows they have gold on their hands (but do they ever know?). I lived through the firefox extension de
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
I wonder for how many people Mojave is the last Mac OS they can use simply because Adobe stopped selling software for anything later (you can only rent), and other various 32-bit reasons. Adobe products are sadly required for industry work.
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
parsing was never so much the problem as what was rendered afterwards being different.

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