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by buzzybee 10y ago
I think I've been cured of this bias by seeing a lot of videos of analog modular synthesizers, which share the patch-cable programming techniques of analog computers. Analog systems can do some interesting things, and they have a nice
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They're useful for adding continuation and some other features. However, they're also a huge target for malware: potential to tamper with the binaries, discovery of traffic patterns, etc. And they are absolutely clunky as a third-
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Ooh, I wonder this could lead to the Haxe compiler running in JS.
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The post seems abruptly cut-off. It talks a lot about containers and not about applications. Does this person only write code and start servers?
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by buzzybee 10y ago
I would counter that this appears to be a repeatedly emerging consensus, including Stepanov, Kay, Simonyi, and a number of other "greats", that an approach that involves some degree of metaprogramming, guided by domain problem, is
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by buzzybee 10y ago
There's a great discussion to be had in scaling your practices to the human factors. For a solo developer, just breaking things out into modules and massaging the formatting is likely to be a net negative - something you might do once
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by buzzybee 10y ago
During this stream[0], the TASBot setup is reused for a remote-playable version of Stack-Up. There's an earlier stream where DwangoAC pitches how it would work, which I'm having some trouble finding now. (I recommend that streamer
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by buzzybee 10y ago
The best advice I've received(which is a combination of journal science and self-experiment) is to moderate it when pairing with carbs - so perhaps lay off the butter cookies or cheeseburgers and fries, but don't be too worried ab
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by buzzybee 10y ago
I want to use this! The UX is giving me some difficulty. First I wondered how to add a tag to a note and eventually discovered that dragging the tag on from the sidebar worked. But now how do I remove the tag?
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by buzzybee 10y ago
I used to use pirated PS as a teenager, and switched to Gimp later on. My experience has consistently been: for basic selection masking, color changes, and minor adjustments(i.e. things you would typically do to photos), they're equiva
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by buzzybee 10y ago
It correlates with my theory of Endless September someday having an end. The problem of Endless September was growth - too much growth, too quickly. When that stops, and unless we experience an AI personhood event, it has to, because we onl
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Seconding Backblaze for set-and-forget. It's a huge confidence boost for data that is a little bit too large and low-value to handle with more care.
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Still using a HDD here. Would like to transition, but holding out for better price/capacity ratios. It's really clear that it's the bottleneck for everyday use at this point; I recently went to 16GB RAM which stopped a lot of
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Swarms of alternatives is a penalty of success, not failure. It's what Javascript looks like now, for better or worse.
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by buzzybee 10y ago
For every age we will surely have a bogeyman in our impact, whether it's urban streets covered in manure, excessive smog, food shortages, acid rain, the depletion of the ozone layer, or climate change. The point in reading a text like
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Semver is not bad, but it's incomplete. Sometimes a "software package" encompasses multiple concurrent "API versions", which means that depending on whether you care about the API in question, the package may or may
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by buzzybee 10y ago
On the other hand, it's certainly more engineering to have to build a custom format. I implemented a story engine that compiles to behavior trees, and then subsequently to a small instruction set in this past year and, well, we're
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Progressively building and breaking flow(medium.com)
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by buzzybee 10y ago
I believe what Scott identifies as "unexpected and physical" is actually better understood as "sufficiently hyped". For media businesses like comics, games, etc., hype is a thing you can explicitly build into the design
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Well, some Hacker News readers would certainly have a financial stake in preserving the VC model by any means necessary. There are risks indeed to crowdfunding, but not wholly unique ones. All one has to do is browse penny stock boards, o
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by buzzybee 10y ago
I learned this stuff a long while ago, but I found a promising textbook for you to review [0] tldr; the "easy 80%" of the effort in GPU rendering, specifically, is reformatting graphics data in forms that the GPU prefers. (The &qu
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by buzzybee 10y ago
This is a misunderstanding of what a rendering engine does. It operates on at least two layers: 1. On the CPU, architecting the drawing commands and resource management for the GPU 2. GPU programs (in the form of API calls, shaders, output
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by buzzybee 10y ago
We delete Nazis on mastodon.social
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"git usability discussions"
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I am employing a method this year that works around the question of "for programmers" and focuses on a cycle of clean, then practice, then apply, where as I go up each level, I aim to be in a more intensive state than the previous
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Should note that this doesn't work well for anything but the simplest posts since mentions and image embeds work differently across the two platforms.
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by buzzybee 10y ago
You can browse individual accounts, e.g.: https://mastodon.social/users/Gargron https://mastodon.social/users/Triplefox But there isn't a feed of the public timeline which would be the most i
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Find a cyclical, ritualized behavior that you can engage in as a way to ramp up towards your main task of the day. For example, first you clean your tools, then you do a warmup, and then you are prepared for something high intensity. You ca
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It's a reasonably well known tool among most 3D artist communities. It does something of everything at this point. The downside typically stated is that the UX for modelling workflow in particular is alienating, and most folks have tro
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Paying more attention to various natural cycles of mine. Started using a calendar more regularly. Started using mindmapping more regularly. Gradually shifted towards an 8-day cycle for the gym as I found a lot of success with longer rest ti

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