commodoreboxer

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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
"Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something."
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
7z is an archive format. You have to extract it first. PSX games will usually be an iso, a bin, or bin and cue files.
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
I agree with you. I was just pointing out that the idea of advertisement funding a free Internet is already a lie in the first place. I am 100% anti advertisement, for the record. It is disgusting and non-consensual, and nobody should toler
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
That's the rub. You do pay for it. By the intention and definition of the business, advertisement eventually extracts money from you. It wouldn't be profitable otherwise. The fact that it happens more subtly and enables them to ex
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
Most importantly, advertisement is a business. It's not charity and it's not a publicly owned resource. It doesn't keep the Internet free, because it makes a boat load of money doing what it does. It doesn't take an expe
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
I'm pretty AI pessimistic, but I still found the more optimistic AI story refreshing and nice. A reminder that new technology is actually supposed to make our lives better, not just funnel a lot of money from a lot of people to a smal
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
> You can optimize for revenue/agony instead. That's a great way to put it. I'm going to start using that one. Tangent: I'm a programmer at a small company, which has three programmers total. I make a decent wage, but
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
What is the frequency? I haven't read much on it. Honestly, I'm not sure the frequency needs to be extraordinarily high. The ability to get rid of the "but think of all the jobs that will be lost" argument lets us get ri
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
The US has a strong culture of treating prisons as punishment rather than rehabilitation, so the thought of wrongful convictions becomes extremely uncomfortable, as you have to deal with the idea that you are participating in a culture that
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
> Bewildered, Eaton tried to grasp what she had just read: The judge was penalizing them because everyone — the state, the defense, the witnesses — agreed that the Mazes committed no crime. This is especially upsetting. I don't unde
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
Imagine finding a piece of art you like, but finding a minor anatomy flaw. When you point it out, the artist says they aren't going to fix it, because the piece is finished, and it would be impossible for them to do it, you point out t
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
Not "magically", but more reasonably and without forcing your entire program into a different state, breaking any ability for libraries to work with a huge range of functionality consistently. C locale handling is basically imposs
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
A lot of the best things we have in the modern world are "socialism". Libraries and parks are socialist. Socialism isn't a dirty word, nor is it an argument or a criticism.
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
With that precision and size, you can only cover the years from 1678 to 2262, which strongly limits your ability to represent historical dates and times.
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
C++ and Java do make you cast null/nullptr, if you need to resolve an ambiguous overload based on pointer type.
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
That's a convenient generator for pull requests, sure, but a pull request is still a human mechanism, not a git mechanism. The "pull request" itself is still just a message requesting a pull, not some concept that git (eithe
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
"pull request" isn't really native to git. "pull" is. A pull request is literally sending somebody a message and requesting that they pull a branch from your fork and merge it. A "pull request" in GitHu
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
RGME is simply fantastic. His Pokemon cry and sprite encoding is so well done. He did a charity Livestream once where he spent 4 hours decoding a Pokemon sprite by hand. I didn't watch it, because that's too much a time investment
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
I do, and I haven't.
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
I'd be shocked if that were universal over that time, given that even formal language has undergone many changes in attitude. Over hundreds of years, I bet that in many times and places it has not considered it a problem, particularly
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
It's definitely more clunky for complex object graphs. Making a useful directed graph with cycles is pretty annoying. Not impossible my any means (I'm currently working on a Rust project for audio graphs that allows cycles), but n
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
That sounds flawed to me. A large block list will disproportionately warn you about projects that are more open to any external contribution in general. Guilt by association is a weird standard for FOSS contributions. I certainly don't
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
I'd drop the "long-lived" and "short-lived" from the first two points. Rust is great for long lived programs, and is extremely clunky for managing any kind of object graph in general. The lifetime of the program has
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
It was also used in the King James Bible, published in 1611.
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
"They" as a gender neutral singular pronoun has never been bad grammar, and has been accepted in common use for many hundreds of years.
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
How is that related? What does it have to do with Rust? If anything, I'd say it shows that social media (and microblogging platforms like Twitter and Mastodon in particular) tend to be politically charged, toxic, and dogmatic.
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
I don't agree at all. That's like saying the world is only beautiful because it will one day be consumed by the sun. I love my life, and it isn't because I'm going to die.
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
The amount of energy is truly absurd. I dont chug a 16 oz bottle of water every time I answer a question.
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
I've been playing with it recently, and I find unless there are very clear patterns in surrounding code or on the Internet, it does quite terribly. Even for well-seasoned libraries like V8 and libuv, it can't reliably not make up
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
In my Lua/cbor use, what I did was use a custom tag (I think the ID was 0x7AB1E, for "TABLE") with an array type composed of a sub array and map. The array contains the array elements of the table up to the first nil, and the

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