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by cturner 11y ago
> IronPython That'd be fine. > By design, and 100% up to the app creator. Alt-Tab > switches between things on the taskbar. Things are > minimized to the tray to keep them out of the way! Right. So
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by cturner 11y ago
It's important to have something to be installed by default, and not require admin privileges. This is what you need need if you're supporting people over the phone. That is - something dependable that you can use to check that th
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by cturner 11y ago
PDF viewer. Chrome is the only non-awful PDF viewer I've found for Windows. Requires third-party install. Copying and pasting text causes weird characters to be carried around (e.g. emdash), and I haven't found a reliable way to s
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by cturner 11y ago
I have been working at a design for a science-themed roguelike which is at base a sophisticated crafting system. The building block of this world is [vectors by which a thing can be converted to another thing]. In my model, engineering and
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by cturner 12y ago
I have wondered whether you could go crazy vertical and try to get rising heat to create a cooling system, as with termite mounds. In winter, pull cloth mezzanines across to create buffer layers.
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by cturner 12y ago
Frustration. I wasn't able to get libtcod to build. Tried to get prep'd for 7drl a few months back on debian (previous stable) and when that failed, a clean install of windows 7. I've also had trouble with race conditions wit
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by cturner 12y ago
Curses is cool - no bones. But javascript is becoming significant for roguelikes. There's a library called rot.js that is far easier to get started with than the other significant frameworks. They've recently made it work in node.
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by cturner 12y ago
Haha. When I first this, I thought your problems might be from editing large files with syntax highlighting switched on. Or doing PHP or JSP, which I've found to struggle in the past. But then I saw the username. Indeed, if you're
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by cturner 12y ago
> Systemd is much more a "Windows" approach to system > configuration management I can't see your Windows analogy. The Windows init system compares badly to everything in play here - it doesn't make t
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by cturner 12y ago
> SysVinit was a mess. Not just SysV - every attempt to move beyond BSD-style init has been a mess. > I wish there was something [lighter|simpler|more portable|more unix] than systemd. I think the trick with systemd is to realise that
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by cturner 12y ago
Similar story. I put together a dual-P2/350s on (I think) a Tyan motherboard in December 1998 as a dedicated BeOS host. Wasn't good at budgeting and found myself in another state having run out of money a few weeks later, and had
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by cturner 12y ago
It might have been the VC behind it, rather than him directly. We won't know until an insider writes a history.
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by cturner 12y ago
You're not over-sensitive. I love mechanical keyboards but only use at home because it's obviously disruptive to colleagues in the office.
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by cturner 12y ago
The thing I find most frustrating about periods of hard work is that it ruins your ability to think.
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by cturner 12y ago
What would be the elegant way to implement websockets on the new openbsd arrangement? Would it be to use relayd instead of httpd? Or is websocketd suitable for the openbsd base?
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by cturner 12y ago
As cool as this is, a remaining problem I'd have for using Windows is that I've found git to be slow there. For example, the responsiveness of 'git status'. I'd guess this is something to do with NTFS being optimise
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by cturner 12y ago
It's a good question to ask, but the US would be far better placed to respond to this kind of attrition than any other nation. There'll be a stack of spare capacity in the training system and well-mothballed in airplane graveyards
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by cturner 12y ago
Yes. The key thing I was (attempting to) respond to was the idea that consensus is a good indication of truth. My final sentence overstated things: we all all forced to piece together a worldview with slabs taken from consensus, but it&#x27
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by cturner 12y ago
> it's less probable that a bunch of those people are > all in on it together. The larger the consensus, the > easier it is to trust. No. It's in consensus that big lies get their best cover. History is
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by cturner 12y ago
There's potentially high value add in exactly these tasks. Dealing with the workflow in large companies is something that takes a lot of mental energy, and a company that could produce a strong workflow to stay on top of it and drive i
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by cturner 12y ago
I'm surprised that tidal locking happen for a planet with liquids on the surface, except in a jury-rigged toy scenario. I'd expect that the energy would cause fluid/molden volumes to circulate. This would create motion relati
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by cturner 12y ago
The browser will not implement terminal controls. You could get by though. This sort of scenario is why ed is never obsolete.
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by cturner 12y ago
It is not just western audiences. Pentatonic is cross-cultural. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpvfSOP2slk A good way to find new ideas for music that people will care about listening to is to go back to the pentatonic sys
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by cturner 12y ago
Nah. Top will be the way we treat animals. The material is already out there, we turn a blind eye. They'll be utterly horrified, and the school essays will be comparisons between death camps and the supposedly sophisticated meat-eaters
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How Prisoners Make Moonshine(thefix.com)
41 points by cturner 12y ago|56 comments
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by cturner 12y ago
> Example Nicolaus Copernicus Where is it [falsely] written that Copernicus was attacked? There's a fair bit on Gallileo being attacked for advocating Copernicus' ideas. I can imagine innocent mistakes coming from conf
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Welcome to the most corrupt nation in eastern europe(theguardian.com)
1 points by cturner 12y ago|0 comments
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by cturner 12y ago
What I wrote reads that way and I can see my error. There are lots of pretenders and I do not apologise for them. I intended to write that our brains get rewired to make things that were once hard easy, that we do not know what to explain.
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by cturner 12y ago
"... was convinced that the seemingly normal programmers I ran into were actually sociopaths who had experienced, then repressed, the trauma of learning to code." It's true. The saddest part is that we forget who we were befo
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by cturner 12y ago
It's incredibly complicated. That's probably less of a big thing now than it was in the 80s or 90s. In the 80s or 90s it was just amazing that a game could be that intricate. The sigil-based graphics are part of what make the comp

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