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by deckard1 4y ago
when Sound Blaster came out with SoundFonts and the AWE32 they really made .MID files shine. Old MID files that sounded pretty bad on a previous Sound Blaster or AdLib suddenly sounded amazing. And you think, wouldn't it be cool if the
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by deckard1 4y ago
Paul Graham's mistake was he should have made an NFT of the link and posted that. /s ...maybe? I honestly can't tell anymore
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by deckard1 4y ago
if we have a time machine then yes. In fact, it shouldn't even be an option. UTF-8 period. Always. But alas, we do not and someone will plug in a memory card or USB drive with some FAT formatted drive and your nice universe crumbles be
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by deckard1 4y ago
After getting a ThinkPad, I went out on a quest to get trackpad kinetic scrolling working and I came to the conclusion that it will always suck on Linux. Some apps feature it (Firefox, certain Gtk apps). But the problem is that libinput d
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by deckard1 4y ago
> I thought assembly mapped 1-to-1 with actual HW instructions. on x86 it's a 1-to-many relationship. There are, for example, many different MOV instructions that can be encoded based on the parameters used. All assemblers I know of
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by deckard1 4y ago
Welcome to the world of OKRs/KPIs/Scrum, where everything's made up and the points don't matter.
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by deckard1 4y ago
not even remotely true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_Unit...
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by deckard1 4y ago
> basic concepts of usability seem to have fallen by the wayside Sadly, the tech may have changed but both our ideas on usability and the incentives at play have remained the same. Which is to say, the devs I know of all know that popup
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by deckard1 4y ago
The creditors must enjoy Elon talking about bankruptcy already. Maybe he thought he could stop the bleeding by firing everyone. But with advertisers out and revenue gone, he's set for an ugly legal battle in a few quarters. This has to
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by deckard1 4y ago
> His reference to ‘LISP’ is, of course, referring to CLOS. Definitely not. The all-caps "LISP" should be the strongest hint, but he name drops McCarthy and Carl Hewitt. McCarthy's LISP didn't have closures, so I&#x27
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by deckard1 4y ago
septic tanks?? You're talking about rural America. Not suburbs. The only suburbs I've seen with septic tanks were in neighborhoods sitting below the main sewer line. Because shit can't run uphill. Power and water? Do you know
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by deckard1 4y ago
> It's tough spending all day, every day with someone You literally do this with coworkers in an office. Except, you didn't get to pick those people and you have to be even physically closer to them. The last office I worked in
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by deckard1 4y ago
Probably not the best idea to commit crimes that carry prison sentences if you want to start a family. I agree with OP. This is truly horrifying narcissism.
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by deckard1 4y ago
run a git blame on any file and you're likely to see a dozen or more people touching it. You would need a large chunk of freshly-written code unmolested by your coworkers. And what's that even going to prove? You're not inven
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by deckard1 4y ago
the whole thing really does feel like when VW tried to blame engineers for their emissions scandal. Engineers do not set hiring goals or vision for the company. They are not responsible for coming up with features. Yet they are getting 100%
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by deckard1 4y ago
Wow, he's still tweeting. Does he not have a lawyer? At all? Half the thread are deleted messages from days ago. And he's still continuing on the same thread! Unbelievable. Here's a giant pile of shit I shouldn't have sa
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by deckard1 4y ago
> Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America. this reads like a Trump quote. People are free to use their speech to pressure advertisers into dropping Twitter. Or, rather, "voting" with their wallet.
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by deckard1 4y ago
I did not see any mention of structure. Reddit has a different structure than Twitter. In fact, go back to before Slashdot and Digg and the common (HN, Reddit) format of drive-by commenting was simply not a thing. Usenet conversations would
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by deckard1 4y ago
no, you have to run "restic forget" with the policy you want (keep last X, last monthly Y, etc.) followed up with a "restic prune". Or you can pass "--prune" to the "forget" command I think. You don&#
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by deckard1 4y ago
yeah, it's a bit weird that Marques Brownlee recently gave a better presentation on Meta/Metaverse than what Zuckerberg cooked up. But I think that's the intent. Because when you lay out Meta's strategy so naked, like Ma
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by deckard1 4y ago
> at least tweak some things That's really understating the problem. Oracle, for example, can be wildly different from MySQL or PostgreSQL. SQLite makes selects extremely cheap, so cheap, that if you try to do a straight migration
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by deckard1 4y ago
There's a lot of woo-woo going on in this thread. You need to find the actual problem. You're making it to the interview, so all these companies feel you're at least minimally qualified for the job. Are you just getting unl
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by deckard1 4y ago
> Doom was written for the IBM PC. This PC had a clock speed of 4.77MHz and 64Kb of RAM. well, not that PC. Doom required a 386 and 4MB of RAM. But you really wanted a 486 or Pentium to run it smoothly. Catacomb 3D, a real early id Sof
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by deckard1 4y ago
$10k seems really low. Like 1980s low. That's not even earnest money on a $1M house typical of California. That's a down payment on a car slightly nicer than a Civic today. Saw a Civic listed for $30k at the dealer last week.
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by deckard1 4y ago
if it doesn't already exist, someone is bound to make a truly horrible hack involving Zoom and aalib https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2012/04/play-movies-in-ascii-art-...
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by deckard1 4y ago
> The Spotify algorithm, Amazon’s recommendations, they’ll never, ever show you Rod McKuen. Those are designed to direct you towards things that other people like right now. But thrift stores, used bookshops, and Goodwills are, accidenta
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by deckard1 4y ago
Zuckerberg is surrounded by yes men/women. That's the only explanation I can think of. I watched a few of their videos. The video with him talking about Zoom integration with Meta and splitting off in groups with avatars, etc. Doe
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by deckard1 4y ago
the whole Jira thing really pisses me off. I hate Jira almost more than this scrum/agile nonsense. If no one wants to look at the damn board, why are we doing this?? > with non-dev stakeholders running the meetings 9 out of 10 stand
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by deckard1 4y ago
been there. Worst offender I've seen is an eslint rule that forces you to not mutate the object you're creating with reduce() because mutation is bad. So now you're doing object spreading and went from an O(n) algorithm to an
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by deckard1 4y ago
The Future of the Web is Peddling Endless Amounts of Cloud Frameworks The number of web sites that need global edge computing is vanishingly small. More realistically you need a 20+ year old technology called a CDN to run your mostly static

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