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by dleslie 2y ago
Does Haiku still have unaccelerated software rendering of the UI? Edit: yes, seems their nvidia drivers don't have 2d acceleration.
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by dleslie 2y ago
IIRC, the oft-repeated and rarely-cited 1/3 vacancy is a misunderstood statistic which showed that 1/3 of condos in BC are investor-owned[0]; where an investment property is any property where the owner is not the occupant. 0: ht
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by dleslie 2y ago
3% vacancy tax producing $115M in revenue indicates roughly $3.8B in empty housing stock. Average condo prices in the CoV are roughly $2.1M, and so we can conclude there is likely around, or a little less than, 2000 empty condos hit by this
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by dleslie 2y ago
Under utilization can be measured as a factor of the vacancy rate; which influences both home pricing and rental pricing. Here in Canada, the desirable places to live all have relatively low vacancy rates for residential housing, and have f
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by dleslie 2y ago
Also, basically all Prime services.
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by dleslie 2y ago
My internal monologue is much, much faster than verbal or written communication. It's never been a source to give me pause when replying or engaging with others; in effect, I run parallel discussions through my mind while others are sp
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by dleslie 3y ago
Doom didn't run on Windows until Doom95 was released; but SimCity and others were on Win3.1.
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by dleslie 3y ago
It's all coming back to me now. 1993 was also when Word 6 was released for Windows; moving from a DOS editor to the Windows editor brought a revolution in fonts. Just have a look at the difference in experience and it's obvious wh
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by dleslie 3y ago
Windows 3.1 also hit a sweet spot for OEMs; with RAM becoming larger and cheaper, and 486 PCs delivering speed. That was when PC games that targeted Windows started to arrive in reasonable numbers.
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by dleslie 3y ago
Where I live the act of being "over employed" is considered fraud, and can land serious penalties. Because it is fraud, when your employment agreement stipulates that you will not divide your time in some manner. https:/&#x2
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by dleslie 3y ago
I still have a copy of "Assembly language step-by-step" which started with DEBUG then moved to nasm in later chapters.
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by dleslie 3y ago
It's funny that you should note that they are doing positive things in a transitional era, only to finish off by noting that you are playing decades-old games on their hardware. While I am a fan of GamePass, and I own two XBox One cons
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by dleslie 3y ago
I whole-heartedly agree. This adds animations, hover text, and so forth. It's more kitsch than brutalist.
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by dleslie 3y ago
I want this for my photos. I'm not a good photographer, but I have taken tens of thousands of photos of my family. I would love to provide a prompt for a specific day and persons and have it create a photo that I never was able to take
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by dleslie 3y ago
Based on the modeline, it's just text-mode using RCS as version control. It must be a minor mode that he wrote.
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by dleslie 3y ago
Never seen one for C#, either.
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by dleslie 3y ago
Teslas are the Alienware of automobiles. Flashy, ostentatious, and aimed at enthusiasts with more money than taste. Apple would likely have made something that evoked elegance. It would have contrasted with Tesla in the same way a Macbook c
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by dleslie 3y ago
Traveler is amazing, I second that recommendation. Also, a point of interest: Riot City and Traveler are both from Calgary. Vancouver, Calgary and Quebec City are sort of the trio of metal in Canada; AFAICT.
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by dleslie 3y ago
My Emacs is full of extra bits and pieces, and it cold starts on a Pinebook Pro in 6 seconds. That said, I still run an Emacs daemon and use Emacs clients, which start up in milliseconds.
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by dleslie 3y ago
I have never used VSCode for C/C++, only Emacs and Visual Studio, so I can't comment on how it compares to CLion. VSCode and C#, however, is something I prefer to Visual Studio or even Rider.
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by dleslie 3y ago
First you have to know that lsp-mode exists. VSCode just detects what to do from the file. About projectile: Emacs ships with project.el and that does 90% of what projectile can do.
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by dleslie 3y ago
VSCode is why Sublime Text, Atom, and others are not as relevant as they once were.
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by dleslie 3y ago
I've been using Emacs for roughly three decades; it's my favourite editor. And for sure, LSP has been an absolute game changer. Worth noting is that LSP came from Microsoft as part of their efforts to build a better editor experie
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by dleslie 3y ago
It's weird to be building an Emacs clone nowadays. It's fairly clear that Vim and Emacs _both_ lost the editor wars, and VSCode has come out on top. That's not to say either Vim or Emacs are dead or will disappear, but buildi
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by dleslie 3y ago
x64 and ARM emulators exist, the code for some are quite legible. There's a whole community of folks who build RiscV implementations from verilog or vhdl. In my own experience at university, decades ago, we built functioning HC11 CPUs
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by dleslie 3y ago
AI not being open is my own personal source of sadness. The mathematics involved aren't out of reach, but the computing power and _personal time_ necessary to build a dataset and train a model are absolutely beyond my reach. It's
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by dleslie 3y ago
If a language doesn't have Windows support then it's inappropriate for commercial native application development.
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by dleslie 3y ago
I'd imagine it would be a dozen pages, thereabouts. The BNF for C++ isn't as large as many people seem to think. https://alx71hub.github.io/hcb/
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by dleslie 3y ago
> Of course, but since the Steam model works so well one wonders why everybody else is stumbling along instead of "just" copying it. Origin, Blizzard, uPlay et al failed to challenge Steam largely because they lack both feature
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by dleslie 3y ago
The forced ads on DVDs remains an important inflection point in the rise of digital media, I think. Early on one of the most common points in favour mentioned by those advocating for digital-only media was that you simply weren't requi

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