elpocko

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   by elpocko 4y ago

   This was one of those things where I know just enough to realize something about the reasoning is not right. Thank you for putting that feeling into competent words.
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   by elpocko 4y ago

   You can have infinite precision in pretty much any accurate representation though, no? Where is the advantage in using BCD over any other fixed point representation?
3. 423.▲
   by elpocko 4y ago

   Can you elaborate? How/why is BCD a better alternative to floating point arithmetic?
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   by elpocko 4y ago

   I would have loved to tinker with my Steam Deck; it just wouldn't let me. Most of the time I was staring at some game menu, trying to figure out how to get out of there because none of the buttons/combos did anything. Skyrim would
5. 425.▲
   by elpocko 4y ago

   I purchased one recently. After one day of frustration trying to get at least one of my favorite games to work, I sent it back for a refund. It's a great piece of hardware that still needs a lot of work in the software department. It&#
6. 426.▲
   by elpocko 4y ago

   "We"? Who? What EU legislature makes consumption of any substance illegal?
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   by elpocko 4y ago

   That was pretty easy. https://i.ibb.co/m5VWbDg/crimes.png
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   by elpocko 4y ago

   I was online during that era but "88x31" does not ring any bells. Is it significant at all or just some arbitrary size? What about the number of animation frames? 88x31x10?
9. 429.▲
   by elpocko 4y ago

   A null pointer is a boxed value in LuaJIT, therefore not nil. But it is equal to nil when compared with nil. local x = require('ffi').cast('void*', nil) if x and x == nil then print("x is truthy an
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    by elpocko 4y ago

    This reminds me of a footgun in LuaJIT's FFI: nil is generally a falsy value in Lua; a null pointer returned from a C API is equal to nil, but is not a falsy value in LuaJIT. This means that if x and x == nil evaluates to tru
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    by elpocko 4y ago

    Yes, this is unfortunately true. There's a spiritual, mostly compatible, successor that is under active development: https://yuescript.org/
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    by elpocko 4y ago

    I love Lua, it's one of my favorite languages to write code in. It's small and simple, but you can do so much with the few things it offers. Really well designed imho. I also like MoonScript[1] a lot, a language that compiles to L
13. 433.▲
    by elpocko 4y ago

    I will drink until I pass out.
14. 434.▲
    by elpocko 4y ago

    Thank you, Google. I love you, Google.
15. 435.▲
    by elpocko 4y ago

    It's really hard to tell when it was originally posted. Can you please add a date to your posts?
16. 436.▲
    by elpocko 4y ago

    When you press Ctrl+V, the target window is focused. Forcibly switching back to Excel to show this dialog seems weird and confusing to me.
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    by elpocko 4y ago

    I'm interested, but not interested enough to join Discord.
18. 438.▲
    by elpocko 4y ago

    Latest Firefox on Debian 10 Edit: Nevermind, my security settings prevented the font download. Not your app's fault.
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    by elpocko 4y ago

    https://i.imgur.com/MFB5BkK.png This is not working for me.
20. 440.▲
    by elpocko 4y ago

    I have noticed that "How" at the beginning of submission titles seems to get removed automatically for some inexplicable reason.
21. 441.▲
    by elpocko 4y ago

    Return to Monkey Island will have a DOS port? Cool.
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    How we fought bad apps and developers in 2021(security.googleblog.com)

    1 points by elpocko 4y ago|0 comments
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    by elpocko 5y ago

    Is that enough zeroes? 6.0000000000000000000000000 sounds better imho.
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    by elpocko 5y ago

    I've seen worse; someone presented code for decompression of a fictional data format with no plan in sight for compression. When I asked how the compression part would be implemented, the author called me stupid for asking this questio
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    by elpocko 5y ago

    I have a 1920x1080 setup and my mouse cursor fits 1.2 lines of text. No DPI scaling or other shenanigans. I can read HN very comfortably at 100% zoom. Maybe this is the "adult supervision" thing everyone is talking about.
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    by elpocko 5y ago

    From my daily experience it's more small blogs and the likes than big sites. The kind of site that you only visit once because they got linked on HN.
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    by elpocko 5y ago

    Meanwhile, many websites decide to deliberately hide their content from you if you don't allow them to run JS. Not out of necessity - purely out of spite. Like a div that obscures the content, or styling that makes content invisible by
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    by elpocko 5y ago

    This is so funny to me. So many websites have ridiculously large text and I have to zoom out to 66% or 50% to read them comfortably. I want to ask the opposite question: Why are fonts on websites so large? HN is one of the few sites left th
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    by elpocko 5y ago

    > Assuming you meant VPS Yes, of course. How embarrassing. I already have a VPS for many years and it didn't change IP addresses ever. I need a simple way to make it my email server when I have to get away from Google.
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    by elpocko 5y ago

    If you want to set up a PVS to handle email for you - what route would you recommend? Is it still sendmail.cf?