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by em3rgent0rdr 6d ago
> the authors couldn’t afford to build a sloppy, wasteful UI, and so by modern standards the game UI is remarkably fast and responsive. They don’t make ‘em like they used to. I also miss this aspect of old windows games. "Castle of
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by em3rgent0rdr 7d ago
> "Avoid pastel/airbrush/oil style art or images of people." I would also suggest the AI avoid trying to make realistic-looking musical instruments, because I've never seen an AI poster with a correct musical ins
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by em3rgent0rdr 12d ago
Writing device drivers isn't sexy like TheLatestFramework™ but are an important part of computing.
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by em3rgent0rdr 13d ago
Mind blown: we have always by default been in insert mode.
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by em3rgent0rdr 14d ago
80-bit wide registers isn't really arbitrary if you consider that the bulk of the floating point number is a 64-bit significand (and the signifiand ALU makes sense as power-of two) and that you don't need as many bits for exponent
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by em3rgent0rdr 15d ago
amazing! Wish I knew about this earlier! No ads!
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by em3rgent0rdr 20d ago
Disposal/recycling fees should be applied to all products.
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by em3rgent0rdr 24d ago
Note, if you need a barebones CPU but want to save on gates, you can go with a serial (1-bit) CPU, e.g. SERV which only takes up 198 LUTs on ice40,[1] leaving plenty of space to do other things. [1] https://github.com/olofk&
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by em3rgent0rdr 25d ago
Good point. Regrettably, newer phones have eliminated external SD cards. I preferred upgrading my phone storage on demand and having external card for stuff like MP3s and videos and manually doing large data transfers directly on my compute
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by em3rgent0rdr 29d ago
"Progressive web apps" can be installed to be used offline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app
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by em3rgent0rdr 29d ago
Right. Of course there is some overhead for using WebGL vs native OpenGL calls, but I think that's only noticeable for AAA games. Web audio's extra latency does make it undesirable only for things that require quick response, like
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by em3rgent0rdr 29d ago
> "do something that can be done in a web app" I'll bite. What important features can only be done in an "app" but not a web app nowadays?
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by em3rgent0rdr 1mo ago
> "wrong continent to be inculcated in country music" A humorous response to whenever someone says "country music" is: "Which country?"
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by em3rgent0rdr 1mo ago
"File" menu is about "Filing".
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by em3rgent0rdr 1mo ago
Hopefully the experience with tariffs and ICE will help North America realize how great free trade and movement is and form a North American free trade & movement zone.
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by em3rgent0rdr 1mo ago
Compiled android once ~10 years ago, remember it taking at least half a day. Really helped me appreciate how many things go into it.
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by em3rgent0rdr 1mo ago
Not if you just stick to the basic built-in 30-year-old HTML GUI elements (<button>, <select>, <legend>, <form>, <input>, <table> for layout, etc., maybe also some modern standards like flexboxes) which a
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When AI art has no author: Generated images can't trace to training data (study)(news.mit.edu)
3 points by em3rgent0rdr 1mo ago|0 comments
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by em3rgent0rdr 1mo ago
> The legal argument is the same in all seven. Nintendo argues that the emulators exist to bypass the encryption that protects its games, which violates the DMCA. > “During operation, the emulators at the reported repositories necessa
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by em3rgent0rdr 1mo ago
Hey, the RP2350 is a "modern device".
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by em3rgent0rdr 1mo ago
Reader mode (built-in to both Chrome and Firefox) does the trick.
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by em3rgent0rdr 1mo ago
And could use fixed-point decimal for more efficiency since can store as integers and use integer hardware for them. So for instance with 32-bits, the 16 most-sig bits store the number of turns and the 16 least-significant bits store the fr
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by em3rgent0rdr 1mo ago
Decent browsers should block ads by default just like since 2017 they flag HTTP pages as "Not secure".
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by em3rgent0rdr 1mo ago
you can also buy a "USB C to 3.5mm audio cable".
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by em3rgent0rdr 1mo ago
Similar things could be said for voting itself.
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by em3rgent0rdr 2mo ago
Well because it could lead to any result on some platform or compiler, it invalidates assumptions about the program.
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by em3rgent0rdr 2mo ago
Indeed. Pic: https://www.ablogtowatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Seik...
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by em3rgent0rdr 2mo ago
The goal is that you want a privacy-focused phone. Whether Google makes money or not doesn't matter to the goal. Has nothing to do with you liking or not liking Google...Google is a "don't care".
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by em3rgent0rdr 2mo ago
Don't you grant ACM a right to distribute your work when publishing? So doesn't ACM already have the right to grant access to AI?
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by em3rgent0rdr 2mo ago
"Pridecoding"?

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