fps_doug

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by fps_doug 4y ago
Yes, if only for nostalgia. The modern graphics look smoother/friendlier, but I just want it to look the way it always looked back then. :)
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by fps_doug 4y ago
Do you keep the transcripts around on the server? It shouldn't matter much in terms of storage unless the site becomes crazy popular, so you could offer a "best effort search" or something along the lines, that just searches
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by fps_doug 4y ago
> I don't know if you're confusing me for somebody else, but I didn't link to any tweets. sigh .. Correction: the link to the tweet form the guy you replied to that you seemed to refer to. > And as I've now said t
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by fps_doug 4y ago
> It's hard to understand what the tweet is suggesting unless you read the entire thread You linked to one tweet, which directly started talking about the traditional vs simplified characters. I don't see how there is much cont
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by fps_doug 4y ago
> I'm not sure what you mean by language hints. Because of the han unification, you can tell the font renderer which language context you're in and want things to be rendered. MSWord shows you the language in the status bar at
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by fps_doug 4y ago
Especially if it's something you used and liked. But yes, I'm a big fan of releasing these things to the public, for archival and for the curious. It's crazy how even big companies lose source code of old software, or at leas
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by fps_doug 4y ago
That happens if you have no language hints, or the wrong one, e.g. posting in Simplified Chinese on a Taiwanese website. If this was written in something like MSWord by CCP officials, it should have the proper language hint, so render prope
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by fps_doug 4y ago
"I don't believe it because I'm missing context" is a weak argument to make. The tweets read like the author isn't a native English speaker. The traditional vs. simplified characters accusation should be relatively
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by fps_doug 4y ago
But maybe just as many as old folks leaving it for Matrix et al? Might just even it out in the grand scheme of things.
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by fps_doug 4y ago
Is there any hints at this being the case? I could just as much see him somehow doubling down on everything, twisting it as purging the network from bad actors and that the current state of freenode is actually what he wanted in the first p
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by fps_doug 4y ago
Yeah suffering from that too; we need an internet-wide PSA that people should just s/freenode/libera/ whenever they see/read/hear it somewhere. :-)
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by fps_doug 4y ago
As fast as people who grew up with it die ;-)
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by fps_doug 4y ago
I think my comment kinda agrees with this, maybe I didn't make it clear enough though. You can write good or bad code in any language. But because of this, a low barrier to entry is both a blessing and a curse. And as time passes, and
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by fps_doug 4y ago
I'm more than two decades away from being gen-z, and I still agree with that sentiment. There might be that theoretical wise and disciplined Perl programmer writing well structured and readable code, but wherever I interfaced with peop
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by fps_doug 4y ago
I mean, it was still clearly low-res. CRTs and smaller screen sized helped, but you could still see the pixels.
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by fps_doug 4y ago
Yes, people who tell you that you can blindly buy any Lenovo laptop for Linux are lying. You have to do some googling first. Or check the inofficial Thinkpad Wiki. But other than that, if you pick a device that's recommended for use wi
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by fps_doug 4y ago
I know this "trick" made the rounds several years ago. I figured it seems like a temporary solution only; once companies selling your data or hackers harvesting it get the memo they'd just remove the +xxxx part and then what?
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by fps_doug 4y ago
Some of that doesn't have to do with C even. Like, changing memory layout of variables, or the way you access data. A simple example is if you have a 2D array, and you have the data from the individual rows consecutively in memory, but
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by fps_doug 4y ago
I'm anticipating his video every April 1st, and was already fearing he might have skipped this year when it wasn't uploaded in time. One of the people with the perfect mix of funny, smart and bat-shit crazy.
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by fps_doug 4y ago
I was recently pleasantly surprised by the YT algorithm and was recommended Tech Time Traveller 's video about Miniscribe, which just blew up for this guy for reasons unknown to mortals. ;-) The Channel: https://www.youtube
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by fps_doug 4y ago
It's amazing to me how people resort to these "hurr durr China bad" rhetorics to justify any claim about China. I don't see how the numbers are off besides how they simply couldn't do nearly enough tests by the star
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by fps_doug 4y ago
> It's still thousands of potential deaths, and nearing a million for all of China. People die all the time. Every day. Shanghai has 25M people. Let's assume the US's annual death rate of 8.8 per 1000. That's 220k dea
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by fps_doug 4y ago
I won't argue with that. The US has vastly improved in that regard over the last 70 years (or however far you want to go back), or the West in general, and could be considered ahead in many ways. However, if you want to put yourself
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by fps_doug 4y ago
Purely anecdotal of course, but currently, covid is rampant here in Germany, at least my region. Everybody and their mom is catching it currently, I had it two weeks ago, most of my colleagues did or currently do. All were vaccinated, nob
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by fps_doug 4y ago
7 in 12k is way less than the rate you'd expect in the overall population. It's 0.5 in 1000 people. The US' overall death rate was 8.8 per 1000 in 2020.
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by fps_doug 4y ago
> What’s utterly astonishing is what’s going on in Shanghai in spite of this. And ironically, with the case numbers vs. deaths we see there, it seems to strongly support the stance that the crisis is over. 7 deaths for 12k infected is ri
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by fps_doug 4y ago
Sure, you deliberately placed the goal posts as such that they exactly put the US on the moral high ground.
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by fps_doug 5y ago
I found a VM titled "Windows 1.0 Premiere Edition", both sequences do nothing. I couldn't find any "About" window to tell me the exact Windows version, though.
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by fps_doug 5y ago
Sure, the bus driver was supposed to represent the other extreme. In reality, they probably wouldn't care no matter how simple the setup is. But the at-least-somewhat-curious non-tech person has probably better chances finding a proble
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by fps_doug 5y ago
You know, I have kids too, but I still wonder how much more dependent on big tech we might potentially get over the next decades, and how much responsibility I have in protecting and educating them in that regard. I'm postponing self-h

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