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by girvo 2y ago
> I'm confused as to whether it applies to online gaming As written, it should. Which is ridiculous, and it's a ridiculous law in the first place. I'm loathe to discuss politics, but by god both Labor and the LNP are woef
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by girvo 2y ago
If it was something we wanted to punish, it needs claw backs and draconian fines plus piercing the corporate veil when those companies are suspected of it. Usually though, there's little downside to abusing the system, so the risk&#x2F
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by girvo 2y ago
Same; at my previous job for the serialisation format for our embedded devices over 2G/4G/LoRaWAN/satellite I ended up landing on MessagePack, but that was partially because the "schema"/typed deserialisation w
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by girvo 2y ago
That came, IIRC, from one of the OpenAI or Microsoft people (Sebastian Bubeck); it was recounted in an NPR podcast "Greetings from Earth" https://www.thisamericanlife.org/803/transcript
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by girvo 2y ago
> Most web applications that use components of any sort are largely SPAs of some variety and don't care one bit about server-side rendering That's just not that true when TTI and TTVC matters. SSR is only one piece of the puzzl
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by girvo 2y ago
Does anyone else remember the "TouchPal" keyboard on Windows Mobile? It was similar in some ways. https://i0.wp.com/farm3.static.flickr.com/2142/1622925926_3a... QW and a symbol were all on one key in a
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by girvo 2y ago
> Game Programming Patterns Huh, I own this in a print copy. Thank you so much for writing it :)
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by girvo 2y ago
> Should there be a similar standard license for open source infrastructure? Yes, I think there should be. The tech world is basically a monopoly at this point, and that's dangerous for a thousand reasons. The least those monopoly
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by girvo 2y ago
This is awesome, and the graphics remind me of my mspaint.exe graphics I used to load into Game Maker 4.0 in 2001 to make games as an 11 year old :) It gave me a lifelong obsession with programming, and I'm still a principal engineer t
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by girvo 2y ago
The correct link is https://docs.maxxinteractive.com/books/octane-v22-installati... as far as I can tell
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by girvo 2y ago
FreeBSD support is listed on the site as a goal/feature (I've no idea which one), but I've no idea whether its aspirational or not: > To run on multiple OS: Linux, FreeBSD and Windows11 WSL2. The actual installation instru
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by girvo 2y ago
Except this isn't the steam engine or the internal combustion engine/the car, it's tech, and it replaces most jobs rather than just a few. If you take its future promise as true (I do not, but for sake of argument lets pret
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by girvo 2y ago
> the only overlap being those who bought a Prusa pre-assembled beleving it to be a one stop shop machine Thats a surprisingly large segment of the market, though.
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by girvo 2y ago
> From the viewpoint of a lowly engineer with a dozen patents or so, I don't think I would have been paid to do all that research if my employers saw less returns for their investment. Well I've been paid most of my career to d
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by girvo 2y ago
How can you prove this when talking about someones internal closed API?
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by girvo 2y ago
Gosh it was so fast. And only the drivers I needed (which was a bit of a pain but half the fun). And it was tiny on the HDD. I played so much Half-Life, Unreal Tournament, CS1.5 and more on 2000. I miss it daily.
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by girvo 2y ago
> I suspect we will see startup founders trending older if it isn't already happening Anecdotally, I think it already is. Part of it is simply because the younger you are, the less risk you can take with the cost of housing the way
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by girvo 2y ago
Have you not run into trouble when your phone is dead but you have to contact someone? I have, it's frustrating. Thankfully I remember my partners number, though its the only one these days.
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by girvo 2y ago
You can pay for Claude API access (not normal Claude Pro) and wire in something like Cline via your API key, but it gets expensive fast in my experience.
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by girvo 2y ago
> I don't see why you would use it over claude and 4o-mini with cursor unless you are working on a top secret repo Plenty of companies won't let you use those products with our internal code.
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by girvo 2y ago
Er, Russia was already in Ukraine.
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by girvo 2y ago
It skews techno-libertarian, which is more right than left. Always has done, at least as long as I’ve been here. Makes sense considering the audience.
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by girvo 2y ago
That's already true in Australia, sadly.
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by girvo 2y ago
That is a genuinely useful tip, considering the circumstances I've run into! Don't _really_ want to lick my fingers while dealing with dog poop, but the bags are a pain to open sometimes
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by girvo 2y ago
Unfortunately this is the future. Handing the world wide webs future to Google was a mistake, and the only remedy is likely to come from an (unlikely) antitrust breakup or divestment.
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by girvo 2y ago
Yeah the closest I've managed to get is Photos.app with Affinity plugins, and even then its still not as tightly integrated as I'd like.
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by girvo 2y ago
> KTLO (keep the lights on) Some places also call this "RTB" for "run the business" type work. Nothing but respect for the engineers who enjoy that kind of approach, I work with several!
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by girvo 2y ago
Google is so odd these days, its like there are two "streams" of results. One is the kind of useless slop that the article in question is rightfully complaining about, but other results are still useful and high quality. The secon
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by girvo 2y ago
> But given how much easier unit tests are to write now with AI I think the % of code worth unit testing has gone up. I see the argument, I just disagree with it. Test code is still code and it still has to be maintained, which, sure &qu
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by girvo 2y ago
FWIW there are lenses that are high index while still having a higher Abbe number, but they're expensive and pretty specific materials. Interesting that 1.74 are more common where you are, where I am lower index polycarb are the standa

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