glhaynes

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Hi-Ten Bomberman, the first HD video game, has been found(twitter.com)
3 points by glhaynes 8y ago|0 comments
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by glhaynes 8y ago
When I first heard the term “sprint” I thought it was surely being used so they could later make some point like “since sprinting is of course unsustainable, we introduce weeks of relaxation between them”... Nope!
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by glhaynes 8y ago
Where did you hear he had such a deep understanding of the 68000? (Not questioning whether he did, just curious because I've never heard that.)
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by glhaynes 8y ago
https://twitter.com/davelevitan/status/1100141281332940802?s... Twitter thread with some choice quotes
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Can We Delay a Greenhouse Warming? (1983) [pdf](nepis.epa.gov)
40 points by glhaynes 8y ago|52 comments
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Swift on Windows Progress(forums.swift.org)
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by glhaynes 8y ago
Why did that cause problems? It made particular things way slower, I guess?
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Experimenting with Pricing Lifted My App Revenue Almost 500%(stories.appbot.co)
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by glhaynes 8y ago
There's no reason to think it's the best thing they'll do in 2019. It's February.
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by glhaynes 8y ago
Static typing just means that you annotate you code with your expectations so you can some automated error and consistency checking. And in languages with type inference, you largely don't even have to do the annotating.
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Most Common 3D File Formats in 2019(all3dp.com)
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by glhaynes 8y ago
From the RISC-V Privileged ISA Specification [ https://riscv.org/specifications/privileged-isa/ ]: We briefly note that the entire privileged-level design described in this document could be replaced with an entire
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by glhaynes 8y ago
[drifting off-topic…] This article about early aviation covers what you're talking about and I found to be a great read: https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/langew/turn.ht...
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by glhaynes 8y ago
Just fyi: I believe (but haven't gotten to try it myself) that this command will turn off the power chime when you plug in a USB-C charger. defaults write com.apple.PowerChime ChimeOnAllHardware -bool false;killall PowerChime
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by glhaynes 8y ago
I don't mean to imply that Swift's array performance is better than anything other than what its own performance would be if it didn't implement COW. (My intention was to convey that the normal way of passing arrays comes wit
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by glhaynes 8y ago
Swift arrays have pass-by-value semantics (under the cover, they use copy-on-write to keep performance good) and are thus safe to pass to functions without concern that they'll be modified. (Unless it's passed as an `inout` parame
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How to Predict Any Three Events More Accurately(kaomorphism.com)
4 points by glhaynes 8y ago|0 comments
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by glhaynes 8y ago
I'm definitely in favor of improving the laws, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't criticize a company's policy, too, even if it's legal.
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by glhaynes 8y ago
You still end up in the OS/2 situation - even if non-native apps didn't always run great, had much worse memory usage, didn't feel native, etc... they were still good enough that nearly nobody (comparatively) wrote native OS&
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by glhaynes 8y ago
When Apple replaces keyboards, they replace them with the 2018 keyboard (the one with the extra rubber barriers)?
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Using WSL and MobaXterm to Create a Linux Dev Environment on Windows(nickjanetakis.com)
1 points by glhaynes 8y ago|0 comments
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by glhaynes 8y ago
Well said. One important part of that for me is to resist any attempt to impose a structure on those "piles" of digital docs. For the things you mention, I'm exclusively going to access them in the future — if I ever do — via
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by glhaynes 8y ago
Any idea why they changed?
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‘Carbon removal is now a thing’: Radical fixes get a boost at climate talks(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by glhaynes 8y ago|1 comments
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by glhaynes 8y ago
With the official glass stand! Awesome.
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by glhaynes 8y ago
Add one onto the early-'90s failure list: IBM Workplace OS. Rarely mentioned these days for some reason, but a hugely hyped and super-expensive complete failure. From the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by glhaynes 8y ago
Looks cool, it's nice to see somebody trying to do something new with browser basics. Just to answer what will probably be many people's first question: no, the rendering engine isn't Lisp (it's WebKitGTK).
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by glhaynes 8y ago
white men are actually a minority of the largest twitter accounts Sure, but those are all celebrities. People who get on Twitter and follow mostly celebrities don't need this tool. But if your Twitter interest is mostly about an area
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by glhaynes 8y ago
A lot of people seem to love these twitter thread unroller sites, but it's not clear to me what problem they solve (on modern Twitter) and I almost always find the original Twitter thread to be more readable/flexible. For example,
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by glhaynes 8y ago
fyi for anyone who might be wanting to search for the "billboard" games, they are commonly referred to as Sega's "Super Scaler" games.

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