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by gsliepen 4y ago
This is quite interesting. The only issue I see is when you want to stream real-time audio and video over TCPLS. That is when you want packets that are dropped, late or reordered to not interfere with the delivery of other packets. Using TC
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by gsliepen 4y ago
Parallel Realities[1] has made several nice games, including Blobwars, Starfighter and Legend of Edgar, which have fully open source game engines, and they tried to use free sounds and graphics. However, the devil is in the detail with many
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by gsliepen 4y ago
I was a research engineer for ~10 years, and my experience was that my immediate colleagues were very appreciative of the work I was doing, but that the university bureaucracy system is not. In the beginning it is a very decent position (co
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by gsliepen 4y ago
This reminds of the text "Dave Staugas loves Bea Hablig" which I found a long time ago when looking at the contents of the TOS 1.04 ROM.
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by gsliepen 4y ago
It would depend on the project. If performance is important, it should indeed by validated, but then it would greatly help if the project also has a performance test suite that contributors could run locally, and compare their change agains
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by gsliepen 4y ago
I did one of these when I was a kid and had just weeks prior to that done some similar excercises I found in a puzzle book. Once you know the tricks you can finish it really fast, and since they indeed use some formula that's basically
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by gsliepen 4y ago
I try to help contributors to make it so their commits can be merged without any changes. For some this can be annoying in the beginning, but the goal is that they learn to write quality patches and that I will have less work getting their
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by gsliepen 4y ago
As shown in this cartoon: https://pbfcomics.com/comics/wishing-well/
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by gsliepen 5y ago
That site is great, it even supports Web 1.0 while still looking good! https://web3isgoinggreat.com/web1
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by gsliepen 5y ago
Another issue that contributed to this scandal is that the rules for benefits (not just social benefits) are often such that you have to request it up front at the beginning of the year, but if at the end of the year it turns out that your
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by gsliepen 5y ago
I would broadly categorizes these new tools into two categories: 1) those that are adding real value and make things easier, and 2) those that just add bling to existing tools. An example of the former category is ag, an example of the latt
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by gsliepen 5y ago
Interestingly, you can do foo.operator*() in C++: https://godbolt.org/z/f5Geqcvdj
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by gsliepen 5y ago
Indeed it is a very weird way of counting. It was a question on Code Golf a few years ago: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/92657/count-to-... What is remarkable here is that usually there are a lot of
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by gsliepen 5y ago
Dealing with users/contributors in open source indeed has its issues due to the low barrier and global nature, meaning you can receive both high and low quality comments/patches/etc, and sometimes the language barrier makes a
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by gsliepen 5y ago
They made the Atari ST theme extra terrible by having the desktop render like it's a 320x200 screen, making the window decorations look way bigger and blockier than they would do if GEM itself was running on a 640x400 screen. Also a mi
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by gsliepen 5y ago
I won't deny that solid wood furniture will last longer, but I have been in a similar situation for many years, but our IKEA sofas all lasted much longer. In fact, I don't think anything really broke in the last 20 years (and 95%
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by gsliepen 5y ago
When I see videos of people creating custom made tables from a large slab of oak and some resin pour, it looks awesome, but probably IKEA could furnish your whole house using the same amount of wood and still cost less. IKEA is a blessing f
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by gsliepen 5y ago
I didn't. While the lectures were related to my job, I wanted to be able to keep using this equipment privately, and in such cases I prefer paying for it myself to avoid any conflicts of interest and the possibility of me having to ret
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by gsliepen 5y ago
A green screen also doesn't have to be expensive. Go to a fabric shop with a laptop running OBS (or maybe even a mobile phone that has an app that can do chroma keying), and find a roll of fabric with a color that works well. You shoul
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by gsliepen 5y ago
The article mentions: "I think that having to use C++ Functors was about the tipping point in our 25-year adventure with C++. Ranges and the foreach loops make our D code so much tidier than our equivalent C++ code." It almost sou
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by gsliepen 5y ago
There are many uses for templates, not all of them need you to use advanced language constructs in the template language. Personally, I'd rather have templates be relatively dumb, and use something like {{mustache}} ( https:/&#x2F
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by gsliepen 5y ago
But with defer you can easily get the order of things wrong, whereas destructors are automatically called in the correct order.
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by gsliepen 5y ago
I think it would be possible in C++, but it would be something that is more generic than f-strings in Python. For example, `f"Name: {name}, age: {age}"` could maybe expand to `"Name: {}, age: {}", name, age`, so you stil
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by gsliepen 5y ago
In the Netherlands there are also roads with just a painted bike lane. The difference is that the whole bike lane is painted in a solid color (usually reddish). This gives a constant visual feedback to drivers. Because of the paint it is ju
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by gsliepen 5y ago
My experience with laptops is that the most usable ones have a low TDP CPU with integrated graphics. This avoids overheating as much as possible, which means you get full CPU power for much longer, as well as having a longer battery life. T
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by gsliepen 5y ago
I wouldn't call it penalty, but cost, and if credit = N, then I assume the cost of one call would just be 1. So: gain = N * (elapsedTime / window_size); credit = min(credit + gain, N); if (credit >= 1) { c
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by gsliepen 5y ago
Obligatory Red Dwarf reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aINa6tg3fo
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by gsliepen 5y ago
After living abroad for several years we found out that a lot of Dutch food we take for granted in the Netherlands but we just get from the supermarket can be made quite easily yourself. Like vla! We also made tjap tjoy and babi pangang jus
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by gsliepen 5y ago
For my own projects, I have git repositories on self-hosted infrastructure, and IRC channels on Libera and OFTC. But I don't want to force others to use my preferred infrastructure. So I also have mirrors of my git repositories on GitH
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by gsliepen 5y ago
That reminds me of xteddy (because it is also adorable, but alas not animated in any way).

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