hexmiles

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by hexmiles 6y ago
Not on some amd board. It's a common complain, my previous board would have a pre-bios delay of 5 to 10 second with xmp enable and still up to 5 without xmp. I changed board and it's now a lot better, but still slower than intel.
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by hexmiles 6y ago
Does anybody knows other youtuber, talks, blog, that criticize real-world user interface? Is a fascinating topic
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by hexmiles 6y ago
they actually hired the person behind this video (tantacrul): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hZxo96x48A It criticize the user interface and experience of various music application. I find it very entertaining yet still in
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by hexmiles 6y ago
are there any other "file format oriented" data storage system?? I see software tend to use zip file, sqlite or good old ole structured storage. In my job we used a fat filesystem as a storage system and recently switched to sqlit
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by hexmiles 6y ago
for linux there is scanmem and it's gui gameconqueror, which offer the same core functionality of memory scanning https://github.com/scanmem/scanmem
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by hexmiles 6y ago
That's funny, when i was twelve i need to store some data and i didn't really know database or csv, so i actually used the ascii control character to implement tables and record. I later discovered sqlite, soooo much simpler...
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by hexmiles 6y ago
thank you!
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by hexmiles 6y ago
as someone who dosen't know the theory what is the difference between list and array? consing and splicing? is there a pratical difference in the way you write programs or is more of theory/implemetation detail?
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by hexmiles 6y ago
The way some emulator use the gpu can be quite different from the way pc games use it. You can look at this article: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/07/30/ubershaders/ for an example how console
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by hexmiles 6y ago
where i am the SE is 500€. Is a LOT more than the 180€ that i payed my xiaomi. I wouldn't really call it midrange... but i guess it depends where you live? Considering another 460€ for the watch it become very expensive. Also not long
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by hexmiles 6y ago
> Also, a proper solution for true fault isolation would have been one microservice per queue per customer, but that would have required over 10,000 microservices. I'm a bit confused, they seem to imply that they need a microservice
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by hexmiles 6y ago
i tried on an online simulator and it actually works!
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by hexmiles 6y ago
Thank you, Yes what i meant was thinking was "forced" arbitration, but is not what i wrote.
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by hexmiles 6y ago
a bit of topic, but what is arbitration and why is it bad? We don't have it here in Europe (or at least is not very diffused). Can someone eli5 for me? Thanks
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by hexmiles 6y ago
Generally speaking if you want to run dos games, dosbox tend to be a better choice for most games, is simpler to use and there is a bigger community around it. however, Pcem really shine in the amount of hardware supported and better suppor
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by hexmiles 7y ago
you're right! The icon i selected was an example, i intended to use the drop like shape, without the word. I now realize it wasn't at all clear. But even without the text it still has some problems, since without context you may t
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by hexmiles 7y ago
You can use a icon just to rappresent fat (like this one https://www.flaticon.com/premium-icon/fat_1951542 ) and put it next to a person like a emblem in a similar way to this: https://www.iconfinder.com&#x2F
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by hexmiles 7y ago
the two are not mutually exclusive, are they? You can have a ribbon with standard icons right? I see ribbon as an alternative to the menubar plus toolbar layout , more than visual style .
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by hexmiles 7y ago
Yes, but there are no good tool to do it. In my case i need to store a a lot of structured data and files. So i need a Document manager / Database. It's hard... I started with excel a lot of year ago, migrated to access and now i&
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by hexmiles 7y ago
I have to ask: what does mean "cookie cutter format" in this context? I assume few/short season.
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by hexmiles 7y ago
i really loved xul form mozilla. i build a lot of tiny apps with it, unfortunately it's no longer supported. I also used it to build the kind of bridge you mention, it was for dynamically build gui for cli apps that did job processing
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by hexmiles 7y ago
Honestly consider having them offline. I have the same problem and my only solution is me being their proxy for internet. When they need something "online" like movie o buying something, they ask me. Today most thing happen via a
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by hexmiles 8y ago
Yes, it was actuality circuit switching, every serial port has it's number assigned and each computer could "dial-up" each other, but there is also a "virtual" number that anyone could dial up to (even at the same t
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by hexmiles 8y ago
Thank you, i will look into it. I found some on ebay, now with a bit of researchi should be able to find one that fit my need!
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by hexmiles 8y ago
I currently tested the system with 6 serial client plus the server. it seem to work quite well but the cable were rather short. Is rs232 more prone to ground loop than ethernet? i looked into using serial modem, but it seemed quite complica
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by hexmiles 8y ago
When i started testing this, i used a "master" computer as serial "router" with 6 serial port, so that the "slave" computer could talk to each other. I quickly found that i need some sort of management protocol
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by hexmiles 8y ago
I planned to use a lot of cheap usb to rs232 converter. I didn't know about console server. They seem very neat! I have only two question: 1- They seem to all use RJ45 i'd imagine that i would use a cable RJ45<->RS232. I fou
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by hexmiles 8y ago
This article came at just the right time. Maybe the HN crow can help me with this one. I have a lot of old hardware that i want to connect to the to my network. Most of them have a 56k modem the rest a 14/28k modem. What can i use to b
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by hexmiles 8y ago
Also they need to stop reccomending flat earth, anti-vax and other toxic nonsense without prompting. There are trying to at least that: https://youtube.googleblog.com/2019/01/continuing-our-work-t... also this p
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by hexmiles 8y ago
For me personaly the killer fature is: C/C++ to V translator Having all my library in the same language make a lot thing like debugging and testing easier. It also semplify the mental model i have of the program. Also C(lang) interop i

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