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by j1elo 3y ago
What were the chances? I installed Planescape Torment last night, to play around a bit with it. It's been sitting in my "to-try" list for at least 15 years! I'm however not very fond of having to sit down on my desk to p
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by j1elo 3y ago
I've already read the same fallacy in several replies. Why would Apple have to supoort the (supposed, not true in my opinion) complexity of any operating system on their platform ? They wouldn't!!! It would be Arch's job to
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by j1elo 3y ago
> Taking GPL'd code and redistributing it without making the source available IS ... copyright infringement. Against which you might want to lawyer up and sue in court, if you feel litigious (and have have deep pockets to pay for
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by j1elo 3y ago
I wouldn't say I need the program to grow with more features, but at the bare minimum they should have been more diligent with cutting releases after accepting bug fixes, instead of letting those contributions langish on the main devel
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by j1elo 3y ago
I'll take the chance to bring attention to the maintenance issues that 'jq' has been having in the last years [1]; there hasn't been a new release since 2018, which IMO wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing if not for
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by j1elo 3y ago
I'm happy I went straight to the comments because with yours I found out the article won't talk about the "good" old AT command protocol, which indeed, not so long ago I had to integrate with a C project for AVR chips. W
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by j1elo 3y ago
I still receive the occasional email from this bug report, about being able to force excluding undesired noise from search results: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752844 It's been open for, I don't k
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by j1elo 3y ago
I'm happy that at last, my Stack Overflow question and answer have been fully solved with technology improvements! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43891605/search-partial-... It's been almost 6 year
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by j1elo 3y ago
Xiaomi does the same (or at least did until my latest phone change i.e. around 3 years ago). You must unlock the bootloader before being able to install a custom recovery image such as TWRP, which itself is used to install custom ROMs. This
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by j1elo 3y ago
I took it as " of course we'll charge you the x% of Booking, so reserve with us if you want to save it". But it makes sense that not all operators will act the same.
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by j1elo 3y ago
I got the feeling that it's the opposite. We pay the Booking fee. I've had hotel receptionists give me their card and say "If you come back some other time, just call to reserve directly with us, so you can save the x% that
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by j1elo 4y ago
Yeah... I was just anticipating the opposite kind of responses: "we web debs would like to make things right but our bosses don't care and expect it to be made fast even if fat"
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by j1elo 4y ago
This might, in a very "take it with a pinch of salt" way, be actually good for stirring up the incentives of lazy web devs (read: greedy bosses who don't care about technical prowess) to make slimmer websites... if enough p
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by j1elo 4y ago
I love this kind of efforts to make the web more palatable, although changing the wording of some phrases seems to go maybe a bit too far. For me I'd rather have a cross-browser solution in the form of uBlock Origin's rules. Is th
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by j1elo 4y ago
Wouldn't it work if you stream the resulting video as a Youtube Live stream? You would have to set a stream up in the Youtube creator web page, in order to get a streaming key and with it, a full RTMP URL. Then in FFmpeg, use "-f
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by j1elo 4y ago
The fact that simply patching the O.S. can be enough to make it work on older hardware is a testament on how Apple could make it work on it too, if they wanted, and without much effort. Which in my book reads as an artificial way to cut sup
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by j1elo 4y ago
If ChatGPT is just a glorified autocomplete engine, which doesn't know the context or the meaning of what is being said (as I've read in random discussions here on HN), then how come it is able to process the license text and summ
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by j1elo 4y ago
Yes, that's how I was able to complete most parts of the game (which in general isn't difficult at all). But at least one of the extra optional things does get much more difficult if you don't have almost perfect execution, s
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by j1elo 4y ago
When things aren't done properly, the whole experience can fall down. I recently played Minnit [1], a very small and cute game with a very unique proposal: that you only have 1 minute of gameplay before being warped to a starting point
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by j1elo 4y ago
Sorry for the confusion. I guess one explanation is that Windows users are immensely many more, so the small portion of users who are generous enough to contribute in those kinds of forums will also be formed of more varied attitudes and sk
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by j1elo 4y ago
That's because people who answer are being paid to do so, or have other types of incentive system put in place, and they wouldn't want risk losing them by writing what they actually think. Not so much with open source, where the o
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by j1elo 4y ago
Boost libs circa Ubuntu (14 or 16.04) had JSON parser that allowed comments, while the newer Boost in Ubuntu 20.04 (and I think already in 18.04) had "updated" it and then it didn't allow comments any more. Just a small anecd
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by j1elo 4y ago
Microsoft's GitHub Actions (continuous integration) runner machines do not have IPv6, and cannot be used for things like unit tests that require an IPv6 network interface for whatever thing they are testing. Add that to the list of tho
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by j1elo 4y ago
You're right, this comment should just be added to the file header and maybe the docs about H.264 processing in FFmpeg; otherwise this comment will get lost in a couple hours and the knowledge about all this will only be known by the p
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by j1elo 4y ago
In a sense Mastodon reminds of the very early stages of Twitter, where there was mostly no toxicity and people were mostly kind and willing to participate in civilized discussions. Hopefully this will continue that way for longer time, give
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Mastodon Postmortem(lapcatsoftware.com)
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by j1elo 4y ago
> if you are truly just doing productive, meaningful technical work, beyond 3 full days most people can't do it. Ok but an important detail is the distribution of those hours. You probably didn't do 7 consecutive hours of exh
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by j1elo 4y ago
I would have hoped that in such a case, talking it over email and/or phone if needed would be a way to restore the domains that were actually in use. But apparently, emails were sent and never responded. In any case we took the chance
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by j1elo 4y ago
Let me add a very relevant anecdote of the difference between those things. Kurento the project is Apache-2 open-source, you'll find all its source code here: https://github.com/Kurento/kurento its website was k
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by j1elo 4y ago
> I’m not willing to let you guide me. You have not given me any reasons to trust you. You have only given me reasons to doubt you. You have been wrong, confused, and rude. You have not been helpful, cooperative, or friendly. You have n

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