jimsmart

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by jimsmart 4y ago
In the UK, if you sell food made at home, you are subject to all manner of laws that you must comply with — to not follow such laws does, to operate outside of such laws, means that one's business is not legal, and thus illegal, no? I&
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by jimsmart 4y ago
Go's stdlib is often given as an example for this, and I personally found it to be useful learning material. I wouldn't advise trying to study it all (it's quite big): just study some pieces of it.
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by jimsmart 4y ago
No, those layers are not to help it scale. Those layers are different levels of abstraction that actually sit on top of one another, but encompass the lower layers. e.g. HTTP, SMTP, POP3, etc., all sit on top of TCP — that is to say: all of
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by jimsmart 4y ago
Web3 isn't really any kind of web standard — certainly not like W3C standards that the web is actually built upon — it's just a marketing buzzword. And not to be confused with Tim Berners-Lee's Web 3.0 vision — which is a sep
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by jimsmart 4y ago
> Those big clients throw away their software at the end of the project? Nope. Not at all. They're still in use, and still being further developed. None of it's been thrown away. Some things have been updated over time (in a ma
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by jimsmart 4y ago
Nice! I've done some projects myself with MPU6050 and some with its 9-axis "bigger brother" the MPU9250 (same as 6050, but with added 3-axis magnetometer/compass). I've also used the LSM9DS1 — another 9-axis IMU, ju
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by jimsmart 4y ago
> GWT had a place back when the frontend capabilities of browsers were very very badly balkanized and pathetic. Everything that GWT did, frontend-wise, could be done just fine in any of the 'pathetic' browsers back then. Fronte
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by jimsmart 4y ago
No problem, have fun! — and if you enjoyed that FE article, you will likely enjoy the 'Behind The Curve' movie too, it's really quite amusing :)
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by jimsmart 4y ago
I believe that the tech you mention is the same tech as used by the flat-earthers in Behind The Curve in the $20k gyroscope they bought, to try and prove that the Earth did not rotate (except they found it picked up a 15-degree-per-hour dri
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by jimsmart 4y ago
Here's an interesting article about the gyroscopes / related tech used on the JWST. TL;DL — it uses reaction/momentum wheels to change orientation, and it uses non-mechanical gyroscopes to detect changes in orientation. http
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by jimsmart 4y ago
Sounds very similar to e.g. Kickstarter, Indiegogo, GoFundMe, Fundrazr, etc., but on the blockchain. — Would you say this was an accurate summary? If not, what are the differences? (key differences or otherwise) What does blockchain bring t
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by jimsmart 4y ago
> If the kid wants to learn programming, there are much better avenues then going to sit in an office. For example, they can make a game mod / Roblox game, etc. Sure. But it's clearly not about learning programming... it's
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by jimsmart 4y ago
IDK, I think this says more about your expectations than it does a 14 y/o nerd. At 14-15 I could fluently program various flavours of Basic on various home computers, had also learnt Forth on the Jupiter Ace, had played with Lisp and u
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by jimsmart 4y ago
I'd be very interest to see some of these articles, just to look back on, and reflect — because I've worked in tech since the 80s, and have been doing web stuff since well before Web 2.0 was even a phrase. Do you have any links pl
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by jimsmart 4y ago
I'm quite blunt myself. I'd just tell it how it is: "I'm not trying to be funny, nor create any friction, but this machine simply isn't fast enough for my work. My own 7 year old laptop is faster — that's why I
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by jimsmart 4y ago
Link to original blog post by Meta (3 May 2022) https://ai.facebook.com/blog/democratizing-access-to-large-s...
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by jimsmart 4y ago
I don't think this lends credence to the claims he was murdered at all — As the article states: the body hasn't been released because of the ongoing / unresolved legal case. Because of this, releasing the body — so it can be
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by jimsmart 4y ago
> but somehow misses their 1994 paper Link to PDF of article for [2] — Rather ironically, you seem to have missed it, and I needed the closure! http://www.communicationcache.com/uploads/1/0/8/8/10
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by jimsmart 4y ago
That's nothing...! My friend's smart-TV asked if I wanted to login on the Youtube app, presenting me with my username, after I'd spent an evening or two showing my new friend a bunch of YT vids on it (music/bands and mor
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by jimsmart 4y ago
> Bitcoins are a tool to transfer and store value. They're way too volatile to be any useful kind of store of value, as this month's ~33% drop in value has just proven. Nobody wants their stored value to depreciate that quickly
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by jimsmart 4y ago
Sure. But arguably, that's a lot of extra work, plus some arbitrary restrictions (tiles of single colour, scroll directions), for a system that, at worst case, is surely going to be doing at least a little bit more work than the simple
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by jimsmart 4y ago
Yeah, I get what you're saying. But it's somewhat of a moot point mostly, certainly when one looks at the bigger picture, but arguably perhaps even for the small picture. Usually (for most games on C64), one simply assigns sprites
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by jimsmart 4y ago
Interesting, cheers. I did a brief stint at Software Studios / Electric Dreams (in Southampton) — who were owned by Activision — in the late 80s. And then I did some work (via Images Software) for Activision (in Reading), a little late
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The main issue here is that this doesn't really work for anything but horizontal scrolling. The code I explained works for all directions. One of the games I coded was an 8-way scroller. Another had horizontal sections seamlessly conne
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by jimsmart 4y ago
Thanks for the memory! And I'm glad to hear you liked the game :) IDK if it's a game that really stands the test of time, but having worked on it always kinda skews one's view: it's hard to be objective. Yeah, we both wo
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by jimsmart 4y ago
Nice tricks! I never did much with soft-sprites on any platform really. One C64 game I worked upon did a bunch of interesting similar kinds of tricks — flips in both axis, plus the stored graphics only used a partial area of the h/w sp
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by jimsmart 4y ago
> colour changes only every few rows near the top of the screen. E.g. let those buildings (or whatever) extend to the top, but require the top floors to stick to the same colour. Now you can reduce e.g LDA/STA/LDA/STA&#x2F
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by jimsmart 4y ago
> I confess I was a bit amused when you wanted to give the graphics artist complete freedom. That's because I'm speaking from a number of years of actual real-world experience working on all manner of released production games
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by jimsmart 4y ago
> A slow set-up function at level start would build the code Interesting, and good thinking :) IIRC, when we used this technique on the C64, we didn't build the code during init at runtime, we actually built the code in the dev envi
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by jimsmart 4y ago
Please stop giving the above comment downvotes because of this person's lack of knowledge: we all have to learn things — there was once a time I didn't know this either. It's not like vardump here was being a dick about anyth

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