mattbee

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by mattbee 3y ago
There was a BBC Master port in 2019, decent frame rate too! https://bitshifters.github.io/posts/prods/bs-scr-beeb.html
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by mattbee 3y ago
This is one gem from the project, a partial reimplementation of RenderWare: https://github.com/aap/librw
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by mattbee 3y ago
I don't see Reddit as one place like Slashdot was one place. I'm sure it still has horrific subs, but the ones I'm on are little islands of well-moderated chit-chat, local jokes and retro-computing.
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by mattbee 3y ago
The in jokes became racist and nobody seemed to care. Seemed like a sad end to a site that was pioneering in community moderation.
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by mattbee 3y ago
I must have read this when I was 12; the image of the eyeball and the smoke lived in my head rent-free. I was reminded of it by that creepy-ass bio-CPU company we discussed earlier (also by Lena...).
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William and Mary by Roald Dahl (1959)(user.ceng.metu.edu.tr)
91 points by mattbee 3y ago|32 comments
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by mattbee 3y ago
You're looking for https://qntm.org/responsibilit
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The father of modern spam speaks (2002)(cnet.com)
48 points by mattbee 3y ago|44 comments
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by mattbee 3y ago
I made a feature contribution to Xen years ago that ended up with a few lines in the kernel. Got merged pretty promptly but no credit that I can find. I didn't notice at the time but now I'm job hunting, past credits seem a bit mo
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by mattbee 3y ago
I liked it too, paid for it for a few months. But every so often it would start lagging by about 1000ms. Tthe only solution was to reinstall the Windows drivers. This happened with both iPhone and Android devices, and more than once, so I c
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by mattbee 3y ago
Starting a virtual thread in Java isn't that clumsy: Thread.ofVirtual().start(() -> System.out.println("Hello"))
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by mattbee 3y ago
A Fuji Snapscan S1500 + folder of PDFs on my laptop + full text search. Mylio for photos. I sometimes purge and file, but not very often. There's always a bit too much that is attached to emails, I try to remember to save stuff out. A
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by mattbee 3y ago
Maybe, but it's not a conversion. The house was built new with heat pumps.
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by mattbee 3y ago
My mum has a heat pump install which she hates for being lukewarm all the time. It feels underspecced! When I've looked at one for my home to replace a 24kW gas boiler, all I can find is 14kW kits. Am I missing something? Can I not mat
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by mattbee 3y ago
1/100 UK properties is an (Airbnb) short let of some sort. But I don't buy that a few highly-leveraged people panic-selling their portfolios is going to bring down house prices at all. Even if that caused some _local_ downward pre
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by mattbee 3y ago
YouTube lets you block channels, so I just have his login open somewhere else.
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by mattbee 3y ago
As a child brought up by screens, I've never believed that screen time is a problem, so much as what's on the screens. I wish I could find the clever comment from the parent who talked about "playing defence" with sm
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by mattbee 3y ago
Location: York, UK (British & German citizenship) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No (occasional EU travel fine!) Technologies: Golang, Java, C, Ruby & Rails, low-level Linux systems, Docker, Firecracker, MySQL, PostgreS
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by mattbee 3y ago
My very first paid job in 1997 was extending a PC emulator product for an ARM desktop computer with a 486 co-processor. I was a teenager who knew a bit of C & ARM code, otherwise no hardware or x86 knowledge at all. Obviously PCs have
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by mattbee 3y ago
If it's not relevant to why they'd do this particular job well, it's leaning towards entitlement.
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by mattbee 3y ago
I feel you, I am an ex-CEO who didn't network very well when I had the chance. I'm at an early stage of a second career in engineering after several years break. The more I write about my CEO/founder experience the less valu
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by mattbee 3y ago
More than that (as referenced above), `synchronized` currently pins a virtual thread to its carrier. So if you had 4 carrier threads, you only need to have 4 synchronized methods in flight that depend on the action of a 5th to hang the JVM.
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by mattbee 3y ago
For sure, yes, it's from 2006! I didn't have that one to hand, but remember the O'Reilly "Java Threads" book from 1999 and >50% of that was still useful for bringing a younger colleague up to speed.
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by mattbee 3y ago
How much old advice on Java concurrency will virtual threads change? I'm building a course for people who are new to Java concurrency and I've made the assumption that from September, you will almost always _choose_ virtual thread
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Why does my car stereo cut out for 10s when I drive through this village?(mumsnet.com)
4 points by mattbee 3y ago|0 comments
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by mattbee 3y ago
A straight upgrade, that I can do :) It's been running for years without one. I was only edgy about it because when it takes 36h it blocks the next daily backup, and I wondered whether that was going to get worse (it hasn't).
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by mattbee 3y ago
The deduping in restic is just on the edge of acceptable for me, making me think I'd have trouble with a lot more data. Basically the one a month "prune" operation takes about 36h (to B2) . I feel I could be tuning something
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by mattbee 3y ago
Did this page just turn into flying toasters when I wasn't looking?
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by mattbee 3y ago
This is about a single business, that didn't get its investors a profitable outcome? A lot of people would consider getting paid for years to work on something you're passionate about a pretty good way to spend 4 years, let alone
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by mattbee 3y ago
Whoa, yes. Nothing for 3 weeks. I'm owed £1900 so far. Their back-end systems must be horrendous - I've maintained an integration for years that works off their PDFs and they keep making little tweaks, adding lines here and there,

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