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by mewse 6y ago
walrus01 pointed out the original DIY methods, but there’s a pre-built especially nice implementation over here: https://github.com/showmewebcam/showmewebcam It boots up much faster and mounts the filesystem read-only
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by mewse 6y ago
I bought my first two RPis from Little Bird, the company whose tweet is linked (albeit through one of their web stores, not via ebay). Those were an original RPi model B, now sadly retired (it still works, just is very slow even for running
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by mewse 6y ago
I switched from 1Password to LastPass because (at the time) 1Password’s support on Windows was rudimentary, and on Linux was basically non-existant. And then I switched from LastPass to BitWarden, because I became uncomfortable with LastPa
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by mewse 6y ago
> Workplaces are a neutral environment Oh, that’s good to know. So the workplaces are going to stop contributing to political parties and lobbyists, then? I can expect that any day now? That’s good to know, thanks! Or did you perhaps m
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by mewse 6y ago
There are dozens of apps on Android which can act as a remote for an AppleTV. You can also use any bog standard universal remote control, if you have an old one of those kicking around somewhere. (I use a cheap old Logitech Harmony remote,
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by mewse 6y ago
Yes, the eye tracking works with old games just as well as with new ones; it seems to require no software support; it just does its thing, dynamically adjusting the parallax barrier so that the left and right frames provided by the game w
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by mewse 6y ago
“That last 30%” is kind of a funny phrase. If you were saying “That last 5%” I would probably agree with your take. But 30% is a massive chunk of the profit of every company in that whole market. 30% isn’t “that last”; it’s a substantial
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by mewse 6y ago
Out of curiosity.. “the people who acted on partial information” who you say you would hold accountable. Does that include the people who chose to publicly dox him based upon an incorrect identification?
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by mewse 6y ago
Or to put that same idea differently: If you treat the extra code required as “boilerplate”, then you’re unlikely to get much of a benefit from switching to Vulkan.
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by mewse 7y ago
If you go by the dictionary, "grizzled" and "grizzly" both have the same meaning; having grey hair. In common use, though, "grizzled" is generally used to imply "old" or even "unkempt", and
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by mewse 7y ago
The lead programmer at my very first coding job taught me to put a string of at least three hash marks in a comment, to denote “this is a thing which is okay during development but absolutely must be changed/fixed before shipping this
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by mewse 7y ago
They did do it for the original theatrical release. Movie listings published in the newspapers specified whether each showing was ending ‘A’, ‘B’, or ‘C’, so if you wished you could attend multiple times and ensure you saw a different endi
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by mewse 7y ago
As a practical matter, would the items stolen by the original police then need to be taken into evidence by the second set of police, to support the charge of theft against the first set of police?
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by mewse 7y ago
I used to use a major local bank which had (and still has) a 6 character limit on password length. For real. Also, no symbols allowed.
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by mewse 7y ago
> Just that a bunch of game devs were somewhat lazy. That's not called for. You don't know those developers, you don't know what work was on their plate or what constraints they were toiling under.
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by mewse 7y ago
I'm mostly typing on Corne keyboards now; a split kit keyboard with 42 keys, so still considered 40%, but fewer keys than most other 40% boards. (so you have to learn to cope with not having dedicated arrow keys, for example) I can&#
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by mewse 7y ago
When someone is holding up their phone or actual camera to take a photo, that’s very visible and obvious to everyone in the area what they’re doing, and social feedback can be delivered if the usage is inappropriate. That’s very different f
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by mewse 7y ago
I haven't plugged my phone into a computer in years (apart from very occasionally just to charge it, when away from a wall wart). Do people commonly still use their phones to hold or transfer files for use on a computer? I figured t
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by mewse 7y ago
I'm sure it's not what they were intending, but 'switch' used to be a pretty common term for a light, flexible branch. And all of git's branches are pretty light and flexible, at least compared against the branches
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by mewse 7y ago
Yeah; there are a bunch of other variables I'd love to see thrown into a broader multivariate analysis, if somebody was going to really dig into that topic in a real (i.e.: more than 2 hours) way. "Diffusion of Responsibility&quo
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by mewse 7y ago
In my experience, we would leave the cheats in retail builds of those old games mostly because leaving them in was less risky than removing them. They had been there during all of development and testing, and we were reasonably certain of
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by mewse 7y ago
Also bear in mind that this obeys the inverse distance squared law; a phone being used by somebody a couple of meters away from you is going to give you massively less exposure than your own phone pressed directly against your ear.
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by mewse 8y ago
Note that the game industry avoided C++ for a long time because those early C++ compilers produced code which was very large and quite a lot slower than you'd get from C, so C++ was kind of a non-starter when you were writing code for
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by mewse 8y ago
That's a really interesting criticism to make. Can you specify a version control system which doesn't make it easy to lose uncommitted changes?
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by mewse 8y ago
But that was already the case, wasn't it? Store those packets long enough and even ordinary, non-quantum computers will become fast enough to factor the requisite large numbers within a reasonable period of time to unlock the comparati
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by mewse 8y ago
With lld, that single-file rebuild+relink drops from 1.6 seconds (with gold) to 1.2 seconds. lld spits out a bunch of warnings that neither ld nor gold cared about, about finding local symbols in the global symbol table of some of the third
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by mewse 8y ago
In my moderate-sized real-world project (about 700 C++ source files, about 130k lines of code), adding -gsplit-dwarf reduced the time of a single-file recompile+relink from 7.2 seconds to 5.8 seconds, which isn't bad at all for a singl
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by mewse 8y ago
That's basically taking a short position on whatever the customer thinks they're buying, right? Whenever the customer wants to sell their position, you'd have to pay them whatever the value was at that time, whether the posit
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by mewse 8y ago
I don't think that's an opposing viewpoint. If a manager discovers a long-standing issue whilst preparing for the performance review, then yes, they absolutely must "swallow hard and bring it up". But not having noticed
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by mewse 9y ago
I think you may be referring to an image from this What-If article, where the capacity of a gallon of MicroSD cards is estimated at 1.6PB per gallon: https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/

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