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by mrec 7y ago
From the Syntax section: > We take inspiration from a scala of application, scripting, and systems programming languages The word "scala" reads really oddly in that sentence; none of the English-language meanings of the word [1
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by mrec 7y ago
The impact of enabling WiFi on battery life hadn't occurred to me. Do you have a rough sense of how big the hit is?
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by mrec 7y ago
Commemorated in a comic here: http://www.veritablehokum.com/comic/the-pig-war/
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by mrec 7y ago
Ah yes, I didn't really think that one through. I know Redox OS (Rust) has OpenGL working, but I think they're just using the Mesa software renderer.
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by mrec 7y ago
If you do, definitely ping flohofwoe, who a) maintains a Zig port of his lightweight Sokol graphics API and b) has a penchant for retro consoles. https://github.com/floooh/sokol-zig
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by mrec 7y ago
If you want to be extra cheeky, you can use your opponent's radar emitter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_Heidelberg
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by mrec 7y ago
I think your experience is common. I never had any trouble "hearing" meter in poetry (though I'm completely oblivious to time signatures in music, which feels like it ought to be very closely related) but know plenty of peo
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by mrec 7y ago
Zig is promising as a "better C" but is nowhere near a 1.0 release as far as I know.
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by mrec 7y ago
He very definitely won't like Rust's compile/link times.
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by mrec 7y ago
I'd wholeheartedly second the Veronica Mars rec. Start with the first series, not the movie. Aside from the dialog and characterization, it has probably the most deft plotting and pacing I've ever seen in a TV show. For SF noi
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by mrec 7y ago
Minor bug report in case the author's reading: in the "maps-and-globes" section it says "Change the projection in the dropdown below to see how they differ" but starts out with that dropdown populated with geoAzimut
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by mrec 7y ago
For smartphones, I think there's a huge amount of work still needed to make them accessible/understandable/safe for the uninitiated, including but not limited to the elderly and isolated. If, as seems horribly likely, we&#x27
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by mrec 7y ago
Gamedev falls squarely into my "smallish subset of use cases". It does legitimately need non-DOM UI, but it's not a huge part of the Web (yet). As for designers, thank you for finding a much more diplomatic phrasing than the
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by mrec 7y ago
Steve Klabnik wrote a blog post around this last year. More challenging the "isn't WASM just another Java?" take, but I think still relevant to your question. https://words.steveklabnik.com/is-webassembly-the-
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by mrec 7y ago
For a smallish subset of use cases, maybe. But replacing the DOM with a canvas-based UI for general use would be reinventing many of the problems of Flash.
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by mrec 7y ago
Java used to work in the browser a quarter-century ago, albeit not very well. Even .NET sort of worked in the browser for both the people who enabled Silverlight. I do believe WASM is different, in a good way, but not just because it work
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by mrec 7y ago
I don't think it's pedantic at all. spockz's scenario was explicitly "they get all users and Google is gone " (my emphasis). That is, Apple would be able to re-enable tracking because at that point users would have
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by mrec 7y ago
Meh. How much damage can an unethically-supported trampoline do?
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by mrec 7y ago
> The decline of text blogging is also partly Google’s fault, in that lots of hobbyist blogs are now excluded from search results even if you try to search for the exact terms you know are found in the blog entry. Interesting; I wasn&#
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by mrec 7y ago
Is this in the US? As I said, I was talking about the UK.
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by mrec 7y ago
> The internet has turned to garbage. The ad-supported internet has turned to garbage. The academic and hobbyist internet is fine, and not that much different from the old days. The governmental internet depends a lot on where you ar
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by mrec 7y ago
> I've read several books by authors that started out by self publishing on Amazon. People like Andy Weir, Hugh Howey, Ernest Cline, John Scalzi, and indeed Robert Dugoni. Scalzi's first novel was Agent to the Stars (1997),
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by mrec 7y ago
That doesn't really help, it just replaces the intimidating powers of recall with equally-intimidating powers of managing twenty years of bookmarks without drowning under them.
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by mrec 7y ago
Ha! Firstly, that's spot-on. Secondly, you have remarkable powers of recall when it comes to 18-year-old observational humour. In my defence, it was only that one playthrough. Most games I approach more normally (albeit with a sneaky-s
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by mrec 7y ago
Same here. For reasons which now escape me, I decided to play through the whole [1] of Quake II without ever getting hit or otherwise taking damage. I don't remember it making the game easier, just differently difficult. I spent a lot
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by mrec 7y ago
No, that sentence was about a strong pro-BBC sentiment; goldcd's "backlash" is about a hypothetical anti-BBC one. I stopped owning a TV way back in 2004, specifically out of disgust at the BBC piling in to the property bubble
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by mrec 7y ago
You might be replying to the wrong comment; I never mentioned "backlash". Less popular, less relevant, less trusted, yes.
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by mrec 7y ago
It does, and it's every bit as ridiculous as it sounds, but I suspect it'll be discontinued within the next decade or so and the BBC will become something sane like a normal subscription channel. Anecdotally I've noticed a se
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by mrec 7y ago
Counterpoint: BoingBoing recently reported on French politicians trying to get "stigmatizing agricultural activities" covered by their proposed hate speech laws. As ever, if it can be abused, it will be abused. https://
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by mrec 7y ago
> despite the fact that there's good data that it doesn't matter to the macro hydro systems if people collect rainwater There's an interesting comment below suggesting that bans may be more about preventing mosquito bree

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