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by pdpi 10mo ago
"Concurrent Versions/Versioning System" is a pretty reasonable one, though.
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by pdpi 10mo ago
GNU's version of Yacc is called Bison. Pine Is Not Elm (even though that was never an official acronym). UNIX was UNICS which was a pun on MULTICS. I couldn't for the life of me tell you what dd stands for. nano is a copy of pico
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by pdpi 11mo ago
I have a weird love for Brainfuck. It's a tiny, incredibly simple language that you can write an interpreter for in an hour, it's effectively a super-simple byte code that can easily be extended and used as a compilation target fo
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by pdpi 11mo ago
That describes Indian food trucks, or any of several places selling falafel wraps.
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by pdpi 11mo ago
My understanding is that reactors will use that plutonium just fine, so the energy you get from a fresh fuel rod is almost exclusively from uranium fission but, as time goes on, an increasingly large share is from plutonium fission. In prin
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by pdpi 11mo ago
It’s also trivially easy to disable ads in the Windows start menu, but the fact that they’re even there is shocking. I use Firefox because I want to do at least something to keep the web browser market from becoming a monoculture again, b
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by pdpi 11mo ago
> that I don't think about it quite that positively. I don't think about that in a positive light, it's just factual information that helps me understand the shape of the problem. It's about recognizing that the place
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by pdpi 11mo ago
> but you're not always in control of where it swivels to. If we're going with that metaphor, I'd phrase it more in terms of that mount being prone to jamming. My attention doesn't go to completely random places, it o
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by pdpi 11mo ago
> People always describe the disorder as "lack of focus" but that's a really poor description for what I have. The diagnosis, for me, became obvious when I reframed it from "lack of focus" to "poor control o
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by pdpi 11mo ago
Webgpu.h is, AIUI, part of the webgpu spec. Both Dawn (Google’s C++ implementation used in Chrome) and wgpu (Mozilla’s implementation used in Firefox) can be used as concrete implementation of those headers.
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by pdpi 11mo ago
From the same article I linked: 5.7.8. Implementation timing (402) Apple should implement the measures required to enable the scenario of close-range wireless file transfers while the receiving device has the relevant close-ra
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by pdpi 11mo ago
You can read the actual ruling at https://ec.europa.eu/competition/digital_markets_act/cases/2... This is the "smoking gun" section: 5.4.8. Implementation timing (245) Apple should provide
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by pdpi 11mo ago
The DMA forced Apple to move all of their P2P Wi-Fi stuff from their proprietary AWDL stack to the current Wi-Fi Aware-based implementation. Whatever work Google did to reverse engineer Airdrop was based on the Wi-Fi Aware implementation of
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by pdpi 11mo ago
One of the most effective ways to see this at play is watching most recorded Let's Plays of Return Of The Obra Dinn. The game uses a couple of very "game logic" contrivances to enable the writing to focus on very organic, rea
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by pdpi 11mo ago
I’d go as far as to say that Good Will Hunting is a pretty good example of writers getting it right. The equivocation and miscommunication isn't a plot device to conjure up conflict from thin air. That sort of avoidant behaviour is a c
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by pdpi 11mo ago
Love that technique with splitting B&W and colour, doing processing on B&W, then recombining. It's incredibly obvious in hindsight, especially with how common it is in digital art to draw in B&W and colour "in post&quo
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by pdpi 11mo ago
I’m all for going with the tried and true, boring, battle-hardened option, but a Dell over a Framework crosses a line. I upgraded my FW13’s display to the newer higher res model, and the whole upgrade process was 20 minutes, from power down
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by pdpi 11mo ago
And CCP (EVE Online)
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by pdpi 11mo ago
> Just making not literally every piece of data universally mutable? Not possible in C. Trivial in C++ and Rust, and it makes your programs SO much easier to reason about. And Rust is significantly better at this than C++ for the simple
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by pdpi 11mo ago
As I understand it: Your app is a virtual arcade, that supports “mini app” arcade games published by other developers, that run inside your virtual cabinet. I make a game for your arcade, and players pay cash to add credits to my game. The
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by pdpi 11mo ago
I mentioned elsewhere — Right now, using Wine/Crossover is a hassle. Wanting "Proton on Mac" isn't about that specific fork of Wine, it's shorthand for wanting the user experience that Valve gives you on Linux.
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by pdpi 11mo ago
The fashion version of the old "stick of chalk: $1. Knowing where to draw the cross: $1000" story.
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by pdpi 11mo ago
I keep hearing this argument, and it baffles me. I find that, as I age and my vision gets worse, I need progressively finer text rendering. Using same-size displays (27") at the same distance, with text the same physical size on screen
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by pdpi 11mo ago
Right now, the user experience with Crossover is that you have to manage the whole thing of installing Windows Steam in a Wine bottle, then installing games within that second Steam installation, then dealing with the fact that Steam doesn&
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by pdpi 11mo ago
True, forgot about that. That said, Apple does have D3DMetal. A man can dream that they eventually opensource that.
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by pdpi 11mo ago
Have to wonder if there is a world where Proton comes to macOS.
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by pdpi 11mo ago
> But there is no mention of price and available sizes No idea about prices, but, assuming they follow the usual conventions for model codes, that's a 32" unit.
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by pdpi 1y ago
First, the average quality of candidates we were getting was pretty good. She stood out, and definitely gave a memorable performance on the technical level, but it wasn't some colossal blow to our org that we didn't make the hire.
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by pdpi 1y ago
Some of the best hires I’ve ever made would’ve tanked that sort of interview question. Being able to efficiently work through those puzzles is probably decent positive signal, but failure tells me next to nothing, and a question that can fa
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by pdpi 1y ago
IP over thunderbolt is definitely a thing, don't know whether IP over USB is also a thing. USB4x2 or TB5 can do 80Gib/s symmetrical or 120+40 asymmetrical (and boy is this a poster child for the asymmetrical setup). The Mac defini

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