reidrac

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by reidrac 1y ago
I love how the post, about N64 graphic tricks, ends with the question: "Is this the future?"
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by reidrac 1y ago
It is made in lua using love2d. That helped the developers and comes with a cost in minimal requirements (even if they aren't much for a game released in 2024).
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by reidrac 1y ago
In my case I bought it because LG makes appliances that fit under the counter if you don't have much space. It bothered me the AI BS, but the price was good and the machine works fine.
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by reidrac 1y ago
The user tolerance has changed as well because the web 2.0 "perpetual beta" and SaaS replacing other distribution models. Also Microsoft has educated now several generations to accept that software fails and crashes. Because &quot
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by reidrac 2y ago
I use DDG, but mostly with the bangs, so I search in the place I'm likely to get the answer I want. Which can be limiting, because I'm always using the same sites (e.g. imdb for media information) and won't discover new ones,
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by reidrac 2y ago
I've seen it in some Spanish newspapers and those are subject to the regular GDPR. You get tracked when you subcribe as well. The Guardian is far from perfect, and that bothers me more when I'm paying a subscription.
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by reidrac 2y ago
Thank you, this is essential! Reading mox FAQ, it looks close enough to the ideal: https://www.xmox.nl/faq/#hdr-how-do-i-stay-up-to-date I'm currently running a more classic setup with postfix and dovecot, because
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by reidrac 2y ago
I moved to Waterfox on Android and, in a couple of small things, it works better for me than Firefox; but being a soft fork it has some of the problems of LibreFox. As the post is saying: I'm disappointed, but there is no technical rea
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by reidrac 2y ago
In my experience it is usually something related to cookies that work on Chrome and not in Firefox, and in those cases I find hard to blame Firefox. Yet, sometimes you need to use those websites fore a reason. Firefox should perhaps make it
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by reidrac 2y ago
Also consider checking your local public library services. You can request physical books (inter-library loans) and they often offer ebooks as well, although the service is likely to be cumbersome and hard to use because DRM (but if is too
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by reidrac 2y ago
It seems based on OneChipMSX, that is from 2006. Just with that I wouldn't really know what I'm buying.
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by reidrac 2y ago
I find frustrating that this type of product (like the MSX VR some years ago), don't specify clearly what are they selling. Is it an ARM SoC? Does it have a Z80? Is it implemented with a FPGA? Yes, it says "OneChipMSX" https
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by reidrac 2y ago
You need to provide the firmware, because they aren't free to distribute. There's an open source one, but it doesn't boot to BASIC and can only be used to run cartridges. And it is because is not an MSX, it emulates one with
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by reidrac 2y ago
I was reading the post and pop-up on the bottom appeared: An error has occurred. This application may no longer respond until reloaded. Reload The death of the web, indeed.
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by reidrac 2y ago
I'd like to know as well. I live in Bristol and is alright, but it may depend on which part of Bristol are we talking about ;)
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by reidrac 2y ago
That was me for 7 years (using vim instead of Emacs), and it was working fine with Python and Go. I used ctags for navigation, some shortcuts for pydoc, and that was essentially it. Then I started working with Scala and, until metals ( the
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by reidrac 2y ago
Been there, done that. Feels painful, but that's because you're learning . My favourite, too small /boot in Linux that prevents updating the kernel if you keep more than 3 versions, and autoremove doesn't seem to happen
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by reidrac 2y ago
> It may not be mainstream enough for a daily driver, but I think it's the ultimate UNIX to put on a spare, underpowered machine. Kind of my feelings when I run OpenBSD on an old desktop back in early 2000. It was a Pentium 133MHz
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by reidrac 2y ago
As a Haskell noob, I had the same problem a few times. Essentially: there's a function to do what you want to do, but good look finding it! Someone thought "words" was the perfect name, and it wasn't me!
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by reidrac 2y ago
It all depends. For a quick script that I can write in 15 mins that uses an HTTP client, JSON and joins two APIs together, the standard library is OK. To be fair, it could be almost a bash script (using curl and jq or something like that),
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by reidrac 2y ago
Sometimes when I'm reading a paper book I miss the easy access to a dictionary that I get on my ebook reader, but I have found I can just keep reading and infer enough to not interrupt my reading. I keep notes on a post-it and I check
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by reidrac 2y ago
For a second I thought you were talking about Google and their search engine. I agree with you, but I'm sure most people won't care.
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by reidrac 2y ago
I like haskell. Actually, let me rephrase that: I like GHC2021. And I have found that's one of the tricky bits with Haskell, together with the language being in very active development, wich makes upgrading your compiler a thing.
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by reidrac 2y ago
My first PC was an Olivetti Prodest PC1, and it felt a natural design back then coming from the "wedge" design of the 8 and 16 bit machines of the time, as in "the computer is the keyboard". http://www.seasip.
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by reidrac 2y ago
Also Cassette Beasts. May not be as much as Unity, but there are enough success stories. But in the case of Bevy, can you tell a game is made with it?
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by reidrac 2y ago
In that case you won't do well in the interview because "bad attitude" or "lack of soft skills".
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by reidrac 2y ago
Does it? so if the content can't be auto-upgraded to HTTPS, will be blocked. I rather have a padlock with a warning that... a broken website because missing content?
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by reidrac 2y ago
A few times I got spam with all the text in the signature. And I thought, weird: and it makes the email look funny because the signatures are shown on a different color in my email client. Now I'm thinking if there was some smart idea
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by reidrac 3y ago
My point was that those emails can wait until I'm on my desktop and I can decrypt them. I should have used "urgency" instead.
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by reidrac 3y ago
Yes, this is true. I never felt comfortable having my private key on my phone, so I can't read encrypted email on the go. I get one or two encrypted emails on a good year, and they are rarely important (or require encryption really).

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