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A complete disassembly of The Legend of Zelda(github.com)
1 points by reidrac 6y ago|0 comments
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by reidrac 6y ago
A bit sad that they gave up on Mercurial, if they really think is better for their needs; although having used Subversion, Mercurial, Bazaar, git, ...; I kind of like when it is just git. Not because is better or I like it better, but switc
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by reidrac 6y ago
Do you need to use all the features of a language all the time? I don't think you do. A language with a consistent design can have layers, and beginners can just do with the external bits without getting too deep initially, but with en
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by reidrac 6y ago
I used to work on a hosting company and proper use of dd was important when copying data from LVM in a Xen host; unfortunately I seem to have forgotten most of it. Some pointers: dd has oflags; may be oflags=direct is faster? You can also u
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by reidrac 6y ago
I'm in the UK and I get the reddit app banners all the time browsing with my phone; I can ignore them and still browse the site. I don't comment often, so I moved to use https://teddit.net/ -- probably a temp solu
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by reidrac 6y ago
I've used jsonsprc a few times and my experience was excellent (opposite to GraphQL, actually). But the jsonrpc endpoint had good documentation and the client library didn't feel alien to the project, like a big query string embed
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by reidrac 6y ago
This was my experience as well. Also the API provider had a "GraphQL is self-descriptive, go away" attitude when asked for documentation that made things worse. It could be me (or my team), but we didn't find it easy at all t
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by reidrac 6y ago
It seems to work now. It couldn't find an unique profile, or something like that. Probably a LinkedIn glitch.
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by reidrac 6y ago
The link to your LinkedIn in your HN profile is broken.
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by reidrac 6y ago
Interesting that the author didn't consider stability or long time support as a factor to choose a distribution. I was a happy Fedora user, but I got tired of an uneven quality and only 13+ months of support for a given release. It is
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by reidrac 6y ago
Back at Uni I used joe because I was used to WordStar (DOS). On one of my early jobs I had to telnet to an AIX machine to do some work and, of course, joe was not installed and vi was. I had almost no idea on how to use it, and by the end o
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by reidrac 6y ago
I use Firefox containers at work but I was postponing doing the same at home because it takes a bit of work to create the containers, assign sites, troubleshoot some minimal issues, etc; and THIS made me finally do it. I knew that I was bei
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by reidrac 6y ago
You can change that on the settings. I know because I had the same problem and you can choose a more familiar iconset.
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by reidrac 6y ago
This is basically an ad. The author of LZSA has a nice comparison that may help: https://github.com/emmanuel-marty/lzsa LZSA focuses on very fast decompression on 8-bit systems; so I suspect some of those could be use
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by reidrac 6y ago
I found the whole article very low quality. I don't recall the last time I read anything on Gizmondo, but I wasn't expecting that. > Can you explain what a source code is to me like I’m five?
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by reidrac 6y ago
It should be possible, there are other cores available: https://gitlab.com/victor.trucco/zx-spectrum-next-cores/-/tr...
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by reidrac 6y ago
The problem is finding the right plugins, but it doesn't require that much time (at least in Linux/Mac; Windows may be a different experience). I use "IDE features" when writing Scala: vim-plug first, then vim-lsc + meta
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by reidrac 7y ago
I'm not sure how sound is UK's strategy. Current advice is to self-isolate for 7 days if persistent cough suddenly appears and/OR a temperature of 37.5°C (that is not high temperature). That sound like good advice, but they a
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by reidrac 7y ago
The message is clear to me: don't panic. And it is a good one, even if things were (or are) worse than this experience, panic won't help.
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by reidrac 7y ago
I'm talking about the year 2003 in Spain. Perhaps I should have mentioned it. 802.11g was still a draft. There were serious issues to use cards from different vendors to talk to each other, and 802.11b cards were common. Anyway, 802.11
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by reidrac 7y ago
It operates on the 5GHz frequency, instead of 2.4GHz of 802.11b/g (802.11b was more popular when 802.11g was still a draft). Not sure if that was a factor or just that being less popular there was less investment to make it "bette
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by reidrac 7y ago
The title of the post is misleading: it means "ordered by insertion order" (not sorted). Previously it was unpredictable, and that's why collections have OrderedDict; which makes sense instead of trusting an implementation de
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by reidrac 7y ago
Not sure that's a good point. The CVE list for almost any programming language can get you to the conclusion that you can shoot yourself in the feet despite not being as tricky as C.
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by reidrac 7y ago
When Firefox starts misbehaving like that, disable uBlock and the problem disappears.
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by reidrac 7y ago
I'm experiencing the same issue, and it seems related to uBlock.
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by reidrac 7y ago
I think you're right. I was thinking almost the same when I was reading the post. Let me add that, in my opinion, there are more chances of a successful game if you're a competent artist with poor coding skills than the opposite.
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by reidrac 7y ago
Some defaults aren't very usable, although "Debian defaults" are very close. I had the same approach, but lately I've decided to add plugins or configuration to "enhance" and never "replace", and I ha
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Millfork: Mid-level programming language targeting 6502, 8080 and Z80 machines(github.com)
2 points by reidrac 7y ago|0 comments
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by reidrac 7y ago
My Nvidia GPU was fine until gnome 3 happened . See, is not my fault. It had good drivers and decent support. Now I use only Intel because... well, it works. But I don't bother with 3D gaming, of course. My point is that you can blame
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by reidrac 7y ago
That was the same argument gnome 3 used when it wasn't working in my Nvidia GPU: the driver is buggy, not our fault. This is very hard to explain to your users, because there's nothing they can do. So yes, it really doesn't m

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