rogual

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   by rogual 4y ago

   You can! But as a bit of an Agile cynic, I find it quite funny that you literally have to accept that 2+2=5 to use it.
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   by rogual 4y ago

   Oh god, the Fibonacci numbers. Project planning does not get easier if you limit yourself to a number system that is not closed under addition. A strange thing to have to tell people, but here we are.
3. 123.▲
   by rogual 4y ago

   > Unicode Corporation There is an Emoji Corporation [1], which as far as I can tell exists to try and trick people into thinking they've got to pay them to use emojis. Looks like they got some Danegeld out of Sony Pictures for the E
4. 124.▲
   by rogual 4y ago

   This story convinced me to buy two of the author's novels, "There Is No Antimemetics Division" and "Ra", both of which I also thoroughly enjoyed, the former a little more.
5. 125.▲
   by rogual 4y ago

   Maybe we could be the Silicon Valley of the East Midlands.
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   by rogual 4y ago

   I'll add to the chorus of people fondly remembering net send from their school days. I seem to remember there was an option you could pass to override the sender's name so you could anonymize yourself and have the messages come fr
7. 127.▲
   by rogual 4y ago

   Thanks! I had all of Hapland 1 (and possibly 2?) working in AIR before I ditched it. I can't remember an exact list of bugs, I think I was just getting graphical glitches and the normal timeline bugs you sometimes get in Flash. Sometim
8. 128.▲
   by rogual 4y ago

   Yes! In fact, out of those problems I listed, I always thought the timeline navigation (and maybe the outliner) would be good candidates for a .jsfl plugin, I just never got round to doing it. Good to hear it's doable!
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   BBC Subtitle Guidelines(bbc.co.uk)

   134 points by rogual 4y ago|82 comments
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    by rogual 4y ago

    Thanks! Looks like that feature was added in Animate CC, which I don't use, so I haven't tried it. Looking at the docs, it looks like something I would have at least tried. Might have saved me writing the rasterizer, though I&#x27
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    by rogual 4y ago

    Thank you! Git log tells me I started in November 2019, so 3 years, but the pace of work definitely varied a lot over that time. Sometimes I was putting full days of work into it, sometimes stolen moments here and there between paying work,
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    by rogual 4y ago

    I took a similar path to you. Sometimes I feel the best thing my high school did for me was having Flash, VB6 and HyperStudio installed on the school computers.
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    by rogual 4y ago

    I did consider it. Infinite scalability isn't required during runtime; the scene doesn't ever zoom or scale in the games, because that was always so slow in Flash, so the only real benefits would be 1) supporting higher resolution
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    by rogual 4y ago

    That's great news! I've been meaning to write a cron script or something to fetch the latest Ruffle every week or so, so thanks for reminding me to do that. Thanks also for your work on Ruffle, it's really great.
15. 135.▲
    by rogual 4y ago

    I can't know ahead of time the exact aspect ratio the player will run the game at. 16:9 and 16:10 are the most common on today's monitors, but the game might be running in a window, or fullscreen on an unusual monitor. If I just m
16. 136.▲
    by rogual 4y ago

    Thanks! It's actually great to hear you describe it as concise, I was worried it was a bit waffly to be honest.
17. 137.▲
    by rogual 4y ago

    Sure! * You can't set keyboard shortcuts for some common actions like changing the brush mode between "paint behind", "paint inside", etc. You have to click the button every time. * No way to import or export any st
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    by rogual 4y ago

    Hey HN, I haven't done a lot of technical postmortem blogpost-style writing so I'd welcome any feedback or tips on how to improve. Is it too long, too short, too technical, not technical enough? Boring? Interesting? Is it enlighte
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    I still use Flash(foon.uk)

    1131 points by rogual 4y ago|394 comments
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    by rogual 4y ago

    Yep. I refuse to use any of it. I want software to be like a screwdriver. You buy it, you put it in the drawer, it's there when you need it. SaaS software is like a screwdriver where you pick it up and it goes, "Bing! Sign in to y
21. 141.▲
    by rogual 4y ago

    I tried asking ChatGPT about a math question I thought of that I don't know the answer to: Is there a function f: R -> R such that for all real x1, x2 and y where x1 < x2, there exists an x where x1 < x < x2 and f(x) = y ?
22. 142.▲
    by rogual 4y ago

    1. Find a good contract and make some money before "software developer" stops being a thing. 2. Maybe finally, at 35, start studying for a BSc. 3. Get my programming language / desktop environment / editor project into a
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    by rogual 4y ago

    One day it'll be hard to know what the old ways even were. Which of the thousands of slightly-different PDFs claiming to be the original K&R is the real one? Which of the million history texts? Which Bible? Which maps?
24. 144.▲
    by rogual 4y ago

    Sigh, really? The future is "analog"? We're going to be using technology where the voltage on the wire is proportional to, i.e. analagous to, the represented signal? I know, I know, I'm being a tiresome pedant. Words cha
25. 145.▲
    by rogual 4y ago

    You inspired me to try using ChatGPT for a similar need I had, but alas, "Write a bash script to toggle grayscale display mode in MacOS" just comes up with a plausible but non-working script that toggles a hallucinated "Apple
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    by rogual 4y ago

    Thanks, seems obvious when you put it like that.
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    by rogual 4y ago

    Funny thing is, it thinks I'm you, but it doesn't think you're me! https://stylometry.net/user?username=rogual I'd have thought this stylometry thing would be commutative.
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    by rogual 4y ago

    Utterly bizarre. What's "Word base"? What does the Y-axis represent? What are the shaded areas? These are either real diagrams that have been stripped of their legends and so rendered meaningless, or they are Arnell-Pepsi tim
29. 149.▲
    by rogual 4y ago

    Very interesting language, but so difficult to read. Something about the undifferentiated sea of lowercase letters just makes my eyes glaze over. People say it gets easier as you use it, but I never managed to get there.
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    by rogual 4y ago

    I've got a cron job on my server that configures (current date)@(my domain) for one day. Works great!