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by rogual 4y ago
MacOS has a decent screen recorder hidden away in QuickTime Player (File -> New Screen Recording). Might be worth a try if you're inspired by this but don't want to install anything. Also, why do people like GIF? Isn't MP4
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by rogual 4y ago
On Emacs, I use the built-in Leuven [0] during the day, and jbeans [1] at night, both modified a bit. [0] https://i.imgur.com/eWIo1Fi.png [1] https://i.imgur.com/q0JreaG.png
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by rogual 4y ago
As a Brit I always used to interpret "Smart Quotes" with the old-fashioned definition of smart that some people still use here, i.e. presentable, nice-looking, clean-cut.
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by rogual 4y ago
The BBC website is full of sloppy writing, not to mention straight-up clickbait, these days. It's kind of sad.
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by rogual 4y ago
Twitter makes sassy teenagers of us all.
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by rogual 4y ago
I like seeing stuff in this area -- C is great but feels unnecessarily hobbled by the long edit/compile/run cycles. My own attempt at solving this right now is a C variant that's amenable to SLIME-style incremental developmen
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by rogual 4y ago
My favourite part of P3P was when Google started returning a P3P header that just had the string "This is not a P3P policy", intentionally letting browsers consider its presence a declaration of P3P compliance while declaring non-
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by rogual 4y ago
To add to the explanations already given here, the way I think of it as a non-maths person is: A matrix represents a transform of the form: x' = Ax + By + Cz y' = Dx + Ey + Fz z' = Gx + Hy + Iz ...the A...
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by rogual 4y ago
When making games, I have them store their config in %APPDATA% on Windows, although I do see the downside if there's a bug and I want to direct a customer to send me a log file that was saved there or just generally delete or move file
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by rogual 4y ago
Beautiful and lovely. I dread every app update these days. What buttons will lose their edges? Which icons will become indistinguishable vector hieroglyhps? Will the menu bar inexplicably become all-caps? What new upsells and attention-sin
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by rogual 4y ago
E as in Emacs, glot as in polyglot?
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by rogual 4y ago
This is exactly as realistic as I remember Half-Life 2 looking when it was first shown. There definitely seems to be a "hedonic treadmill"-style effect for realism. Also, I gather Call of Duty is a shootyman game so players will p
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by rogual 4y ago
I gave it a go when I was receiving spam from vodafone.pt. I forwarded the message with a brief explanation to their abuse address. The server responded saying "this server does not accept forwarded mail". I told them about it on
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by rogual 4y ago
Ack, sorry, I'm from a time when you used to be able to just link to things on the Internet. That is indeed the ad I meant. There were a couple of others where the proportional representation would hurt a soldier or an old lady instead
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by rogual 4y ago
He got his referendum, but the Tories promptly ran ads saying proportional representation would hurt babies [1] and it didn't pass. [1] https://eu-browse.startpage.com/av/anon-image?piurl=https%3A...
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by rogual 4y ago
To me it shows Microsoft's attitude that Windows is a little tunnel into your house through which they can act. The computer isn't doing a thing. The user isn't doing a thing. The vendor is doing the thing, using the equipm
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by rogual 4y ago
Reading about these kinds of experiments always fills me with lots of little questions like "well what if we did THIS" or "what if we tweaked THAT slightly". I have the urge to try and "catch reality out", to e
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by rogual 4y ago
Also referenced in the Simpsons: https://tenor.com/view/milhouse-simpsons-tv-blasting-thrillh...
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by rogual 4y ago
I've been in that situation before with Coinbase, getting ignored and slow-rolled by their know-nothing support team. I submitted a complaint to the CFPB, not expecting much as I'm not in the US, and shortly afterwards Coinbase st
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by rogual 4y ago
Preview is great. I miss it whenever I'm not on a Mac. Fast, light, useful, tasteful. I dread the day a design team remembers it exists and decides it's due for a "refresh".
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by rogual 4y ago
Content aside, this is a great time capsule into the 2009 nerdy internet vernacular. It really does feel worlds away in tone, style and culture.
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by rogual 4y ago
As a non-mathematician, one thing that helped me understand this stuff -- or at least, helped it seem not totally arbitrary which tilings "exist" -- was this table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Regul
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by rogual 4y ago
Wow, Google+ sounds like it was actually pretty good. These are all features I've wished Twitter had. When Google+ came out, I do remember avoiding it mostly out of spite, because Google were so overwhelmingly aggressive in trying to m
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by rogual 4y ago
Yeah. Maybe I'm just getting old, but popular games do feel very "samey". They've dropped a bunch of 3D models into an environment, and you control one of them, and there's a minimap with flashing dots. Next year, a
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by rogual 4y ago
MacOS's quirks don't really bother me much, except one: 1. Open a terminal on screen 1. 2. Open a terminal and a browser on screen 2. 3. Be using the terminal on screen 1. 4. Cmd-Tab to the browser. 5. Cmd-Ta
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by rogual 5y ago
https://foon.uk/ Very bare-bones right now, just some Javascript (and, earlier, Flash) games I've made over the years. It's all static, which is nice to manage, but I do miss some of the interactive things (commen
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by rogual 5y ago
Imagine if 12AM meant 12 noon. What would one second past 12 noon be? It'd have to be 12:00:01 PM. Even one millisecond past 12 noon would be PM. So "12AM" could only exist for an infinitesimal length of time, in contrast to
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by rogual 5y ago
You might try drawabox.com; I found it pretty decent. Construction-based approach.
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by rogual 5y ago
There are some improvements in the "more readable" text, but also some noticeable regressions: "Born premature" is an established turn of phrase. You read it, you know exactly what is meant. "Born early" is not

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