skywal_l

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by skywal_l 11mo ago
He said he was working on something in a comment a couple of months ago on a thread about typst: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44356883
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by skywal_l 11mo ago
Not entirely related but Quake had a VM though, executing scripts written in QuakeC[0] which would drive the AI, game events, etc. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuakeC
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by skywal_l 11mo ago
If you want more detail, may I suggest "The MS-DOS Encyclopedia" by Ray Duncan [0]. [0]: https://archive.org/details/The_MS-DOS_Encyclopedia_Ray_Dunc...
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by skywal_l 11mo ago
> Steam Frame Controllers: Powered by AA batteries (rated 40 hours) Yes, I want to see standard batteries being used more. Too bad they didn't go with this on the Steam Controller.
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'Maigret' on PBS is the latest version of Simenon's sleuth(latimes.com)
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by skywal_l 11mo ago
I have been using firefox on linux for a little more than a decade now and haven't realize I was missing on anything so I guess it's probably not a real problem.
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by skywal_l 1y ago
I might be wrong but I don't think that open source software are subject to the CRA. If you look at article (18) here [0] it seems to explicitly exclude free software that you download from the internet. [0] https://eur-lex.
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by skywal_l 1y ago
This. I tried that a few years ago and fell off my chair when I started to realized how DYI the thing is. It's a bunch of unofficial scripts and half-assed out of date help pages. At the time I though, well it's a bunch of hippies
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by skywal_l 1y ago
The article basically describes the content of this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4eDG80GJQ4
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by skywal_l 1y ago
Andrew Kelley (author of zig) has a nice talk about programming without pointers allowing ultra fast serialize/deserialization. [0] And then you have things like cap'n'proto if you want to control your memory layout. [1] But
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by skywal_l 1y ago
Zuckerberg and al are expecting a bust so they can consolidate for cheap. We've seen this before again and again. Nothing new here.
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by skywal_l 1y ago
Don't be surprised, it's ads all the way down.
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by skywal_l 1y ago
Don't hold your breath though. Looking at the September progress report[0] there are many many things to iron out. It's great progress but there are still several years of development for LB to be ready. [0] https://www
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by skywal_l 1y ago
As a complement, a nice (and funny) videos about fractal terrain generation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsJHzBTPG0Y
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by skywal_l 1y ago
If the US government was a function body, it would force Youtube to separate the hosting business and the website itself. The hosting would be a low margin low risk business which doesn't care about traffic either way. It's just s
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by skywal_l 1y ago
Yep, too bad Circle never went anywhere...
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by skywal_l 1y ago
Removing nommu feels wrong to me. Being able to run linux on a simple enough hardware that anybody sufficiently motivated could write an emulator for, help us, as individuals, remain in control. The more complex things are, the less freedom
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by skywal_l 1y ago
I don't understand your comment. `drop` takes a *mutable* reference. But by default, references in Rust are immutable.
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by skywal_l 1y ago
Any hope for a 75 keyboard? With home/end/pageup/pagedown on the side?
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by skywal_l 1y ago
Had to use my old TI 89 one day. Haven't used it in 10 years. Took it out of storage, put in 4 AAA usb-c rechargable batteries, worked like a charm. Could you do the same with your hard to replace custom battery? Any consumer electroni
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by skywal_l 1y ago
> If I made it so you couldn't get several weeks of your wages for hours that you worked This is called wage theft and I haven't seen anybody going to jail for it. I don't condone what this person did, but I wish justice w
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by skywal_l 1y ago
First movie I ever saw when my parents brought me to the theater. I was a little kid. Haven't seen it since and still remember the awful skeletons parade.
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by skywal_l 1y ago
I wonder if there is business in buying those cameras in bulk, flash them with thingio and resell them as "open" camera. Not sure if it's even legal. I guess flashing the camera probably void the warranty and the margin would
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by skywal_l 1y ago
"The green revolution has won a temporary success in man’s war against hunger and deprivation; it has given man a breathing space. If fully implemented, the revolution can provide sufficient food for sustenance during the next three de
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by skywal_l 1y ago
PF: Packet Filtering (Open BSD Firewall). Saved you a click there.
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by skywal_l 1y ago
From Wikipedia: > Although phylogenetically closer to felines and viverrids, hyenas are behaviourally and morphologically similar to canids in several elements due to convergent evolution: both hyenas and canines are non-arboreal So for
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by skywal_l 1y ago
I think your parent poster has a point. What is needed from firefox is fairly clear to any person of good faith: Better web compatibility and speed, be more lean (higher dev to admin ratio) and no more shenanigans / distractions. To ke
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by skywal_l 1y ago
It's kind of disheartening to see what happened to the Mozilla Foundation. And it makes me kind of afraid of what's going to happen to linux once Linus is out. It seems that a great project requires a great BDFL, otherwise it wil
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by skywal_l 1y ago
obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1732/
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by skywal_l 1y ago
No. It was a revolution against a regime where the rich paid NO taxes. Article 9 of the august decree – Fiscal privileges in the payment of taxes were abolished forever. Taxes were to be collected from all the citizens, in exactly the same

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