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by sspiff 11y ago
I don't know about TrueType or hinting, but there are a couple of post-processing shaders that achieve the effect, as commonly used by emulators[1]. If these fonts are used in some kind of retro game, those shaders could be applied as
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by sspiff 11y ago
I think this is an oversimplifying view of reality. Taking the most extreme case (free everything) and pointing out it's impossible (without referencing a single data point of evidence no less) is pointless. Basic income is not about p
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by sspiff 11y ago
VirtualBox has been on life support for the past few years, not seeing any major development since Sun got acquired by Oracle. If the same thing happens for VMWare Workstation, I fear we're entering a dark age for desktop virtualizatio
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by sspiff 11y ago
This is a shame. I had recently migrated to VMWare Workstation (from VirtualBox) because they have far superior OpenGL support (OpenGL 3.3, and 4.x is coming in near-future Linux kernel releases). VirtualBox on the other hand is stuck in pr
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by sspiff 11y ago
Same here, I use vim for editing a single file (often scripts or configs), always in a terminal. For editing multiple files (mostly code) or a project folder, I use emacs with X11.
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by sspiff 11y ago
> Powershell is closer to Xerox PARC REPLs than any UNIX shell, except for Mac OS X. Which shell do you mean on OS X? I thought they just shipped with zsh or bash?
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by sspiff 11y ago
Exactly this. Their management / decision makers aren't familiar with the hacker mindset, but they responded to public criticism quickly by acquiescing to the demands. I don't so anything bad about this. They mad a public abo
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by sspiff 11y ago
Well, there's the case for other platforms than PC. Also, maybe if you are a major studio who will with certainty release your game within 18 months, perhaps you should. But if you invest heavily and lock yourself to a specific SDK of
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by sspiff 11y ago
I use Fossil for personal, private projects. I've never used it with other people. But being able to replicate the wiki, issues etc and version them is very cool. I use fossil to keep track of my code and use the wiki of a project as a
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by sspiff 11y ago
They stopped licensing the interfaces used to connect to the different parts together (north bridge <-> south bridge and north bridge <-> CPU) starting with Nehalem (first generation of Core i[N] processors). This effectively me
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by sspiff 11y ago
I was going to request the music loop as well, it's pretty good background audio.
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by sspiff 11y ago
This reminds me of the Duo Adept[1], a full TTL computer with video output, keyboard input and a homebrew operating system. All built by a teenager in his spare time. 1: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qYvr0b8jqbg
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by sspiff 11y ago
If "Internet points" like karma motivates people, inflation like this is actually useful to keep people in the community active.
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by sspiff 11y ago
Most people are unwilling to share even if they have it good. Much of Western Europe today is fairly wealthy, yet we're unwilling to accept refugees.
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by sspiff 11y ago
The goal of most contemporary terrorist is not personal enrichment.
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by sspiff 11y ago
systemd has been the default init system for most distro's for quite a while now. Gnome is just one of the many desktop environments (and I wouldn't want to touch it with a ten foot pole). Wayland is nice though, and it's nic
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by sspiff 11y ago
Make sure to filter out Ctrl-Alt-Delete and Ctrl-Alt-SysRq. Probably others as well.
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by sspiff 11y ago
If you could hack this and run Linux on it and tinker, I'd buy it. For the intended purpose, it seems like a terrible idea. An entirely new ecosystem bootstrapped by an unknown new player with very vague marketing-speak all over the si
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by sspiff 11y ago
GNU Kawa (Scheme on Java) had its first public release I can find in 1998, with version 1.6. It compiles to Java bytecode since version 0.2, and is now at 2.0, and still actively maintained by the same single developer as far as I can tell.
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by sspiff 11y ago
The problem is that for many (smaller) countries, it's a race to the bottom. They want to attract companies that are huge compared to their "native" GDP or production capabilities, collect a little bit of tax from them, and m
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by sspiff 11y ago
> Global companies offshoring profits and not paying enough tax (in the eyes of many countries) Also in the eyes of many citizens of those countries, not just the government trying to make the budget fit.
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by sspiff 11y ago
Are there any plans for a Google trends like analysis tool or any plans on opening up anonymous search statistics? On a personal note, DDG has been my daily driver for about 2 years now. I love the bang shortcuts (!man and !cpp mostly). The
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by sspiff 11y ago
Providing a filtered email address without domain privacy is another option. However, a domain needs to have a point of contact, in case of abuse or illegal activity. Domain privacy is a valid service, where the registrar serves as a proxy
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by sspiff 11y ago
They also have a pretty interesting Voxel fantasy console: http://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php . This was funded through a Kickstarter, and a lot of backers are pretty bitter over the progress and direction of the project
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by sspiff 11y ago
Man, why would they do that? Sure-fire way to not get a recurring donation.
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by sspiff 11y ago
> BuiltWith sells my contact info in their list of "Shopify websites" This right here is why you should always get domain privacy.
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by sspiff 11y ago
This is a message similar to the promotion of World War I involvement using the "war to end all wars" argument. In the end though, it's just a way to either expand one power's reach at the cost of another, or a way to ha
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by sspiff 11y ago
Perhaps include in the title that this is from 2011. I haven't seen these kind of things recently, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
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by sspiff 11y ago
Yeah, exactly. I was looking at the logo, and I thought "huh, that looks exactly like the Dutch East Indies company logo!" After ctrl-f'ing to the first mention of "Dutch", I had to chuckle at their explanation thou
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by sspiff 11y ago
Assuming they're running Intel Wireless chips (which is very likely), this is impossible because they are run on the same antennas by the same chip. You can disable this in software by passing "bt_coex_active=N" to the iwlwif

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