stevekemp

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by stevekemp 5mo ago
In addition to low salary, and crunchtime, the other big downside in the gaming industry is frequently layoffs, and studioes going bust. You can't ride on a single game for long, and if the next one goes badly half the company will get
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The Lone Lisp Heap(matheusmoreira.com)
94 points by stevekemp 5mo ago|30 comments
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by stevekemp 5mo ago
I used my human eyes to submit updates to Redis and Git, fixing typos in comments. Sure it's low-hanging fruit, but if you're looking at the code it's good to have the comments be readable and not full of typos. (That said th
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by stevekemp 5mo ago
I enjoy working on toy-languages, and I've spent the past ten days or so writing a compiler to convert a simple language into (static) linux/amd64 assembly. It supports strings, integers, and floating-point operations, and is comp
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by stevekemp 5mo ago
This is one of the reasons why I'm suspicious of camera-only systems, here in Finland. Half the year there's a lot of snow and ice around. Which I imagine means most of the view is "white" and "shiny". Coupl
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by stevekemp 5mo ago
It's possible that contributes, but to be honest most VPN users are split "privacy seeking" and "abusive". Though I grant you paid users are probably slightly more circumspect than users of Tor, etc. It seems more
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by stevekemp 5mo ago
I never had one, and often lamented it! Being able to pause a running game and peek/poke at the RAM would have been very useful for hacking games, though of course I'd still need to crack the loader to share the POKEs with other p
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by stevekemp 5mo ago
Very much so. Fixing software so that they correctly recognized my preferred serial number of #12345 was valid. Using soft-ice to register itself was always a deeply ironic. But to be honest I started before then, on the ZX Spectrum. Fir
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by stevekemp 5mo ago
I wrote a golang BASIC interpreter a few years ago, which was inspired by my ZX Spectrum: https://github.com/skx/gobasic And later still I wrote an adventure game in Z80: https://github.com/skx/lig
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by stevekemp 5mo ago
I have a paper copy of "IC 555 projects" kicking around on my bookshelf still! PDF version here https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Bernards-And-Babani/Babani/...
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by stevekemp 5mo ago
On the other hand when you have a reasonably complex deployment it's easy to get swamped with dashboards showing CPU, Memory, I/O, application-metrics, signups, active users/sessions, etc. Instead it's nice to think abou
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by stevekemp 5mo ago
I loved the writing, in particular this line, but the whole piece was strangely endearing: I asked if he was Canadian. He wasn't. The end
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by stevekemp 5mo ago
Edinburgh has some confusion of its own too, where streets will have two names. Usually because several smaller streets eventually got joined up and became one. So walk in a straight line and you pass along Nicolson Street -> St.Patrick
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by stevekemp 5mo ago
We did the same thing, more to avoid throwing away the plastic waste and keeping things reusable than out of any paranoia about chemicals. But they worked well. We just did laundry every day for the first year and a half. Whether that&#x27
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by stevekemp 5mo ago
I cannot read AltaVista without thinking of Astalavista[.box.sk].
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by stevekemp 6mo ago
I still deploy a bunch of simple sites, built around the CGI::Application framework. I understand how they work, I'm familiar with HTML::Template, and related modules, so I can hack up a quick interactive/dynamic site in a couple
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by stevekemp 6mo ago
To be honest I find the use of a separate browser at work a good way of forcing separation - all "work stuff" is done in one browser, and all "personal stuff" is done in a different one. This time around I'm using C
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Claire's closes all 154 stores in UK and Ireland with loss of 1,300 jobs(bbc.com)
40 points by stevekemp 6mo ago|15 comments
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by stevekemp 6mo ago
https://github.com/stdlib-js/stdlib was is one of several attempts at that, but yes the issue is that different people have very different views of what should be standard.
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'People still remember it 40 years later': the making of Chuckie Egg(theguardian.com)
4 points by stevekemp 6mo ago|0 comments
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by stevekemp 6mo ago
I've become used to the idea of having 10+ books in my bag at a time, instead of having to choose which physical ones to pack. Plus over the years I've gotten very familiar with the UI of the kindles, they're comfortable to h
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by stevekemp 6mo ago
Prohibition (of alcohol) wouldn't work, but over time the government has raised alcohol duty rates: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/alcohol-duty-rates That cuts down on drinking, except for the alcoholics of course.
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by stevekemp 6mo ago
I recently learned that in some cases fines of mispriced goods were very low, leading to companies repeatedly failing tests - and over/undercharging their customers. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/de
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by stevekemp 6mo ago
I feel the same way. To be honest I'm on my third kindle, their life-span seems to be about five years for me. I don't love having to replace them, but paying €120 every five years is probably worth it. I mean that's €2&#x2
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by stevekemp 6mo ago
Why would somebody wanting to escape a high-risk environment, or some knocked-over adult go to a library? It's great that libraries exist, be they in Austin, or here in Finland, but they're not where you get support when falling o
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by stevekemp 6mo ago
Crafting Interpreters is a good recommendation, and in the same spirit "Writing an Interpreter in Go" (and it's followup about writing a virtual machine) is a good addition. A lot of the complexity and front-work of these kin
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by stevekemp 6mo ago
Thanks!!!1!!
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by stevekemp 6mo ago
An obvious attempt to insert a link into my own vibe-coded project, in the pretense it is either relevant or related.
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by stevekemp 6mo ago
I had a similar setup a few years back, initially I got a small amount of revenue, but over time things really dropped off. Despite increasing visitors I was getting less and less income from the adverts, so I too chose to disable them. I k
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by stevekemp 6mo ago
I love how SWIG is still around! I first used it about 30 years ago to integrate with Perl, then later with Java.

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