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by thesnide 2y ago
This shows the power of having a fixed computing budget. Many modern software should really be done this way to limit the amount of energy used. Specially on laptops, but also in the cloud. Yet, it is mostly never worth it to optimize compa
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by thesnide 2y ago
Bah... just give us the good old del.icio.us. Not the recent .com HD remaster.
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by thesnide 2y ago
I'm also using github pages. It is limited but boring enables to focus on content instead of trying every fancy tool.
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by thesnide 2y ago
I think that text on the internet will tainted by AI the same way that steel has being tainted by nuclear devices.
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by thesnide 2y ago
So that : Always Optimize for Junior Devs. https://blog.pwkf.org/2022/09/18/always-optimize-for-dummies...
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by thesnide 2y ago
AI
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by thesnide 2y ago
It is. Until it isn't anymore. Same as we used to do asm, but then the generated code is becoming good enough, or even better than hand written asm. I predict the async trend will fade, as hardware and software will improve. And synchr
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by thesnide 2y ago
Because of clueless extremists. They don't try to understand the spirit of rules, but blindly apply rules to the letter
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by thesnide 2y ago
Indeed. Do DnD style tabletops with your dev team mates. Seriously. It definitely enables you to know how they operate. And in general, it also enables you to understand the meaning of some writing for and from others. Boosting its creativi
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by thesnide 2y ago
I used to buy all those gaming and elctronics magazines as a kid. But as a group of a dozen, we paid each a part of it, and it was timeshared. Now try that with e-zines that are full of DRM
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by thesnide 2y ago
given enough monkeys typing, we would have the greatest novel of all kinds. This is true. In theory. In practice, the real struggle is to find the gem in an ocean of garbage. Something that cannot be found simply doesn't exists for any
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by thesnide 2y ago
If you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Then, it mostly works, so management makes "economy of scales" and removes all screw drivers, since they need more skills anyway. Now, you are only using nails. Until someon
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by thesnide 2y ago
I feel that some will feel a kind of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect soon
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by thesnide 2y ago
I remember to have high hopes in Vala when discovering it. But never actually felt the need to learn or use it for real. Which tells a story.
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by thesnide 2y ago
TIL that it was named phantom types. I use them in C via struct/union. It is a little more verbose to use, but offers type safety when needed without any runtime penalty. That, and a good naming scheme : always encode the unit in the v
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by thesnide 2y ago
Always done on subjects that didn't really interest me. Then, I cannot stop reading them, and be sad it's finished. Even if it took me several rereads to understand everything. That, is the power of Fabien's writings.
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by thesnide 2y ago
Mostly RTS oldies that I try to show the youngs. New ones aren't very LAN friendly. Some couch multiplayer also. But console based...
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by thesnide 2y ago
about keenwrite, touting "producing beautifully typeset PDF files" and not giving a single PDF example, ideally its documentation, is a missed opportunity, to say the least ;-)
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by thesnide 2y ago
So do I. I simply boycott those that need an online server for multiplayer, unless an opensource version exists. LAN or nobuy. Sadely, it seems that simple LAN multiplayer is not fashionable anymore... Yet, I recently restarted some LAN par
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by thesnide 2y ago
Rst is technically vastly superior to MD. Yet I predict that MD will prevail. VHS style. I hugely prefer to write in RST, but as soon as I'm not alone we always switch to MD, given enough coworkers.
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by thesnide 2y ago
The arcades are subtly alternatively misaligned if you look very closely. Overall effect is awesome
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by thesnide 2y ago
Very true, but also student hubris is legendary. Which is perfectly fine, as we all know successful students. But let's not blind ourselves with the survivor bias. Not everything new and very bright will succeed the test of time. So le
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by thesnide 2y ago
I used almost the same idea, but with files in my https://github.com/steveschnepp/shlibs
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by thesnide 2y ago
Same here. And I just boycott the games that don't work or use those invasive components. At one point, it makes sense to really vote with one's wallet.
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by thesnide 2y ago
While I agree there are benefits to rust, I tend to think all reason cannot fight hype. The tax will be seen as a necessity to embrace future and progress. I'm wondering why do not restrict ourselves to a safe subset instead of jumping
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by thesnide 2y ago
Well, a TTL clock cannot be made otherwise... https://leap.tardate.com/electronics101/digitallogic/digital...
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by thesnide 2y ago
Fun fact: according to the screenshot, the .git directory itself is versioned... so, it is either a bug, a mock screenshot or an intriguing feature.
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by thesnide 2y ago
Yes, also having some "related" posts is nice. Here is my way for jekyll, which I copy-pasted-adapted. https://blog.pwkf.org/2022/08/13/adding-navigation-tags.html
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by thesnide 2y ago
So that. I mean, just make sure that your blog is easily consumed by any web search engine. And in addition to the full non-paginated index, I also have a full non-paginated tags page. Like categories, but with pages showing multiple times
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by thesnide 2y ago
Better would be to just subtly change the output... Like do a +1 on the byte every 7 bytes. Bonus to do it only on every 7 printable chars. And you can even do A/B testing on the constant 7.

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