throwawee

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by throwawee 2y ago
I think there's a missing distinction here between "Just do X!" and "Can we just do X?" The latter is a legitimate question and positive thing. I was once asked if I could just do X and I said I'd have to spend
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by throwawee 2y ago
It was a different time. Let's not forget Douglas Adams himself doxxed a man in the earliest versions of The Hitchhikers's Guide for being the worst poet in the universe.
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by throwawee 2y ago
You're looking at it through rose tinted lenses. I remember it getting blasted for its Fisher Price theme and ugly new Start Menu and Control Panel redesigns. Remember the search dog? If Microsoft had a champion of UI consistency I thi
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by throwawee 2y ago
Needlessly confusing if Dan Brown is green and Dan Green is white. Somebody standardize Dans.
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by throwawee 2y ago
Probably not even edible at this point. Should just throw him out.
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by throwawee 2y ago
This is with low processor mode enabled. Hell, it's still true when I multiply Low Processor Mode Sleep by 100. This is a blank default project that has a single empty node--and the window is minimized.
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by throwawee 2y ago
I love Godot for games but it's clearly not designed for utilities. The editor constantly uses a percentage of my CPU doing absolutely nothing. I don't think Godot executables can stop redrawing the window, only lower the FPS. I d
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by throwawee 2y ago
Cup-and-ball popularity fell off but net-and-ball is going strong.
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by throwawee 2y ago
A six-pack of Mountains Dew
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by throwawee 2y ago
Godot 4 already has hot reloading.
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by throwawee 2y ago
Widely believed to be because Mike Bison was a little too on-the-nose for a heavyweight boxer and the shuffle was the easiest way to make a last minute change.
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by throwawee 3y ago
I was briefly confused by the headline. How am I supposed to know what kind of forever chemicals are in the food if they take it off the packaging?
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by throwawee 3y ago
Agreed. I've seen beginners fall into the trap of spending way too much time on software rendering that won't be useful or performant later because every platform they'll ever develop for has hardware accelerated rendering. I
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by throwawee 3y ago
>there are various programmer types who find the Apple way really onerous and problematic, because they want to control everything Treating customers like renters after they buy your products at a premium is a pretty onerous practice and
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by throwawee 3y ago
I've tried it every so often over the years because I love what it was trying to do. Tragically, I think it might have been really successful if it just had optional GC/runtime from the beginning so it could stick to displacing C+
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by throwawee 3y ago
Thank you for introducing me to Hjson. I've been using simple colon delimited lists which seem to be, hilariously enough, already valid Hjson.
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by throwawee 3y ago
Yeah. I've had fun with Love2D but it's not even an engine, really. It mostly just wraps SDL functions (and a few other libraries). If that fits your use case exactly, go for it! But if you're looking for the FOSS equivalent
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by throwawee 3y ago
I think package managers are the single most impressive feature Linux distros have over Windows. Everything else I use has some kind of equivalent; for a dev environment you can sort of get by with MinGW and MSYS. But if there's anythi
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by throwawee 3y ago
Zeppelins are just a bubble.
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by throwawee 3y ago
It's kind of inevitable. I grew up hearing movies decried as brain-rotting, imagination-killing junk food preventing everyone from reading a good book like nature intended. Of course the medium would be dethroned by something even more
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by throwawee 3y ago
I think L.in.oleum was the first language I was ever comfortable with. Everything else was abstractions on top of abstractions. Lino was just platform agnostic assembly, and I loved that.
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by throwawee 3y ago
From one throwaway to another, this is a legitimately useful service and I hope you and others keep doing it. At this point I flip through the HN comments before the articles. The primary source links alone are a treasure.
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by throwawee 3y ago
It's a bird joke.
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by throwawee 4y ago
No, that's too much nutrition. Same reason Baby Formula 1 racers never took off.
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by throwawee 4y ago
Thank you for this. I always appreciate click-unbaiting.