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by tom_ 2y ago
I think what annoys me about it the most is that for every good idea in there there's one piece of tedious crap you have to work around, one actively bad misfeature that doesn't work properly, and one terrible aspect of the awful
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by tom_ 2y ago
I don't mind CMake. It's awful, but I'm already using C or C++, so the bar is set pretty low. It does do a few things right, and at least some of the things it does wrong are manageable. I'll eat at least a bit of shit i
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by tom_ 2y ago
Who knows? Who cares. It's bait. Don't take it.
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by tom_ 2y ago
The last trump has not sounded just yet. The day of judgement is still not quite at hand. It is - for now - still all to play for.
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by tom_ 2y ago
But the uncompressed data doesn't need to stick around. It could be uncompressed piece by piece into a much smaller temp buffer, with the revealed parts of the areas of interest copied into video RAM as necessary.
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by tom_ 2y ago
The diagram of the northern "urban" centre also fails to point out the Peak District, though you can detect it by noticing what looks like an obvious gap in the middle of the circle. In the middle of the London circle is, of cours
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by tom_ 2y ago
It would be nice to have the option, I think, possibly as a URL parameter. This opinion is somewhat self-serving, as I use the GitHub repo front page as the link for all my FOSS projects, because it's super easy to have the documentati
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by tom_ 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykACzjtR6rc
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by tom_ 2y ago
And the Gauntlet shot is probably C64!
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by tom_ 2y ago
Right, and why not? The situation would be exactly the same in terms of how much money goes to employee and how much to tax. But these arguments are always made with the implication that things should change, because otherwise what's t
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by tom_ 2y ago
But the amount taken from the employee is "total gross salary for employee" - "net payment to employee". Any additional expense borne by the employer due to additional tax is taken from the employer. (Same goes for other
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by tom_ 2y ago
But if they didn't disagree, they'd have designed a system that made removing things from remote history easy, rather than a complete pain in the ass that's basically impossible to make work usefully anyway. The whole thing r
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by tom_ 2y ago
It does come in handy if you search for stuff with regular expressions a lot!
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by tom_ 2y ago
No, please do force dark mode. This will make the dark mode people think they have won. They will act accordingly. And then the pendulum will swing back, as the pendulum always does. But the difference this time is that because the dark mod
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by tom_ 2y ago
Windows 2 was predominantly dark text on white background. Same with GEM on the Atari ST. Both current in the late 1980s. Sinclair's ZX Spectrum was black text on white background in 1982.
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by tom_ 2y ago
"for the love of $deity lets not discuss it here" - good idea, and why not take your own advice.
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by tom_ 2y ago
But there are currently only 8 billion people, and already a lot of articles about how people in Europe and South Korea and Japan and America aren't having children. How are we ever going to get to 1 trillion like this?
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by tom_ 2y ago
The designers of git clearly disagreed, as you can guess from its design, so it's not surprising it might feel like a bit of an uphill struggle (and will probably remain so). There are other tools available.
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by tom_ 2y ago
Ironically there was a whole post about basically exactly this the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42655870
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by tom_ 2y ago
Python forces you to properly indent your code because the language is designed in a way that means the computer can't do it for you. Once I'd become accustomed to languages where automatic formatting is feasible, having to do any
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by tom_ 2y ago
I found the 1-bit pack quite inspiring for prototyping purposes: https://www.kenney.nl/assets/1-bit-pack There's enough in there that you can quickly put together something that looks good, and it'll be prett
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by tom_ 2y ago
Right, but if these groups of people don't know one another - that's basically the definition of not intimate.
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by tom_ 2y ago
You might have to accept that you are the odd one out, or that you've misinterpreted it - or perhaps this is a regional distinction? Anyway, add me to the list of people that would interpret "busybody" just as the linked Wiki
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by tom_ 2y ago
I updated the author's benchmark: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/bxEzerjc8 While updating it, I noticed a couple of things: 1. the Makefile doesn't specify -O, which seems to imply -O0, unreasonably flattering the
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by tom_ 2y ago
But it's the same thing: extra per byte overhead. You can polish this turd, or (better, in my view) give up entirely and do what the subsequent snippet does and copy the data in 1 or 2 blocks. Whatever you do, there's another adva
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by tom_ 2y ago
It sounds like you mock, but: you can do this, or near enough, and you can do it already, and it works really well! 0. Pick suitable tool. Firefox works. Notepad++ works. GIMP works. Emacs, not so much, but if you use Emacs, you know that y
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by tom_ 2y ago
I don't like to get too comfortable!
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by tom_ 2y ago
That's a question that only you can answer. We have no idea what your average terminal activity involves. (I can't remember why I switched. It must have been 10 years ago now, maybe more, and I've stuck with iTerm2 ever since
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by tom_ 2y ago
I'm still using my 2015 13" Macbook Pro. I bought it in April 2015, and I think I'll actually get ten years' use out of it. The form factor is still decent, and it generally runs cool and quiet, but the performance is no
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by tom_ 2y ago
Well at least it wasn't E4M2.

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