tomxor

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by tomxor 4y ago
hehe, maybe because it makes it look faster?
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by tomxor 4y ago
Same here, some of my earliest memories were of interacting with the GEM desktop on one of these when my Dad wasn't looking so that I could load up robocop :P then he caught me and was like "how did you figure out how to do that&q
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by tomxor 4y ago
You're right.
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by tomxor 4y ago
Superb :D I wish more of the insanity of this world could have the spotlight of James Mickens intense, humorous clarity shone upon it.
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by tomxor 4y ago
Well it's not surprising since the company changed it's frickin name to "Meta". Regardless I'm pretty sure the parent's were all referring to Meta's Horizon worlds. > Metaverse is literally just AR and
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by tomxor 4y ago
The "Metaverse" has way too much hype right now, IMO it's damaging to the current VR audience, which is gamers. I've tried the "Metaverse" and it's an absolutely awful half baked collection of vaugeley pur
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by tomxor 4y ago
You're mixing up two different things. You can have all those fancy graphics right now if you want them on a Quest2 or Vibe or whatever at almost 4k something resolution depending on how you measure it. You just hook it up to a PC and
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by tomxor 4y ago
Yeah, this is the first thing I look for in any potential tool I might use for coding especially. It also indicates likely platform independence since it's users are more likely to port it around, obviously one of VIs strong points.
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by tomxor 4y ago
True, and it will never be 100% because society and governments have their own way of pushing back eventually. But as I said, the issue is in the broader strategy, a trend has been emerging for some time now. The cost benefit is subjective
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by tomxor 4y ago
> the signals that this is company that trades in digital experiences & economics rather than the old-fashioned bicycles for the mind Just to screw with their old marketing: The bicycle is now trying to drive the mind - you want to g
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by tomxor 4y ago
> That’s right: if you host your show with Apple, the only listeners you can have are folks with the Apple Podcasts app. This feels like an absolutely wild choice from a product perspective; it’s the mindset of a company who still thinks
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by tomxor 4y ago
This whole website needs flagging, it's chocked full or ridiculous hyped up pseudo archaeology videos.
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by tomxor 4y ago
> but all I'm seeing is narcissism and overconfidence. Yes me too, but that's sampling bias. Not everyone is equally visible.
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by tomxor 4y ago
> I would much rather care about your history of insubordination than your self-ascribed writing skills. A valid strategy if servility is a trait matching the role. But I doubt it would be present in those capable of producing insightful
555.
by tomxor 4y ago
Seems like an ideal job for ChatGPT?... A tool I hate, surpassed by my hate for mindless sheep following corporate red tape and scripts. Something something fire with fire. Maybe there are positive uses for chatGPT after all, reducing munda
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by tomxor 4y ago
You can also skip the reflog if you have a reference to the commit (the commit hash being the most reliable since it can't change), `git reset` is like the teleportation device for the git graph. Even if it's orphaned or dereferen
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by tomxor 4y ago
I was sort of on the fence as to whether it was real until the end... I mean you could feasibly make a short run 486 machine today if you wanted to without too much effort (depending on how hard you are willing to try could do SB emulator,
558.
by tomxor 4y ago
... The BURNINATOR!!!!# Cue the most awesomest chip tune theme you have ever heard and ever will hear in your life.
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by tomxor 4y ago
You know some old computers actually did have an RF transmitter, but for audio not video. My Atari STFM had one, but to this day I still can't find any documentation on that feature (no it was not a dream :D ), maybe they were also try
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by tomxor 4y ago
> I think most CLI apps are abusing color for little gain. Reading the output of some programs feels like wading through a room filled with fruit salad - the JS ecosystem is particularly bad in this regard. I'm using red in my promp
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by tomxor 4y ago
Same here, although I no longer have a CD player which is kinda worrying. On my TODO list to convert them all to lossless FLAC or something to replace my previously more conservative lossy settings from when $/GB was far greater. Bookm
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by tomxor 4y ago
Baby steps... maybe start with dual booting, or a VM, over time you get more and more comfortable as you find the bits you need on Linux or whatever. You will probably never find a replacement for everything, but eventually you get to a thr
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by tomxor 4y ago
> I don’t know anyone 10x faster than their peers in solving well-defined programming problems Does anyone else find this statement triggering?... I feel like 90% of the things I solve that others can't or struggle with are not &qu
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by tomxor 4y ago
Thank you!
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by tomxor 4y ago
I'm not sure why they aren't bumping the patch number, maybe they decided against applying the other parts of the patch for least change - but at least the CVEs are mentioned in all of the Ubuntu changelogs. I can't find anyt
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by tomxor 4y ago
> A carbon price is a cost applied to industries that emit carbon pollution. British Columbia has a carbon price of C$35 a ton, and all of Canada will have a $10 price in September that will rise to C$50 in 2022. Interesting, this is a s
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by tomxor 4y ago
> I find it also helps indirectly by making clever code harder to write. The dynamic nature of JavaScript encourages a degree of cleverness and meta-programming that makes things harder to understand. While you can do the same in TypeScr
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by tomxor 4y ago
> especially when you're 20 function calls down a stack trying to understand what's happening. Yeah I hate code like that too, but it's not clear to me how type checking would help.
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by tomxor 4y ago
yes
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by tomxor 4y ago
> I suppose I could still accumulate dither error and do a one-pass, 1-bit raster by combining the world-space 256-level luminance information with whatever error information is in the accumulator. That would be interesting to see. I lik

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