trilinearnz

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by trilinearnz 2y ago
The PTO doesn't have to be all or nothing. Would a more strategic 2-week (or 1-week) break be better received? Also as a more passive job-seeking strategy, you could leverage your professional network of past co-workers to let you know
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by trilinearnz 2y ago
Extremely well said.
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by trilinearnz 2y ago
It may be helpful to consider the matter from the lens of 'what is my core competency'. I had similar existential questions recently, and pursued an MBA to that end (after realising that I enjoyed analysing people behaviour in com
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by trilinearnz 2y ago
Is this about the original Sim City, Sim City 2000, or does it cover all of them in a general way?
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by trilinearnz 2y ago
My advice would be to dip your toes into some of the languages / frameworks that the "specific tech stack" jobs are wanting, so you at least have some exposure to it. Then, you can focus on selling your wealth of general prog
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by trilinearnz 2y ago
The hip swivel worked well, functionally, but I always lamented how stiff the character animation looked because of it. Was the vertex compression responsible for the wobbling/swimming effect you'd see on models, when running Q1 a
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by trilinearnz 2y ago
That is an excellent resource. Thank you for sharing
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by trilinearnz 3y ago
Agree with this. For me, being able to tweak Quake (when it came out) was massive. You could poke around in QuakeC, make a funny model / map etc. The fact that customisability extended to it's two sequels was even better. To a les
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by trilinearnz 3y ago
Similar thing in Terminator: Skynet back in the day. Shoot at the moon and you get an "Ow!" message appearing in your status area. A few more potshots and it literally falls out of the sky - great stuff ;)
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by trilinearnz 3y ago
Certainly id's code is clean and well-structured, however I always had a tough time trying to grok it as a layperson. Comments (those within the functions) are relatively sparse, and the code often contains quite cryptic expressions th
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by trilinearnz 3y ago
This nomenclature was often used in licensed Quake codebases to indicate places where a vendor would put their own Mission Pack-specific alterations into the code. I guess they just 'up-merged' the modified code to the main id sou
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by trilinearnz 3y ago
Great story, thank you for sharing. I had a similar experience merely as an attendee at a local meetup. I submitted an idea for a quick talk, performed well, and this set me up well for a job with an outfit whose lead developer was in atten
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by trilinearnz 3y ago
For things like doctor's appointments and being at home for tradespeople, I just put them in my work Outlook calendar as 'private' appointments. I may also make an alarm on my phone for 10-20 minutes beforehand, just in case
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by trilinearnz 4y ago
This might not be what you want, but you can direct the Wayback Machine on the Internet Archive to explicitly remember specific URLs. More info here: https://help.archive.org/help/save-pages-in-the-wayback-mach...
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by trilinearnz 4y ago
Thanks for that. I was still wondering why the flashing couldn't be achieved on a running system as-per the usual method of updating the proprietary manufacturer's BIOS. I found this key quote on the Coreboot web site: There are
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by trilinearnz 4y ago
Fascinating. So he's loaded a full instance of Dos/Win3.1 onto the chip used for the Thinkpad's BIOS itself? Very cool. One thing I didn't understand was why it was necessary to dismantle the laptop as shown in the first
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by trilinearnz 4y ago
Try the "Pause notifications" feature. Users will be informed of this state when DM-ing you, which can serve to reduce the volume of messages. In the same menu, you could also choose to set yourself as "Away".
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by trilinearnz 4y ago
This has happened enough that I've come to identify a pattern. For me, it's a combination of a poor environment (bad configuration of team, project or workplace) and plain-old genetics (naturally prone to anxiety/depression n
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
In terms of storing your credentials, is your current Excel file password-protected? If not, I would do this at a minimum if you are committed to the Excel approach, and it's very quick to apply. Alternatively you might be interested i
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
For Github (can't speak for Bitbucket) you can consider the alternative authentication mechanism of Personal Access Tokens (PAT). This is simpler to use than an SSH keypair, and can be pasted in much like a traditional password. I used
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
A very nice little mixed-media editor. Slightly more heavyweight in terms of file dependencies than I'm used to on Windows (but makes sense given cross-platform origins). Strikes me as similar to the excellent (but unfortunately abando
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
That's a very sad story. I hope he's doing well now, if he's still around.
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
Loving those double-res Sim City 2000 sprites from SimHealth :) Beautiful.
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
As someone who is getting into TypeScript from a strong C# background (i.e. getting pulled kicking and screaming into modern web dev through necessity), this article was incredibly useful!
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
Nice set of 8 articles (so far) detailing the author's journey. Features Quake nostalgia :)
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Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer(gamingonlinux.com)
2 points by trilinearnz 5y ago|1 comments
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
Apologies if this is obvious, but Wikipedia's home page seems to serve this purpose quite well :)
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
Wow! I guess you get a little biased when looking at those artistic representations of the solar system from a young age that aren't to scale.
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
Very cool. I had no idea that the diameter of Jupiter was a mere fraction of the distance of the moon from earth!
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
Great story. So often these end in the person throwing up their hands and walking away, but I'm glad you were both able to work it out :)

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