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by usernam 10y ago
Amazing feat for the PICO-8 :) I wonder why sometimes the view is blurred, and sometimes it's sharp (looks like some post-processing on the image)?
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by usernam 10y ago
Any idea on what material the thick support wires mounted on the PCB are made of?
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by usernam 10y ago
Lou's page is one of the reposts that I'm always happy to look at. And it has been reposted frequently.
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by usernam 10y ago
The borrow checker can be [ab]used to guard for several forms of resource usage patterns, but make no mistake here: Rust doesn't mark the end of program bugs (or security bugs). It prevents some forms of bugs. There will still be ple
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by usernam 10y ago
Concentration should be familiar to anyone having done any sort of higher grade education. Or skilled work. Martial arts. Music. Even several art forms. This is not something specific to programming, at all . I'm not sure why "th
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by usernam 10y ago
Maybe you forgot the tracking part? Or the inability of the user to customize the update behavior? This is malware. And you're paying for it, which is mind-boggling. Edit: you might think I'm a zealot about this, but I actually st
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by usernam 10y ago
Windows has become essentially malware for most of it's users. The sad part is that most of them don't actually care or cannot change easily because of existing software. But I do hope Microsoft improves WSFL to the point that I c
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by usernam 10y ago
When testing APNG for a local project last year which involved only Firefox, I was trying to save some space and have better color support using APNG. I found it to be quite buggy, slow, and even occasionally leading to crashes. I switched
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by usernam 10y ago
I had a similar situation for a company that purchased it's accounting software way back in the first 90ies, which tied the software to an hw dongle. In spite of the old system, the software works absolutely fine and there were no reas
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by usernam 10y ago
Given this attack can be run within large userspace programs that are run directly from the network (js via browsers, or within VM boundaries), I don't think that "reasonable" would be the right word. The constraints are pret
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by usernam 10y ago
Given there's an actual non-zero performance impact on ASLR, I wonder if there's any remaining benefit to have it (also from a maintenance perspective).
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by usernam 10y ago
In this case, there are also rules for the amount of income you're allowed to get without a VAT. I'm pretty sure in most EU countries the profitability of a service supported by patreon (that is, a passive income in sub 10k range)
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by usernam 10y ago
There are several ways to obtain a VAT number, but the most economical is by binding the company to an individual, which of course won't be able to do so. There are other way to start companies that are not directly attached to a perso
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by usernam 10y ago
At least in Italy, this is exactly the opposite. The first 5 years you are given a "relatively" easy start, giving you a false sense of the costs involved. After the 5 year mark, the costs suddenly becomes 5-7x, often making the c
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by usernam 10y ago
I don't think you understand the implication: there's no way to have a small, side passive income in the 0-10k range. This is a big stopper for many OSS developers that could bootstrap themselves. With this limitation, many deve
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by usernam 10y ago
Having a VAT number in most EU countries has a fixed cost that is non-negligible. For a realistic example in Italy, having a VAT number implies a minimal fixed yearly cost of ~300eur (combining all various expenses) even for zero income. If
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by usernam 10y ago
Ironically this is made worse by some fontsets such as Noto, that unify the look over a variety of scripts (which is something you normally _want_). This is going to be fun to watch. Unicode domain names are a can of worms.
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by usernam 10y ago
If I had time to spare, I'd actually order the development board. The architecture is unique and fascinating.
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by usernam 10y ago
Never heard of TIS-100 (you mean http://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/ ?)
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by usernam 10y ago
Things you can do with forth, from the forth author: http://www.greenarraychips.com/ which is actually a truly message-passing based arch with 144 clockless "cpus". Each cpu is actually so limited that forth is on
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by usernam 10y ago
No, I don't develop for mobile, so I cannot answer there. Exclusively desktop. I know Qt5 is pushing towards QML, but QWidgets aren't going away. In fact, I would consider it to be a big mistake to use QML on desktop. It's
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by usernam 10y ago
Do you actually need QML? What's wrong with "native" widgets? I ask because I use Qt and c++ professionally, and have no use of QML. I could elaborate, but I'm more interested in why exactly you'd go for QML first.
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by usernam 10y ago
Related: is there a decent FF extension to stop all JS activity in firefox in background tabs? I really don't want any JS to be running in background. This includes WebWorkers and ServiceWorkers.
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by usernam 10y ago
I only use chromium (not even chrome!) for testing, but as an OSS developer I'm even more appalled by this.
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by usernam 10y ago
Thanks for releasing this, but it would work only properly (and be more efficient) if you checked for window.opener directly in new documents instead, and simply set it to null before document scripts are run (using the beforescriptexecute
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by usernam 10y ago
Mildly related, but since when google asks for money to release extensions? Is this a joke?
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by usernam 10y ago
> The open solution to a faster mobile web would have been so easy: Just penalize large and slow web pages without defining a dedicated mobile specification It's obvious they have a different view on this. You can see this first-han
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by usernam 10y ago
I was actually perplexed, after reading about signal, that I couldn't just download an APK. Are play services required for signal? If so, can I even install signal on a cyanogenmod phone? Can you do so by rebuilding it yourself? Does t
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by usernam 10y ago
Year after year, I've never found the TIOBE index to reflect what I personally experienced in reality. By far . But I'm not in the US. Can somebody comment about their perception on this index?
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by usernam 10y ago
I understand your position, but I cannot see things change in your favor anytime soon. This leaves you only to web-based solutions, and most of those will invariably suck for a long time to come (if not forever).

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