vitiral

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by vitiral 3y ago
Unison looks more like what I was thinking, thanks!
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by vitiral 3y ago
Thanks! This looks like a really good summary of options.
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by vitiral 3y ago
I found this reference for Hershey Vector font https://paulbourke.net/dataformats/hershey/ It seems to describe a "pen" which draws the character. It is indeed pretty cool!
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by vitiral 3y ago
I haven't looked deeply yet, thanks for the resources!
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by vitiral 3y ago
Have you tried for any length of time? For example, there's lots of little places where aligning keywords helps clarify code https://github.com/civboot/civlua/blob/main/ds/ds.lua#L89 Formatters
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by vitiral 3y ago
Auto formatting for work is an angel, for code you love it is the devil. Writing code that you love is like crafting it. You align subjects and data in beautiful flows of if/else or case/switch. You put multiple statements on a li
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by vitiral 3y ago
> Honestly this is one of Doctorow's weakest arguments This isn't Doctorow. I went and searched, here's the article I think you're referencing https://doctorow.medium.com/web-apps-could-de-monopolize-m
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by vitiral 3y ago
Blocking screenshots is a solution in search of a problem. How do you plan to block another phone or high definition camera taking a picture?
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by vitiral 3y ago
Probably but my guess based on the state of the web is that this a rabbit hole without end
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by vitiral 3y ago
That does look a lot better!
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by vitiral 3y ago
I wonder, is there something on the complexity curve between 8x8 bitmap and fullblown ttf with all the complexity as you've outlined? It would be nice if there were a solution which gets 90% of the value in 10% of the code.
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by vitiral 3y ago
I've built a lua-based markdown which is more sane (from a programmer's PoV) than markdown but still concise https://github.com/civboot/civlua/tree/main/cxt I'm planning on supporting synt
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by vitiral 3y ago
Talking about html rendering is very similar to a domain I've been thinking about: configs. Lua can be trivially sandboxed. Throw in a parser for acquiring metadata (dependencies) and you have a full blown config language in a few hund
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by vitiral 3y ago
it would be extremely humorous if it actually *reduced* the speed since it required loading so much more code.
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by vitiral 3y ago
If you want to see C's _true_ scripting language, check out Lua. It can be embedded in your C application, unlike Python which is the other way around (Lua is like 80KiB, Python is several MiB).
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by vitiral 3y ago
I particularly liked this bit > Not only is 0 divisible by 2, it is divisible by every power of 2, which is relevant to the binary numeral system used by computers. In this sense, 0 is the "most even" number of all. in the aren
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by vitiral 3y ago
Protocall buffers are effectively code generation and are central to Google's tech stack. Does that count?
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by vitiral 3y ago
I took it as a joke. The tradeoff is the programmer's time and memory, not the computer's
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by vitiral 3y ago
I'd say this sounds about right
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by vitiral 3y ago
Reading "big features" like "multi line input" makes me feel more than ever that we really need an ultra light weight embeddedable text editor. I wrote one, and while it's not yet complete I can say it's really
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by vitiral 3y ago
My guess was that the signal is good but the audio output can't drive the right amount of current for the high end headphones. Not sure though.
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by vitiral 3y ago
First, know your audience. Second, this thread has like 10 replies and is 6 minutes old. The only people who have time to post are those offering their "first reaction" take. Note: my response is a "first reaction" to yo
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by vitiral 3y ago
No, the Fremen were killing Sardukars before Paul, getting good ratios to boot. Paul made them better though, no doubt about that.
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by vitiral 3y ago
That's the movie. In the book there are no such devices besides rare hunter seekers.
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by vitiral 3y ago
Yes they used them. IIRC it was specially mentioned how _unusual_ it was to even HAVE artillery in the age of shields, much less use them. It worked on Dune because of how shields affect sandworms and are difficult to maintain in sandstorms
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by vitiral 3y ago
They don't work with shields https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Maula_pistol
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by vitiral 3y ago
Oh I forgot about that. I thought they were relying on a bit of a loophole: they didn't kill (m)any humans, "just" a natural barrier, which is why they could get away with it.
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by vitiral 3y ago
IIRC they didn't "use" it -- i.e. they didn't intentionally shoot their own shield with their own lasgun. Rather they shielded a few underground areas and the Harkonen were using lasguns, something you're not suppos
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by vitiral 3y ago
Yes. He failed to get his personal shield up in time
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by vitiral 3y ago
There's lots of scenes of people shooting these projectiles that wiggle at the shield. You have a small amount of time to react still, but still different. Then there were missiles. There were no missiles in the Book, for obvious reaso

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