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by wheybags 5y ago
I actually think jumping straight in and refactoring is one of the best ways to learn a new codebase. If it's set up consensually and as a learning tool, the combo of refactoring + review from older team members is a great way to learn
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by wheybags 5y ago
In Afghanistan? Maybe not. In the USA? That could be something very brave indeed. (Rabid patriots please recall brave does not mean good nor bad)
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by wheybags 5y ago
My one experience of digital magnetic tape is mini-dv cassettes. I recently ripped a bunch of old home videos from some cassettes from the 2000s, and quite a few were fairly damaged. Compared to the vhses from the same time and even older,
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by wheybags 5y ago
Yeeeah, really it should be called -Wmost
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by wheybags 5y ago
It could just be an object that you create, and then .lock() on though. Like almost every other language...
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by wheybags 5y ago
I was born in 1992, so all my testing passed - ship it!
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by wheybags 5y ago
> If you're accessing indexes directly you can have the index '0' in a table. Sure, you can , but in practice you won't. For example, something like `local pos = {x, y}`. You now have to use 1/2 to access the x
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by wheybags 5y ago
There is vr support in the unreal editor: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BuildingWorlds/VRMo...
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by wheybags 5y ago
240m2 is a compromise... Consider the possibility that you're out of touch.
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by wheybags 5y ago
Care to share more details?
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by wheybags 5y ago
I spent a long, long time working on an open source reimplementation of Diablo 1 ( https://freeablo.org ), as a clean room reimplementation. In the end, a new project called devilution cropped up that was based on decompiling the
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by wheybags 5y ago
I read your blog posts ages ago about how making the camera work for the spider mode, and the origins of the project. Just now learning that it's cancelled, and this makes me sad :( I'd still love to play it!
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by wheybags 5y ago
Actually chuckled out loud at "stone-weights and horse-lengths" :D
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by wheybags 5y ago
Storing rgba as abgr is a terrible choice, but are you sure they're actually doing that?
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by wheybags 5y ago
Honestly for me, the biggest things are: - do I have an ide with an integrated debugger - do I have to use external libraries I honestly find that 99% of the un-fun stuff comes from integrating third party code. Whether it's built syst
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by wheybags 5y ago
Windows (and vs) version numbers are a pain in the ass though. Constantly need to check that the version you need to put in some config file actually corresponds to the version you really mean.
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by wheybags 5y ago
The article is interesting, but it reads like it was dictated to a speech-to-text system.
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by wheybags 5y ago
This is part of the reason why electron is so popular these days.
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by wheybags 5y ago
Some of them look like semi permanent exhibits in a large space, surely those ones must be glued? The wind from people walking around would blow them over otherwise, no?
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by wheybags 5y ago
CEO of vimeo will cry themself to sleep after reading this post
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by wheybags 5y ago
New study shows most water is wet
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by wheybags 5y ago
I just aggressively unfollow anyone who talks about politics, either right or left. I also unfollow anyone whose average tweet rate is > 0.5/day. Works fine for me, but I understand that would just kill the whole experience for many
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by wheybags 5y ago
If you're on Linux, and you want to copy multiple files, the best bet is probably io_uring. I actually wrote a small file copy program / blog post about this: https://wheybags.com/blog/wcp.html
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by wheybags 5y ago
Did this twice (never left a real job any other way lol) and it turned out fine. Both times I ended up getting a job offer before my notice period ended.
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by wheybags 5y ago
Just clicked through and read his blog post[1] about identifying the genetic disorder his child has. Jesus, that was an emotional read :( 1: https://matt.might.net/articles/my-sons-killer/
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by wheybags 5y ago
Is there no way they can do this while you're unconscious?
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by wheybags 5y ago
As someone who's new to react, and basically started with hooks: am I missing something? The old class based code looks so much better than the hooks magic. Is this just js people hating OO or is there something deeper?
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by wheybags 5y ago
Video is just complicated. The libraries have to be native, because of performance (even if you don't need the performance, the kind of person who writes a video decoder from scratch will), so they have to be built as a c extension.
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by wheybags 5y ago
You dismiss 20 years of darkness like it's nothing...
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by wheybags 5y ago
I dont think they are. Money laundering, like any other financial service, costs money.

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