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by zeta0134 3y ago
Oh. I just stopped watching TV as soon as I left home, because I didn't like the constant obnoxious advertising. This was before Netflix really took off, and I find that I can enjoy that content in short bursts, but eventually my bod
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Where I live, the large trash bin is collected by a small company that sends non standardized trucks. The workers open the bin and manually empty it, one bag at a time, by hand. Not everyone lives in a big city. I'm not sure what I cou
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by zeta0134 4y ago
(ah, the juxtaposition was the point. I'm bad at humor early in the morning)
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by zeta0134 4y ago
The full screen feature works fine on websites for me? Well mostly fine, it's rubbish for games in particular due to a user hostile feature that forbids rapid screen taps, insisting that you might be using an on screen keyboard and den
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by zeta0134 4y ago
Yes! Here is a really great talk on the state of doing so, with a fantastic realtime demo near the end. Mirabai live-codes using her Plover setup and narrates her thought process as she types out each command. https://www.youtube
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by zeta0134 4y ago
Well on the plus, Substack Notes sounds _pretty nifty._ Maybe I should consider moving my technical blog over there, give the platform a whirl. I wouldn't have heard about it were it not for twitter's scandal.
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by zeta0134 4y ago
I have driven while probably more buzzed than I should have been (a stupid decision I will not repeat), and I have driven in the middle of the night, exhausted and more fatigued than I realized. I'd say fatigue is the worse option fran
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by zeta0134 4y ago
Honestly I would expect candidates to use their AI Whispering skills to forge their resume and credentials. That's the whole point, isn't it?
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by zeta0134 4y ago
Heck, Steam has one other killer feature that I wish more digital storefronts understood: if I want to play a multiplayer game with a friend, or even if it's just their birthday or I feel like doing something nice, I can buy a game and
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by zeta0134 4y ago
Old video game consoles. Right now almost exclusively NES, but I really want to start messing around with the SNES's SPC at some point. That thing looks way too interesting :D
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by zeta0134 4y ago
Heh, not real music. Exclusively chiptunes that run on old hardware, mostly covers with some originals. I'm starting to post those here, I've got a dozen more that I just haven't rendered the videos for yet: https:/&#
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by zeta0134 4y ago
Yes, but it supports the custom addon collection feature. This way you can use it in a browser that isn't based on the beta/nightly branches, and should be less crashy. I run Fennec to access a few privacy redirect extensions, lar
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by zeta0134 4y ago
I wouldn't mind this feature so much if it were optional. However, while it's possible to disable the sharing of the information, as far as I'm aware the only way to stop Discord from being able to probe the running process
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by zeta0134 4y ago
I work on NES homebrew projects, mostly involving chiptune libraries that can be used to make games on the original hardware. I'm especially happy with the visualizers for turning musical creations into videos. I'd love to spend m
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by zeta0134 4y ago
So we found out the hard way that having MultiViews enabled in Apache, in your otherwise static folder full of image files, is a reeeeeally bad idea if that folder is filled by automation and contains millions of files. That was a fun sup
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by zeta0134 4y ago
I usually use my adblocker to simply remove fixed headers. Hopefully there isn't anything critically important in that thing, because whatever's up there just isn't going to be seen. They're far too distracting.
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by zeta0134 4y ago
This would have been a completely unattainable amount of money as a high school student. In college, that money was better spent on school supplies and food, and spending cash was short. After college it took me the better part of a decade
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by zeta0134 4y ago
This year I'm focused on trying to grow my Patreon. It's for a niche NES game development hobby that I don't expect to pick up any real steam, but I'd like to see if I can get enough side income from it to de-stress my
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by zeta0134 4y ago
One issue I ran into at my previous employer was pylint on a large Python codebase. Pylint is slow on the best of days, but the difference on an M1 Mac running under docker (to standardize the version and settings across the team) was somet
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by zeta0134 4y ago
I wonder how many of these are intentionally randomizing the form you get during checkout, in an effort to thwart automated purchases by bot accounts. I don't know anything about this space, but I've definitely noticed that my ban
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by zeta0134 4y ago
The issue is that Netflix would have to do it, and they'd have to get permission from the content owners to modify the stream. I suspect hell would freeze over before anyone could agree on the relevant licensing arrangement
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by zeta0134 4y ago
In Windows 10 at least, if you remove the Search box / icon, you can still access search by typing while the start menu is open. This means you can quite easily search from the keyboard alone by first hitting [Win] to open the menu, th
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by zeta0134 4y ago
Given the choice I prefer native package -> AUR package -> AppImage -> Flatpack, in that order. (snap, you'll notice, is absent) Arch is pretty good at making the native packages work, so that's always ideal. The communit
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by zeta0134 4y ago
Further problems! The DPCM channel can only address memory from the region 0xC000 - 0xFFFF, due to how its "address" byte is interpreted. Most cartridges cannot place RAM in this memory region, so you're stuck baking the samp
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by zeta0134 4y ago
Yes, it comes down to how the DPCM channel encodes sound data. A sawtooth gets most it's energy and harmonics from the sudden jump at one end. This impulse is impossible to encode in 1-bit delta encoding, the closest you can get is a s
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by zeta0134 4y ago
Very carefully scheduling NMI and IRQ updates to achieve a virtual sound channel on an old NES, resulting in a sawtooth bassline with volume control. This steals about 13% of the CPU time. The biggest hack in the arrangement is the scheduli
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by zeta0134 4y ago
Both: the resulting colors are specified as 4-bit component values, one for each of R, G, and B
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by zeta0134 4y ago
It's somewhat ironic that I cannot view the full article; it's paywalled, and I am not a Wired subscriber.
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by zeta0134 4y ago
I guess I'm mostly surprised they were allowed to persist for so long, with Google being a major provider of those ads. Fortunately there's F-Droid :)
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by zeta0134 4y ago
This really depends on your definition of inferior; I'd consider the lower resource usage a good tradeoff for fewer bleeding edge features on most days

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