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by zeta0134 2y ago
I'm putting the finishing touches on the major engine pieces for my NES game Tactus. ( https://zeta0134.itch.io/tactus ) The level generation is all working, there's a new raster effect system that can do nifty scre
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by zeta0134 2y ago
This is a really slick player! I have a feature request though. I noticed almost right away that NSF (NES/Famicom) songs are in stereo and seem to have some sort of reverb filter applied. The original console is mono only, so this sugg
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by zeta0134 2y ago
These look absolutely delightful! A quick question: I'm working on retro consoles, and so I need fonts where each glyph is a multiple of 8px wide for easy display on tile-based backgrounds. Are the sizes (in pixels) of your font packs
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by zeta0134 2y ago
Every job I've landed so far in my career has involved a discussion about the works I am willing to post to my public Github (under this very silly username) along with a discussion about my work experience on my resume. Mind here that
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by zeta0134 2y ago
Surprisingly yes, though it's a ridiculous edge case that you normally don't at all care about. Bubblesort can be managed with a single index, while selection sort requires two separate indices, and insertion sort requires shiftin
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by zeta0134 2y ago
Heh, I used bubblesort very much on purpose in one of my NES projects. You see, I have a list of up to 12 objects that I need to sort back-to-front, and I'm also on a 1.7 MHz processor. A fun property of bubblesort is that it is stable
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by zeta0134 2y ago
You are vastly overestimating the startup cost. For me this week it was literally these commands: pacman -S ollama ollama serve ollama run llama3 My basic laptop with about 16 GB of RAM can run the model just fine. It's not fast, but i
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by zeta0134 2y ago
The specific space I participate in is a game development community. Due to it's very nature, it attracts minors. Because we keep our doors open, we have a strong incentive to keep the discussion clean, and generally we find that polit
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by zeta0134 2y ago
There are many within our community which share this viewpoint, and any time we do serious technical research the general sentiment is to move that onto our forums or wiki, specifically to make it discoverable. I personally don't socia
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by zeta0134 2y ago
By far, the majority of my time "online" these days is spent in a Discord server for enthusiasts that are also interested in my hobby. Due to the server's small size and narrow niche, moderation is straightforward and we rare
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by zeta0134 2y ago
I went on a similar caffeine experimentation journey, and eventually settled on one (1) cup of coffee in the morning, followed by usually plain water for the rest of the day. I appreciate the boost to "get a task started" willpowe
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by zeta0134 2y ago
The primary negative effect I felt as a gay man came from the preacher, who felt the need to respond to news about LGBTQIA topics and remind the congregation that I basically wasn't allowed to exist. I had to hide this aspect of myself
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by zeta0134 2y ago
I should clarify that I don't personally hold this particular chestnut. A computer is a computer, and I'll remove the locks and run whatever software I please. I make homebrew games as a hobby, after all. But regulators don't
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by zeta0134 2y ago
It's mostly about intent: just about no one on the planet looks at the marketing for a PlayStation 5 and expects to be able to use it to file their taxes. That device is sold as a multimedia platform; that it happens to be a general pu
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by zeta0134 2y ago
Minecraft Java Edition runs way smoother under Linux for some reason. It also supports mod packs, which is an endless source of renewable fun once the base game has gotten tiring. Give it a whirl, I don't miss Bedrock edition at all.
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by zeta0134 2y ago
That's correct. The general rule is to use "an" before a vowel sound, and "a" before a consonant sound. This gets a little fuzzy with acronyms that have several valid pronunciations, but "walking" clearly
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by zeta0134 2y ago
My letter-color synesthesia continues to fire on all cylinders well into adulthood. It's just a form of memory association of course. I can see that this 'e' is (in my editor) white text on a muted grey background. But that &
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by zeta0134 2y ago
Speak for yourself I suppose. I can hop between Linux (KDE, Gnome, whatever) and Windows and still feel like my muscle memory for OS interactions and application shortcuts still works. There are minor differences, but things like copy and p
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by zeta0134 2y ago
For YouTube, I pay for premium because I already block ads, and it feels proper to support creators that way. Then I use my content blocker to remove the sidebar and the end screen overlay, both of which are stuffed with distracting element
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by zeta0134 2y ago
Doesn't this depend heavily on the plant? Lots of vegetarians seem to be able to put together a perfectly balanced diet with no meat whatsoever. (Seems like rice and beans are the key here. Mushrooms are also quite tasty, depending on
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by zeta0134 2y ago
> In that context, this is vendor’s responsibility to constantly increase the bar and with the use of all available technological means. Or the vendor could just let me consume the content I paid for in whatever player I like. Which is w
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by zeta0134 2y ago
This would be a more charitable argument if Discover was in the habit of promoting proprietary software for sale. Perhaps that's true on OpenSUSE specifically? On KDE Plasma on my system, the search lens only seems to suggest things in
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by zeta0134 3y ago
The trouble is that the ideal model (newspapers on the whole used to cost, like, 0.25c) is extremely tricky in the online space, because payments are high friction and small payments especially are not really economically viable. I'm n
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Well sure. It's also why I use an external audio interface on my desktop, since the 3.5mm jack in my desktop's motherboard is noisy and glitchy. For convenience on the go I prefer USB-C headphones (for casual listening I don&#x2
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by zeta0134 3y ago
I recently fell off of team 3.5mm-jack when I discovered USB-C headphones! These include their own DAC and that means they have the potential to be *much* less noisy than the usually cost-reduced DAC included in the handset. Plus this way I
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by zeta0134 3y ago
As an aside, I get irritated as all heck by the old, previously useful reddit threads that now show up in search results but with the actually useful information deleted by someone in a fit of rage. This is frustrating, since the informatio
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by zeta0134 3y ago
I've just started using this to build a better shell for an emulator project! Of all the GUI toolkits I've tried to learn in Rust, egui is just... *delightfully* simple to set up and get started with. No weird lifetimes to wrangle
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Is it at all possible to convince gnome-styled file pickers to put the "Open" and "Cancel" buttons on the bottom of the window? It's really jarring when working alongside other applications that either implement the
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by zeta0134 3y ago
I have never once encountered a piano keyboard in a dream with enough octaves to actually play. My dream self will now reliably recognize this and voice frustration at being stuck in a dream, unable to practice.
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by zeta0134 3y ago
The inability to run a real web browser (with extensions!) has been holding me back on the switch to iOS for a long time now. Reviewing Apple's behavior in the EU, I'm not really expecting that to change any time soon. Android is

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