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by zeta0134 3y ago
When I had the delight of ordering my ACME Klein Bottle, Cliff was kind enough to take it on a brief (if disappointingly 3-dimentional) tour of his home, and provide much appreciated updates on the state of his garden as viewed through the
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Yes, though full disclaimer, the cartridge is a tiny bit more powerful than your average NES game, and that is definitely contributing. The capabilities of the cartridge I'm using are something like Nintendo's MMC5 (used for Castl
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Lookup tables are the only reason I was able to get this effect working at all: https://twitter.com/zeta0134/status/1756988843851383181 The clever bit is that it's two lookup tables here: the big one stores t
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Happy Obsidian user here. I love that the "vault" concept it uses is literally just a folder of markdown files, meaning I'm still in full control of my data. I don't use their proprietary sync service, I just drop it int
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by zeta0134 3y ago
I tried this! I went completely caffeine free for over a year and was... fine? But way more tired all the time, and generally having trouble focusing on tasks. In my particular case, I suspect caffeine is a self administered coping mechanis
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Some of us have *really* slow internet connections, such that the much smaller day one patch is still going to take a quite long time to download. Much longer than the full installation from disc.
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Would this necessarily be a bad thing? "In the office" could substitute for a video call. I always got the impression that a coding challenge during an interview was much less "did you memorize this solution in advance"
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by zeta0134 3y ago
For a lot of kids (myself included), the deepest and strongest desire was not to code, though that's how the effort can manifest. The desire is to then show the end result to someone (often a parent/authority figure) for recogniti
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by zeta0134 3y ago
During every school I attended growing up (and I graduated in 2007 so this isn't that ancient history) my parents would just call the school office if something urgent came up, and the faculty would use the intercom system to page the
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Okay but, can we type it now? Did it ever get added to unicode?
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by zeta0134 3y ago
In Firefox you can work around this. Click on the padlock next to the URL, then click the Right Arrow, and More Information. Head to the Permissions tab, scroll down and find Autoplay, and switch it to "Allow Audio and Video." Ref
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by zeta0134 3y ago
... Can we turn CO2 into a physical solid? My chemistry is non-existent but here is a thought experiment: what if harvesting CO2 and using it to press coins was given real monetary value? Just get it out of the air and spend it, however you
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by zeta0134 3y ago
And this is why pretty much none of my apps are allowed to send notifications. At all. Too many poisoned apples in the barrel and I just have lost my trust for the lot of them
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Honestly it's the reverse for me, but I guess that's down to personal preference. "Gnome" apps keep updating with the "new" GTK style, which means the title bar becomes a conglomeration of a bunch of weird cont
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Safari works great if you run 100% Apple devices, and breaks the moment you want to mix and match with even one non-blessed device. Firefox will happily sync to everything, and so will Chrome.
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by zeta0134 3y ago
This is almost certainly because Street Pass is device-to-device, based entirely on proximity to other users. There's no server to shut down, so Nintendo would have to go out of their way to turn it off by releasing some sort of update
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by zeta0134 3y ago
The irritating thing is that the software I want to run works perfectly fine on my mac mini. That's in the Apple ecosystem and yet respects enough of my freedoms to not be a problem. But the iOS devices are entirely locked down. The ad
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by zeta0134 3y ago
I'm not familiar with Tetris specifically, but for a score display it was rather common to store each individual digit as a tile ID, which helped to speed up drawing that score into the nametable. I wouldn't be surprised if the al
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Ah, I'm out remote in Tennessee, that might explain the discrepancy. Man, is the cost of living in NYC that crazy? I knew the bay area was up there
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Is it? That suggests that I'm being rather severely underpaid. But I doubt this, in the US at least the average seems to be much closer to half of this figure when researching positions.
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by zeta0134 3y ago
My iPad is simply not capable of running uBlock Origin. Until this changes, switching my main mobile device to an iPhone is a complete non-option. I absolutely must be able to run software I choose, full stop.
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by zeta0134 3y ago
But if you need a PRNG in a big hurry , an LFSR is probably fine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear-feedback_shift_regist... I use one on my NES projects that can compute a new 8bit PRNG value in something like 6
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by zeta0134 3y ago
It has pretty clunky point of interest search. The main thing Google Maps does for me right now is "search for destination that I know exists, but whose exact address I don't have on hand, then navigate there." The entire flo
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by zeta0134 3y ago
I'm working on that. The hardest one to cut out is Google Maps, which doesn't have an ad free option. Anyway, the value they receive is incidental: if I like content, I'll tell my friends about it. Not all of my friends dis
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by zeta0134 3y ago
I do not have a moral obligation to waste my time on content B, merely because it has been delivered alongside content A. The advertiser paid to make that offer to be, but I am not obligated to pay it any mind. That I've instructed my
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by zeta0134 3y ago
I am a professional developer, and I'll take the verbose, ugly, but readable code every time. Clever code that makes me work harder to understand what it does has a greater chance of being missed, blindly trusted, or just misunderstood
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by zeta0134 3y ago
I do feel like the last remaining werido in my family with a standard drip machine. But why would I replace it with pod-DRM hell? It makes a perfectly good cup of joe, with the quality mostly impacted by the beans and whether or not they we
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Often I want to collect a very small number of files that I was working on which are newer than the last complete backup
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Here's a thought... Why not let the paying subscribers promote content they especially like to the commons? So, if you're a paying member, you get to read everything like it works today. But you also get a steady flow of tips. I
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by zeta0134 3y ago
Why not make that your signature? Could you like, sign the current date with a private key, and write the result into the signature box?

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