G3rn0ti

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by G3rn0ti 4mo ago
I bought this on Steam last year and it is a great game! A lot of pace and impressive graphics and sound. The music is made by Yuzo Koshiro of Streets of Rage II fame. You don't even need to buy the cartridge version if you own an SD c
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by G3rn0ti 6mo ago
I used Novell DOS 7 back in its day and squeezed > 70 MB on my 50 MB hard disk drive thanks to its Stacker disk compression feature. I remember it coming in a flashy red colored box. It also supported to move most drivers into extended m
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MacBook Neo Teardown – Is This Apple's Repairable Era?(youtube.com)
1 points by G3rn0ti 6mo ago|1 comments
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by G3rn0ti 6mo ago
This. I really wonder how trainees are supposed to grow in an age where they are asked not to code themselves but guide a machine doing so.
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by G3rn0ti 8mo ago
You can use code blocks for this and even specify the language so Emacs can provide proper syntax highlighting: #+BEGIN_SRC html #+END_SRC If you are writing a technical document with a lot of code blocks you can have yasnippet to create th
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by G3rn0ti 9mo ago
While there does not seem to be a maintained snap or flagpole package available, the company behind WPS Office releases DEBs and RPMs it seems: https://www.tech2geek.net/how-to-install-wps-office-on-linux...
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by G3rn0ti 10mo ago
> How do you make LSPs fast? https://github.com/blahgeek/emacs-lsp-booster The fundamental issue is Emacs its JSON parser is currently still rather slow (not sure why actually). But in LSP mode it needs to parse the
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by G3rn0ti 10mo ago
While I agree with you, I think, having cognition is not black and white. There are animals with great cognition skills especially among predators. Our brains are essentially anticipation machines capable of predicting the future — a trait
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by G3rn0ti 10mo ago
> bits like those variable prefixes ($@%) Perl originated from shell programming and inherited some of its patterns. If you ever looked at a bash script using arrays you will immediately recognize "@" to access the array as a w
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by G3rn0ti 1y ago
> They threw away their user-repairable mantra when they made the Desktop You forget the value proposition of Framework products is not only they allow you to bring your own hardware but they also promise to provide you with replacement
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by G3rn0ti 1y ago
I am working for a company maintaining an enterprise grade software system that is primarily driven by Perl 5 and Postgres. It generates about EUR 50 million in revenue every year. To avoid creating new Perl code from scratch we created a R
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by G3rn0ti 1y ago
Of course, you can use TRAMP to edit files inside docker containers. You don’t even need to install anything inside them.
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by G3rn0ti 2y ago
Site is down: https://web.archive.org/web/20250107090641/https://www.scott...
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by G3rn0ti 2y ago
What are you using it for? Is just Youtube and checking mails or can you decently type on its small keyboard, too?
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by G3rn0ti 2y ago
> It looks like adding a defcustom that would disable macro expansion, and basically any attempts to eval the code being edited Probably, yes. „org-babel“ can execute shell code inside an org document but always asks the user before it d
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by G3rn0ti 2y ago
> The onset of inflation correlates more closely with global energy supply shocks than with changes in QE policy or “printing” money in Covid stimulus. Hmmm. [1] > USA, the UK, Aus etc and haven’t had for a number of years at this poi
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by G3rn0ti 2y ago
> Today, we control inflation with changes in interest rates, not changes in the quantity of money. That is also not quite correct, I believe. The FED can invest money created out of thin air any time it wants („fiat money“ — „there shal
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Gimp 3.0 RC1 Released(gimp.org)
4 points by G3rn0ti 2y ago|0 comments
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Making 8-bit music from scratch at the Commodore 64 BASIC prompt(youtube.com)
11 points by G3rn0ti 2y ago|2 comments
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by G3rn0ti 2y ago
> I really don't need bad hinges The hinges were changed a long time ago and affected only the first generation laptops AFAIR. > weak USB ports Never had these issues. But the ports are little modules you just slide out and repla
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by G3rn0ti 2y ago
> By the mid-'90s, NSFNET was formally dead, after years of accepting commercial traffic. Mind you: Your statement says nothing about profitability. Until 1995 the NSFNET was the most important backbone of the American internet and
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by G3rn0ti 2y ago
> The internet functioned fine for over a decade, profitably, without invasive adware like we see now What time period are you even talking about? In the mid nineties the Internet was largely a research network between university compute
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by G3rn0ti 2y ago
> I so badly wanted that future of the Internet, but somehow we ended up in a place where corporations ate it all. The high bandwidths we got today are exactly the result of a full commercialization of the Internet. If there was no money
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by G3rn0ti 2y ago
Wolfram explains the basic concepts of neural networks rather well, I think. He trains and runs a perceptron at the beginning und then a simpler network. Then he dwells into replacing the continuous functions they constitute into discrete b
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by G3rn0ti 2y ago
Yeah, if you compare with the prices set by large manufacturers you are right, of course. But note the company behind this machine is like a two persons shop. They lack the economy of scale. And from a large hardware manufacturer you do not
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by G3rn0ti 2y ago
As an outsider of any reasonably large application can you really ever expect to grasp 200 random lines of code in any language? Maintenance programming is all about understanding the software‘s context and implicit design or a model thereo
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by G3rn0ti 2y ago
It sounds more like the refactoring started with creating tests for the old code base. We do this with our legacy code base, too, sometimes. Of course, it’s always the high risk code of an application that‘s never been accompanied by automa
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by G3rn0ti 2y ago
I remember that puzzle from Monkey Island 3. I mean, yes, the game is tricky but think about all the hints the game is giving you: „gold tooth“, „jaw breaker“ and I think in the dialog tree with Blondebeard you could compliment him about th
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by G3rn0ti 2y ago
Well, however, it’s still the Wall GmbH building public toilets. So what’s your point?
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by G3rn0ti 2y ago
Berlin has a work force of about 2.2 million people. 305k of those work for the public sector. That’s about 13.8% so above Germany’s average. However, it’s not only important how much people work for the government but also how much it pays

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