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by Jach 9d ago
I'm glad they mention Wheeler's work briefly in section 7.2, since it provides a general counter to the trusting-trust attack that a lot of people seem to not know about. They dismiss it as not applying in this case, but I'm
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by Jach 12d ago
Only kind of pointless. A few reasons come to mind. For one, they're games. (I say as an avid lifelong gamer.) For another, it's indulging nostalgia. (I say as an indulger.) To be clear, I think both things are fine, but of course
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by Jach 12d ago
It's kind of a fun, albeit also kind of a pointless, thing to do, huh? This week I took a student project game I made with 3 others back in 2010 and made it live again. I'm cheap, I only have the $20 plan for this month (likely to
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by Jach 15d ago
It obviously depends on the project and the scale and duration of a donation, but plenty of open source projects have benefited from donations. Donations can and do pay for developers, as well, part time or full time. With LibreOffice, you
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by Jach 17d ago
I really think videos and talks are the least effective ways to get these things out there. I'd rather just point people to references I've read myself about specific topics rather than try to create a structured synthesis or pres
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by Jach 17d ago
Pretty much any book or long paper that decides to take a historical turn is going to be at least as good if not better than these talks. There are a lot of historical resources out there that go into different parts of "computing hist
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by Jach 17d ago
And people still come out of the woodwork with a parade of excuses, and sometimes he addresses those too. But it's no wonder that he gets a bit brisk or blunt with people, and turns off others who haven't been following along.
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by Jach 17d ago
One of the principles of structured programming is that you organize your code into functions, and that they have single points of entry, and single points of exit. We still have a lot of multiple points of exit in functions these days, but
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by Jach 17d ago
This is my objection as well. His talk last year on OOP was heavily focused purely on the style of OOP that led to C++'s version. It completely ignored everything else going on outside that historical thread. As history it was interest
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by Jach 18d ago
There's a selection effect here in that smart-enough users won't bother contacting support if they work around an issue on their own, or if something is actually a non-issue for 99%+ of the user base. The ratio of usage and suppor
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by Jach 20d ago
Watching bits of videos from this guy's series on beating every N64 game (including JP-only releases) is a fun way to find out about interesting games I missed from back then. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrwJ
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by Jach 21d ago
Ars article about it: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/08/new-bootloader-lets-y... I haven't yet attempted to run it on my old Quest.
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QuestStack: Unlock the Meta Quest 1 bootloader and gain root access(github.com)
2 points by Jach 21d ago|1 comments
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by Jach 21d ago
I treat the Amazon Prime membership as the "card fee". The cash back accumulation per year is always greater than the membership fee for me. (The original main benefit of savings on shipping is of course also nice, though if I&#x2
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by Jach 23d ago
Nice demo, I'm always impressed by making these things low latency enough to be actually interactive. Were you inspired at all by the autonomous vtuber Neuro-sama recently getting some in-game integrations to allow her to play Skyrim o
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by Jach 24d ago
This is untrue. Chrome's "acceptance rates" for proceeding through its bad SSL cert warnings used to be pretty high, but with a redesign they basically flipped the numbers so most people didn't proceed to connect to the
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There's no reason for software to be slow anymore(danluu.com)
669 points by Jach 26d ago|499 comments
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by Jach 29d ago
I live in Bellevue so by supporting Amazon I'm supporting a local business. It's hard to imagine replacing most of the things I get from the site with someplace else. (Though it'd be nice to have a Micro Center.) I've ev
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by Jach 1mo ago
I don't like its default look, but the screenshot they linked was non-default and what I do like, so I'm wondering why they find it sloppy/bad. Perhaps they would like Gimp's default more? Here's a representative sh
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by Jach 1mo ago
Also curious what you dislike so much. And how does Photoshop compare? https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_ghez_hKxeo/hq720.jpg I like the way Gimp has looked more and disliked many of their experiments changing things. The s
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by Jach 1mo ago
I really enjoyed reading your comment. I was reminded of a perspective from Patterns of Software , a collection of essays from the 90s by Richard Gabriel. The very first one talks about the ideal of "reuse". "A similar idea
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by Jach 1mo ago
We've also seen decades of effort, much of it successful, aimed at making it easier . Programming used to be harder. (Difficulty alone doesn't account for high salaries.) If it was never "the hard part", what motivati
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by Jach 1mo ago
I'm beginning to wonder if a lot of commenters have forgotten that waterfall is a failed methodology in part because you can't always just gather requirements by say introspection or interrogating the customer for them. In order t
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by Jach 1mo ago
Thanks for giving me a laugh, I was just imagining https://programming-motherfucker.com/ as an absurd "Hat-wearing, motherfucker" site instead.
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by Jach 1mo ago
That patio11 post was good but you're overstating its relevance here by suggesting the thread's central topic is missing the point. The fizzbuzz part even undermines the "Code was never the hard part" message. If code wa
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by Jach 1mo ago
> the text as they present it doesn't seem to mark vowel length at all I think most Latin text out there won't use diacritics at all. I only studied it for 3 years back in high school leading to the AP exam and I don't thi
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by Jach 1mo ago
Why are you always surprised, especially if it keeps happening?
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by Jach 1mo ago
Even discount beef has worse discounts. My grocery store changed out the 50% discount stickers for meat at its sell-by date to 30%.
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by Jach 1mo ago
Turns out that even with the limited self-curation power X gives you it's not too hard to customize an experience you'll mostly enjoy; some people enjoy being miserable though. A large fraction of my "For you" feed is ju
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by Jach 1mo ago
News to me about FIFA. SA has been trying to gain "influence" in sports overall, and their video game endeavors also seem focused on "e-sports" more than gaming as a whole. I frequently hear complaints about them in figh

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