Pete_D

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by Pete_D 7y ago
Good point, I should have said TTY driver (all my information is from half-remembered reading of https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/index.php , any mistakes are my own). With respect to rebinding, what is
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by Pete_D 7y ago
The terminal can optionally catch some characters and convert them to signals. By default, ^C sends SIGINT, ^\ sends SIGQUIT, and ^Z sends SIGTSTP. Programs can disable that for their own purposes (stty -isig) and you can rebind them to oth
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by Pete_D 7y ago
Amiga icons really felt like they were miles ahead of the competition and I'm surprised more of their possibilities didn't take off in other OSes. - could change the icon for individual files/folders - could have differently-
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Eternity II Puzzle(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Pete_D 7y ago
Thanks! I'd actually been looking for that software rendering article for a while as well and couldn't find it.
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The silent epidemic of America’s problem with guns(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by Pete_D 7y ago|0 comments
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by Pete_D 7y ago
Genuine question from someone looking at toying with graphics programming who had never heard of WebGPU before today: does this mean I should hold off on learning WebGL? How different are the two?
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by Pete_D 7y ago
I didn't appreciate how big of a deal washing machines were until mine broke down and I had to do all my laundry in the bathtub for a couple of weeks waiting for a replacement. Hand-washing is a lot more of a workout than you'd ex
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by Pete_D 7y ago
The problem is that this allows a neat loophole in which governments can sidestep any inconvenient civil rights obligations by privatisation of otherwise public space. For a real-life example, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by Pete_D 7y ago
There are lots of fun ways to smooth out short-term variation in game randomness. This article shows a few used by various Tetris games, with one of them being your deck-of-cards approach: https://simon.lc/the-history-of-tet
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by Pete_D 7y ago
Depression has quite a few weird effects on memory, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overgeneral_Autobiographical_M...
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by Pete_D 7y ago
Off topic, but in today's bitter and divided world, it's reassuringly wholesome that people can still get together to recite the alphabet in GitHub comments.
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List of Chess Variants(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by Pete_D 7y ago|0 comments
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by Pete_D 7y ago
> cold showers can be dangerous for people with per-existing heart conditions I think cold showers trigger the diving reflex[0] ("most noticeable effects are on the cardiovascular system, which displays ... in humans, heart rhythm i
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Write combining is not your friend (2013)(fgiesen.wordpress.com)
2 points by Pete_D 7y ago|0 comments
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by Pete_D 7y ago
Thanks! Recognizing and remembering tones is one of the things I struggle with most, so I'd use this a lot. A couple of comments: for 水果, it only accepts shŭi gŭo, not shúi gŭo. I know that is technically correct, but the voice synthes
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Metacognition in the Rat (2007)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by Pete_D 7y ago
> Shrooms seem to be the next wave of legalization an in some ways it seems like it is already partly legal. Weirdly, fresh shrooms were legal in the UK right up to 2005, when they were put in the same category as heroin and cocaine. I r
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by Pete_D 7y ago
May as well chip in: https://petedeas.co.uk Sometimes I wonder if I should do more with it, but I don't know what.
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by Pete_D 7y ago
I hope you keep the pure-CSS version around somewhere, because that is technically amazing. I thought I'd accidentally disabled umatrix when I first saw it.
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by Pete_D 7y ago
> App is currently live @ https://fluent.academy I'd love to try this but I don't have a Google account. Do you have any plans to add registration using an email address?
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by Pete_D 7y ago
I've seen a similar accidental case where some internal cable in the PSU had gotten dislodged and was partially in the path of the fan blades, with the repeated contact making a chainsaw-like noise. Luckily it was discovered before the
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Songs of the IBM (1935) [pdf](ibm.com)
2 points by Pete_D 7y ago|0 comments
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by Pete_D 7y ago
Here's a strategy that might help. I mostly read HN logged-out on my lunch break. If I see something I want to comment on, I email it to myself for when I get home. Usually, by then, the urge has passed or I've realised that whate
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The Radiation Printer(computer-history.info)
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by Pete_D 7y ago
This is a common property of software with BSD-ish roots. For example, neither does OpenSSH's ssh.
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by Pete_D 7y ago
> When I didn't, I got very itchy skin like an allergy Any kind of skin reaction to -afinils would scare me off using them entirely, due to the link with Steven-Johnsons syndrome (warning: do not google, or use a text-only browser t
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by Pete_D 7y ago
They also tested with synthetic caffeine and coffee-extracted caffeine, but didn't find much difference. Page 6 of the study has a graph, and this excerpt: > 3.2. Caffeine, independently of its origin, abrogated lipid accumulation v
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by Pete_D 7y ago
I totally believed that was real until I clicked through to some of the other last-post links. > The reason you need to install a karaoke captioning library if you want to change your desktop wallpaper > Why using a can opener backwar
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by Pete_D 7y ago
> XMPP was supposed to solve all those problems when it came out in the early 2000s. The really frustrating thing is that it almost did. I swear I remember at some point in the mid-2000s being able to send a message from Google Chat to F

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