alxmdev

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by alxmdev 11mo ago
Probably, because everything would collapse if everyone was an "investor" and fewer people did actual work to keep the world going.
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by alxmdev 11mo ago
Many of those who can't be bothered to write what they publish probably can't be bothered to read it themselves, either. Not by humans and certainly not for humans.
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by alxmdev 11mo ago
Isn't agriculture objectively more important and more beneficial to humanity than Big data centers?
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by alxmdev 11mo ago
Looks like another "/wp-content" gift, static HTML forever!
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by alxmdev 11mo ago
Someone always points out how Doom wasn't "real 3D" like it's some sort of gotcha. Games are smoke and mirrors, it's all a 2D grid of pixels at the end.
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by alxmdev 1y ago
Glad to see the Garden is back! This and Spoono were some of my favorite websites back when CSS-driven web design was bleeding edge and people were just starting to use lots of nested divs instead of lots of nested tables. The book was nice
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by alxmdev 1y ago
What's the state of the art for cross-compiling in $CURRENTYEAR?
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by alxmdev 2y ago
Seems to be around that or even less at most places I looked. Gandi used to charge more, but not quite like this.
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The cost of renewing my .com domain is coming in at $52 for one year(old.reddit.com)
2 points by alxmdev 2y ago|4 comments
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by alxmdev 2y ago
I wanted to renew some domains with Gandi yesterday, and noticed that their prices increased a lot this year. This Reddit post is the only article I could find about it. .com/.net/.org/.dev are all around $40/year to ren
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by alxmdev 2y ago
Fancy CSS effects are slow to run, they use lots of CPU time just like Flash animations used to. When I switch from this HN tab to the article page, Firefox's CPU usage goes from 2% to 26%.
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X Macro(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by alxmdev 2y ago|0 comments
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by alxmdev 3y ago
Tooling and code generation improvements no doubt help a lot, but IMO those improvements must be coupled with creative manual optimizations in order to get something like this out of a platform that was tailored for rectangular 2D bitmaps.
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by alxmdev 3y ago
The 4A doesn't get security updates anymore though, right? The language on the website says "guaranteed until at least August 2023" so I guess it's up to Google's good will.
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by alxmdev 3y ago
> I say buy the latest MacBook, expense it, factor it in as a monthly cost. These are expendable and essential tools. They pay for themselves Yay, another top comment that steamrolls the posted article. I say don't buy the lates
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by alxmdev 3y ago
>> the city’s 1.68 trillion pounds of buildings are causing the city to descending Imagine proofreading at least the headline.
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by alxmdev 3y ago
Thank you for your service defending the hot product of a profitable company against the criticism of everyday people, it's wonderful to have someone standing up for what is right.
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by alxmdev 3y ago
Bingo, you should never pass arbitrary strings where they could be used as format specifiers, it's like running arbitrary code. Some compilers even issue warnings when you pass non-literal format strings to the printf family.
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by alxmdev 3y ago
You're not wrong, these things are just future e-waste with short-term support, like another commenter mentioned.
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by alxmdev 4y ago
Why treat it like cash when it's not cash, but a digital service pushed by banks? There will always be scum that abuse a system, but the way it is now the odds are stacked against honest people.
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by alxmdev 4y ago
It doesn't have to be something egregious like the Nigerian Prince. It could be a Craigslist concert tickets deal where you pay in advance and never hear from the "seller" again. Why be callous to innocent victims? Unlike cas
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by alxmdev 4y ago
I think of Perl as a Python-PHP hybrid. A pragmatic product of its time that will endure, and while I'm grateful for never needing it, I'm glad that it's a solid option still for those who do.
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by alxmdev 4y ago
What replacement battery do you use? I'm looking for a backup for my X220, but all the aftermarket batteries have terrible reviews and I'm afraid the $90 original Lenovo ones are degraded after 10 years and not worth the money.
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by alxmdev 5y ago
I didn't have a Game Boy, but I did have a GP2X and had lots of fun with the LSDJ-inspired tracker, LittleGPTracker, worth checking out for all sorts of platforms: http://www.littlegptracker.com/
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by alxmdev 5y ago
I always thought the preference for phone calls over e-mails is so there's no written account of anything that might be convenient to backtrack on in the future.
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by alxmdev 5y ago
I still play HoMM 2 over the holidays every year with DOSBox. I like its artwork the most out of all the other same-gen titles, it feels like I'm in a colorful story book the entire time. The mechanics are just enough strategy to still
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by alxmdev 6y ago
I've been keeping an eye on the 32blit, glad to hear there will be a general release! I ported my game framework to the Cortex-M0+ Gamebuino earlier, and Cortex-M7 with FPU and 1MB RAM are next level in comparison, sounds more capable
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by alxmdev 6y ago
It would be cool if one of the makers of these throwback devices would reboot a classic platform for real, instead of just as a nostalgia box. Like this mini Amiga, what if it was a system with a SDK and its own future, something that rides
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by alxmdev 6y ago
I remember a friend had a PDA with Bluetooth over 15 years ago. It's dumbfounding that after being around for so long it's still such a train wreck even on mainstream products.
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by alxmdev 6y ago
Put yourself in the editor's shoes, caring for the dictionary is your life's work. Aside from misspellings, grammatical or factual errors, and typography issues, this is the other kind of bug that can rear its ugly head. Not to me

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