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by bexsella 1y ago
I would argue that the ending of the book is optimistic despite the event that precedes it. An imperfect father wants the best for his child, and does the best he can with the hand he's dealt. In a dying world of cannibals and worse, t
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by bexsella 2y ago
I’ve had a lot of experience in developing on QNX over the years, and with each successive year, the call to migrate to Linux got stronger. The day to day developer experience is great, you can very easily setup a CMake toolchain and bypass
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by bexsella 2y ago
A white hole?
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by bexsella 2y ago
I work with embedded DSPs, and there are certainly points where the maths gets incredibly dense and hard to intuitively parse. Your last point has proven true for me many times. Luckily, with the exception one block of code, the maths is de
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by bexsella 3y ago
There's a strong argument for the fact that Japan was effectively on its last legs by the time the bombs dropped. Indeed, the fire bombings that preceded dealt far more damage to Japan than both bombs, in real terms. Nuclear interventi
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by bexsella 3y ago
Bitter was the one thing in the UK that I wish I could get here (Australia). You can get London Pride in Melbourne, but they keep it refrigerated like a standard lager, so the flavour is off. There really is nothing quite like it.
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by bexsella 3y ago
I was once asked how I got to where I am, where others in my situation might not have, my response was: “Parents that gave a damn”. It wasn’t about pressuring me, it was about recognising my interest in computers, and fostering that interes
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High-level emulator for iPhone OS apps(github.com)
141 points by bexsella 3y ago|59 comments
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by bexsella 3y ago
I will be following this very closely.
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by bexsella 3y ago
I check in on this project every year or so, and I'm happy to see that their support for AS3 is creeping towards completion. I, like many, wasted so many hours in flash games while in school that it was sad to see an element of gaming
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by bexsella 3y ago
Having watched the announcement the (literally) singular question that was presented was essentially "Why should the man on the street care about AGI now?", to which the answer was "They shouldn't". But key to that
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by bexsella 3y ago
I've been looking for a decent replacement for milk for a long time, I've tried them all. Oat Milk is what I've finally settled on. Specifically the brand Oatly (which I believe is broadly available) for me has solved the ove
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by bexsella 3y ago
This is a good call, I love Jerusalem, but it is girthy.
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by bexsella 3y ago
Not who you were asking, but I'm a big Moore fan as well: * From Hell (Some might be put off by the original comic's black and white art, but there was a recent release that colourised them by the original illustrator) * Providenc
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by bexsella 3y ago
FPS of one specific game isn't a great indicator of GPU grunt.
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by bexsella 3y ago
Without Kubernetes? I'd like to read about the details of how you manage that load.
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by bexsella 3y ago
There's no strict technical reason for keeping Corba around. It's primarily an issue of finance. Where I work there's no real way to get funding for a maintenance task if it doesn't directly relate to a specific project
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by bexsella 3y ago
>The writing for new shows is predicable and boring. Actors are featureless blobs that all look the same I would argue this is a symptom of the money men exerting too much control over entertainment. Everything has to be safe and neutere
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by bexsella 3y ago
I started writing then went on to automatically vent. I extend my apologies for wasting everyone's bandwidth. There are better technologies to use that can do pretty well everything that CORBA offers. That's the source of my gener
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by bexsella 3y ago
Unfortunately I know exactly what CORBA means. Helming a legacy project that still contains the requirement of using CORBA is a real bugbear of mine. It takes non-trivial effort to even build the ORB we use (OmniORB) for each platform we su
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by bexsella 3y ago
I'd be interested to know if there are any cases where RHEL have issued a WONTFIX on a bug due to some software relying on the bugged behaviour. Given how much of it is free software, would they really not merge a fix into their releas
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by bexsella 3y ago
It was an honest typo, but it did make me think that at some point with the heat of the idea of the "Metaverse" in some circles, that Google could roll out a competing "Adverse". Note: typo corrected.
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by bexsella 3y ago
My favourite story of Diablo's development (as relayed by David Brevik in the Diablo Postmortem - see below) is the part where Diablo was made real-time. He passionately championed that it should be more like Rogue or Moria purely turn
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by bexsella 3y ago
A24, I think, hit upon something that had been nagging at me for years in that Hollywood films are massive productions, several million dollars get poured into them. Not every film is a Marvel $250 million undertaking, but the recent Puss i
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by bexsella 3y ago
I would be all for a real push to follow in New Zealand's footsteps in enforcing a date of birth cut-off. Cigarettes, and nicotine generally, are horrendous and aside from having impacted me personally, put an unnecessary drain on publ
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by bexsella 3y ago
What I like about this system is that every time I've ever encountered this it's always been a laughable error. The last time, I weighed a carrot and it reported that I had actually weighed plums, despite the image clearly being o
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by bexsella 4y ago
For me, reddit was a big hurdle. It was such a time hole I didn't realise but I finally got sick of my reply when my partner asked about what I was reading, it was always: "Nothing" I deleted facebook years ago for the same r
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by bexsella 4y ago
I would go further than this, I'm interested in audio programming and decided to give it a shot using the Steinberg's SDK after reading the VST3 docs. The way the SDK is organized put me off VST3 entirely.
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by bexsella 4y ago
I think even the most hardcore of RAII adherents would say that RAII is a dreadful name for it.
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by bexsella 4y ago
Dozens, one of the more outwardly useful ones notifies me of a certain band's latest LP drop (basically just queries shopify's public-facing JSON for any shop you give it). I've also got a stupid one: a mouse waggler. My work

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