blindluke

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by blindluke 2y ago
Yep. I bought a yellow one with the intention of making it a dedicated PICO-8 machine, and it is wonderful. It's not as perfect as 351p is for GBA, as 5x integer scaling leaves you with some unused screen space, but still, an absolute
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by blindluke 2y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with you that TIC-80 is not as great as PICO-8 is, and I would never recommend it over PICO-8 to someone who wants to start their adventure with game development. But it is not a clone of PICO-8. It offers a resolutio
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by blindluke 4y ago
That's just a single data point, but here's my experience. I have severe myopia, and I experience discomfort when reading from a screen over a prolonged period of time. I read a lot, and I can't read for more than two hours e
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by blindluke 4y ago
I'd love to hear more details about your setup, if you're willing to share. Especially the part about using the Kindle as a secondary screen.
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by blindluke 4y ago
You pay for the console, and the games are open by design. You can load any pico game into the console, go into edit mode, and see / edit assets, music, levels. The console only supports lua, which gives you the advantage that every ga
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by blindluke 4y ago
> my point is there are dozens of other convenient questions you can ask to filter out projects Absolutely. And I agree with you that "Is it widely used in production?" is a better filter. But that does not diminish the value o
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by blindluke 4y ago
You're assuming someone places value on proper documentation because they need proper documentation to make it "accessible to you". That doesn't have to be the case. For me, lack of proper documentation constitutes a red
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by blindluke 5y ago
> My problem is, I know that we are missing information, what I don't know is how to tease out that information from myself and other coworkers. I would start by reflecting on the way in which getting that knowledge out of the cowor
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by blindluke 5y ago
He coded those games single-handedly AND in x86 assembly. Yep, that's a good example of a genius, right there.
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by blindluke 5y ago
I can provide answers to the last two questions, based on my limited experence. > What are "local HR laws"? I think this refers to the fact that regulatory compliance is different depending on where your business is located. Wh
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by blindluke 5y ago
> That's not typical Java code. You could do that in quick & dirty code, but I haven't seen such code in production code. It sounds to me like you're an extremely lucky person. I've seen too much of that sort of t
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by blindluke 5y ago
> and so one can guess what correct fingering would be when there is no teacher around At least in some cases, yes. For me, that's the real point of having a teacher - learning the thought process, not the pieces. One thing worth me
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by blindluke 5y ago
Here's where having a teacher helps a lot. I started out as an adult beginner, and I remember that in one of the first study books (Duvernoy or Burgmuller), there was a passage in the left hand with a sequence of six eights, it went li
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by blindluke 5y ago
I like it too, very much so, to the point where I recommend it to people that find K. N. King's "C Programming: A Lengthy Approach" too intimidating. And I had nothing to do with writing it, as you obviously know. My sincere
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by blindluke 5y ago
This small Austrian village already changed the name to Fugging. Someone did notice.
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by blindluke 5y ago
> it was exactly 8.5 hours of focused, deliberate practice As already pointed out, that's a very low amount of practice to change the technique. For piano, when learning forearm rotation, the point when it became much, much more com
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by blindluke 6y ago
Used the online version a lot before, and I'm tempted to grab the desktop app just to show support. Still unsure if I would use it over the web equivalent. There are some things still unclear after reading the FAQ page. Does the app re
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by blindluke 6y ago
Sure, I added the following assumptions: - stuff I play myself - something I can explain to the 70yo parents in a few minutes before the game - easily available (either recent, or a classic) Here's five recommendations: - Cacao ( https
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by blindluke 6y ago
Thank you. Falba is pretty much exactly what I was hoping to find, especially since I'm in Europe too. Appreciate the help.
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by blindluke 6y ago
I wonder, is there a place one can buy a prebuilt 40% keyboard, with keycaps, the full shebang? Split or not, I'd love to have a portable mechanical keyboard to carry around, but I don't have the time nor patience to mess with a k
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by blindluke 6y ago
> I'm just interested in pivot points where companies decided to switch from technology x to technology z, and what made them do it. There's a lot of articles and blog posts on that topic, enough to keep you occupied for a long
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by blindluke 6y ago
> what tradeoffs did companies > what made companies adopt it Which companies are you referring to? > Why did everyone leave PHP? When did that happen? If everyone did "leave PHP", what will happen to all those websites:
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by blindluke 6y ago
> Without consulting Stack Overflow, describe the “...” operator in Perl. Poor example. Any Perl programmer can explain both range ops without breaking a sweat. Smart matching is/was the weird, misbehaving thing.
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by blindluke 6y ago
> Giving me the ability to do something I do not want to do is not beneficial. Expecting that an example should be tailor-made is not very beneficial, either. When I go out to buy a car, and the salesman tells me the trunk is big enough
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by blindluke 6y ago
> Perl does not have grammars (at least, not built-in). That's not true since v5.10 (2007). Here's a sample that matches a subset of LaTeX markup: $matcher = qr{ (?&File) (?(DEFINE) (?<File&
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by blindluke 6y ago
All valid points, and I did spend quite a bit of time finding the narrators I like. If you want a place to start, I can recommend the recordings by Mark Nelson - https://librivox.org/reader/251 He recorded a lot of pul
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by blindluke 6y ago
If targeting gamedev users, why not Lua? You can switch from Lisp to something more people are familiar with without losing the dynamic environment.
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by blindluke 10y ago
People do not use 'most printers and scanners'. They want to use that one printer/scanner thing they recently bought, and has only printer drivers available for Linux on the manufacturer's page. Had a problem with this q
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by blindluke 10y ago
> In the end, complaints about Linux boils down to "i can't apply Windows (or Mac) rote gestures on this". Would that it were so simple. Unfortunately, there is also "I can't comfortably use my printer/scann
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by blindluke 10y ago
There are mobile frontends available: http://orgmode.org/manual/MobileOrg.html

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