bondolo

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by bondolo 2mo ago
There are two projects working on Tribal Trouble, mine which is a pure technology modernization and refactoring of the original game, and a community supported version that is publishing the game for free on Steam. The community version is
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by bondolo 2mo ago
GLFW has had no active maintainers for a couple years and has poor support for Wayland, Windows ARM64 and current MacOS. It is my understanding that the former GLFW maintainers want to just wind it down and not allow any new maintainers eve
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by bondolo 2mo ago
I recently converted a game, Tribal Trouble ( https://github.com/bondolo/tribaltrouble ) from GLFW to SDL3. It was mostly a painless refactor though I did have some issues with full screen exclusive modes and desktop fu
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by bondolo 3mo ago
For several decades relatives of mine always swept out their trucks after transporting cattle salt blocks or alfalfa bales on the same quiet narrow S shaped section of roadway in the bush about a mile from the house at the back of the prope
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by bondolo 3mo ago
Early in my career I read "Peopleware" by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister. Between that book Brooks' "Mythical Man Month" and Humphrey's "Managing the Software Process" it seemed that there was hope fo
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by bondolo 3mo ago
And yet, for some reason, it is impossible to stop spam calls and texts.
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by bondolo 4mo ago
Just one more thing that is being destroyed. There are thousands more that you aren't hearing about. If it exists then it must be destroyed. The intention is nothing less than to make rebuilding impossible. If you still have illusions
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by bondolo 6mo ago
Negligent doesn't begin to describe their behaviour.
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by bondolo 7mo ago
Oh, I am doing a lot more than just hacking code. I am also cooking, gardening, reading, writing, travelling, brewing and distilling, swimming, volunteering, …
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by bondolo 7mo ago
I recently retired after 37 years of working in tech so of course I am working on open source. My retirement treat was to spend three months learning OpenGL and 3D game programming by porting a classic Java RTS game, Tribal Trouble, to more
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by bondolo 10mo ago
It was a mix of mystical philosophy and transhumanism and he does think that "the world is on the edge of a breakthrough" but he sees it as emergent. It is not something he is personal creating just something he believes is immine
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by bondolo 10mo ago
I had a conversation the other day at a birthday party with my friend's neighbour from the building. The fellow is a semi-retired (FIRE) single guy. We started with a basic conversation but then he started talking about what he interes
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by bondolo 1y ago
I have similar issues over the years on various devices and it has always been frustrating to determine the cause. Power management in general is so inscrutable. I wish there was a tool which let me go back through recent history, even just
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by bondolo 2y ago
Such a shame that PDF doesn’t just, like, include the semantic structure of the document by default. It is brilliant that we standardized on an archival document format that doesn’t include direct access to the document text or structure as
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by bondolo 2y ago
While I worked at Apple in 2021-22 their issues seemed about the same as nearly every other company producing consumer apps and devices; bloated slow garbage with very mediocre quality. Their engineering culture is terrible, especially as i
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by bondolo 2y ago
It is not a new scam. My grandmother had all of her teeth removed at about age 45 in the early 1960s to get dentures. Not all of her teeth were bad but the dentist encouraged her that removing all of the teeth was best because she didn&#x27
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by bondolo 2y ago
Not just planes and fairly recently too. I was working at a Boeing subsidiary when the 737 Max MCAS happened. They dumped everyone they could on loathsome “$9000 USB cable” type time and materials defense work. I was a senior Java architect
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by bondolo 3y ago
It is pat time to impose an excise tax on all packaging based on how long it takes to decay to base elements. Time until naturally “recycled” shouldn’t be a cost you can externalize. The tax owed can be reduced when recycling actually occur
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by bondolo 3y ago
Time for an excise tax on packaging material based on how long it takes on average to decay to base elements.
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by bondolo 3y ago
The degree to which it is enforced, managers being required to enforce the policy, and to which compliance is used as a measure in performance reviews have all increased and, as you mention, some teams have gone to 4 days with pressure to e
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by bondolo 3y ago
I have worked primarily from home for most of the last 25 years at several companies. I joined Apple during the pandemic and worked from home for the first 18 months but left Apple about 15 months ago for Amazon, in part, because of the inc
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by bondolo 3y ago
What degree of criticism crosses the threshold of "hostile"? For some on the conservative side any criticism or comparison of the US by Americans or worse yet by foreigners unacceptable; the "love it or leave it" crowd.
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by bondolo 3y ago
I used this compiler for years and eventually came to be able to “decompile” the 68k object code it produced back to C code in my head on the fly unless the function was too large. Using MacNosy I could rebuild the C source for an app in us
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by bondolo 3y ago
I'm a reddit moderator of subs both enormous and tiny. I've been frustrated for years by the core subs being taken over by various cabals of power users. Some like the power, some do it to push a particular agenda, and I am pretty
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by bondolo 4y ago
If the credit reporting companies are all such sleazy incompetent dirtbags why is it still impossible to opt-out from most credit reporting data collection?
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by bondolo 4y ago
I like it and am interested to see how this evolves. I would love it to replace the simple clock on my iPhone screen. For my own purposes I would like to see accurate day/night line that moves with the map.
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by bondolo 4y ago
Flexelint. The compilers have gotten better over the years but I wouldn’t consider doing C/C++ development without it. It has saved me hundreds of hours of debugging since I first started using it in 1990. The very first day it found a
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by bondolo 4y ago
There was a CP/M machine that I knew of that would only work when plugged in to the printer. The reason turned out to be a ground fault. The computer used only a two prong plug for power. The printer used a three prong plug with proper
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by bondolo 4y ago
I do the same but regularly get spam. I just got a spam email today for automobile insurance and the source was an automotive buying company I used about a month ago. The businesses don't appear to be related in any way. The strangest
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by bondolo 4y ago
I found an old sheep intestine condom in a 19th century engineering reference book. The pages where I found it had been water damaged, likely, I later learned, from the condom having been washed after use and put in the book to dry and then

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