hammycheesy

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by hammycheesy 2y ago
> My decision to sell it was met with a lot of backlash but was successful enough to launch me into a self-sustained career. As someone who is interested in eventually freeing myself from the corporate job and diving head-first into my s
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by hammycheesy 2y ago
I assume the author is mainly referring to the video by Dave's Garage [1], at least the items listed match up pretty well with the points made in the video. I seem to remember Dave making some of these points as examples rather than as
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by hammycheesy 2y ago
There is a whitepaper exploring similar netcode concepts that was written by the Tribes developers: https://www.gamedevs.org/uploads/tribes-networking-model.pdf
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by hammycheesy 2y ago
A friend of mine was a Program Manager on Xbox that worked on some HCI projects like the original Kinect. He told me there was once an experimental keyboard that used the two thumbsticks on an Xbox controller like a dual radial menu to inpu
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by hammycheesy 2y ago
I had a Sonim XP3 "dumb phone" that I used for a year and successfully drove my screen time down from 1-2 hours per day to <10min. The key for me was that the input (T-9 keyboard) and output (tiny non-touch display) modalities
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by hammycheesy 3y ago
For me this link leads to what looks like a domain squatting page. Is something broken?
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by hammycheesy 3y ago
I've been wanting to switch to Firefox for a while, but there is a single bug I filed ~6 years ago [1] that has prevented me from making the leap. I've always wanted to investigate and see if I can pull a fix together but haven&#x
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by hammycheesy 3y ago
> a lot of the Windows shell and apps have been slowly rewritten in C# I worked on the Shell team until late 2022. There is very little C#, if any at all. The vast majority of the Windows Shell is still C++ with a significant amount of W
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by hammycheesy 3y ago
I'm a native US English speaker and I'm familiar with this idiom.
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by hammycheesy 3y ago
I really like this navigation model - it reminds me a little of the Panorama control [1] that Windows Phone attempted or the column-based, horizontally scolling UIs of the infamous Windows 8 Metro apps [2]. Sadly these more creative approac
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by hammycheesy 4y ago
Reading this thread is what convinced me to switch away from Signal and investigate Matrix: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
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by hammycheesy 4y ago
I tried to use the linked Colab notebook to generate my own, and it appears to have been successful, but I don't see any way to view the generated images via the notebook interface. I'm not familiar with the notebook tool - have I
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by hammycheesy 4y ago
Self-promo: there is an open source implementation of Mixer's FTL protocol :) https://github.com/Glimesh/janus-ftl-plugin
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by hammycheesy 4y ago
I believe you are thinking of WinFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
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by hammycheesy 4y ago
This experience matches mine. Never had problems group texting. Also find the predictive text a little frustrating (it's also seemingly impossible to reliably type contractions like "I'm"), but not deal-breaking. I see i
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by hammycheesy 4y ago
I'm also rocking an XP3 Plus! I bought it around September because I was looking to curb my screen time. I ruled out the S22 for similar reasons. I find that in rare cases I need to bring my old smart phone with me (traveling, mainly)
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by hammycheesy 4y ago
A similar effort was made by Microsoft a while back to scale up Git in order to use with the Windows monorepo: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/bharry/the-largest-git-repo-o...