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by hnur 4y ago
"a technique for reducing the memory footprint of programs in compiled languages with C-like structures" I figure that's not the primary reason for structure packing, but rather for fine-grained control over writing to very s
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Show HN: Automatically Choosing Desktop Wallpaper with Music, Revisited(nurh.org)
3 points by hnur 5y ago|0 comments
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by hnur 9y ago
Woohoo, this is the 2nd time Hacker News picked up one of my articles. And yeah, you should subscribe :)
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by hnur 9y ago
Well there is this: https://lwn.net/Articles/718267/
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by hnur 10y ago
Fancy kids and their winamps, back in the day I used to coax musical notes out of a tinny speaker from an Apple II using PEEK and POKE in BASIC. ;)
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by hnur 10y ago
It was a random sampling of songs that I was already playing while I was writing that. All my music is either folk (with a lot of Irish and American folk), rock, or indie. If you like though, you could try it yourself. The great (or perhaps
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by hnur 10y ago
You aren't by any chance interested in separating that, in hosting a server which gives a link to a good flickr image when given a word? I searched for something like that and in the end stayed with my ugly approach of parsing flickri
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Show HN: Making Your Music Choose Your Desktop Wallpaper(blog.unixcat.org)
75 points by hnur 10y ago|11 comments
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by hnur 10y ago
>UNIX-like kernels are easy, in that you don't have to have >that much running before you can run "Hello World". Well, it depends on what you mean by "Hello World". Simply printing it out from the kernel? Easy
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by hnur 10y ago
How does it work? Is it a Windows container implementation that got the "Docker" branding?
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by hnur 10y ago
On time: 35. The rate that time passes at one point in the universe is the same relative to any other point in the universe. I once talked to some co-workers of mine who doubted that relativity is real.
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by hnur 11y ago
I'm not entirely up to speed on the situation of UEFI secure boot for ARM; didn't Microsoft mandate that it can't be disabled for such devices to boot Windows? Is that the case here?
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by hnur 11y ago
I use C as my staple language. Old and always unfashionable, but it's never going away in my lifetime.
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by hnur 11y ago
Relevant: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2088
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by hnur 11y ago
Feeling nostalgic for the soundtrack? This guy did a medley -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz0_ZHEDZ-4
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by hnur 11y ago
Another folk/americana fan here, and I get contemporary pop music ads between my tracks on Spotify, and there's nothing more annoying than autotuned screeching between my Bob Dylan and Gillian Welch. However instead of buying prem