katastic

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by katastic 8y ago
I know you're publicly directly messaging, but as an outsider to the discussion, I don't see any actual mention in your posts why D isn't included. Just that it "used to be." There are many of benchmark projects tha
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by katastic 8y ago
>When you singup for Facebook, you agree that anything you post might be shared with others on the platform. Except you CAN'T sign away your rights in many jurisdictions, including this thing called HIPAA. So if Facebook sold people
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by katastic 9y ago
This is downright silly. HOSTS files are static. They were never designed for blocking ads or tracking. And for all we know, every connection does a linear search through the HOSTS file so the larger it gets, the more wasted time, because i
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by katastic 9y ago
Is that why they hate Peter Thiel so much and try to smear him in the media? ala https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/06/peter-thiel-i... (Kind of strange how they can target a gay guy for getting mad
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by katastic 9y ago
"Free" = For use in Unreal Engine only.
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by katastic 9y ago
Kind of like how that one NPM package took down like 14,000 other packages when someone took a DMCA request against an author's OTHER package and he just took them all down in protest--which took down their dependencies and their depen
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by katastic 9y ago
>Has anyone created a service that you auth in through GitHub and it backs up all your repos to S3 or Dropbox or something? I'd pay a few bucks for something like that. So you'd pay money for a tool that copies your data, but n
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by katastic 9y ago
Think of it more like SQL, where you're describing a model, then a series of steps.
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by katastic 9y ago
My problem (years ago) was that with Lattice, there just aren't as many tutorials/easy-EDA and they kind of expect you to know what you're doing. So if you've never taken a class on FPGA's and learned how netlists w
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by katastic 9y ago
Please tell me you've got pictures. I would very much like to see them.
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by katastic 9y ago
>And we won. The judge gave the Secret Service a tongue-lashing and ruled for SJ Games on two out of the three counts, and awarded over $50,000 in damages, plus over $250,000 in attorney's fees. You know, this really sounds like a &
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by katastic 9y ago
It cost mere 2 million (of their huge budget) to serve ALL of the pages from Wikimedia Foundation for 2017. It can't cost "that much" for someone to download Wikipedia pages. And if so, you can still buy a Wikipedia snapshot
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by katastic 9y ago
I'm still waiting for someone to make a wayland compositor that compares to compiz. One super important feature I use every day is being able to invert a SINGLE window and not the entire screen. For all the "omg it's slow&quo
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by katastic 9y ago
Absolutely. When I was a kid, I'd skip tutorials, I'd skip text in RPGs. I just wanted to get to the ACTION. As I'm older, I'm actually able to sit down and appreciate slower-form / long-form RPGs with lots of text
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by katastic 9y ago
That reminds me of people doing 3-D engines in MegaZeux. http://vault.digitalmzx.net/screens2/cde248323538306a9712eb9... MegaZeux is a ZZT successor. https://image.dosgamesarchive.com/screenshots/z
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by katastic 9y ago
>You also could stop misusing the browser as an application frontend, and write a proper frontend with a cross-platform toolkit, and distribute that. This is pure insanity. There are tons of applications built on the web stack now that a
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by katastic 9y ago
I absolutely agree. C++ is at least a decade behind D. Literally. The kinds of features that eventually hit C++, D actually had for at least ten years. I think of D as a clean break. A major version upgrade with an API break. Whereas C++ ha
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by katastic 9y ago
I know this is a place for software/web developers but good god, really? It was at best a minor tech article in a car magazine in the Wal-Mart magazine stands. What exactly did you learn? He kept saying the i3 "life module" (
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by katastic 9y ago
https://www.space.com/8193-caused-apollo-13-accident.html >In October 1968, the Number 2 tank eventually used on Apollo 13 was at the North American Aviation plant in Downey, California. There, technicians who were handl
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by katastic 9y ago
Not to mention the _costs_ to society/economy to rescue risk-takers every time they get stranded or injured.
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by katastic 9y ago
That reminds me of a slightly off-topic story. My college library had multiple floors. They decided with their grand collective genius, to replace the entire first floor with a knockoff Starbucks "cafe", and tons of Apple computer
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by katastic 9y ago
Addendum: Anyone remember GStreamer being a Linux vulnerability because it had a 6502 CPU emulator to run... NES music files, and hackers managed to jump outside of the VM. https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2016/1
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by katastic 9y ago
I've actually heard many people (including one Chrome developer) that they don't even use AV anymore except Windows Defender because 99% of AV break Windows/applications by using non-standard hooks and may even introduce new
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by katastic 9y ago
You're using logic again. His point is they're not logical unless you count "forest through the trees" fallacies as logic. They want whatever is IN. Whatever is BIG. Whatever is the most POPULAR. It's all about &quo
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by katastic 9y ago
I am consistently impressed with the feature-set and simplicity of D. A system language that can run code with the ease-of-use of Javascript. I'd need paragraphs to describe all the features I use that I didn't have before in C++.
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by katastic 9y ago
It should be noted that 186's aren't even remotely compatible with 286's and 386's. And implementing a 286/386/486 is actually much harder and more complex than say, an 8086. That's why most people stop th
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by katastic 9y ago
Windows 10 is still terrible in that regard. Like, laughably bad. 1. I dare you to try it on a computer with a 5400 RPM hard drive. A fresh installation will spend the majority of its time sitting around with 100% disk usage as telemetry, s
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by katastic 9y ago
It's remarkable that companies can "own" things so fundamental, and obvious in computing--even if they don't actually utilize their IP's. "Hey guys, I've got a patent for talking from one machine to anothe
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by katastic 9y ago
I think Y2K had more practical impact across the business world. There was genuine fear that it could cause an actual apocalypse with all major computerized systems failing, medical machines killing people, banks being affected and all mone
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by katastic 9y ago
That's actually an interesting accidental point. How many embedded CPU's with speculation might be affected? You may say "none" but there are Cortex CPUs embedded into FPGAs (either directly or form of IP cores). What if

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