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by l-p 6mo ago
This has to be a regionalism because there're strictly identical to me, eg. in "Un train." /œ̃tʁɛ̃/ I say the two vowels exactly the same way. After a cursory search it seems my Parisian-ish accent is at fault: htt
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by l-p 7mo ago
Thanks, that's way more useful to me. Allow me to contribute: > Magistral: Magist(rate) + stral? Mag(nificent) + stral? Nobody knows. That's just French for "masterful" or a way to describe lectures. There's a se
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by l-p 7mo ago
While lighting is important, not using halflife.wad and going above the original budget of 500 polys per "scene" is what makes modern works look much better. Most of the original textures are under 128×96 px and some suffer from a
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by l-p 1y ago
The author did not want to use real addresses and was not aware of the 192.0.2.0/24, 198.51.100.0/24, and 203.0.113.0/24 ranges specified in RFC 5737 - IPv4 Address Blocks Reserved for Documentation.
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by l-p 2y ago
> - some visual artifacts with the gtk menu You need a compositor. picom works. For a proper "native i3 experience" I recommend setting gtk-titlebar=false and unbinding tab/pane management keybinds. I already have a window
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by l-p 2y ago
Looks composited to me, look at the odd wobble of the picture overlapping the Gonarch, that's not present in the original video.
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by l-p 3y ago
I've been using Hammer since the Worldcraft 3 days, it took less than an hour of using TrenchBroom to know I'll never go back to Hammer or JACK. It just works. The overall modelling workflow is much more efficient, it's well
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by l-p 3y ago
I started maintaining uBlock filters to avoid being spammed by intrusive ads a for a service I neither need nor want. https://gist.github.com/L-P/cfee57bd0835c88262e29ff3a1f09b60 I'm slightly irritated by AWS maki
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by l-p 3y ago
> caps lock should be eliminated everywhere Caps Lock is a necessary feature. I need my ÉÈÀÇ and I never could get a compose key working in all inputs, Caps Lock is the only reasonable alternative.
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by l-p 3y ago
0.48 is not even released yet (still a RC) you'll have to wait a bit more for 0.49. There's nothing preventing you from building it yourself though, the master branch is stable and you can complete the game without a single crash
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by l-p 3y ago
> If Reddit replaces volunteer mods with paid mods we would get a more > consistent moderation and almost certainly a more professional experience. I can guarantee you the opposite. You'll have a site-wide abusable Scunthorpe-inc
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by l-p 3y ago
They are. We caught "community builders" making disingenuous posts trying to pass reposted/translated content as OC to generate engagement. After getting caught doing so with their admin accounts they tried again using normal
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by l-p 4y ago
I'm partial to the Moutarde de Charroux, made with Saint Pourçain (a local wine). https://www.huiles-et-moutardes.com
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by l-p 4y ago
> I'd be curious to know what's good or bad about it compared to GCP and AWS. Documentation lies, support lies, metrics lie, bugs everywhere, and when something breaks the status page is always all green and support tries to co
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by l-p 4y ago
> We never thought our startup would be threatened by the unreliability of a company like Microsoft You're new to Azure I guess. I'm glad the outage I had yesterday was only the third major one this year, though the one in augu
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by l-p 4y ago
No need to worry, it's already happening. While I have not withdrawn anything (yet?), I stopped publishing new code to GitHub. I can't be the only one.
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by l-p 4y ago
> Kdenlive wins hands-down in stability It's the only one that does not have a 50% chance of segfaulting on every click. Not an exaggeration. Pretty much the only viable solution for FOSS video editing though I have yet to try Blend
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by l-p 4y ago
No. The biggest improvement Source saw was in Source 2 with PBR. There's mention of raytracing in Source 2 [1] but I don't think anything was released. [1]: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/GameTracking-Artifa
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by l-p 4y ago
My lame claim to fame. I was the one who suggested making it a prequel and have scientists watching you and from behind the windows (tough I'm pretty sure Nyko forgot by the time he completed the mod). Odd seeing this mentioned here. I
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by l-p 5y ago
> As of June 3, 2021, there is no native support for Vulkan API provided by Apple devices. > Apple deprecated OpenGL in iOS 12 and macOS 10.14 Mojave in favor of Metal, but it is still available as of macOS 11 Big Sur (including Apple
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by l-p 5y ago
And with PYTHONSTARTUP you can get creative. I only use it to display numbers as hex and binary [1] but I'm sure it can be useful in many other ways. [1]: https://github.com/L-P/dotfiles/blob/39ac8d5849a5
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by l-p 5y ago
Yes because it'll load an image from a domain that expired and is now controlled by a nefarious third-party. The image is now a payload targeting the out of date image loading lib used by the onboard entertainment system that has seen
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by l-p 5y ago
In Azure: Sidebar -> Cost Management + Billing -> Cost Management -> Cost analysis (preview). It's slow, you can't open links in new tabs, one wrong click and you have navigate to the right page and wait for everything to
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by l-p 5y ago
I've never heard a single good thing about Azure, and now that I have to work with it I understand why. The most egregious thing (for now) was an Auto Scale failure. For an entire business day the autoscaler failed to spin up VMs which
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by l-p 5y ago
> difference between Ubuntu and Arch The difference between Debian and Ubuntu is enough to be a nuisance. The Dell XPS laptop my employer provided cannot boot Debian and I'm stuck with Ubuntu. Same packages, maybe a version or two a
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by l-p 5y ago
I was one of the early adopters (July 2014) and I used it for texting for a time. When they started pushing cryptocurrency I felt it was time to leave, a short time after Zoom bought them out and I was glad that my account was already purge
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by l-p 5y ago
> waking up early, at the exact same time, every day If you can do that, congratulations, you don't have insomnia. > need to eat a heavy breakfast (…) Some people think they are special snowflakes who "have never been able t
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by l-p 5y ago
> but IRC is still unencrypted in transit TLS is an option, not ideal but better than no TLS at all.
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by l-p 5y ago
> Having to breathe jet exhaust fumes while suffering through 85 degree indoor temperatures and drinking algae-filled water is nowhere near normal. I was told to suck it up and do at least 50+ hours (35h paid) when working at temps over
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by l-p 6y ago
A mix of serendipity and digging for it. In the case of OOT, SRM was found accidentally and then researched via live-debugging using emulators and the decompilation project which in turn exists because a debug ROM of OOT MQ was leaked and p

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