lholden

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by lholden 11mo ago
I didn't actually buy anything new for my transition back to Linux. I have a gaming system that had traditionally been running windows. It's a powerful system, but has always been a "toy" running Windows for playing game
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by lholden 11mo ago
It is maybe one of the most featureless terminals out there. Slow, poor color support, weird and frustrating permission interactions, limited font options, incomplete terminal emulation, etc. It has improved a bit over the years and is gene
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by lholden 11mo ago
I ended up doing something similar a few years ago. Picked up a MacBook Pro M1 Max back when the M1 stuff was new to replace an aging Lenovo running Linux. I actually really loved my Lenovo + Linux, but the M1 was new and shiny and I desper
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by lholden 2y ago
Took me a moment to realize this isn't related to 86Box, the low level hardware emulator. Cool project though. We needed something like this in Linux.
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by lholden 2y ago
I used this for a couple years many many years ago. I even made several dock widgets for it for various purposes. The source code for these widgets even helped me get my first programming job! Good memories!
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by lholden 2y ago
I honestly don't know. I imagine not.
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by lholden 2y ago
My mom lived in a historical house when she was a kid in the 60s. Since then, the house has become a museum. There are a lot of "artifacts" on display that "came from the 1800s" that are actually just toys my moms brothe
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by lholden 2y ago
Most people think of swap as "emergency memory in case I run out of memory" and while it's true that it can get used in this way, it usually serves a much more critical purpose in your OS's ability to reason about and us
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by lholden 2y ago
Scheme, Racket, Clojure.
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by lholden 3y ago
Awww. "Please don't leave me! I bring you gifts!" I had a cat that would gift give if I was away for a while too. I always figured it was a bribe to not do it again. He also liked to play fetch, but it predated the gift thing
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by lholden 3y ago
This isn't related to SWEET16 directly, but a workflow I enjoy for 6502 assembly is to use the zero page as a data stack. With a small set of macros and functions you can easily pass a very large number of values to a function this way
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by lholden 3y ago
I appreciate your stance, though it's dripping with the zealotry you are complaining about. Just in the other direction. :) I like the nano, but it suffers from the "I may find myself doing work on it when I'm trying to not b
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by lholden 3y ago
I have the magic keyboard, which doubles as a case. It's actually a pretty decent keyboard, though it certainly adds to the weight of the device. Pretty easy to recommend though. I have the apple pencil and it works pretty well for dra
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by lholden 3y ago
A few years ago, I wanted to switch my leisure time computing to a device that would basically keep me from being able to work when I'm not actually working. I'll often sit in front of a screen from the couch or whatever and I wan
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by lholden 3y ago
"no longer free for all" implies that it was "free for all" and the change is making it no longer "free for all". In other words, the title is presenting information to the reader that is literally not true.
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by lholden 3y ago
The title, especially in light of the stuff that went on with Unity, makes one think that this will affect a much wider group of people than it actually does. Unreal was never "free for all". For game development, there has alwa
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by lholden 3y ago
Very misleading article title. The licensing changes target big commercial usages outside of game development. (With revenue thresholds, similar to how it already works right now for game development.) For example, up until now Unreal has s
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by lholden 3y ago
Do you have an example of an addon this has happened to you for? I've had the opposite experience (stuff breaking on Chrome and well, never had an issue with it on Firefox).
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by lholden 3y ago
I switched from Speedcrunch to Qalculate a while ago. I don't actually remember exactly why I switched at this point. (I think due to a lack of updates). Qalculate very similar in many ways, but I do like the interface on Speedcrunch
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by lholden 3y ago
Fidonet still exists! There are a fair number of BBSs that participate in it still. You can find more information on https://www.fidonet.org/ There is also fsxnet, which is based on the same tech, but more open. https:&#x2
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by lholden 3y ago
I switched to Windows 11 early on and honestly haven't really had any problems with it. It feels like Windows 10, but with a UI refresh. I mostly like what they've done with the refresh, though some things feel a bit bolted on (li
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by lholden 3y ago
These days I drink my cup in the morning 5 days a week. I quit drinking caffeine for about a month every year, and when I start drinking it again that first cup always a shocker. It gives me jitters and makes me extremely hyper. It's p
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by lholden 3y ago
I would have if any of the BBSs I was on had it :). I just downloaded a boatload of SLS Linux floppy images from a BBS instead! :D
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by lholden 3y ago
I think Qt Creator deserves a mention as well. It's a batteries included c++ environment with drag and drop GUI building and etc.
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by lholden 3y ago
I started programming with BASIC back in the late 80s and into the early 90s. Started with gw-basic and then with QBasic, both of which were included in versions of DOS. QBasic was really cool at the time. I wrote a lot of (very crappy and
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by lholden 4y ago
I love seeing new editors come up. Always curious to see what people have planned for them. With that said... I do have to say that the landing page for this was a turn off for me. Digging through the landing page, the focus seems to be on
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by lholden 4y ago
Hard to believe the last Merb release was 12 years ago. (I was a contributor). Rest in peace Ezra.
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by lholden 4y ago
Lua on the Pico-8 Fantasy Console. It's easy to work with, has a built in editor, and it's very easy to make games in. I think it's a fantastic environment to learn programming with. What kid doesn't want to make a game?
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by lholden 5y ago
It's possible the author is unaware that there are cables that have a USB-C (TB4) connector on one end and a DisplayPort connector on the other. This should directly support running DisplayPort 1.4 off just the dock they purchased with
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by lholden 5y ago
Not really explained by the linked article, but my understanding is that as the Sun increases in luminosity (increasing the solar flux), the chemical reactions that binds CO2 will increase. Within 500-600 million years the CO2 levels drop b

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