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scraft
2mo ago
Small defensive suggestion: I’d usually define both the enabled and disabled versions as statement-like macros: #ifdef MGBALOG #define mgbalog(level, format, ...) \ do { _mgbalog(level, format, ##__VA_ARGS__); } while (0) #els
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scraft
3mo ago
PSA: don't run random commands people on the internet tell you to run, it turns out those people haven't even run those commands themselves..
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scraft
3mo ago
This software doesn't work on an Android phone.
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scraft
4mo ago
But this process, including sending smaller items first etc sounds like it would have taken longer than what the OP did? And the OP was trying to do it quickly to tie in with the beginning of the semester?
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scraft
5mo ago
I saw similar engraved and then inked onto wooden boards at a restaurant, sadly, despite the error handling, 3 out of 4 I tried were not scannable, the 1 I did manage to scan to me to a reviews site for the restaurant (where a lot of review
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5mo ago
The last time I used anything similar to this was circa 1995 at secondary school, using Windows 3.11 computers, that has been set up so you could only launch a small number of authorised applications. One of those was Word. In Word you coul
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scraft
11mo ago
On the PS2 there was a very small memory area, called the scratchpad, that was very quick to access, the rough idea on the PS2 was to DMA data in and out of the scratch pad, and then do work in the data, without creating contention with eve
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scraft
1y ago
Actually, in special relativity, if you could somehow travel at light speed, your own proper time wouldn’t pass at all. The journey would be instant from your perspective. You’d experience zero time between departure and arrival. That’s not
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1y ago
Well, if you were traveling at light speed you could move anywhere in the universe instantly. If you are an observer on earth, watching an object move away from you at the speed of light, then it will take a very long time to traverse the t
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3y ago
> if i am not writing or editing a file, just doing nothing, then why FS breaks? For a few reasons, but the most common is that when you write a file, you 'fwrite' operation doesn't typically immediately write blocks to th
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4y ago
What if the nondestructive thing you are querying GPT3 for returns a bad result which is destructive?
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scraft
4y ago
I use Copy Me That (website/app), I am not sure if it has all the features you want, but I use it for storing recipes in a "no nonsense" format and can share recipes with friends/family. I get the impression if you pay y
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4y ago
I heard this £30 saving stuff on the radio this morning, and it made me shake my head a little. I remember when I got a socket adapter that measures power consumption, and I went around checking all my appliances, eager to find out which ar
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5y ago
I used Keepass + Dropbox (to sync database). This set up was suggested to me when I joined a company that requires complex unique passwords for all sign ups. At the time I didn't think too much about it, but this thread has made me tha
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5y ago
Remove the drive from the external casing and be able to use the drive in ones machine.
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5y ago
It surprises me that people think that it isn't possible to make money selling emulators. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dsemu.dras... Over one million downloads, price £4.99 ;)
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6y ago
Budgeted £42k ended up costing £60k for us both. I know some people which did it for a lot less (like half) but we didn't want to miss out on various things as we went. We stayed in a lot of hostels, along with some guest houses, Airbn
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6y ago
It took a while to plan, not just the trip stuff but finishing a job, packing up a house, signing cars off the road, cancelling bills etc. We got a round the world flight ticket, we had to commit to the first six month flight times then hal
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6y ago
My partner and I took a year out for all of 2018 and travelled for 365 days, aged 34. We went to 21 countries during that time, the route: UK India Hong Kong Vietnam Cambodia Laos Thailand Russia Mongolia China Tibet Japan Malaysia Indonesi
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6y ago
This doesn't reflect my experience from the UK. In the UK a club to people I know is thought of roughly as: - Late (22:00 - 03:00 probably been core hours) - Music/dancing being the primary activity - A small amount of seating, ei
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6y ago
Just a little FWIW, I am with Hyperoptic in the UK (pretty common if you live in an apartment in a big city centre). They provide nice fast, cheap, fibre broadband (1Gbit/sec in both directions). I started allowing remote connections o
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6y ago
This feels like a fun lightweight version of one of our products, vTime XR https://vtime.net/vtimexr which lets you chat with people both in VR and on mobile. It is amazing how much better chat is when you can face people a
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6y ago
1 in 1,000 people in the UK have died after contracting COVID (this number is rising). 2 people out of thousands vaccinated yesterday had an allergic reaction that they recovered from (both people carry EpiPens and have a history of allergi
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6y ago
I and a huge amount of other people are living in a flat which currently has a value of £0 and am currently waiting to find out how much remediation works are going to cost to make the building I live in safe. As it is deemed unsafe by retr
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6y ago
Colour me amazed! I saw a video of some buskers which someone shared a week ago and the tune I know but couldn't remember where it was from, it is a waltz and I thought maybe Swan Lake or Nutcracker but after listening to the soundtrac
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6y ago
This is how it looks for me in the Materialistic Hackernews app https://ibb.co/ZJr2MXG Certainly some fine UI laws in action.
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scraft
6y ago
I don't think it is: perhaps your browser or image view is struggling to display such a large image. I say this as for me it displays identically to how the website displays on my phone.
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6y ago
I remember, when starting university, with no real programming knowledge, making a little game in my spare time (a clone of Pang if you know it) but it was before I knew what a linked list is. I implemented things like the balls which bounc
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6y ago
Perhaps this helps you http://gamesdev.com/temp/Screenshot_20200712_140535_org.mozi... views okay for me, not sure if the image size will cause issues for you.
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6y ago
I have an Early 2011 MBP which I stopped using precisely because it couldn't get Mojave and therefore couldn't run the latest Xcode and therefore couldn't build for iOS 13. When I searched it sounded like any hacked upgrades
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