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by stratts 2mo ago
Codex does this too, I've noticed. LLMs seem to love documenting irrelevant implementation details in what should be user-facing text. I guess because the context is overwhelmingly the technical side of things, so without a later direc
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by stratts 3mo ago
Except on that page there's immediately a claim that isn't backed up by any of the citations, eg: "The hunting-safety effect has been substantial. The non-fatal hunting accident rate in the United States fell substantially ov
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by stratts 5mo ago
OP here. I thought this was quite interesting as it's built around the RP2040, using GPIO to communicate with the DS - the firmware is completely open source and reprogrammable via USB. Additionally, the launcher supports a bunch exist
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DSpico: The first open-source Nintendo DS flashcart(lnh-team.org)
3 points by stratts 5mo ago|1 comments
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by stratts 5mo ago
This is an awesome idea and really resonates with me. I did something similar for my site: https://stratts.au/_editor/?preview=%2F&file=_site%2Fcontent... You can edit and rebuild the site from within the browser,
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by stratts 5mo ago
Daily isn't the only option - you can still get monthly lenses.
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by stratts 5mo ago
The idea of writing a draft on paper, or cutting out squares to prototype layouts on a table, sounds like a nightmare to me. But I never did like pen and paper much and have lived and breathed computers since I was young. My ideal method of
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by stratts 5mo ago
I think this is a risk with anything that promotes itself as "unlimited", or otherwise doesn't specify concrete limits. I'm always sceptical of services like this as it feels like the terms could arbitrarily change at an
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by stratts 5mo ago
It was always possible to write large amounts of crappy code if you were motivated or clueless enough (see https://github.com/radian-software/TerrariaClone ). It's now just easier, and the consequences less severe,
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by stratts 5mo ago
Not only that, but so many people are reluctant to pay for anything so your average installation is chock full of freemium plugins. I've worked on plenty of sites whose admin page looked a bit like the IE6 toolbar meme.
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by stratts 5mo ago
It is, but OP said you need both a NAS and a mini PC
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by stratts 5mo ago
You don't need a NAS, really. My setup is a second-hand i5-7300U fanless mini-PC I got for $90, 2 x second-hand 4TB HDDs, and 2 x USB 3.5" enclosures. It's messy but it works... I haven't measured power in a bit but I re
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by stratts 5mo ago
Both my wife and I are reluctant to upload our entire photo collection spanning 20+ years to the cloud. Immich has been working really well for us, the experience for her is just as seamless as it would be for Google Photos, I think. And at
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by stratts 5mo ago
It's a spectrum, isn't it? From targeted edits that you approve manually - which I think you can reasonably take credit for - all the way to full blown vibe-coded apps where you're hardly involved in the design process at all
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by stratts 5mo ago
> Ubuntu in 2026 is pretty much the same as Ubuntu from 2006. Well, Ubuntu MATE perhaps :) Windows LTSC I find comes pretty close to the less intrusive Windows I remember from the XP/7 era.
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by stratts 5mo ago
Beyond the pricing part of it, just having media that isn't dependent on an external device is so nice. But for TV series in particular, watching on disc is quite clunky after a decade+ of streaming services, and DVR boxes prior to tha
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by stratts 5mo ago
Making homebrew for the Nintendo DS was how I got into programming in the first place. Devkitpro was too confusing for me back then, so I used something called PALib, essentially a pretty hacky library built on top to make it "easy&quo
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My browser-based static site generator(stratts.au)
2 points by stratts 5mo ago|0 comments
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by stratts 5mo ago
But there was (and still is) a flood of amazing indie games. Due to the lower barrier of entry it was just naturally accompanied by a deluge of crap.
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by stratts 10mo ago
GitHub seems to be the worst of both worlds - partially rendered on the server, but then the frontend inexplicably pulls in additional data like... commit messages?? It's a double hit of latency, and for bonus points, the commit messag
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by stratts 11mo ago
Android already has this strict oversight, in theory, in the form of the Play Store. And yet. Personally I feel much more safe and secure downloading a random app from F-Droid, than I do from Google, whose supposed watchful eyes have allowe
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by stratts 1y ago
My understanding is that the current plans are to implement async in userspace, as part of a broader IO overhaul. This would involve removing async/await as keywords from the language.
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by stratts 1y ago
What's the state of the art here? Most of Zig's safety, or lack thereof, seems inherent to allowing manual memory management, and at least comparable to its "C replacement" peers (Odin, C3, etc).
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by stratts 1y ago
Package management in Zig is more manual than Rust, involving fetching the package URL using the CLI, then importing the module in your build script. This has its upsides - you can depend on arbitrary archives, so lots of Zig packages of C
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by stratts 1y ago
Looks nice! Some thoughts: const now = ctx.flag("now", bool); // type-safe flag access This is type-safe, but only at run time. Since your flags are (or could be) known at compile time, it would be nice to have th
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by stratts 3y ago
This is what works for me, assuming an clean project created using 'zig init-exe': At the top of your build.zig, import the raylib build.zig inside raylib's /src folder (exact path will depend where you've cloned ra
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by stratts 3y ago
You don't even necessarily need bindings to use Raylib in Zig. It uses Zig's build system so you can just clone Raylib's repo, add a couple of lines to build.zig, and it's ready to go with autocompletion and everything.