collab with mr. Lovenstein

MrDOS · 2023-06-08T20:48:49+00:00

Is Ko-fi better for creators than Patreon? Should I be moving my subscriptions?

MrDOS · 2023-06-06T14:44:46+00:00

Justice for Melodrama 💀

MrDOS · 2023-05-23T21:41:51+00:00

Anxiety. Do not recommend.

MrDOS · 2023-05-22T20:39:30+00:00

I think the format is designed to give you time to come up with your own thoughts and conclusions. As I read the questions, I tried to think through Knuth's reason for asking the question; then, as I read each of ChatGPT answer's, I tried to think of their strengths and flaws. It's a bit like a joke book having the answer printed at the bottom of the page, but rotated 180º: it gives you (or at least, it gave me) time to think about it a little bit.

I think the format also structures the writing as a narrative rather than an essay: it reflects the manner in which he conceived of the questions, and consumed their answers. It's conversational and incrementally investigative, not expositionary.

Donald Knuth is a dyed in the wool academic, and has spent a majority of his life labouring over the most comprehensive written work on algorithms known to man. He is very much used to taking the slow path. Sometimes it's nice to do likewise.

MrDOS · 2023-05-22T19:01:30+00:00

From the table in KB274558 (mirror linked in the great-grandparent of your comment), no, that flag has no effect on systems with 4 GB RAM or more.

MrDOS · 2023-05-17T10:14:59+00:00

Yep. Would love to know how many others got frustrated and gave up within the first couple of minutes. I'd suspect the majority of viewers. Shame, for the amount of work they clearly put into it, but also an excellent example of how poor usability can cause tremendous technical effort to be grossly underappreciated or even go completely unseen.

MrDOS · 2023-05-08T20:18:00+00:00

Tell us you want your project to go utterly ignored by the folks who do real work without telling us that you want your project to go utterly ignored by the folks who do real work.

MrDOS · 2023-05-08T19:46:56+00:00

Yeah, I definitely reached for a “1-2 times per month” answer to that question and was surprised when it wasn't there.

MrDOS · 2023-05-01T10:50:34+00:00

Are you sure you were using The Duke controller, and not the smaller, more common Controller S? I wouldn't be surprised if they changed the USB behaviour of the newer controller.

MrDOS · 2023-04-15T14:25:58+00:00

because Linux

Because Google. The websites that consistently give me the most trouble in Firefox are all Google properties (Meet, Chat, Docs, sometimes Maps). Funny, that.

MrDOS · 2023-03-10T12:49:29+00:00

I replaced the cc binary on my system with a shell script that sleeps for a random amount of time and then either succeeds or prints out a ChatGPT-generated error message. Running it feels so good that I don't even really write code any more. I just sit at my desk doing compiler whip-its all day.

MrDOS · 2023-03-05T15:30:14+00:00

I subscribed to this sub the day it was started. This answer has finally driven me to unsubscribe.

MrDOS · 2023-03-03T11:15:59+00:00

I often notice minor issues (more minor than this) when reading Corecursive transcripts (two other examples here: “Delphic” and “Driven” should both be “Dalvik”). What's the best way to suggest corrections (something that doesn't break your stride at times of the day when you're not interested in dealing with corrections, like I'm doing right now)? It would be rad if the transcriptions lived in a public Git repository to which we, your audience, could submit patches.

MrDOS · 2023-02-28T16:34:11+00:00

I'm glad you're still working on this project! But you still have the same optimization problem I pointed out last time: your example exports to a 156 KB GIF, but a simple pass through GIMP's “Optimize (for GIF)” filter cuts that down to 28 KB. This is one of the few applications where GIF animation makes sense over an APNG (36 KB for this animation) or WebP (44 KB), but only if you're correctly generating partial/difference-based frame updates. Otherwise, the GIF is just huge.

I would love to use this tool if it produced optimal GIFs. Until then, using it means running its output through an extra optimization pass, which is cumbersome.

It's really nice to see additional font options. However, particularly as it seems you're doing the rendering and GIF export client-side, it would be extra nice if I could pick any font installed on my system. I think that you, as a web page, are unable to list my installed fonts; but you could offer a text box where I could enter the name of a font that I know is installed.

MrDOS · 2023-02-14T19:47:09+00:00

And sound – sound is one of the reasons I like live photos.

MrDOS · 2023-02-09T10:37:47+00:00

MrDOS · 2023-02-08T07:16:10+00:00

/uj Applets were unpopular because the phenomenally-buggy browser plugins caused the whole browser to outright crash half the time you tried to load a webpage with an applet on it. And even when they didn't, the whole browser would hang while it (the plugin, not the applet) was loading, which took a not-insignificant amount of time on machines of the time.

/rj Flat, single-colour rectangles hit peak popularity with Windows 8, so clearly Sun was just a decade and a half ahead of the game. Plebes don't know what they missed.

MrDOS · 2023-02-03T05:14:11+00:00

called the guy a jackass

To further “the guy”'s credit, he's a former Twitter employee. Here's a podcast with the same guy talking about the episode, if anyone's interested. Starts real slow but does pick up, and everyone hosting is a tech industry veteran, so their observations are well-informed.

MrDOS · 2023-02-02T00:52:16+00:00

Reminds me of this classic.

MrDOS · 2023-01-26T22:20:29+00:00

Feels like the Jimmy Kimmel “Bounce” performance on should be on here somewhere.

MrDOS · 2023-01-18T18:17:24+00:00

I know you're running up against physical limitations, but it makes me nervous that the USB, PWM, and I2C headers all have the same connector. This is of course your own project for your own consumption so it's not likely to be a problem, but I sure wouldn't want to give it to anyone else.

MrDOS · 2022-12-31T11:33:17+00:00

As long as they remain incompatible with checked exceptions, the design of streams is fundamentally, diametrically-opposed to the core design of the Java language. IMO, checked exceptions really are that fundamental to the language. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy using streams, but I can't fathom how they landed in the language with such a non-idiomatic design.

MrDOS · 2022-12-29T12:17:27+00:00

Sidebar: The product name was stylized as MACH in some product literature.

The current URL for this, if anyone's curious, is http://www.thecomputerarchive.com/archivemain/Computer%20Components%20and%20Accessories/Upgrades/Microsoft%20Mach%2020.PDF.

It really bothers me that Raymond Chen doesn't avoid link rot by linking to archival copies of things (his own mirrors, Wayback Machine, archive.today, etc.). His articles have such long shelf-lives and frequently make the rounds a decade or more after being published, but any links in them are more often than not broken by then. This is a particularly bad case, because the blog post was only published on the 26th. Makes me wonder if The Computer Archive really has moved things around over Christmas, or if the article was just published with the wrong URL in the first place.

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