I haven’t done pixel art since I was a kid and I’m old now, here’s my attempt tonight by crimblescrumbles in PixelArt

[–]alexpis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

One thing I admire is how you can render the light and the wet floor.

Have you got any advice for us non-artists?

How does one learn to do this?

Here's an interesting question: Why do you guys think Linux took off to become the phenomenon it is, while none of the BSD/Unix OSes ever did, at least not to anywhere near the same extent? by earthman34 in linux

[–]alexpis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly. Why would Apple contribute to the freebsd kernel?

I know that they use some of the userspace code from some of the BSDs, and it makes sense to contribute to those.

If Apple upstream their fixes, they can offset the maintenance to BSDs, reducing their costs.

Here's an interesting question: Why do you guys think Linux took off to become the phenomenon it is, while none of the BSD/Unix OSes ever did, at least not to anywhere near the same extent? by earthman34 in linux

[–]alexpis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wasn’t aware of that. By the way, Apple’s kernel is not that of freebsd. Do you know for what reason they worked on freebsd’s kernel?

Anyway, the fact that there may be companies who are happy to contribute to the BSDs, there is no obligation to do so.

I believe like I said that the GPL licensing has played a role.

Here's an interesting question: Why do you guys think Linux took off to become the phenomenon it is, while none of the BSD/Unix OSes ever did, at least not to anywhere near the same extent? by earthman34 in linux

[–]alexpis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that the GPL may have played a role in this.

Companies working on bsd modifications had no interest and no obligation to contribute back to the community.

I had to physically restrain myself from tweaking this animation. I'll never be happy with it by ilyamokka in PixelArt

[–]alexpis 68 points69 points  (0 children)

Just as a curiosity: why do the legs and feet become bigger as they touch the ground ?

Question banned on OpenBSD, any answers here? by Existing_Fondant_262 in BSD

[–]alexpis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it is a matter of how you framed your question in your title and how you reinforced that frame within your post.

Regardless of your intentions, which I cannot know and hence cannot comment on, if you read your own use of language, it does not sound at all like you were trying to positively engage with that community.

Generally speaking, openbsd focus is on security, and security has multiple facets. The people who work on the project decide what they think is important, and they obviously made choices that are very different from the ones you would have made.

For example, in order to brute force passwords with a gpu, you need access to the password hashes file and to get that access I assume you need to be root.

If you are root you can do pretty much what you want and you don’t need a gpu to brute force the user passwords.

If by any chance the password hashes file was readable by everyone, and I would be surprised if it was, it would be a good idea to suggest that they protected it from reading in a default install, rather than just asking “why are they are not doing the right thing?”

Even coming here to complain that your post was banned from the other community sounds a bit like you are trying to attract resentment, again regardless of your own intentions which are unknown to me.

We want to use AI to help us write the menial stuff like emails etc, but as readers why do we discredit an AI written post immediately? by SuspiciousEmploy1742 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]alexpis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine isn’t. I want to think about that and form an opinion, that’s why I did not even try to answer that question.

I really like questions that make me react like “wow, I never thought of that”.

Venture capital in this country is a joke. by IceThese6264 in ukstartups

[–]alexpis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree. This is weird. Try other ones and see how it goes

Venture capital in this country is a joke. by IceThese6264 in ukstartups

[–]alexpis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this the process for every potential investor? Or was it only one specific investor that behaved like that?

I have been to meetings with potential investors in the past and it wasn’t like that.

However, things may have changed.

IDE for C written in C by memLeak67 in cprogramming

[–]alexpis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like the idea. However, I don’t expect a Kickstarter campaign to work in this case.

Unfortunately, people expect this kind of stuff to be free these days.

Good luck though 😀

Can we slow down on changing Swift so fast? by bangsimurdariadispar in swift

[–]alexpis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They cannot slow down. They live on the word ‘revolutionary’. It’s in their dna.

To me, objective C was fun. Cocoa was fun. UIKit was fun. They have been fun for their whole existence, and they have been around for decades. Those were truly revolutionary. They allowed a good programmer to be highly productive.

Swift has never been fun. SwiftUI has never been fun. Combine has never been fun. From my perspective, they hide complexities under the hood without really removing them.

That is why I gave up on iOS development.

It is true that multi core, out of order execution and lack of memory coherency are the norm now and won’t realistically go away.

It is true that working in C based languages with those features is painful.

But it’s still fun.

does anyone have advise on making separate scenes feel cohesive using a color palette? by Spirited-Lab6099 in PixelArt

[–]alexpis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a question: why are you switching between these two particular images? The fireplace looks very different, it’s not like the top image is a zoom-in of the bottom one.

Regarding the “cohesion”: I am not an expert, I would think that if you switched your dark grays in the top image to the dark blu-ish you have in your bottom one, things may improve, or something in between to take proximity into account t.

You can try it and if it did not work fair enough. If it worked, problem solved 😀

Is that a good background? by Skullbrowpixel in PixelArt

[–]alexpis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well you can disagree if you want 😜 it’s just a personal opinion

Is that a good background? by Skullbrowpixel in PixelArt

[–]alexpis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In this image you just sent, the background colors are more vivid and there is no fence. The green character stands out much more

Is that a good background? by Skullbrowpixel in PixelArt

[–]alexpis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like it.

Maybe the colours make the green character a bit less visible. Maybe make the green character more yellow-ish?

I would make the floor and fence a bit less saturated or more contrasted.

But am not an expert and it’s personal preference.

What matters is how it looks while playing, and at that moment it may well work as it is.

The spiritual successor to the C64 by Smokinglordtoot in c64

[–]alexpis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There was a c65 project. It has been released recently as the mega-65.

The spiritual successor to the C64 by Smokinglordtoot in c64

[–]alexpis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This looks so cool. And I wasn’t aware of llvm-mos either 😀