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hickelpickle

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    Comment #47330602

    Glad to see this response, I was wondering the other day how the affected accessibility. I remember reading a thread a few years back of visually challenged developers and their wo…

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    Comment #47038042

    If there is one thing I have seen is that there is a subset of intellectual people will still be adverse to learning new tools, hang to ideological beliefs (I feel this though, wat…

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    Comment #47004863

    Damn, I just dove back into a vulkan project I was grinding through to learn graphics programing, life and not having the time to chase graphic programming bugs led me to put it as…

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    Comment #46864629

    Related but unrelated, but we had issue with breastfeeding and the only help that was valid was being informed to go to WIC as they could provide guidance. All medical adjacent peo…

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    Comment #46801012

    I've gotten interested in local models recently after trying the here and there for years. We've finally hit the point where small Thats what convinced me they are ready to do real…

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    Comment #40783654

    I would say the main alternative is ash not vulkano, from my experience in experimenting with graphics on rust, I haven't seen much support or like for vulkano as it has many of th…

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    Comment #40353359

    There was a post awhile back on here of someone that couldn't get bard to write c++ as it said they were too young. I thought that was funny, then had like a week where what I assu…

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    Comment #40243255

    Little schemer is good, some people hate it some people love it. But it is a fairly light read the slowly teaches some syntax at a time, questions you about assumptions then revels…

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    Comment #40233265

    The frame data is still stored on the stack with the parameters being passed residing in the first part of the locals section of the frame, that way as the values already residing …

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    Comment #40208331

    There is threaded bytecode as well, which uses direct jumping vs a switch for dispatch. This can improve branch prediction, though it is a debated topic and may not offer much impr…

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    Comment #39206104

    I had to add to the instructions for it to search the knowledge files 2000 characters at a time, and to search for keywords and not exact phrases, which is really the only thing I …

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    Comment #39205656

    I always feel like there is some trick to these I am missing out of, are there any good guides? Any time I look for some its just typical low effort blog/youtube spam trying to get…

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    Comment #39188787

    I've had a really pleasant experience with Kawa scheme recently, which is a scheme that runs on the JVM, compiles to bytecode and provides easy interop with Java. I needed a script…

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    Comment #39131334

    How popular is frequenting other peoples land for outdoor experiences? Genuinely curious, as I have heard about the lack of trespassing laws many times over the years, and know lit…

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    Comment #39130979

    There are also 300,000 square miles of national forest/grasslands which is 3x the size of the UK. All of which is freely available with the right to dispersed camping for up to 14 …

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    Comment #37820240

    This is what I do to maintain a some what normal sleep schedule while having to find quite time to work on personal projects with a 4yo in my free time. The thing that gets me is I…

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    Comment #37572484

    Best learning resource imo is https://www.onjava8.com/ (it covers up to java 17) Bruce Eckel is fairly well known for his original Thinking in java/c++ books, and I find his style …

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    Comment #37187079

    I also don't get the comparison to UNIX philosophy into the domain of service development. These are totally different domains with their own patterns of resource usage and interac…

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    Comment #36840766

    I think the phrase people are looking for is cypherpunk, idk why the whole thread is referencing cyberpunk which has little to do with the subject matter and ideals being discussed…

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    Comment #36797399

    While I am not the most experienced, I did recently finish a CS a degree and find chatgpt a great resource for getting a general understanding to go off of when approaching somethi…

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    Comment #36368217

    Because Spez can't read it, he can only parse shapes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq7DEUhr7o0

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    Comment #36323030

    I do the same thing in my own way with mouseless Caps + v,s,d,f,w,e,r,2,3,4,v -> 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Caps + jkl; arrows Caps + c -> shift caps + c -> ctrl caps + u,i,o,p -> pgup,ho…

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    Comment #36178832

    I was using it to experiment lazily with machine learning and midi generation via CNN-LSTMs and noticed it happening in the middle of a chat with it. The context wasn't that long a…

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    Comment #36177210

    I really like https://github.com/jbensmann/mouseless as it will also let you remap keys to control the mouse. I went down a rabbit hole of key remapping, and can't remember exactly…