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seaonion

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About seaonion

Old time programmer. Berkeley alum from the early 80s.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48340119

    Disinformation is a powerful thing. That and a belief a supernatural being is controlling everything.

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    Comment #48337978

    Unbelievable. Claude does everything I need for $200 a year.

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    Comment #48337952

    I was at Berkeley when termcap came along. What a game changer! My fingers still remember vi commands even though my brain doesn’t.

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    Comment #48332045

    C is next to godliness.

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    Comment #48323082

    You can do even more interesting things with Pseudo Random Number Generators. I synchronize all 10 players of my multiplayer game just by passing one seed around.

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    Comment #48322734

    SDL3 and SwiftUI both assume they own the app lifecycle. When they coexist on iOS/tvOS/macOS, three specific collisions occur: SDL steals the keyboard, game controller input leaks …

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    Comment #48311927

    I really wish he’d had that cage fight with Elon.

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    Comment #48307732

    I’m bringing them back! I added a LAN Party mode to my upcoming Minotaur inspired game.

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    Comment #48307628

    Adolf Eichmann for one.