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I built a model sailboat[1] one time, and if it were for myself and not a gift, I would have named it "Sea Hacker". [1] It was "Schooner Irene" from here: http://www.bearospaceindu…

I recently was sent patches for my open source space game[1] that added cascaded shadow mapping[1] and gravitational lensing[3] for black holes, both things that I've wanted for ye…

No, you don't commit trash to a public branch, EVER, if you can help it. Your commits are as perfect as you can make them, and that does not mean squashed in a trash compactor. Tha…

For TTS I wonder how this compares to nanotts[1] with the en-GB voice, which is sort of unreasonably good. [1] https://github.com/gmn/nanotts

At my local hackerspace, people sometimes laser cut solder stencils out of transparencies -- the plastic sheets you use with overhead projecters. The trick is to put a piece of pap…

That breaks git bisect.

Disagree. You need small, git bisectable commits. Use stgit to do it and it's nearly effortless.

> Working with lots of changes in parallel on git can be painful. You end up juggling branches and commits, and running scary rebase -i commands that can leave your tree in a half-…

I've heard of use after free, but I've only heard UAF to mean Ukraine Armed Forces.

He's a mathematician, so what he means by "in general", is "in every possible case", or "without exception", so what I think he means is, "not all bugs will be found by code review…

Curl Noise[1] is also cool. I've used it to create some gas giant planets for video games [2] though I used opensimplex noise [3] rather than perlin as the base noise, but either w…

My own efforts in this area amount to creating the game, Space Nerds in Space[1], which is a LAN game in which everyone gathers in a room with their computers, and each computer ac…

> I don’t know what C++ thinks it’s doing anymore. C++, when increment becomes excrement, decrement back to C.

Funny enough Adam Savage just posted a youtube video about building a replica of the demon core and the box to hold it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Y4UR8xqxA

Ukraine, in operation spiderweb, has already launched drones from containers deep within Russia to damage "... one third of Russia's strategic cruise missile carriers, estimated to…

Not to mention the endless stream of marketing emails you'll get forever after.

Similarly, Ben Travers didn't have a delay pedal, so learned to pick the delayed parts on Pink Floyd's "Run like hell" when he was younger, since taken to ludicrous speed: https://…

The TI99/4a version of the Logo language which has turtle graphics used user defined characters to implement them. There were only (I think) 128 user definable characters, and when…

Interesting... RP2040 seems like maybe a bit overkill for a zero power badge. I've participated in writing some software for an RP2040 powered badge for the RVASEC conference in Ri…

PRs can contain multiple commits. You need something like stgit to make it easy to make a bunch of small commits that appear to be the work of an omniscient genius who knew exactly…

On the "reset"/"stty sane" trick, I also sometimes have found it necessary to press Ctrl-J rather than RETURN at the end of the command.

Something like those switches might be made very cheaply with a 3D printer, possibly a laser cutter, some transparent or semitransparent acrylic sheet, tactile switches and some LE…

Control, Alt, Delete.

Can't you just read from /proc/pid/fd/0 ?

I found it funny that in a sentence that mentions "those who can recognize an LLM’s reveals", a few words later, there's an em-dash. I've often used em-dashes myself, so I find it …