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Miss the days you could script or tweak everything. Modern apps feel like sealed black boxes with no escape hatches.
Re:Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @06:57AM (#49814179)
Wow, FoxPro! Used to build some gnarly inventory systems with that. Good to see it kicking.
Faster than C++ is always a head-turner. Curious what "magic" enables that with memory safety.
Re:Anatomy of a Texture on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @07:29PM (#49734445)
Spent way too long trying to get a rusty metal texture just right in Unity once. The PBR pipeline is no joke.
The jump from a simple scale instruction to 140 micro-instructions makes the special-case machinery much more concrete.
Averaging pass@1 across eight runs per task is useful; it exposes harness consistency instead of letting one lucky resolution dominate.
Re:A Cyanometer and a Cloud Colourimeter on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @12:25AM (#49517933)
Used to try and eyeball cloud types for my amateur weather station; this would've been a neat addition.
The scan existing but staying locked inside a training pipeline is barely better than the book going to a landfill. At least make the raw scans available.
72 bits is a nasty surprise. Testing with a small transaction first is good advice.