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Re:‘Blade Runner’ at 40
on Monday June 27, 2022 @02:03AM (#31891089)
I also echo this pov, it never had occurred to me about the xenophobia angle
Re:Webcams aren't good enough
on Monday June 20, 2022 @02:24AM (#31806941)
Actually I tried to do exactly this. Except the gopro webcam software straight up doesn't work and they don't plan on fixing it.
Its depressing really.
Re:Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal
on Sunday June 19, 2022 @10:35PM (#31805718)
I personally use qbittorrent, after ubittorrent got ads way back. I view torrent clients like a good saw/hammer, if it works and you know it well, that's all you need.
Sometimes you don't need to put much thought into what software you pick.
Re:Virtual reality ads make their way to Facebook's Oculus headsets
on Thursday June 17, 2021 @06:21PM (#27545080)
Its for the in vr steam overlay to display your desktop.
Steam compositor also takes a copy of the vr view to display within the little steamvr window, in the PIP view.
Re:Death by Pokémon Go: The costs of using apps while driving (2017)
on Friday June 11, 2021 @11:48PM (#27481353)
Haha, leave the lisp alien alone, he just wants to enlighten you
Re:An intro to Zig's integer casting for C programmers
on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @02:47PM (#27121923)
dlang has exactly this, with both marking functions as @nogc and being able to both use the gc in one block, and malloc free in the next. You can also limit D a subset called 'BetterC'. I Really enjoy being able to gc my way though a problem until I need some explicit memory structure for putting together a ECS or similar memory management heavy patterns.
Re:Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing...
on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:32PM (#25587616)
I wish more people would watch this [0], might not be true but damn does it seem convincing. Seems pretty obvious that it was lab originated, even if it isn't manufactured.
Re:TypeScript’s quirks: How inconsistencies make the language more com...
on Saturday February 01, 2020 @02:22AM (#22209222)
a quick search brings up a library, not sure why you would have trouble, other than maybe experience?
https://github.com/bos/aeson