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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQFCcSI0pU

a quick search brings up a library, not sure why you would have trouble, other than maybe experience? https://github.com/bos/aeson