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New comment by aepiepaey in "Unix Toolbox (2008)"

aepiepaey — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:49:57 +0000

There's facter (used by and developed for Puppet): https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter

Pass --json for JSON output.

New comment by aepiepaey in "Dreamcast Emulator Redream 1.5.0 Progress Report"

aepiepaey — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 16:43:41 +0000

There's some reasoning in this thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/7p2rik/redream_h...

Notably, this comment by the developer (with followups): https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/7p2rik/redream_h...

New comment by aepiepaey in "Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?"

aepiepaey — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 14:52:01 +0000

When Firefox stopped supporting legacy extensions, the Greasmonkey developers saw that as a chance to redesign their API (to use promises).

Tampermonkey used to be open source, but unfortunately isn't any more. I still use it though, as it has better UX (e.g. nicer dashboard, prefills @match when creating new scripts, better editor, etc).

An alternative to Tampermonkey that is open source and still uses the old style of user scripts is Violentmonkey (which also lacks in the UX department, if i recall correctly).

New comment by aepiepaey in "OpenSSH 8.2"

aepiepaey — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 15:46:42 +0000

This is not about RSA keys - they're still fine.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22324492 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22324535

New comment by aepiepaey in "Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces"

aepiepaey — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:38:22 +0000

"Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company."

New comment by aepiepaey in "Why we've never fallen in love with virtual reality"

aepiepaey — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 11:17:24 +0000

Most people can reportedly get used to the discrepancy between the vision and balance senses and be rid of the motion sickness (with some training: keep playing until you start feeling uncomfortable, wait until the next day, go again).

Ginger can also help delay onset.

It can also be noted that motion sickness really only is a problem where the game character moves while you stand still physically (e.g. using a joystick to move around). Other forms of locomotion (like teleportation) are usually fine.

New comment by aepiepaey in "Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data"

aepiepaey — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 14:47:07 +0000

https://outline.com/SysByE

New comment by aepiepaey in "Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees"

aepiepaey — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 14:16:32 +0000

In addition to the one mentioned by a sibling comment, there are several others:

Windows:

- http://textmode.netne.net/Extreme.html

- http://www.ztree.com/

Unix:

- http://www.unixtree.org/

New comment by aepiepaey in "Corundum: Open-source, high performance, FPGA-based NIC"

aepiepaey — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 15:54:32 +0000

Direct link: https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/euro2019.pdf

New comment by aepiepaey in "Show HN: Space Invaders in C"

aepiepaey — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 14:51:56 +0000

Instead of patching the source, the Makefile should be patched to use sdl2-config to set LDFLAGS and CFLAGS (instead of hard-coding them), i.e:

    CFLAGS := [other flags...] $(shell sdl2-config --cflags)
    LDFLAGS := [other flags...] $(shell sdl2-config --libs)

That will set the correct compiler and linker flags for you installation, and you can leave the include as just "SDL.h".

New comment by aepiepaey in "Lines of code that changed everything"

aepiepaey — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 11:19:54 +0000

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New comment by aepiepaey in "How to fuck up software releases"

aepiepaey — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 15:29:56 +0000

> Update the signing script to save the tarball to disk (previously, it lived in a pipe) and upload these alongside the releases…

This should have been done from the start.

GitHub does not guarantee checksums for the generated source archives to be stable, so they can change when GitHub updates their software (and yes, this has happened).

New comment by aepiepaey in "Programming Idioms"

aepiepaey — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 16:38:03 +0000

As long as we're talking about libraries, yes.

For cli tools, on the other hand, there are definitely legitimate cases for exiting early.

New comment by aepiepaey in "Programming Idioms"

aepiepaey — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 16:35:17 +0000

And in that case,

  raise SystemExit(code)

is nicer (and does not require an an import).

New comment by aepiepaey in "The one who kept VLC free"

aepiepaey — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:23:54 +0000

You used to need separate codecs for MPC, but for a long time now it (at least MPC-HC) ships with LAV Splitters and LAV Filters, removing that need.

New comment by aepiepaey in "NUMA Siloing in the FreeBSD Network Stack [pdf]"

aepiepaey — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 18:36:43 +0000

It was mentioned in the QnA section of a talk posted somewhere in this comment section (probably https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcyQBup-Gto).

At least originally, it was because of the license.

New comment by aepiepaey in "MSVC's implementation of the C++ Standard Library"

aepiepaey — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:09:01 +0000

Is there a good way to acquire all the headers and libraries available to MSVC on windows (MSVC, Windows SDK, ...) for use with clang-cl on Linux?

Last time I had to resort to copying the files from an installation on a Windows machine (which is not very convenient).

New comment by aepiepaey in "Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second"

aepiepaey — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 13:35:53 +0000

You can also put this:

  javascript:(function(){document.querySelector('video').playbackRate=3.0;})();

as a bookmark on your bookmarks bar.

New comment by aepiepaey in "Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second"

aepiepaey — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 13:15:29 +0000

Here's a paper on the topic which presents some ideas: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09567976145245...

New comment by aepiepaey in "Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second"

aepiepaey — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 13:08:38 +0000

> Whether and how much the skill transfers to normal human speech, or even between synths, is person-specific. I can't do Youtube at much beyond 2x. Others can. It's definitely a learned skill.

I find that the maximum understandable rate varies a lot between speakers. For some speakers 2.5x is possible, but just 1.5x for others.

One advantage synths has, is that they can more easily control the speed at which words are spoken, and the pauses between words independently. When watching/listening pre-recorded content I often find that I'd want to speed up the pauses more than the words (because speeding up everything until the pauses are sufficiently short make the words intelligible).

If someone knows of a program or algorithm that can play back audio/video using different rates for speech and silence, please share.