CountHackulus

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HTML5 Game Dev Compiler grey beard Functional programming fan guillaumecl.ca
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Comment · 9 days ago
I was joining in the joke and pointing out the absurdity of that, when that's a big reason why a PEng designation exists.
Comment · 16 days ago
Bridge collapsed? Straight to jail.
Comment · 16 days ago
I wonder how this will handle streetcars. It's illegal to pass a streetcar with the doors opening. There's a flashing signal on the vehicle, but it seems like a fairly important local difference. I hope it won't take a pedestrian death to get that sort of thing looked at.
Comment · 2 months ago
There's also the poorly advertised IBM-native S390 emulator. I worked on it over a decade ago, you could run S390 on PPC and X86 offically, and ARM and a few others were unofficial.
Comment · 2 months ago
Gmail is going to be Google's System/390 mainframes.
Comment · 3 months ago
According to Homeland Security, within 100 miles of the border is a "constitution free zone". So there's a whole lot to unpack before we even get to miranda rights.
Comment · 3 months ago
Historia Civilis somehow distills subjects down to squares in a great way. Entertaining and informative. Fantastic channel.
Comment · 4 months ago
If you read the article, you'll see that they did in fact meet the full requirements by August 2021. The EAU plus criteria were met quickly, but they did meet every criteria normally used.
Comment · 4 months ago
I feel like the song suggestions also vary depending on the music service. For example the other day, "Play cicada by Igor" got me Cicadidae by Igorrr on YT Music (this is what I wanted), but got me Igor's Theme by Tyler the Creator. ???? So I tried "Play cicadidae by I-G-O-R-R-R" and I got Cicada by Good Kid.

That said I feel like no matter the music service it's a 50/50 shot each time if it plays the song I want. No matter how many times before I've played it or asked for it.

The latest Gemini update for Android Auto also absolutely ruined the voice control for Waze. It was already bad, but now Android Auto is basically unusable by voice.

Comment · 4 months ago
It's unclear to me why I'd want to use this over libcaca or similar? The demoscene has made really excellent ASCII rendering for decades, and this seems like it has less options and less understandable output. If this is just a fun personal project "just because" then cool! That's awesome! But for actual use cases I'd much rather use libcaca.
Comment · 5 months ago
Considering YouTube's current level of detection of absolutely anything, this will likely be an absolute disaster with no way of appealing to a real human.
Comment · 6 months ago
Alexa+ has been a massive downgrade for me. It's extremely laggy and constantly misunderstands me, whereas the old one never did. "Set a timer for 20 minutes" used to be instant and just work, I did this the other day and it took 10 seconds to respond and set a timer for 10 minutes.
Comment · 7 months ago

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