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elmindreda

184 karma · joined May 4, 2009

Motionless am I, without any sign, as though having nowhere to return.
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elmindreda··on “CPUs are optimized for video games”
This one is quite good too: http://gdcvault.com/play/1021926/Destiny-s-Multithreaded-Ren...
elmindreda··on Minimal OpenGL 3.3 Core Profile Demo
Since the demo now uses GLFW it could call glfwGetTime, which uses clock_gettime where available.
elmindreda··on UCLA, Cisco and more join forces to replace TCP/IP
xkcd 927.
elmindreda··on DuckDuckGo Regex Search
I guess it's too much work to start a REPL.
elmindreda··on TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?
On a day like this, compare the entire key.
elmindreda··on FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video]
Proper 16-bit support is the big thing for the next release and it's significantly less slow since it got multithreading support in 2.8. Still slower than Photoshop, though.
elmindreda··on Microsoft backs off on Metro
Pretty much. With Classic Shell I finally have the perfect start menu; a combination of 95, 98, XP and custom traits. I doubt anything Microsoft does will surpass it.
elmindreda··on An experimental Vim fork with multi-threading capabilities
I wish more people understood this.
elmindreda··on Linux only needs one 'killer' game to explode, says Battlefield director
Games generally use far less of it than a normal GUI application would.
elmindreda··on Why do RET instructions have a REPZ prepended on x86?
This is why I like having compilers.
elmindreda··on On why removing features makes people unhappy
Yes, this. I'm not angry over the removal of compact list mode from Nautilus because of "loss of freedom", but because it's the mode I find superior to all other view modes.
elmindreda··on Elon Musk's mission to Mars
> inspiration for Iron Man's playboy superhero Tony Stark

...except Iron Man was created eight years before he was born.

elmindreda··on Firefox 22 released
Cool, it worked. Thank you!
elmindreda··on Firefox 22 released
I really don't like the way Vimperator works nowadays. It's why I moved to Pentadactyl.
elmindreda··on Firefox 22 released
Lots of nice changes, but Pentadactyl won't work with it. If you're using that, you may want to wait a few days.
elmindreda··on Poll: Which is your primary text editor?
vi != nvi != Vim

Try using heirloom vi or Solaris vi sometime. Even nvi adds a lot of convenience.

elmindreda··on Yahoo 'to buy Tumblr for $1.1bn'
Well, there goes that service.
elmindreda··on Linux is not about choice (2008)
It has worked for me on every system I've ever had, most of which have been laptops. Nowadays, I use Ubuntu, and nearly everything works out of the box on every system I have. Currently, the only issue is the backlight on a very new gaming laptop. I had to download and compile a third-party kernel module for that, which while not a big hassle for me is clearly unacceptable from a usability perspective.

I suggest that some of the problems people are having stem from using distros that either don't care about or have the resources to support desktop use.

elmindreda··on Git? tig
tig was the reason I moved from monotone to Git.
elmindreda··on Geary: New lightweight email reader for GNOME designed around conversations
It wouldn't let me add accounts with unencrypted transports, so I can't evaluate this program. The 'Continue' button just led back to the account setup dialogue.
elmindreda··on Julian Assange: Cryptographic Call to Arms
The Pirate Bay people didn't create the Pirate Party. There isn't a lot of overlap between the (publicly known admins of) the Pirate Bay, the (no longer existing) Pirate Bureau that gave rise to it and the Pirate Party. This is true both in terms of people, and also frankly terms of politics, beyond the basic realisation that the status quo is untenable.
elmindreda··on Mail in 2012 from an admin's perspective
SRS was the missing piece for me when I tried setting up SPF the last time. I'll talk to my ISP about this.
elmindreda··on Rob Pike: The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got.
Very good advice. Even when I use a debugger or print statements to locate and fix the bug, I sit down afterwards and make sure I understand why the bug occurred and why the fix is correct.
elmindreda··on Ecuador grants Julian Assange asylum
Sweden doesn't have the best of records wrt extraditions in cases where the US has an interest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Ahmed_Agiza_an...

elmindreda··on ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Yay! This I have been waiting for.
elmindreda··on Valve Source Engine Running Faster on Linux than Windows
nVidias argument for not opening up the Linux driver is that it shares a lot of code with the Windows driver. I'm not saying that this argument makes sense, but it's the one they use.
elmindreda··on Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM exposed as rootkit
Thank you for expanding the list of games I should never buy.
elmindreda··on John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review
His reviews are what got me interested enough to Switch back in 2002.
elmindreda··on Towel Day - Don't forget your towel
I always carry at least one towel in my backpack. It has indeed proven to be massively useful over the years.
elmindreda··on DNA used as rewritable data storage in cells
Obligatory Dresden Codak link: http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/
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