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immigrantsheep··on Bootstrapping an Amiga without a bootable floppy
This is amazing. Great work! And I love how active the Amiga scene still is :)
immigrantsheep··on Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
I had the same experience. I went into it and really wanted to buy into Apple Music but after a couple of painful months I went back to Spotify.
immigrantsheep··on Windows 10 taskbar is now pushing Microsoft Edge web apps
Can confirm that I never encountered this behavior and I have Edge (although Canary) as my default browser at the moment.
immigrantsheep··on Bringing Keats Back to Life
Same here :D
immigrantsheep··on Apple’s M1 processor and the full 128-bit integer product
1498 EUR in Croatia. I'm glad is cheaper for you.

edit: I love I how I keep getting downvoted on HN if I dare say anything about the M1. Even if it's the true like the price of the machine.

immigrantsheep··on Apple’s M1 processor and the full 128-bit integer product
Air starts at $1500 if you're not in the USA
immigrantsheep··on Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice
Run and compile very big C++/.net applications and big scenes in Unreal Engine and Houdini.

edit: I love how I got downvoted because my work can't fit into a toy Mac M1

immigrantsheep··on “This destroys the RSA cryptosystem”
Setec Astronomy
immigrantsheep··on Blender 2.92
Blender is actually quite good for sculpting and the features set got much better with the last few versions. I'd say it's a very very light version of what ZBrush can do. The only problem is that blender's performance aren't nearly as good. The moment you subd a model for sculpting, the viewport because laggy and that's bad you're trying to paint.
immigrantsheep··on Blender 2.92
I've been hating Autodesk since they killed Softimage. For a while I moved to modo but the Foundry is beginning to look more and more like Autodesk for anything that isn't Nuke. Today I'm a happy Houdini and Blender and sometimes Cinema 4D
immigrantsheep··on 1977: Zork
Inky as well https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/
immigrantsheep··on Ink – Scripting language for interactive stories
I've been using Ink for the game I'm developing and I love it. I tried Twine before that and as much as I like the visual interface of Twine, Ink has been a better fit for my needs.
immigrantsheep··on Mastodon is crumbling – and it will only get worse
I've been feeling the same lately
immigrantsheep··on ZX Spectrum Next: The Evolution of the Speccy
That was my first computer as well :) We had the original 48k at school but then when I went with my parents to buy one, I got the +
immigrantsheep··on We can do better than Signal
I might be mistaken but I think someone wrote here a few days ago that they noticed the Server being updated but that the github repo doesn't reflect those changes.
immigrantsheep··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
I'm working on a 3rd person adventure game. Went through a personal crisis in 2018/19 and started to write and paint again. Then one day on a flight to Berlin I managed to outline a story for what I was going through and I've been working on that since that moment.
immigrantsheep··on Tell HN: Aaron Swartz died today, 8 years ago
I think about him from time to time and it still makes me incredibly sad.
immigrantsheep··on The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned
I wouldn't bet on it. Specially since his go to game is Age of Mythology. A game that came out in 2002.
immigrantsheep··on The Weirdness of Kentucky Route Zero (2016)
I love this game so much. It's a masterpiece. I played it episode by episode first on PC and then again the whole game over a weekend on a PS4. Fantastic.
immigrantsheep··on Microsoft Refuses to Open Source VSCode Python Language Server
Who told you that? Nobody said they would open source everything. There were never plans to open source Visual Studio or Office or Windows. And why should they? Did they sign a contract in blood?
immigrantsheep··on Microsoft Refuses to Open Source VSCode Python Language Server
How is that the standard? You can write you python code in PyCharm with their own set of tools or use vim or emacs with other open source python servers.
immigrantsheep··on Microsoft Refuses to Open Source VSCode Python Language Server
And I'm sure you have other open source python language servers and open source python checkers for other open source editors. Nobody is locking you in here. Everyone is free to move to something else to write python.
immigrantsheep··on Microsoft Refuses to Open Source VSCode Python Language Server
And Microsoft has open sourced at lot as well. So? Why should any of them open source everything?
immigrantsheep··on Microsoft Refuses to Open Source VSCode Python Language Server
Why should they open source everything? I never see anyone complaining how Apple doesn't open source Safari or XCode. I mean there are plenty other totally open source editors out there to choose from.
immigrantsheep··on Microsoft Refuses to Open Source VSCode Python Language Server
Because it's Microsoft so people here are always looking for problems. I never seen anyone mentioning that XCode isn't open source. Or Sublime Text for that matter.
immigrantsheep··on The Amiga 1000, Still Receiving New Peripherals 35 Years Later
The Amiga is still for me the best computer I ever had and I'm glad there are people still doing this :)
immigrantsheep··on How Apple’s rivals plan to catch up with the M1 chip
I'm really happy for everyone to have the toys they like :) I don't mind/care if people are excited and want to move to the M1 as long as I'm allowed to be happy on my Ryzen/nvidia machine.
immigrantsheep··on How Apple’s rivals plan to catch up with the M1 chip
This is one part that's odd for me as well. The other is how everyone seem to act like CPUs like the Ryzens don't matter anymore because they are not ARM. I mean, I get it, this is nice for some usage. I'm in game development and I don't see things like these making me switch anytime soon. 3D animation, game development, gaming, AI, all of this benefit more from really powerful CPU/GPU and don't care much about power consumption. And this is a big user base. I don't want to sound like I hater (I'm not), and I'm glad something new is happening, but it's not like this going to move suddenly everyone to ARM.
immigrantsheep··on Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
I've been a dopus user since the Amiga days. Love it
immigrantsheep··on BMW to shame out-of-warranty UK drivers with smart billboards
A nice old Range Rover or even better, a Lada Niva are probably great for that
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