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macote··on The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)
It's worth mentionning that Softimage was used for Terminator 2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softimage_(company)

https://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/remembering-softimage/

macote··on Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023)
The author is misusing .gitkeep. I use it to keep source code folders that don’t contain any code yet, but whose structure is already defined.
macote··on SVG Path Editor
https://yqnn.github.io/svg-path-editor/#P=m4_4h188v188h-188z...
macote··on Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak
The thread about memory leak is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46461061
macote··on Gmail is entering the Gemini Era
How about asking Gemini how to add dark mode to Gmail?
macote··on All the other cool languages have try finally. C++: We have try at home
Original title: All the other cool languages have try…finally. C++ says “We have try…finally at home.”
macote··on Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support
You don't need to add a UUIDv4 column, you could just encrypt your UUIDv7 with format-preserving encryption (FPE).
macote··on Antlr-Ng Parser Generator
I used ANTLR to create a grammar file for MK (Manufacturing Knowledge). I plugged the JavaScript parser and lexer into Ace editor. Good memories.
macote··on RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601
I think 'local' in this context could also simply mean 'wall', as in wall clock time. When my friend asks me the date and time, I don't have to bother with time zones.

This type of date/time is also very useful to store in a computer.

macote··on Historical Tech Tree
Source code found here : https://github.com/etiennefd/hhr-tech-tree
macote··on Repository Now Limited by GitHub – Here’s Why
This was originally in the HN submission title, but this comment from the maintainer is mind-boggling:

> GitHub has confirmed that the block.txt file in the repo has been responsible for over 1 petabyte of bandwidth per day — mainly due to automated downloads (likely from Adobe’s Chrome extension). This is way beyond what a single repo is designed to handle and poses a risk of the repository being temporarily disabled as early as June 13.

https://github.com/Bon-Appetit/porn-domains/discussions/70#d...

macote··on Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools
A committee in Quebec also recommends a full ban on cellphones and electronic devices at schools.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/commission-cellphone...

macote··on Framework 13 AMD Setup with FreeBSD
It's the AMD 7000 series that is available. Only the AI 300 can be pre-ordered if I understand correctly, and that's the one being referenced by the featured model on that page.
macote··on SQLite does not do checksums
I think it's a question of trust and responsibility, and the client should decide where to draw those lines. Depending on the environment and context, it could be totally acceptable to trust the filesystem, but not in other cases.
macote··on Free DDNS with Cloudflare and a cronjob
Thanks for that, I agree.
macote··on Free DDNS with Cloudflare and a cronjob
This is how I use it in my bash script:

  current_ip=$(curl -s -X GET https://1.1.1.1/cdn-cgi/trace | grep -Po "(?<=ip=)(.*)")
macote··on Major Microsoft 365 outage caused by Azure configuration change
That's an interesting recommendation...

> We've received feedback from customers that several reboots (as many as 15 have been reported) may be required, but overall feedback is that reboots are an effective troubleshooting step at this stage.

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-ca/status

macote··on My favorite 1980's Canadian TV show: Bits and Bytes
There was also a French Canadian version of this show called "Octo-puce".

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octo-puce

macote··on Examining the silicon dies of the Intel 386 processor
Today I learned that the "s" in SX means "single" and "d" in DX means double. The DX has double the data bus width of the SX (32-bit vs 16-bit).
macote··on Free Organ
Before TAOCP came The Art of the Organ-Builder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_B%C3%A9dos_de_Celles?wprov...

macote··on Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage
Thanks for sharing! I really like the real time update during progress. You sometimes have to wait a very long time in Scanner before you see the result.
macote··on Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage
The best tool I've used on Windows for that is "Scanner" by Steffen Gerlach:

http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/

macote··on 4x4 ASCII Font (2016)
Hats off to your experiment, it's still impressive :).
macote··on 4x4 ASCII Font (2016)
Simplifier's 4x4 includes both upper and lower case.
macote··on Windows10Debloater: Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware (2021)
There's also the native Windows version of XTree: ZTreeWin (https://www.ztree.com/index.html)