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https://youtu.be/yjBsHyJlkRE?t=16
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There is a guy on Youtube called "Displaced Gamers" that explains how NES games work. There is an interesting episode where he breaks down how a certain item in the game Faxanadu behaves.
It's a pendant that is supposed to increase your attack power, but when you get it does the opposite. In the video he explains exactly what is going on in the code: the game was shipped with a bug.
He then goes about crafting a Game Genie code to fix the bug. It's a fascinating video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeemO9yW-hs
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If you are curious as to how the Game Genies works, watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C86OsYRACTM
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If you are curious about the origins of the Game Genie, watch this:
They never standardized black and white photography development so it all has to be done by hand, which is more time consuming.
As for 35mm, yes it's true that it is cheaper, but I got into this for the larger negative, so this is a self imposed financial hit.
For whatever reason I got the idea into my head that I should get a medium format camera (perhaps it was the youtube influence). I've always wanted to play around with one of these cameras, so I dropped $350 on a Yashica Mat 124-G TLR camera.
I wish I had done this years ago because film photography is now a rich man's hobby. The prices of everything is shooting through the roof right now.
Cameras that nobody wanted now cost over a thousand, film that you could have gotten for $6 is now $15 per roll. Fuji and Kodak either discontinue their film options or raise the prices of existing ones.
Let's do the math (based on my local camera store):
- 1 roll of 120 Portra 400: $14
- Develop and scanned at high resolution: $41
- Sales tax: $3.64
- Total: $58.64
When you shoot medium format you only get 12 shots, which means that each shot costs around $4.88 dollars!
Did you know that it actually costs more money to have a lab develop black and white pictures than color? Which means that if you want to save money you need to develop your own photos and scan them yourself.
Which means buying more stuff and having to deal with chemicals.
Oh and by the way, apparently all home film scanning options are considered to be junk compared to scanners used at the lab. So you either need to spend a lot for a fancy scanner, or rig up some elaborate contraption where you take pictures of your negatives with a DSLR.
Thinking about this gives me buyers remorse.
The syntax is just odd, since it has this conversational style ("tell app to do this") I constantly fall into the trap of trying to write out something that I think should work, but it does not. This happens all the time.
The other day I wanted to automate something on my new M1 Mac. SURPRISE! The latest version of the app I was trying to use no longer supports Apple Script!
Trying to automate stuff on Mac is so frustrating.
Don't even get me started on Automator!
I tried playing around with the new Shortcuts app, but that thing is also difficult.
Reading the docs lead me to believe that the templates were invented by Hugo. It would of been helpful to make the distinction because I could have looked up how the templates work. I'm not sure if it would have helped though because Go's templates are incredibly confusing and frustrating to use.
I tried to use the advantage 2 but because it was neither split nor tented it hurt my shoulder and arm so much that I couldn’t use.
This seems like the best of both worlds.
I was considering building a corne keyboard but now I can try this instead.
However my keyboard journey has lead me to the conclusion that I prefer split keyboards.
Using standard keyboard layouts gives me a lot of pain in my arms. I noticed this pain when using the standard mac keyboard, an ibm model m (this one hurt my fingers as well), or a 60% board.
Right now I'm using a kinesis freestyle 2 and it's tenting feature helps alleviate the pain.
Are there any split keyboards that use topres?
I believe the Catholic response to that would be that before Christ returned to heaven he created a church, and he gave that church the authority to preach, to teach, and the forgive sins. It exists the continue Christ's mission on earth.
Christ then selected Peter to be the leader of the church and granted him authority over all the faithful ("I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.")
At this moment Christ instituted the office of the Papacy.
Whoever holds this office has authority over the universal church. This authority does not come from the man who holds the office but comes directly from Christ himself.
The Pope is not above Christ, the Pope answers to the authority of Christ. The Pope is just a man like anyone else.
So to summarize, why do Catholics answer to the Pope? Because that's what Christ wanted.
Catholics are Christians. Perhaps you mean Catholic or Protestant?
Part of the problem was that we wanted a name that would work in both english and spanish, and wasn't too popular or trendy.
I found that I hated most boy names, especially the ones that are trendy today (Aiden, Jaiden, Zaiden).
Feel free to name your kids whatever you want, but here is my advice to anyone who is trying to name a child:
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1. Do not tell anyone what the name will be before the child is born. They will try to talk you out of it.
2. If your family is not a native speaker of your language then present them with a list of a bunch of names that also includes the ones you want. Then ask them to pronounce all the names. That will let you know if your family will be able to accurately pronounce the name.
3. If you are going to give them a middle name make sure that their initials don't spell out something embarrassing like Carl Otis Winslow.
4. Do a google search of your child's first and last name so you don't accidentally name them after a serial killer or some other controversial person. Also google their initials so you don't accidentally name them after a company or a chemical.
5. Consider how their first name can used against them by other kids. Does it rhyme with something? Is there some famous fictional character with the same name?
6. Try to delay giving your child a name for as long as you can before leaving the hospital. This will give you time to decide which name best fits this person who is now in the world. (I thought I would name my son one thing, but decided that he didn't 'look' like some one with that name)
7. Do not leave the hospital without naming the child (unless you have a good reason to do this). I know some one who waited a month to name their child and they wouldn't recommend doing this.
8. Consider how popular the name is. Most of the names in the top 10 are popular for a reason, they tend to be good names, but do you want your kid to have a unique name, or just another kid among the other 10 Liams and Olivias in their class?
9. People are going to give your kid a nickname the instant they are born, whether you like it or not. Are you okay with people calling your kid Bobby, Danny, Mikey, etc? If not then consider a different name.
But several years ago I worked on a side project where I reviewed a movie every week for two years, and when it was over I became much more sympathetic towards movie critics.
I agree with this blog post when he says that movies are repetitive. The same gimmicks and tropes are used over and over. It really does become boring and annoying to see different shades of the same thing again and again.
This is why critics rave about the obscure weird movies that you never heard of. They have to sit through thousands of hours of generic crap and anything that is different is like a breath of fresh air to them.
Something really exasperates this problem of generic movie making that wasn’t touched on in the article is the soulless Hollywood factory system that is currently cranking out worthless junk that was designed by committee.
Look no further than the recent Star Wars trilogy for evidence of this.
Very rarely to we see movies that a result of a singular vision, directors are now just replaceable cogs that have to bend completely to the will of the studio or they will be replaced during production (like the Han Solo movie) Ok
At first I tried rain noises and other forms of white noise but that gets old fast. Then I moved on to ambient music. I can’t listen to anything with pianos or guitars in it. There are guys I work with that listen to EDM all day, I don’t know how they consintrate with that blasting in their ears.
These days I’ve moved on to something new: Gregorian chant, because I don’t understand Latin I can tune it out and focus.
I recently stumbled upon code to diagrams tools like app2code and plantuml. I really enjoy this because I can focus on the model and not the aesthetics. Also making revisions to code is a lot easier than fiddling around with draw.io.
Does any one have any tools like this they can recommend?
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/constantine...
This is how I feel about jq, every time I want to parse some JSON I have to re-read their documentation. Their API is not very intuitive (at least to me).
In regards to Hugo, I enjoyed using it at first, I loved how fast it was, but I kept running into issues so I decided to make my own SSG.
For me the most difficult thing about it is that it is another language grafted on top of Go, and it does not always do what you expect it to do.
The documentation is hard read and not always clear on how things are supposed to work.
For example:
- If I pass in a struct that contains a map of structs, how exactly can I access this data?
- How can I use the boolean output of a function within an if statement?
- How do the if statements even work? "eq"? "=="? What is the correct syntax here?
I ended up losing a lot of time having of to wrestle with the templating engine because it often would not behave the way I expected it to.
Anyway, I liked this line from the Github:
> Hugo gets ehh for the template engine because while it is probably the most powerful template engine in the list (after Jinja2) it personally drives me insane, to the point of writing my own template engine and static site generator. Yes, this is a bit biased.
This seems to be the life cycle of static site generators (SSG). It works at first, but you end up wanting to design your own custom SSG once you run up against something that goes against your mental model of how things should work.
I did this exact thing when I got frustrated with Hugo. I made my own custom SSG in order to create my blog.
The other thing that tends to happen with SSGs is that it can be a lot more fun to play around with the tech than actually writing blog posts!
If you're interested you can read here to see how I made an SSG for my blog:
It would be great to have this as a command line tool.
I can envision a lot of cool features for this, like being able to add color via text markup, or being able to use circles instead of boxes for the nodes.
I ran into the classic "if you had told me this I would have played differently!!!" complaint, even though I did mention the thing they were complaining about.
We also didn't finish the game because it got too late.
In regards to the Monopoly comment, to this day I still bring up the time some one screwed me in a game of Star Wars Monopoly back in 2001. So yes, these kinds of things tend to stick around in people's memories.