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sirtomato··on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release
It is really not that much of an involved process. Reading a wiki page and downloading a few files from the first hit of a Google result is probably similar effort to setting up whatever potential product you have in mind.
sirtomato··on WinLibs: Standalone build of GCC and MinGW-w64 for Windows
It is really not that bad. Really the only problem is gcc. Clang/LLVM stuff works perfectly fine and if you really wanted you could use MSVC.
sirtomato··on Asteroid lost 1M kilograms after collision with DART spacecraft
GNU/Linux, or as I've recently been taking to calling it, GNU plus Linux
sirtomato··on I think AI would kill my wife
GLaDOS doesn't seem too far away anymore... what a world we live in
sirtomato··on Show HN: StackOverflow.gg – AI-generated answers to every coding question
The first time I read this I thought it meant it was an eight year old person answering your question.
sirtomato··on New Distro 'BlendOS' Combines Arch Linux, Fedora Linux and Ubuntu
What the hell!? I started at 9 or something and I still can't write anything useful
sirtomato··on TIPP10 – Free Touch Typing Tutor
If you regularly use both (I use workman on my ergo layout board at home and qwerty on my [school] laptop) I type roughly the same speed on both
sirtomato··on Nintendo apologizes for Pokémon performance problems, promises “improvements”
Even emulated where my pc can run the game at upwards of 100fps at some points still drops to like 30 at Hyrule Castle
sirtomato··on TikTok’s stratospheric rise: An oral history
Sounds a lot like slot machines...
sirtomato··on Microsoft tests 'upsells' of its products in Windows 11 sign-out menu
I've used Windows LTSC for a few years now and it is basically the exact opposite of what you are describing. No extra crap, just Windows. It never restarts randomly, and I've only had it have a restart update once.
sirtomato··on Sonic Pi – The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone
Oh my I remember using this like 6 or 7 years ago on a pi B+. It looks nearly identical!
sirtomato··on Show HN: Inhuman Time – change “3 days ago” to actual time on GitHub
I think relative time is good for things less than a week old, but anything other than that will use the full date. Discord's solution to it is really nice imo.
sirtomato··on Telling people you're a self taught developer in YouTube is a big business now
I mean I've been writing stuff in Python since I was 8 or 9 years old, I'm now writing a bunch of C code for an open source project. I wouldn't say I'm too good at the coding challenges though. I don't know know how those compare to real work.
sirtomato··on OpenSSL 3.0.7 fixes X.509 email address buffer overflows
come on, that is quite harsh. c is easily my favorite programming language and it just works really damn well and produces very small binaries. it's easy to write terrible code in any programming language.
sirtomato··on Tell HN: If upgrading bare metal Alpline Linux to LTS 5.15.76
Alpine on bare metal is amazing. I love it.
sirtomato··on Solarized
One of my favorite themes has a light grey for everything except strings (light blue) and comments (white). Comments are super important, they should stand out.
sirtomato··on From zero to 10M lines of Kotlin
Honestly. Every JetBrains IDE is incredible.
sirtomato··on Apple to put USB-C connectors in iPhones to comply with EU rules
IMO Lightning is significantly better than USB-C purely for feel. It's slightly smaller and clicks in very well. The only real issues with it are that its 1. proprietary, and 2. only supports USB 2.0 speeds. The fact that to use it you must buy a license is real unfortunate because I really like the form factor.
sirtomato··on The legal rule (Eng&Wales) that computers are presumed to be operating correctly [pdf]
Yep, US customary ton is 2000lb
sirtomato··on Open source is democratizing video game development
Yep, absolutely. A lot of game code has really big files. Although not exactly the gold standard for code style, the Source Engine does have a significant level of even though almost every file is 1k+ SLOC.

Here's the base Source Engine movement code for example: https://github.com/VSES/SourceEngine2007/blob/master/src_mai...