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Fedop

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  • Cherishing all nuggets of knowledge.

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  • The 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

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  • This is wonderful! I'll have to look back through the last 35 years

  • Make a Lisp

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  • Ohhhh I like the step by step compiler build, could be a good time! I've always wondered what makes a lisp a "lisp", this would probably elucidate that pretty fully.

  • what works for you to learn large numbers of technical / medicinal jargon?

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  • When my partner was in med school, the solution was Anki flashcards. Often right before bed or first thing in the morning. It was just so many flashcards, because there are so many medical terms, but it worked!

  • What's something that's seen as Obsolete, but isn't?

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  • The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever

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  • This was such a good idea, so many of these are fire.

    then shall they call upon me, but I will not cause any information to be accumulated on the stack.

    How much more are ye better than the ordered-list representation

    evaluating the operator might modify env, which will be the hope of unjust men

  • What hidden "secrets" have you learned from your home automation?

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  • I never thought about temperature/humidity sensors! I know some gardeners that use them in various greenhouses, but that's interesting stuff. Is there anything yall've learned about the power efficiency of heating/cooling methods? Currently we're making a lot of baked goods and stews to keep the house warmer and more humid, but I don't have any data on actual power use changes.

  • I tracked down the guy who gave a negative review to Battlezone 98 Redux after playing for over 8,000 hours, and came away convinced he was right

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  • If anyone is more interested in the review than the article, here's the text below. It seems like he was also making mods and patches for the game.

    REVIEW: Important disclosure here: Prior to the release of BZ98R (and still to this day), I have been a player of the original game up until it's final unofficial patch version 1.5.2.27 U1. This game is entirely based on this community patch. People who have played 1.5 are going to feel differently about the game than people who last played it 20 years ago (1.3, 1.31, 1.4...). The same goes for people who had never played BZ98 in any form prior to purchasing this game. This review involves numerous statements of objective fact but it was still written by someone who was playing 1.5 for years prior to the release of this game. I understand that the release of this game was the first many many people heard of BZ98 being alive but the truth is that it never ceased living - it's good that it brought many back into the fold but it also basically killed the existing community surrounding it. When I heard that this was being made, I instantly experienced fear of what would happen to my beloved game... my fears were well-founded. What follows is my original review:

    I've been intending to do this for a LONG time...

    In nearly every way, BZ98R is inferior to the final version of BZ98 1.5 (1.5.2.27 U1) that came before it. If 1.5 had things like HUD scaling so I could play at high res and still be able to read text, I'd probably play it instead and advocate that others do so as well.

    The graphics "upgrade" is hardly an upgrade when the most interesting feature of BZ1 was lost - destroyed ships flying into several pieces. There is a massive laundry list of SEVERE bugs that did not exist in 1.5 and I am not aware of any meaningful bug in 1.5 that was fixed by BZ98R.

    • jump sniping is bugged and exploitable
    • satellite reveals everything regardless of radar coverage
    • various DAMNING armory-related bugs
    • bug related to "perceivedTeam" that has wide-reaching consequences including mildly messing up a campaign mission
    • the porting of The Red Odyssey was sloppy and a few missions are meaningfully bugged --- If you look on the workshop you will see several LUA patches made by me that deal with many of these problems; I strong encourage people who want to enjoy campaign to subscribe and activate them.
    • no "all nations" switch
    • no "cloak disabled" switch
    • bugged map list in MP (in Steam version, not GOG version)
    • very poor netcode performance compared to the old game --- I also have a somewhat successful patch for this problem on the workshop as well
    • no TCP/IP or LAN option for MP - once Rebellion closes down their BZRNET server, MP is no longer possible.
    • random crashes, mostly segfaults, occur at a very high rate
    • The mission type that is the backbone of class non-scripted Instant-Action missions is broken and the result is that the game WILL crash about 30% of the time when you try to load a save. I've found ways around this (reimplemented 'Inst4XMission' in LUA) but it requires missions to be patched.
    • The CLI argument parser is broken
    • heightmap smoothing that is enabled by default when porting old maps (and affects stock ported maps) is detrimental to the terrain in several ways though I know how to override it --- still not feasible to repair the mistake with regard to stock maps ...

    If it weren't for the fact that this game's release AND Rebellion's policies KILLED 1.5, I wouldn't be likely to have played so many hours of this (I idle a lot, I swear!)

    I'm going to stop right here for now. I mainly do not recommend this to people who care much about multiplayer.

  • I tracked down the guy who gave a negative review to Battlezone 98 Redux after playing for over 8,000 hours, and came away convinced he was right

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  • It sounds like in the end, he still really likes the core gameplay, but the community has been destroyed some unliked updates to the game, and he's pretty sure that the devs are inflating the steam numbers through private matches with all bots. It's wild how many hours that is, but he probably thinks the game is no longer worth it, amd has sour feelings towards the devs.

  • What are your games to get into the season for its vibe?

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  • Oh, is it that time again? Time for warm tea, cozy blankets, and cowering from wolves in The Long Dark? This is the game that fully convinced me on the steam deck.

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    Fedop @slrpnk.net

    Speech to birdsong conversion

    www.windytan.com /2021/03/speech-to-birdsong-conversion.html

  • What is something you want to use, yet are NOT using?

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  • I used SimulaVR pretty regularly for a while! I've moved and don't have my VR headset set up anymore, but it was a good month of usage for programming, but the tech has probably developed since I last used it.

  • AI's Future Hangs in the Balance With California Law

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  • This comment is decrying it's parent, but it doesn't say anything to refute the points made. Energy use, intellectual property theft, and non-consensual porn seem like pretty decent things to be worried about.

  • What open-source software would you like more people to know about?

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  • It def looks cooler, whatever that's worth

  • a git cheat sheet - Julia Evans

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  • Love lazygit, am I better or worse a git now? Idk but I'm doing it much faster

  • Junior Dev VS Senior Dev

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  • Try starting with LazyVim! It has a great selection of plugins pre-set, and it all works out of the box. It's a great way to get started, and then you can add/remove plugins later on. Also, it's keymap-shortcut page is great for the first week or so of learning the commands.

  • China’s Tesla-beating EV maker BYD has carmakers around the world ‘in a state of shock’ over its prices

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  • 40% of US electricity is now emissions-free

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  • If we're being pedantic, the post said "reel in" international shipping, not "ending".

  • Europe plans to build the world’s fastest supercomputer in 2024

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  • A lot of European countries aren't in the EU. Turkey, the UK, Norway and a bunch more.