shodan757 | 2 years ago | on: Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email
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shodan757 | 3 years ago | on: BeaglePlay from BeagleBoard brings fun to building with computers
This looked pretty cool until I found a price: ~$100.
Lots of cool features, and it's a beagleboard, so there will be actual support/documentation/source. But I'm not sure $100 is "affordable" for the SoC you get and the small 2GB of RAM.
shodan757 | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: VoxelChain – An Experimental Voxel Engine
The optimizations that went into this must be pretty impressive for it to run as well as it does on my Framework laptop (11th gen, no dGPU). I did have to run it in Chrome since Firefox gets the "unsupported browser" error[0]. Glad I tried it out since typically "I made a voxel engine" wouldn't catch my attention. ;)
[0] console: "WebGL warning: readPixels: Format and type RGBA_INTEGER/UNSIGNED_BYTE incompatible with this RGBA8UI attachment. This framebuffer requires either RGBA_INTEGER/UNSIGNED_INT or getParameter(IMPLEMENTATION_COLOR_READ_FORMAT/_TYPE) RGBA_INTEGER/UNSIGNED_INT."; Firefox 104.0.1; openSUSE Leap 15.4
shodan757 | 3 years ago | on: Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites
Not to be "that guy", but could you please put the language in the title when posting stuff like this? We all have our language preferences, and I'd rather not have to go digging just to figure out if a project is relevant to me.
shodan757 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: MacBooks seems to be the only viable option these days
This, 100%. Running opensuse 15.3 but with a bleeding edge kernerl (via repo) to fix sleep and other issues. Works almost perfectly.
shodan757 | 4 years ago | on: OpenSUSE Leap 15.3
As a counterpoint, I experienced the exact opposite. I got tired of deb-based distros leaving me in package limbo if something went wrong. I'm sure there's an easy fix, or maybe the entire problem is fixed now, but I've been a very happy user of opensuse (and just suse before that) for a long time - well over 15 years now. I love their huge range of optional software repos. I can have a nice stable base system with only certain software bleeding edge.
shodan757 | 5 years ago | on: Launch HN: Navattic (YC W21) – Shareable demos for selling your SaaS product
Very cool! I was excited & shared this with everyone at my small SaaS company... then I saw your pricing. :( It's literally an order of magnitude out of our price range!
shodan757 | 6 years ago | on: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
> If you want up-to-date software from your package manager, use a rolling release distro. Otherwise the best you can do is something like a base setup and then side-load the software you want. This problem has been identified to the point where there are several brew-like systems (and things like snap as well), but no clear winner yet.
I use openSuSE Leap with a bunch of OBS (build service) repos added. I get a nice stable base OS with updated packages when I want them. And it runs KDE/Plasma nicely, too, and not as an afterthought or something like other distros.
shodan757 | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
Absolutely. On Freenode, #rhel, ##electronics, #django, #mercurial, #mysql, #python are all great.
shodan757 | 7 years ago | on: TiDB 2.1 GA: Battle-Tested to Handle an Unpredictable World
On https://www.pingcap.com/docs/sql/mysql-compatibility/ it mentions "FOREIGN KEY constraints" under unsupported features. Is that right? Isn't that a rather big problem for an OLTP DB? Or am I missing something?
shodan757 | 7 years ago | on: Q: Run SQL Directly on CSV Files
Eep, no Python 3 support? :(
shodan757 | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: A WebAssembly game demo
Seems to be something with multiprocess (aka e10s) Firefox. I can't get webassembly to work anywhere now... I swear it worked before.
shodan757 | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: A WebAssembly game demo
I just get "Sorry, but your browser does not yet support WebAssembly."
I'm on Firefox/Linux. Other WASM demos work, so I'm pretty sure that's a bug. :)
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Oh please God no, not Valve. MS has changed pretty dramatically since the Gates/Ballmer days, but Valve is way too valuable to computer gaming to be owned by a company like MS. Luckily Valve is privately owned, and even if they were public, their valuation would/should be pretty insane. So I think anyone buying Valve is unlikely.