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jdesmond··on Walmart Is Preparing to Welcome Its Next Customer: The AI Shopping Agent
what do the agents purchase?
jdesmond··on Xash3D: An open-source reimplementation of Half-Life
I am able to play hl1, blue shift, and opfor as well as CS on the ps vita due to an android wrapper of this engine. It is great except the save/load times are very long (30-60 seconds) and the levels have many load triggers.

https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs/blob/master/Documentatio...

jdesmond··on “Fun disabled by administrator” (2015)
My HS CS class in 2014 was like this. It was wonderful because it took away the incarceration feeling of normal public school. If I did the work faster than everyone else correctly, I could go and do what I wanted in the school, which motivated other students to finish and motivated me to finish first. I wish other classes were like that.

The only thing close in college was profs who would let you test out of classes, and work on a self study project for the class, I loved that.

jdesmond··on Ask HN: How can this happen without the phone covertly listening?
are the letter close on a standard qwerty layout from the intended friend to the "eavesdropped" name?
jdesmond··on CD sales grow for first time since 2004
I do the much cheaper version of this and collect high quality 4k rips of movies and amass private tracker accounts.

A normal length movie is about 80-100GB.

I like the process of making groups in Plex too!

jdesmond··on My journey for dual displays with my M1 Pro Mac (2021)
I did the same but not being able to share a terminal and a browser window at the same time is tough.

Ended up using OBS and sharing the obs preview window instead. This lets me add fun gifs and overlays as well to my screen for loading or success.

jdesmond··on My journey for dual displays with my M1 Pro Mac (2021)
I wrote this[0] post on how I use OBS to share a 1080p sized portion of my upper left ultrawide monitor through Microsoft Teams. If you can share just a specific window, then this should work with google meet.

https://jamesdesmond.org/posts/teams-screenshare-mac/