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maupin··on Pi 1.0
I won't say Pi looks particularly impressive, but for example OpenCode looks beautiful to me and I prefer it to any graphical interface. The screenshots of your tool are nice but they feel like too much. With a good TUI like OpenCode and even Pi (which is decent) I fell like the code is front and foremost.
maupin··on Recovering Eric Graham's 1987 Amiga Juggler raytracer source code
Didn't expect a stealth ad at the end there.
maupin··on Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
Same. I haven't seen this. And I hope I never do unless I specifically click a button to enable it.
maupin··on Storytelling lessons I learned from Steve Jobs (2022)
Well, today I learned something. I've gotten my phone stuck in this mode (half of the screen hidden below the bottom edge) and just assumed it was an iOS bug.
maupin··on DeepSeek could represent Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's worst nightmare
> “We didn’t think China was ever going to compete in AI,” said Dion Hinchcliffe, vice president of the CIO practice at Futurum Research last week.

What? Oh, come on now.

maupin··on Show HN: Interactive game teaching dark patterns in UX design
I think your UI could use some work, funny enough. But I like the concept, it's just that the way the page and "game" works is not exactly clear.
maupin··on FaSTer: Atari ST Digital Magazine
Loadstar (a C64 magazine) for me is still the gold standard for magazines on disk. Every issue was a pleasure and so well put together.
maupin··on Studios: Please don't spoil the movie we are seated to see
That was my experience. For the recent rerelease I took my kids to see it for the first time in the theater. And we were treated to 20 minutes of spoilers before the movie started. Thanks, jerks.
maupin··on Japan's humble onigiri took over lunchtimes around the world
These are what I miss most about my years living in Japan. I made them for my kids a few weeks ago and they adored them. You can buy plastic-lined seaweed sheets to fold the rice into, so opening them is almost the same experience as onigiri from a Japanese conbini. For a filling, I just mixed together some tuna, salt, and mayo.
maupin··on The Art of Finishing
> 1. Define “Done” from the Start

Impossible for almost any non-trivial project.

maupin··on Amber: Programming language compiled to Bash
I like how the website is as easy to read as a glossy magazine brochure in a gloomy cave entrance on an overcast day.
maupin··on DOS game “F-15 Strike Eagle II” reverse engineering/reconstruction war stories
Accidentally read the last post first. My mind immediately jumped to copy protection as the purpose for that large nonsensical routine.
maupin··on How does the classic Win32 ListView handle incremental searching?
Wouldn't it make more sense for the switch to pattern 2 prefix matching to ignore the repeated characters? So if the user typed LLA the prefix matched would be LA (ignore the first L), not LLA.
maupin··on FFmpeg 7.0
Too true! For a recent video project I wrote a 300 line bash script to generate the ffmpeg arguments needed to accomplish what I was after.
maupin··on FFmpeg 7.0
In my case I'm working with very large uncompressed video. Files that are 1 hour and 300+ GB in size. I tried using Kdenlive but it choked.

I'm not saying the CLI is easy to learn, but once you do learn it, you have a lot of power at your fingertips.

maupin··on FFmpeg 7.0
ffmpeg is such a joy to use, once you make it over the very steep learning curve.

I'm making some youtube videos where I play through Demon's Souls flipping a coin to decide to equip items or not, and I wanted to have an onscreen coin flip animation and sound effect. With some effort, I created a transparent set of frames for the animation. Then with ffmpeg's filter_complex I was able to add the image sequence as a video stream, overlay it over the original video, and add a sound effect. That's on top of the existing subtitles, audio channel merging, and video resizing/compression. All in a single (long!) ffmpeg cli command.

ffmpeg is one of the true wonders of FOSS.

maupin··on Google I/O '24 Puzzles
It doesn't say it. It probably should.
maupin··on Google I/O '24 Puzzles
Is one of the rules that you have to use all the puzzle pieces? Because puzzle #3 is easily solved with only two pieces yet that is not the "correct" solution.
maupin··on Boulder Dash
My mistake. Of course the submitter did submit it as "Boulder Dash."
maupin··on Boulder Dash
Yes
maupin··on Boulder Dash
Looks great! Just had a go and the "physics" are off, at least compared to the original Boulderdash. Roughly 20 years ago when I wrote a Boulderdash clone, there was a test level floating around that you could use to verify your engine. A cursory Google search fails to find it, now, but I'm sure it's still out there.
maupin··on CGI Renders Are Real Photos (2017)
Wait, did people really think it wasn't a photo?
maupin··on Show HN: Find similar podcasts
I typed in a game club let's play type podcast (Playthrough) and one of the results was a woodworking podcast...
maupin··on Why is the JavaScript ecosystem like this?
This is a rant against Ghost. Not JS.
maupin··on The cost of cheap TVs
The amount of research I had to do to buy my mother a new television that would work for regular antennae television and not require internet access was just ridiculous.
maupin··on AT&T's predictions of the future (1993)
Without seeing the ads, I can still recall the music.
maupin··on You Might Also Like
When I saw ads in the Windows Start menu, I switched to Ubuntu. Haven't looked back and life is good. Except that the command line command apt-get sometimes displays an ad for Ubuntu Pro...
maupin··on Using the Free Pascal IDE for a Week
I have a sudden nostalgia for my high school days using Turbo Pascal in the computer lab.
maupin··on How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Milieu's soundtrack to Eufloria, https://milieumusic.bandcamp.com/album/eufloria
maupin··on $570M worth of Binance’s BNB token stolen
A quick Google search finds that (it is claimed anyway) you can buy quite a few items from Amazon or Walmart at shopping.io
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