What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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I love the whole "they made pixel art with the CRT blending effect in mind!" argument, completely sidestepping the fact that a bunch of the same pixel art techniques used for consoles were also used on PCs with monitors that very much did not have a fuzzifying CRT effect to benefit from

And given how many games back then drew circles assuming square pixels which then turned into ovals, I think the amount of thought that went into period pixel art is greatly overestimated

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i love how so many maths problems are like

"how many polygons can you draw, without lifting your pen, on the surface of a sphere?": trivial, proven by hand
"...of any 3-dimensional shape?" trivial, proven by hand
"...of any 4-dimensional shape?" trivial, proven by hand
"...of any 5-dimensional shape?" extremely complex, proven by computer search using a novel method in 2011
"...of any 6-dimensional shape?" moderately complex, proven by computer search in 1996
"...of any 7-dimensional shape?" unproven and likely beyond the limits of present day mathematics. it is trivially provable by hand that you can draw any triangle, however

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Hacky and absolute unsupported way to run 32-bit programs under wine-devel on 15: Use the binaries from FreeBSD 14.

1. Install compat14x-amd64.
2. Use the following pkg32.sh script instead of the one installed by wine-devel.

```
#!/bin/sh -e

if [ "$(id -u)" = 0 ]; then
echo "Don't run this script as root!"
exit 1
fi

I386_ROOT="${WINE_i386_ROOT:-$HOME/.i386-wine-pkg}"
ABI="FreeBSD:14:i386"
OSVERSION="1403000"

if [ ! -d "$I386_ROOT/usr/share/keys/pkg" ]; then
mkdir -p "$I386_ROOT/usr/share/keys"
ln -s /usr/share/keys/pkg "$I386_ROOT/usr/share/keys/pkg"
fi

# Show what we're going to do, then do it.
echo pkg -o ABI=$ABI -o OSVERSION=$OSVERSION -o INSTALL_AS_USER=true -o RUN_SCRIPTS=false --rootdir "$I386_ROOT" "$@"
exec pkg -o ABI=$ABI -o OSVERSION=$OSVERSION -o INSTALL_AS_USER=true -o RUN_SCRIPTS=false --rootdir "$I386_ROOT" "$@"
```

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What I'm listening to today: "Ha", Juvenile

This one's a classic of Dirty South hip-hop, a truly foundational work. If you feel this you will Feel it and I won't need to explain it to you. If you don't feel it, try to think of this as a *historical document*. Here is a narration of being a drug dealer in the late 90s (what is a "triple beam", and what is it for?) and a video which is basically a documentary time capsule of pre-Katrina New Orleans. Entirely unreplicable.

youtube.com/watch?v=Ww9VlmXKYgs

@mcc I feel old, the vid is super cool, but the delivery is too "modern" for me. I prefer this (also references triple beams): youtube.com/watch?v=jhG8xoFqYz8

Fun fact: Triple beams are called "tanitas" in Spain because of the dominance of a single brand in the 90's: tanita.eu/consumer-scales

Now THAT is old school!

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RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those who were unvaccinated. RFK Jr. is. liar and a fraud, as are Vinay Prasad and Tracy Hoeg at FDA who have made similar false claims about these vaccines. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman

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If I had the attention span to write fiction longer than a page I'd write a near-future story where for RFK reasons it has become easier to get illegal recreational meth than ADHD drugs so the coop in Portland that makes the black market estrogen has a side gig buying street meth and converting it backward into Adderall

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