keyneus · HackerTrans

2 года назадdiscuss

I remember upgrading from a 4x to 24x, and being excited for the much faster data transfer rate. What I didn't anticipate was the fact that it sounded like a jet taking off when it spun that fast! I figured out how to ratchet it down to 4x and kept it there unless I knew I'd need a fast sustained rate for something like copying hundreds of megs. It wasn't worth the noise for smaller transfers.

keyneus

2 года назадdiscuss

I switched to Vivaldi as a result of the removal of this feature from Firefox, because Vivaldi still allows you to choose this behavior. Are there other Unix browsers you're aware of that allow you to disable click-to-select? It'd be nice to at least have some options, although I'm generally happy with Vivaldi.

keyneus

3 года назадdiscuss

At least Audacious (in its audacious-plugins package) as well as Qmmp support chiptunes via the Game_Music_Emu library. I'd imagine many other plugin-based players for Linux/Unix have support as well.

keyneus

3 года назадdiscuss

In C, it's perfectly legal to do this:

    struct S { ... };
    typedef int S;

That's not valid in C++ (so would be a breaking change in C, if it were to adopt this).

I don't really think changing this in C would break all that much code, but it's definitely not backwards compatible.

keyneus

3 года назадdiscuss

If you're at all interested in digging through the Zork code yourself, you no longer need to know Z-machine assembly: the source code for most Infocom games was released/leaked a few years back, and is available here: https://github.com/historicalsource/

It's written in ZIL, which has a somewhat Lispy feel (for a bit of background, see another post by Plotkin here: http://blog.zarfhome.com/2019/04/what-is-zil-anyway.html). Infocom's own internal documentation for ZIL is here: https://archive.org/details/Learning_ZIL_Steven_Eric_Meretzk....

keyneus

3 года назадdiscuss

As of libpng 1.6.0, a so-called "simplified API" was added, which does not use setjmp/longjmp. A while back I had a C project using the old API, and I converted it to C++, and the interaction of setjmp/longjmp with exceptions was giving me headaches. I switched to the simplified API, and it was a breeze. So much less code, and no hacky C "exceptions". If you can require libpng 1.6 or newer, it's worth looking at the simplified API, if it supports your needs.

It's described here: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng-manual.txt

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