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Z is only depth if your camera happens to be at the origin facing in the positive Z direction, though. In most games, the camera almost never rotates except about a vertical axis, though, so Z as the vertical axis stays vertical always. (Exceptions being space sims, that leaning-around-the-corner maneuver in a lot of games where the camera tips, games with shifting gravity, etc.)
I dunno. Z as up always felt more intuitive to me. It’s just another thing to argue about like Vim vs Emacs and tabs vs spaces, I guess.
I had a friend who wasn’t very technical who had some issue where he couldn’t boot into his OS (Windows) and bought a new computer, but wanted the files off the old computer. So he asked me for help. I remember bringing a Knoppix live CD (remember Knoppix?) And when I was there, I realized I had a severe lack of general networking equipment. (I didn’t have a switch, so I couldn’t plug both computers into the network so they could communicate with each other and the internet.)
So I started up the old computer in Knoppix, plugged it into the network, and installed a bunch of networking packages like a DHCP server and such. And then I used the Ethernet cable to plug the two computers into each other, letting the Knoppix box give the new Windows machine its IP. And then I installed Putty on the Windows machine and used it to SCP the files from the old machine to the new one.
The whole thing went way smoother than I’d have expected, never having attempted that before. But I felt like such a hacker that day. Lol.
26·2 days agoIt is so refreshing to see a post title like this one and find out it isn’t about blockchain bullshit. And then on top of that, the article even talks about GNU Taler. Anything that spreads awareness about GNU Taler makes me happy.
Honestly, sensible.
“If it works, it ain’t stupid.” ;)
Huh. Only 11 days on the Raspberry Pi I’m using as a “desktop system” right now. (Arch Linux Arm, btw… though Arch Linux Arm sucks now-a-days.)
Let’s check my RPi-based NAS:
[tootsweet@mynasserver ~]$ uptime 19:56:07 up 212 days, 18:43, 4 users, load average: 0.16, 0.04, 0.01Also not as long as I’d have guessed.
And then if you still can’t scroll up/down to read the rest of the article, look for and disable any
overflow:hidden;orposition: fixedin the CSS. It’ll probably be on the<html>or<body>tag, or on something pretty “high level” just under the<body>tag or no more than a couple of levels of hierarchy beneath.
No, just all I want to tell you about.
I refuse to believe this is a shitty question.
33·10 days agoI vibe code Brainfuck using Eliza.
1·12 days agoBlockchain can’t do that. Blockchain can’t do anything that something else can’t do better.
Hmm. I wonder if “work profile” functionality like what the “Shelter” app provides might mitigate that.
Nobody’s said “this is going to be my year” in many many years.
Welcome to the world post writer’s strike.
The famous violinist. Yes.
Honestly, still better than working sick with an office full of coworkers.
Two books I started reading knowing I’d disagree with the author:
- Introduction to Austrian Economics. That school of economics is helpful as a model for understanding economics, though only through the lens of an idealized system. The same way that understanding how a point-like mass moves helps you understand how a canon ball moves. But then it goes on to say that your inalienable/natural right to safety in your person is basically the fundamental property right from which all of what the anarcho-capitalists call “theory” directly derives. Which makes it rather circular. “Property rights ∴ property rights.”
- The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil. I knew my reaction to it would be visceral, but defending DRM was the last straw. I finished the Austrian Economics book. But I didn’t get a quarter of the way into the Kurzweil book before rage quitting.
I used to have chickens in a city when it wasn’t legal. They got reported and we had to rehome them. They were fun, though, and having fresh eggs was always great.