🌸 Wed, Jun 15, 2022 🌸

eerie - strange and frightening.

🌸 Tue, Jun 14, 2022 🌸

TIL; I can write shader code (HLSL) in Unreal Engine

Here is the link to the documentation.

🌸 Tue, May 31, 2022 🌸

TIL; imgur = image URL

🌸 Tue, May 31, 2022 🌸

Load null-sink

pactl load-module module-null-sink sink_name=music

Unload all null-sinks

pactl unload-module module-null-sink

🌸 Tue, May 31, 2022 🌸

AirPlay on Linux

uxplay -avdec

🌸 Sat, May 28, 2022 🌸

Playing the lottery is a waste of money, but why is paying for insurance not?

🌸 Wed, May 11, 2022 🌸

Ubuntu like 22.04 OSes are coming with pipewire instead of pulseaudio. On my machine, it has a bug and sometimes does not recognize new audio devices. In this case, I need to restart pipewire with the following command:

systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse

🌸 Tue, May 10, 2022 🌸

I am trying to code, and the code is not going. And I realized I forgot to wear my programmer socks. But when I put them on, I realized they were just regular socks with binary code printed on them. (GPT-3 assisted story)

🌸 Wed, May 4, 2022 🌸

Why in English is it “open” but “closed”? Why “ed”?

🌸 Tue, May 3, 2022 🌸

I gave up on VMWare. Give back my money.

🌸 Tue, May 3, 2022 🌸

cogito, ergo sum, usually translated into English as “It compiles, therefore is C++”

🌸 Thu, Apr 28, 2022 🌸

C++ compiler so slow, and does some much optimization, sometimes I think it’s Deep Thought computer from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. You put tons of C++ code in it, and after a while it generates assembly

eax, 42
pop rbp

and you have no idea why.

🌸 Thu, Apr 28, 2022 🌸

www.quora.com is useless.

Quite often, answers are useless, e.g., no, you cannot do it; you have to be able to read assembly code. But I can read assembly.

🌸 Tue, Apr 26, 2022 🌸

TIL; fmod I wanted to implement a day/night cycle and I needed to convert time to sun angle. So fmod function can do it like this:

auto angle = std::fmod(time / dayLenght, 1.f) * 360.f

🌸 Wed, Apr 20, 2022 🌸

I’ll bring an unpopular opinion, but “Select is broken.”

🌸 Tue, Apr 19, 2022 🌸

Finally, I took the time I reply to all recruiters. It is a good problem to have but still has to be addressed.

🌸 Sun, Apr 17, 2022 🌸

The phon is a logarithmic unit of loudness level for tones and complex sounds. In contrast with dB, the phon is a unit associated with a subjective percept.

🌸 Sat, Apr 16, 2022 🌸

How to make Unreal Engine load fast on Linux? Go here: https://github.com/adamrehn/ue4-docker/issues/177 and install glibc-dso patch. 4 min 6 sec went down to 14 seconds on my laptop.

🌸 Sun, Apr 10, 2022 🌸

TIL; Lolita by Nabokov is an illegal book in United Kingdom.

🌸 Sat, Apr 9, 2022 🌸

OMG ninite and lumen work under Linux natively in UE5.

🌸 Thu, Apr 7, 2022 🌸

It is so hot here, the heat triggers breakers.

🌸 Thu, Mar 31, 2022 🌸

TIL; meter is American spelling, everybody else spell it as metre.

🌸 Mon, Mar 28, 2022 🌸

Yesterday, I drove over the red light. Nothing happened, but I felt really bad.

🌸 Wed, Mar 23, 2022 🌸

There is no advantage of publishing proof for P=NP problem. If you have proof, you can basically have an infinite amount of money, by mining Bitcoins for example.

🌸 Thu, Mar 17, 2022 🌸

Fix VMWare freezing.

sudo sh -c 'echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/compaction_proactiveness'

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