Generally curious, but how do you (and everyone else) know when the game drops to a certain framerate, and how do you know exactly what framerate it's running at? Are you actually measuring it somehow, or do you just "feel" it?
My iPhone pro is a high refresh screen, my TV is 120hz and my gaming rig has a 7900 XTX. Going from that to 30fps is a pretty jarring experience. Obvi it is a small handheld device from 2017 so the expectations need to be set correctly - but doesn't change the experience. Nintendo has always been at the bottom when it comes to graphics though - but that is intentional.
I don't think it's a huge deal but there is a ton of footage of youtube that does frame-by-frame analysis and "30fps dropping to 20fps" seems very accurate.
Most definitely. The interview-style podcast I listen to the most is Odd Lots [1]. I'll listen to any Odd Lots episode regardless of the guest because of the personalities of Tracy and Joe. I also listen to re-runs of Car Talk [2] (which, I guess maybe isn't a podcast?) because of the hosts.
Auto-generated masked emails using Fastmail and 1Password has worked very well for me when I'm using Firefox, with the 1Password extension installed, on my laptop.
I can't for the life of me, however, figure out how to get 1Password to auto-gen a masked email from their iPhone app or desktop app.
It's great. Easily saves most recipes online. Allows you to tag them. You can schedule meals far out in advance from you personal recipe collection. From these scheduled meals you can create a shopping list.
I bought both the mobile and desktop (Windows) version. My fiance and I spend about 10 minutes a week discussing what we'd like to eat for the next 5-7 days. From there I schedule the meals in the app and, boom, I've got a shopping list. Super easy. I've put a lot of recipes from cook books in to the app.
We only use it for dinners and deserts, as breakfast and lunch are more predictable and repeatable.
Edit: another thing I like is that the app doesn't (yet, i think) require a subscription. to use it, after a trial period, is a one time payment
There's an in-app web browser, and you can click "download" on most recipes from most websites and it will automatically parse the recipe (you can edit where needed) and save it to your recipes. It works perfectly without intervention from my part virtually all the time.
They also offer a bookmarklet (anyone remember those?), which I remember working well in Safari.
yeah, i saw that. i'm interested in how to transcribe paper recipes. i have a lot of cookbooks that i under-utilize at time of meal planning b/c they're captured in a "dumb" format, and I don't want to page through 15 books every weekend.
I recommend googling "name of cookbook" "name of recipe" and then you can usually find some blog post that took that recipe and "adapted" it, which usually means they just took the original and wrote a blog story around it.
I type them in manually, and bought the desktop version specifically to make this easier. It's painful, but since there's decent data export options, I'll hopefully never have to do it again
helpful, thanks. seems like it still needs an extra step. i was hoping that the paprika app had this native functionality so you can scan right into the app (i'm not a tech guy but i assume that there are OCR APIs out there...?)
Indeed, this guide is very informative and easy to digest. It's practically required reading for anyone taking CS 6200: Introduction to Operating Systems [1] in Georgia Tech's Online Master of Science Computer Science program.
Thank you, Beej. Looking forward to reading this again today.
What exactly did you do during that block of time? As someone in a similar situation to you I'd like to begin getting some practice, but I'm not sure where to start. Are there any resources or websites that stood out as being particularly helpful?
My dad worked for a division of Motorola that was bought by Google and it sure felt like, during that time, if you were working for Motorola you could be laid off at a moment's notice.
Google stock was eventually included in his compensation package, though. I can imagine that eased some of the worry.
So, I graduated college this past June and have since started working as a software engineer for a large financial institution. For now, I've been placed on a team of developers where the majority of work is done on mainframes and where most software is written in COBOL.
Today is the last of a 7 week-long "Mainframe Bootcamp" during which I've been introduced to COBOL as well as TSO, JCL, DB2, CICS and MQ. Thus far, I'd say the class has picked up the language fairly quickly, however we've yet to fully grasp the intricacies of development using our company's heavily customized mainframe tools. Generally mundane processes, such as compilation and promotion between environments have been, IMO, rendered tantalizingly complex. It's all really quite tedious and boring. IBM's documentation monopoly hasn't helped, either.
To the point - I question whether COBOL's seemingly polarizing reputation can be somewhat attributed to the environment in which it's usually developed/deployed more-so than the semantic's of the language itself.
My experience with COBOL was on Stratus computers running the VOS operating system. This was a better environment than mainframes, but I'm still ambivalent about the language.
