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Profile for Omar Rizwan. Username @omar, social.omar.website. Role: admin

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"The program should, in some way, expand the concept of what computer paint programs are, as well as what mark making can be."

Joined on Dec, 2022. 803 posts. Followed by 296. Following 151.

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Omar Rizwan . @omar,

the usual Arduino use of C++ is funny because the near-absence of heap allocation basically makes it look like Java -- no *s to be seen

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Omar Rizwan . @omar,

i wonder if old pre-internet videophone systems actually felt different from modern video chat -- i could imagine them having way less latency because they could have a dedicated circuit connection and dedicated hardware on both sides, instead of webcam + OS + packet-switched internet that has tons of possible delays

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Omar Rizwan . @omar,

was talking with people about structured concurrency a few weeks ago, and it does feel like an underrated part of making a responsive / concurrent 'OS' is the ability to *cancel* those concurrent tasks

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Omar Rizwan . @omar,

honestly i think "Vintage Computer Festival" is a good name in how it doesn't attempt the pretense of history that you see in, like, "Computer History Museum", it's very honest that it's about appreciating old "vintage" products and not about history in a rigorous/academic/high-culture sense

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