Erik Novales

The article: Actor Cuts Throat on Stage in Knife Mix-Up. I immediately thought of the Curtains Down level in Hitman: Blood Money, where you can take care of one of your targets by swapping out a prop pistol for a real one. (The target is normally shot in the head with a prop pistol, as [...]

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Looks like Cuttino Mobley is hanging up his jersey for good, due to a previously-undiagnosed heart condition. Now I feel a bit mean for cracking wise about his “asymptotic” condition.

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I’ve made a few posts in the past about the ongoing death of CDs, and, after some haphazard Googling following a bout of watching ‘90s music videos, dug up some news that hits close to home. A music store where I spent a lot of time in college, CD World, recently closed both of its [...]

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This recent post by Raymond Chen highlights some interesting memory optimization scenarios, and the wide-ranging impact of size optimizations. A quick summary: Changing a structure definition such that a bunch of Win32 BOOLs use one bit each saves memory in the struct, because BOOL is typedef’d as an INT. Accessing the bitfield data members requires [...]

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