VyseofArcadia

I do want to point out that this is not about lactose intolerance. This is about a milk allergy. Different things. Upset tummy vs anaphylaxis.

But the recommendation to throw it out is insane. There's nothing wrong with it besides the label. And what person who can't eat dairy is running around buying butter?

> Where are these dev jobs where _don't_ have to figure out some mysterious issue in a barely maintained GitHub repo semi-regularly?

Oh, my job is one of those.

Our code is in Perforce.

The article fails to mention this somehow, so I'd like to mention that Sony designed the SNES sound chip, the SPC700. It is unsurprising then that the Playstation's sound hardware is similar.

Even before the dawn of the LSP era, Emacs was pretty great with ctags.

> When was the last time you had to debug an ancient codebase without documentation or help from a team?

This is pretty much my day job. OP is spoiled if they think this is an uncommon situation.

Well yeah, but I didn't know I wanted i = 100 until I had examined the fprintf output.

Oh sweet. I didn't know about that. I will be adding that to my toolbox.

For the Emacs users in the crowd, GUD is a pretty great GDB integration.

But also, experienced programmers should never forget their printf debugging roots.

I was debugging something earlier this week that was hit like a hundred times in a tight loop. After the first dozen or so times I told gdb to continue, I realized, wait, this will be faster if I just fprintf some relevant information to a file. Sure enough the file pointed me in the right direction, and I was able to go back and get fancy with "disp" and "cond" and hit that breakpoint only when I needed to.

I don't know much about Jungle music, but I do know a lot about video games, and I want to shout out the Neo Geo game Shock Troopers. One of the best top down run and gun games ever made, and I'm told it has a Jungle/DnB soundtrack.

I'm puzzled how he thought this would encourage women to have children. I should think "forced hysterectomy at 30" would be met with plenty of, "ok, guess I'm just not having kids" rather than "ok, better hurry up and have kids".

But also, what, women don't have kids in their 30s ever? This is baffling from every angle.

Time scale is also something I want to know about. "Can I remove CO2 from the air and turn it into something valuable in a way that is cost effective?" is one question. Another question is, "Can I remove CO2 from the air and turn it into something valuable faster than a tree?"

Purple and green some to have become the colors of dev tooling. I'm seeing that color scheme everywhere.

Like when Henry Ford invented the wheel*.

* The first wheel with an axle**.

** The first wheel with an axle for horseless carriages.

> Nvidia invented the GPU in 1999

This is just plain not true.

Who edited this? Did no one even bother to skim the Wikipedia page on GPUs?

In my experience, all of those things are also true of Steam on Windows. In fact, if anything I have to deal with it less frequently since switching exclusively to Linux.

This has been the case for a long time. I was one of those kids who usually "got it" the first time I saw it, and then remembered it. So lectures usually moved much too slowly for me. In an effort to not be bored, I would usually sit quietly and read ahead in my textbook.

Some teachers were cool with this, but most of them would yell at me for not paying attention, and a couple specifically called me out for reading ahead on the basis that I thought I was too good for the class.

To me it was obvious that's what "Implementing Order-Independent Transparency" would be about. No other possible subject crossed my mind.

Out of curiosity, what did you think it would be about?

This is kind of my point, but this any many other articles and opinion pieces are just breathless with optimism about how the Internet Golden Age will come again and it will topple all the evil social media and we will have Life Eternal in a digital Paradise that no corporation can drive us from.

Well kind of? We, the enthusiasts, can just opt out of the social-media big corporate internet any time we want. But it's never going to happen on this grand scale that these starry-eyed people are dreaming about.

I think the author is overly optimistic about non-tech people.

Non-tech people don't realize Google is getting worse or Chrome is bloated. Non-tech people go to Best Buy because "my computer is slow", drop triple or quadruple digits on a new laptop and then move on.

The renaissance of the open, human internet is in full swing only among the small number of people who have an opinion about the open, human internet.

It only took how many decades of technical and IP law experts raising the alarm for this to happen?

What a final level, though! Having skipped a large chunk of the game, were you surprised by it?

Great read!

Do you have any resources on getting started with Dreamcast game reverse engineering? I've been wanting to do some things with Skies of Arcadia, and I've been hoping there exist techniques more systematic than "see what values change between memory snapshots".

I tried for a while to spill the coffee on everything, but I was never able to make it happen.

>Tesla eliminated:

> Gas stations (home charging)

> Oil changes (no engine)

> Dealerships (direct sales)

> Annual maintenance (software updates)

> Price negotiations (fixed pricing)

Excuse me?

Software updates cannot replace maintenance for mechanical wear and tear. No one is sending out over the air updates that rotate your tires.

My mistake then, I thought you meant a more general social media kind of buzz.

Logic and Final Cut did at one point have that kind of buzz when they were a part of Apple's "wow look at all the pros using macs" Mac OS X comeback story.

I suppose we need to be more specific about what we mean by buzz.

I mean "buzz" to be a general enthusiasm about the software even among non-users. I recall times when there was quite a lot of this kind of buzz about both Logic and Final Cut, in part I think because they were a part of Apple's Mac OS X comeback story.

I suspect you mean "buzz" to be enthusiasm in the community of users of the tools. I know software I've worked on in the pass, the general public couldn't care less about our product, but new releases always got a lot of buzz in our forums. This kind of buzz might actually be a pretty good metric.

> final cut and logic feel simultaneously actively developed and abandoned to me, there's just not much buzz around them.

They're professional tools. For use by people who are paid to use them. You don't want there to be buzz, you want them to just work.

Buzz is a godawful metric for useful software.

Zounds! Some of those 1600s usages still sound modern. "That flim-flam has me in a pickle" is something that could have come out of my mouth yesterday.

I remember reading somewhere that doctors are experimenting with (or wanting to) some of these more modern treatments first. Right now they're all "exhaust your other options, and then try the new stuff as a weapon of last resort". The more modern treatments could be more effective if we try them first instead of waiting, but we just don't have the data.

Anyone have a source on this half-recollected fact of mine? I can't find one.