Many of those who can't be bothered to write what they publish probably can't be bothered to read it themselves, either. Not by humans and certainly not for humans.
Someone always points out how Doom wasn't "real 3D" like it's some sort of gotcha. Games are smoke and mirrors, it's all a 2D grid of pixels at the end.
Glad to see the Garden is back! This and Spoono were some of my favorite websites back when CSS-driven web design was bleeding edge and people were just starting to use lots of nested divs instead of lots of nested tables. The book was nice too.
I wanted to renew some domains with Gandi yesterday, and noticed that their prices increased a lot this year. This Reddit post is the only article I could find about it.
.com/.net/.org/.dev are all around $40/year to renew now, up from about $25 six months ago.
Tooling and code generation improvements no doubt help a lot, but IMO those improvements must be coupled with creative manual optimizations in order to get something like this out of a platform that was tailored for rectangular 2D bitmaps.
The 4A doesn't get security updates anymore though, right? The language on the website says "guaranteed until at least August 2023" so I guess it's up to Google's good will.
> I say buy the latest MacBook, expense it, factor it in as a monthly cost. These are expendable and essential tools. They pay for themselves
Yay, another top comment that steamrolls the posted article. I say don't buy the latest Macbook: instead repair, refurbish, and get true lifetime use out of these expensive devices. They're expensive to manufacture, expensive to buy, and expensive for our planet and people to just throw them away every year.
Thank you for your service defending the hot product of a profitable company against the criticism of everyday people, it's wonderful to have someone standing up for what is right.
Bingo, you should never pass arbitrary strings where they could be used as format specifiers, it's like running arbitrary code. Some compilers even issue warnings when you pass non-literal format strings to the printf family.
Why treat it like cash when it's not cash, but a digital service pushed by banks? There will always be scum that abuse a system, but the way it is now the odds are stacked against honest people.
It doesn't have to be something egregious like the Nigerian Prince. It could be a Craigslist concert tickets deal where you pay in advance and never hear from the "seller" again. Why be callous to innocent victims? Unlike cash, Zelle is a digital system that could provide some protections for all parties involved, like the option to file a dispute.
I think of Perl as a Python-PHP hybrid. A pragmatic product of its time that will endure, and while I'm grateful for never needing it, I'm glad that it's a solid option still for those who do.
What replacement battery do you use? I'm looking for a backup for my X220, but all the aftermarket batteries have terrible reviews and I'm afraid the $90 original Lenovo ones are degraded after 10 years and not worth the money.
I didn't have a Game Boy, but I did have a GP2X and had lots of fun with the LSDJ-inspired tracker, LittleGPTracker, worth checking out for all sorts of platforms: http://www.littlegptracker.com/
I always thought the preference for phone calls over e-mails is so there's no written account of anything that might be convenient to backtrack on in the future.
I still play HoMM 2 over the holidays every year with DOSBox. I like its artwork the most out of all the other same-gen titles, it feels like I'm in a colorful story book the entire time. The mechanics are just enough strategy to still be relaxing and fun.
Every now and then I also revisit the Sega Genesis version of King's Bounty, the precursor to HoMM. The over world on that particular port is real time action, you have to avoid enemies as you explore the map.
I've been keeping an eye on the 32blit, glad to hear there will be a general release! I ported my game framework to the Cortex-M0+ Gamebuino earlier, and Cortex-M7 with FPU and 1MB RAM are next level in comparison, sounds more capable for computation than the GP2X too.
It would be cool if one of the makers of these throwback devices would reboot a classic platform for real, instead of just as a nostalgia box. Like this mini Amiga, what if it was a system with a SDK and its own future, something that rides on the good name of its predecessors but also continues in the same spirit.
I remember a friend had a PDA with Bluetooth over 15 years ago. It's dumbfounding that after being around for so long it's still such a train wreck even on mainstream products.
Put yourself in the editor's shoes, caring for the dictionary is your life's work. Aside from misspellings, grammatical or factual errors, and typography issues, this is the other kind of bug that can rear its ugly head. Not to mention that you can't issue patches to copies that already shipped :-)
Reading this makes me grateful that I can get away with just apt-get. I wonder how prevalent this is, since not every project needs specific or latest versions of the runtime and libraries, only a minimum. Some are just plumbing tools that stick to the stable core, and the Python 3 ecosystem has been mature for enough years that older distro packages are still useful and capable.