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The video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spB4ezsQ6II

Absolutely with you on the last point, but the Subway Surfers mentioned in this Article is a mobile game which has been around since 2012 - they don't splice in videos with actual subway surfing. Not that that changes much about the article in general^^

Try this in your local vim: set rnu

Really handy for relative movements like 5j or 12k :)

FYI the fingerprint sensor problem has since been fixed and I can now use it again without trouble for banking apps and the like. (Although I'm on a Fairphone 3+) Still holding up fairly well in 2024, even if it's a bit slow at times.

DCSS = Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

ADoM = Ancient Domains of Mystery

Cataclysm DDA = Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead

I swear I didn't make the first one up ;) Edit: ah well, you got your answer already^^

That was probably supposed to be a pun - you're both on the same side here :)

Skateboarding!

It's a bit hard to find time for it during a workday, but sometimes I just have the urge to get moving and trade lunch with my colleagues for some time on the board. A really nice change of pace, and I can usually think much better after getting some movement in, even if it's just some light cruising.

I'd still like to have another hobby which I can do during the winter, and maybe even while commuting. Maybe I should take up something like knitting, or any other craft which can be done during short downtimes.

It's never too late to start. At the beginning you should really focus on trying some things that keep your attention.

(For me that was programming games - incredibly crufty ones, but seeing thing move on my screen got me really excited and got me to understand)

Personally, that was javascript for me - mostly because you can do stuff with it in any browser you want. Lua[0] is also a great language for beginners, and I'm still using it for game development[1] and general scripting/fun stuff.

I just don't want to turn this into a hella long comment, so I'll wrap it up; but I could talk about the first steps you could take for hours :)

If you want to ask me anything on how to get started, just shoot me a mail under info@(my username here).com I'd be super happy to help :)

[0]https://www.lua.org/ [1]https://love2d.org/

This is the same type of screen used as in the pebble smartwatches[0], right?

Honestly, I wonder why that technology hasn't been used for anything like the Thinkpad in the video - I'd love to have such a device!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_(watch)#Hardware

To add to that - if you prefer writing the body of the post itself in markdown, and write in VIM, here's a little snippet that might help:

:%!markdown_py

where markdown_py is your markdown-to-html tool of choice. This will take the whole buffer and turn it into HTML; Otherwise, just select what you want transformed in visual mode, press : and go use it like this:

:'<,'>!markdown_py

Just felt the need to share - any command line utility can be used in VIM :)

(Emacs, VSCode and other editor-using people feel free to chime in, I'm sure there's lots of cool approaches to this)

The issue already seems to be there[0], but honestly I immediately resorted to using the arrows to move the pieces around and from there on out it didn't disturb me anymore.

I'm really glad you're putting such an emphasis on beginner friendliness though, that's really cool!

[0]https://github.com/leozide/leocad/issues/655

I just gave this a try, and I would honestly love to have a traditional cad software that is so intuitive and easy to use. (Except for the stuff with the rotation, that was a little hiccup for me)

I could just get into it, drag, drop rotate and make some stuff - it's actually _fun_ to use!

Does anyone know of a cad program which uses a similar approach? I'd love to be able to build smooth models with such a software...

I highly recommend messing around with yabasic[0] a bit, runs on windows and (probably) most unix-likes, and even offers graphics capabilities right out of the box!

I feel like this would've been a great batteries-included environment to start in, back when I started programming.

[0] http://www.yabasic.de/

A related thing to consider: I've been thoroughly enjoying sites built on the gemini protocol[0]

They're all written in a sort of restricted markdown, and the community seems to be a pretty fun place to be.

[0] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

I know it's not what you asked for, but these articles helped me a lot with linear algebra - which you will most probably need in any case:

http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/07/linear-algebra-for-game-deve...

http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/07/linear-algebra-for-game-deve...

http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/07/Linear-algebra-for-game-deve...

Then again, shows like One Punch Man work because you know all of those tropes, and doesn't seem to work nearly half as well if you don't know what they're referring to.

(I've tried showing it to someone with rather little prior exposition to traditional shonen and the person found it rather boring. A sample size of one, I know that says almost nothing)

If you haven't watched it yet, give Hunter x Hunter a try - sure you'll see lots of re-occurring tropes, but it's a bit of a breath of fresh air, promised.

Why would you not just set the location of the backup and swapfiles to a fixed place in your system?

Try this:

    set backupdir=~/.vim/backups,.
    set directory=~/.vim/swapfiles,.

It will only write in the current directory, if ~/.vim/backups does not exist, and the dot is just there for portability, so nothing breaks when using my vimrc on a new system.

Edit: Upon actually reading your blog-post, I understand at least one reason - my options may not change the behaviour of a file not being written to the correct inode, so you have a point for some build systems.

I actually learned rather much reading this, thank you for sharing!

Infiniminer is something that comes to mind - which was the base used for Minecraft, I think.

While we're in the Realm of voxel-based games, there's Minetest, which is open Source and written in C++ and extendable by Lua.

Iirc, braid was also developed solely by one person, although he did commision the art.

But in general, the "big game made by a single person" is a bit of a myth. Sure, it does exist, but many of those people have either had help from others, or were actually working in a small team.

A lot of it is just marketing talk.

You remember correctly - it's from the second book, "The restaurant at the end of the universe", and the animal in question had been genetically altered to strive for its own consumption, and enjoy the whole process of it.

It's quite a terrifying thought, to be honest - maybe because the animal in question is very much conscious and intelligent.

I'm never quite sure whether or not Douglas Adams wrote it for comedic effect or to provoke some deeper discussion.

Might as well be both.

Hehe^^ Try: ,p or: ,n in ed and you'll print the whole file to the screen - although you'll be at the end of the file with everything that didn't fit on screen cut off.

I guess there's a reason why it's not around on modern systems anymore^^

In all honesty, I think I had a harder time exiting ED (the standard editor), although vim and ED are quite similar in spirit ;)

Maybe it's just your use case - but I've just switched someone over to Linux and it seems to be suiting them much better than Windows - granted they're running older hardware, but we would've had to throw that laptop away otherwise, as Windows 10 is absolute garbage when installed on an HDD.

The person in question was really quite attached to their Laptop and after a failed HDD, we just took another one we had lying around, tried to save Windows (but to no avail), and finally decided to put LinuxLite [1] on it.

People who mostly utilize a browser in their day-to-day computer usage don't have any advantage in using Windows whatsoever.

I haven't yet used Linux for that long, (only around two years as may daily driver) but I can't imagine ever going back to Windows, except for very few select games, which aren't yet supported natively or via Proton/Wine.

And I keep hearing about the touchpad driver issue, but I really can't find a single difference between my Windows and Linux boxes, maybe I'm not sensitive enough, or have much lower standards in that regard, I really can't tell.

Sure, Windows Office and some Adobe software isn't there yet when used via Wine, I'll give you that. I personally do just fine with Blender, Gimp and Inkscape on the graphics front. I can't speak for the usability of the Libre-office suite, but it's done the job for the few times I had to use it.

[1]https://www.linuxliteos.com/

Why is this being downvoted? Is it incorrect?

That's rather interesting - it does work, I can tell you that much, but maybe there's a more standard way of doing this :)

I have these settings in my .xinitrc on my ThinkPad T420, but never had to do anything terribly arcane to get it to work as I expect it to.

    exec xinput set-prop 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' 'Synaptics Tap Action' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 &
    exec xinput set-prop 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' 'Synaptics Two-Finger Scrolling' 1 1 &
    exec xinput set-prop 'TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint' 'libinput Accel Speed' -.3 &
    exec xinput set-prop 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' 'Synaptics Coasting Speed' 0 0 &

Sure, it could be more fine-tuned, but it works just fine that way.

On other laptops I've had to reduce the "finger size" (I can't remember the name of the setting), so I could use it even with a light touch, but that's the biggest problem I've had with it so far.

The page is in fact almost completely blank for me - I don't think it loaded properly, all I can see are the related products at the bottom...

Maybe it's because I'm on firefox?

Edit: it works in chromium, what a piece of junk.

Let's take the sausage for example.

If you have a clump of meat, it's not a sausage. If it's brought into shape by some kind of "skin", (which nowadays often is artificial "intestine"), then it's a sausage.

So, I'd argue that the word sausage for example describes the form factor, more than the actual content.

I don't think the case is much different in the case of a burger - if it's clearly declared as a veggie burger, one better assume that there's no meat in it.

The distinction between meat and veggie burger is probably even less difficult than the distinction between a veal and a pork burger. You wouldn't want to have to use different names for meat products if they were made from a Kangaroo, or Ostrich, would you?

I do have to admit though that some of the vegetarian "cold cuts" (I hope google translate hasn't failed me here), are really, really good!

It's terribly processed stuff, but as far as I remember the taste of meat, it comes quite close.

Not all of them are created equal though, and I can only see myself eating a specific brand, but they are very enjoyable.

Have a look at love2d[0] - (or Löve, as they prefer it to be called) It's a lua-scriptable game framework, where you can at least see results fairly quickly. All you need is a text editor and the lua executable. It's only thought for 2d games, but it's got an integrated physics engine (Box2d) and a bunch of libraries to help with all kinds of things that might come up.

And the community was absolutely lovely last time I checked :)

[0]love2d.org/

I really wish there was something modern like the ThinkPad 701c[0], which had a really ingenuous folding keyboard:

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLj3aCfqzOM