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Good news is a MiSTer device solves this problem, is infinitely more useful and is pretty affordable, even with inflated prices now.

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I don't know if others are doing the same, but I'm trying to wean myself off of vscode/vscodium in favor of neovim. My main issues with vscode are bugs and performance. The vscode undo history constantly gets corrupted, performance with large files is terrible, extensions can be a mixed bag, vim integration is not consistent and performance in general is sluggish.

On the other hand, I've been trying out Lunar vim and it has feature parity with vscode and suffers from none of the issue I mentioned. My only issue is taking the time to learn how to do a dozen or so operations that I have not investigated in Lunar Vim yet. Lunar vim is blazing fast when paired with Alacritty. Once I get around to filling the final few knowledge gaps I have, I'm done with vscode.

Even if it isn't a bug, there's probably enough malicious stuff going on linked to these domains that it's justified. Even if the sites themselves are not producing malicious content, they are targeted by bad actors because the platform lacks the tech to detect and moderate said bad actors. And lets be honest, users of this platform are likely to be very susceptible to misinformation and manipulation.

Clearly you've never bought coffee from a chain after 2015.

I would vote for the Pentium IV for all the reasons mentioned in the article, but more importantly because it was initially coupled with Rambus memory. Intel pushed that tech so hard to try and squeeze out AMD. Super high frequency, high bandwidth, high expense memory with terrible latency was not the future anyone wanted. Intel's hubris back then was off the charts.

I know intel wanted Itanium to succeed for the same reasons, but the PIV came very close to home since it actually shipped for consumers. Oddly enough, Extreme Tech was a huge shill for Intel back in those days. Funny they don't mention that in this article.

It seems like the OP had/has an addiction to gaming videos (the only hint was something about esports). I think about this a lot... is all video content considered equal if you had a near addiction level affinity for it?

Watching Fortnite/Minecraft/Roblox videos all night is a zero sum activity... you might get better at the that particular game, but it's a useless skill for 99.999% of us (child labor issues aside). On the other hand, if you use that time learning an actual skill or absorbing general useful information, I think there might be an argument that it's time well spent.

When we are young, we have an incredible ability to grind on things, especially when sleep deprived. As we get older, that becomes much harder and our productivity inevitably falls. I'm finding more and more that I have to go with my bursts of motivation when it hits and ride that wave as far as possible. A little sleep depravation here and there isn't an issue.

All of this falls apart when your life is negatively impacted and you are not adequately managing your health, responsibilities and/or achieving your goals. To sum it up, I don't think an "addiction" to useful information is a bad thing. We live in an unprecedented time of nearly limitless access to information. To have someone not only tell you the information you want to know, but also demonstrate it is game changing. Addictions are bad, but watching Youtube can lead to incredible learning momentum. Achieving that with a balanced life is something I personally strive for.

I've had good luck on this front, but I pay for Youtube, so the experience might be a little better.

I've been paying for Youtube for a few years now, so I have no idea what the ad situation is.

I'm using Google less and less in favor of Youtube. It's not always convenient to get answers in video form, but I'm finding it's better for more involved answers. Also, google is just littered with Answers/Quora/StackOverflow/etc dodgy clones that make searching questions a nightmare.

Yes. I use tamper monkey to write scripts for sites I visit frequently that have annoying popups, content blocks (like chat) and link-jacking (streaming sports sites).

This is a pretty rare game for that time that didn't have much of any pixel art... it was either scanned images or rudimentary 3d. I had no idea what it was when I downloaded it off a BBS and was pleasantly surprised by the visuals. It's funny how our perspectives change over time.

I'm surprised they only lost $30m. The original packaging visuals were incredible and it got me to want to drink orange juice as a kid.

I've bought from GRUV once, it was an obvious bootleg so never again.

Me too, getting 90mpg was no joke. I would fill up once a month with a 2 hour daily commute.

The car was a Honda Insight... the original one from 2001, so there was nothing else like it. I think they probably felt only select customers were going to be interested in that niche car and that I had probably done my research so best to just accept and get rid of this weird inventory.

In the early 2000's I was planning to buy a specific car. The salesman told me not to even think about for getting it under $20k. I came back the next day and told a different sales guy that I wanted the car for $16,750. He came back from the manager's room after a minute or so and said "lets do the paperwork".

I always wondered what part of my tactic worked the best... I wasn't sure if it was setting the oddly specific price or my terseness or maybe both.

So you are saying no scripted language is appropriate for the server? As far as I know, JS is extremely optimized and has no issues holding its own against Python.

You are correct, applying traditional education methods to online/home school is unlikely to work well. Concepts like "homework" are generally obsolete at the home school level. Independent learning replaces the antiquated idea that our children need to be preoccupied with boring, grindy work when they are out of the "classroom". Children will have plenty of time to grind when they get older. Building a love for learning is 100x more important than rote memorization.

The child's age is also significant... I certainly would not have a child under 12 working under the the same expectations as a teenager. Additionally, every child develops at a different rate, so finding that sweet spot is an important part of home schooling. These are all things that the public school mentality finds incredulous.

So I agree with what you are saying, but so many people still think the model for home school should be the same as a public/private school situation, which is where things fall apart. It's obvious to me that children always need to be well socialized and have a variety of teachers and experiences, but that can be achieved if the parent is proactive and willing to spend the required time and money to foster learning over optimizing for succeeding in the public school system.

I've had to build too many carousels over my career working for a major publisher. No matter how good our architecture was, no matter how good our css was and no matter how good our JS optimization was, they all sucked. Carousels need to go the way of blinking scrolling text.

Not all carousels are horrendous, but they are all bad. Even worse, all use cases have a significantly better, simpler solution.

I regularly play my Atari Lynx that I got for Christmas '89. Playdate looks like it would scratch that itch for really simple mobile friendly pixel art games with no added nonsense.

I tried Unity for a while for 2d game development and really hated the workflow, so I floundered for a couple years trying to figure out what path to take for some of my project ideas.

I've shipped 2 games in Phaser, but did not like the experience at all- optimization was a nightmare and structuring a non-trivial project was surprisingly hard. I've since switched to Godot which has been a dream so far. I would use Godot for 3d development as well, but I realize that anyone that prioritizes visual fidelity will likely look elsewhere. Godot 4 will have huge improvements there, but nothing at the level of Unreal or even Unity.

It seems like Unreal is a terrible fit for smaller projects where visual fidelity isn't a primary concern. Would I ever build a roguelike, city builder or 2d platformer in Unreal? Wouldn't something like Godot or Unity be a much better fit?

AAA level graphics in nice, but there are many game genres that have visual fidelity very low on their respective list of concerns. With the rise of the Steamdeck, I'm sure there will be a rise in efficient portable-friendly games that can get that 7 hours of battery life. Not sure I would ever consider Unreal for those types of projects.

I wouldn't have expected anything less from Alex Jones. Now he has something to be truly paranoid about. Welcome to the OJ Simpson "hide my assets" club.

Especially considering how trivially easy it is to run Windows programs in Wine these days.

These types of "optimized" images are notorious for having viruses and other changes that compromise the entire system. Just disabling updates is a huge red flag. If this stuff bothers people, there are viable alternatives. Even if this effort means well, it's a terrible solution to a problem that's only fixable by eliminating any and all dependencies on Microsoft.

I'm too lazy to read the article... which flavor of Linux are we talking about?

It's what I used as a kid, so it's all I know from that era. I still have those templates on my keyboard.

This is actually a good point... I have a very fast 16 core PC, but typing in Google Docs often has latencies. Everything in WP is instantaneous, even on my 6mhz 286.

I prefer CF cards because there's no signal conversion needed while SD card adapters needs conversion electronics. I'm not sure if the SD card adapters are any less reliable, but I've stuck to buying Startech CF adapters and have not had any issues yet. Plus, I have about 30 CF cards on hand so it's nice to still have a use for them.

I like doing writing work (wordperfect) on my old machines (286-486 era). It's the one task that I find is actually better on these old machines. My Model-M keyboard is better for typing, there are less distractions and I prefer looking at a CRT when writing. It's also somewhat ceremonial booting up the machine and running WP, so that helps getting into he writing mindset.

What makes this especially convenient is that I can save files direct to a CF card and interchange it with my modern machines. CF uses the same IDE interface as a vintage hard drive, so hooking up one of these solutions with old hardware is trivially easy.