Looks like we're halfway to fully selling rights to the whole image of an actor predicted in the move "The Congress" [0] (Do yourself a favor though and watch first half only.)
That is true. I've used bstring before in my project and it's been at least a magnitude slower that std::string in basic operations (concatenation, replacement(s) and so on.)
I can't believe the current state of Windows API emulation by Proton. I installed Heroic Game Launcher yesterday, got to my GOG account and installed "Control" from there. It's a triple-A title and it works almost flawless (tiny glitches pop up from time to time, no big deal.) Unbelievable!
If you worked with color (like graphics designer for example) you wanted to avoid turning off your monitor because you needed at least 30 minutes of warm up to stabilize brightness and color fidelity of a CRT. Showing anything beside blank screen indicated to you that the computer is turned on. Animation has been obvious to avoid burn in.
Richard Dawkins asks that exact question in his "Selfish Gene." For example humans cannot survive without it's gut bacterial flora. So is human a single organism without it or not? Where's the boundary? He also explores self replicating organisms (like mentioned seagrass) and explains benefits of evolution "introducing" sex based replication.
Pretty much no one is doing string appending to build SQL statements for a long time now. You use positional parameters [0] which also addresses problem of SQL injection attacks.
My Pentium 166 MMX running Windows 95 and Winamp 0.x got 100% loaded while playing my first ever mp3 file - brought home on 3 floppy disks. That's why games of that era were using CD Audio for soundtrack or tracker music like Unreal or Deus Ex.
Train to Lviv, take a cab, cross the border to Rzeszow (Ukrainians are allowed to enter EU for 90 days,) take a train to Warsaw, fly wherever you want.