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I love that the EDA industry still uses Tcl heavily. Warms my heart.

It's a tough situation. Once you have an installed base, your hands get tied. I miss the early days when I could rework the UI and UX of the product regularly. Now there is a lot of legwork to make sure we're not changing existing workflows (documented or undocumented). That said, I like that we're making money, so I can't complain too much.

I viscerally understand how companies can get stuck and unable to change their products significantly because their installed base will revolt. It's a tough situation.

> has still not managed to land a single person on the Moon.

How about, "has still not _decided_ to land a single person on the Moon."

It sounds like OP's ROI calculator and yours are different.

I remember playing SQ2 on a "laptop" my dad brought home from work. It had 4 shades of dark blue and shimmered like crazy when anything moved. What a cool experience.

I'm not sure how my dad (Mechanical Engineer) would have figured this out, but I think he ran the DOS equivalent of `strings(1)` to dump the list of strings in old Sierra games (I want to say KQIV), to find hints about what might be possible. I wonder if he remembers. It was probably much cheaper than whatever Sierra hint hotline I wanted to call at the time.

The Transformers: The Movie soundtrack got me through this morning's workout. Highly recommended.

Riding the train in St. Louis after Strange Loop was an experience. Strangely, things were crazier on the way out to the bar than coming home...

I still feel burned about how I put a hard-earned loonie into a Dragon's Lair machine and immediately died. At least at Street Fighter I got a few rounds in.

Dragon's Lair was beautifully animated, innovative, and absolutely not for me. I'm not sure if it's a game, to be honest. :) It's fun to look back at old tech, seeing the ideas that didn't quite land.

Our customer workloads are bursty, so being able to scale down to 0 (or close to it) saves us a lot of CPU and memory that would otherwise do nothing for most of the day.

I don't want to waste food, but I need to regularly remind myself that overeating is also wasting food.

Interesting take on a ~50 year cultural phenomenon with millions of fans. Maybe next time you could write "I don't like Star Wars" instead "Star Wars never good." That would be more accurate.

I'd like to give a shout out to SaskPower and SaskEnergy, the crown companies that responsible for electricity and power in Saskatchewan. They're not perfect, and it's easy to gripe about them, but on the whole I'm very happy with the service we receive.

Also see SGI for auto insurance and SaskTel. We pay less for better service than anywhere else in Canada.

Once in a while we are blessed with these people who are completely authentic to themselves, incredibly talented, and willing to share with us. Let's be thankful.

Why does Prince (or Björk or Bowie) do anything? Only they know.

Wow, this outstanding. Thanks for the link. Always amazed at the creativity of these rom hackers.

Linking to Lunar Magic, the community's Super Mario World editor that likely spurred Nintendo to create Mario Maker in the first place.

https://fusoya.eludevisibility.org/lm/

Also, go check out the Grand Poo World III videos. Absolutely peak Mario.

For me, the highlight was FFVI. Square was firing on all cylinders on the SNES. FFVII started the tilt into anime and, aside from FFIX, they've continued to lean into that. I don't care for it.

Luckily the indie developers (and even teams within Square Enix) have taken up the mantle. Chained Echoes, Sea of Stars, the Star Ocean Remake, the Tactics Ogre remake, Crosscode, the Seiken Densetu 3 remake, Live A Live, SaGa Frontier 3, the Octopath Traveler games - they're quite good, and that's just in the last few years! Maybe not to everyone's taste, but they are well made games and there's no shortage of good stuff to play.

I've been following @MrmoTarius on twitter for a while and I'm just loving their work. This CRT filter is just wonderful.

https://mrmotarius.itch.io/mrmocrt

(The scuffed paper and cross-stitch filters are very good too.)

Question for this group:

Do those iOS call blocker apps like RoboShield work? I'm not sure which conference sold me out (all of them) but I get 5+ calls a day of nonsense and I'm getting tired of it.

I live in my hometown. It's not a big city, but the tech scene is surprisingly good and I think objectively it's a pretty good place to live.

Many of my friends have moved to bigger cities and we'll try to get together when they're in town. Inevitably the conversation turns to, "how are your parents doing?" and often it's not good news. People used to come home for fun, but now it's usually because something bad happened.

On another post I mentioned my parents' policy of, "if I didn't call you, I don't want it" and I am thankful every day for the problems we don't have.

Yup. My girlfriend's dad was an IBM mainframe troubleshooter in the 80s. IBM would tell him to be on a plane in 45 minutes, go fix a mainframe, and then go do it again. I think he burned out after a few years, or maybe he quit when they told him to cut his hair. I know I don't have the constitution to be in permanent fire-fighting mode and short notice on-call like that.

He's been a high school teacher ever since.

My parents have always had the policy of, "if I didn't call you, I don't want it." I didn't understand it as a kid (being told to hang up the phone a lot), but the policy has saved us all a lot of heartache and I've adopted it for myself.

Let's give some credit to one of the better games ever made, Star Control 2, which had 3000+ planets and a rich story and wonderfully-written characters. I'm surprised no one has brought it up yet.

It's worth noting that because the authors (Fred Ford and Paul Reiche) are such great people, the game has been freely available for a long time now.

https://sc2.sourceforge.net/

> Remember: ALL HATS HAVE SOME FLAWS, IMPERFECTIONS, AND IRREGULARITIES. If I bought only absolutely perfect hats, then I would never buy any hats.

Seems like a life lesson that can be applied generally.

Let's see the list!

Let's see the list! I'm interested!

"Beer is liquid bread, it's good for you" - They Might Be Giants

Sure there are financial realities, but sometimes the sponsor and the logo fits the vibe of the team really nicely. Inter and Pirelli, Barca and Unicef, Arsenal and O2, Newcastle and... Newcastle.

Credit where credit's due, the NHL has some really great jerseys going on right now.

I love it! Thanks for putting this together.

Yeah, those old tools got a lot of use for good reason. I've been trying to think of perl as a super-(awk|sed|grep) lately, and perl does it so well.

I think jq brings a lot of that cool awk mentality forward. I'm consistently impressed by all of the neat things it can do.