Asooka

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by Asooka 20d ago
That's better than the games not being made in the first place because the Ministry of Culture deems it unimportant and puerile, which is what happens in Communism. You also can't have indies, because you can't publish anythi
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by Asooka 22d ago
There was a lot of discussion around the time it was being removed[0], but it seems the glibc people simply didn't want the support burden and Emacs was the single user of that interface. I think the issues could have been resolved by
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by Asooka 26d ago
If writing a GUI was as easy and stable as writing a TUI, yeah we should write more GUIs. I can run practically any ancient TUI program on a terminal emulator, but running a GUI program that uses an older version of GTK means going through
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by Asooka 28d ago
I did, but found it somewhat boring. Yes, I did get to the stuff you're thinking about, but personally it felt too forced. The game was trying to present itself as breaking the fourth wall in a way that is impossible with something bui
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by Asooka 29d ago
You could have also learned how to edit the saves to give yourself the radio :) . A tall ask of an 8-year-old of course, but not beyond the realm of possibility. Funny you mention Bennett Foddy's Getting Over It, because that's ki
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by Asooka 29d ago
Or the author could get in touch with GoG, who currently distribute several classic Sierra games. I'm sure they would be happy to offer patched versions.
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by Asooka 29d ago
I think of them as legalised marijuana. It is not good for you, but if it were made illegal, there will be criminal organisations providing the service. Without patents, we would be mired in NDAs dictating which company can talk to which ot
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by Asooka 1mo ago
I like the idea, but I hate how verbose it is. Would be nice if there was also a macro that would transform all arithmetic within a block into algebraic arithmetic. The name is also a bit misleading, as I would expect "alebraic_add&quo
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by Asooka 2mo ago
The "nuclear waste" argument is so weird to me. We take radioactive rocks from the ground. Make them less radioactive. Put them back in the ground. There is no output that wasn't dug up out of the ground originally. It would
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by Asooka 2mo ago
Well no, the software should be configured in its best state by default. Otherwise you run into the case where the user has to read the documentation like a legal contract to find all the footguns that need disabling. If STRICT is strictly
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by Asooka 2mo ago
The entire reason for integer under/overflow to be undefined is to enable compiler optimisations. If you're going to be using unsigned anyway, we might as well drop the undefined behaviour from the standard and just say it's
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by Asooka 3mo ago
Reverse engineering may be easy for really simple inventions, but quickly becomes so hard you may as well invent the thing from scratch. Look at USSR's domestic chip production. At one point they succeeded in reverse-engineering chips
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by Asooka 3mo ago
Would be helpful to show how this compares to other C++ std replacements, e.g. Abseil and Folly.
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by Asooka 3mo ago
In general I would like to see a web browser escape sequence for console applications. Just send a command to the terminal to connect a web browser to your stdin/out and present any UI you want over html. The terminal can then open a r
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by Asooka 3mo ago
Wayland was started 18 years ago. When it was conceived, X11 was 20 years old. In 2 years, we should probably start talking about replacing Wayland with a modern display server... In all seriousness, it is another stark reminder why you nev
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by Asooka 3mo ago
> To do both, they’ll have to guarantee that that column of water stays isolated from groundwater for a long time after the fuel is used up. I wonder if just letting the water gradually dissolve the uranium might not be fine, actually. I
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by Asooka 3mo ago
This sounds like a gaming club. A small one, but a gaming club. Those exist, we have them all over. You pay for them in a variety of ways, in this case the way being forced seizure of wealth aka taxes. Other ways are via profit from sales o
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by Asooka 3mo ago
> That was probably the most surprising part of the entire experiment: internally, Windows has changed enormously over the decades, yet the application interface has stayed so stable that code written in the mid-1980s still looks complet
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by Asooka 3mo ago
So this is the USA under Trump. Anti-semitism as official government policy. Didn't take long for him to show his true colours as dictator.
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by Asooka 4mo ago
What is the issue with building for Windows 7 target on Windows 10/11 host? Not that the team is obligated to support ancient OSes, but I am not following their justification. If it is just the fact that they can't properly test i
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by Asooka 4mo ago
That is a clear-cut case of extortion. The defence is having the police do their job and apprehend the criminals in question. If you screen incoming messages and stop them from reaching their target, extortionists will switch to publicly re
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by Asooka 4mo ago
That sounds preposterous, it's the same word no matter your accent. I am sticking to my version.
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by Asooka 4mo ago
Eh, every term for disabled people becomes a slur. Moron->idiot->retard (the latter being so unacceptable in modern speech it is labelled by the kids as "the hard r"). But you are right, we should simply not use terms for di
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by Asooka 4mo ago
Ideally I would want the code review to be versioned as well with easily accessible history. That is, I would like to see the exact lines which a comment pertains to and when they were changed and switch back and forth. While e-mail is prob
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by Asooka 4mo ago
Wouldn't this break Go and other build systems (npm?) that pull packages from github by default? Not that I endorse the practise, but will Microsoft really kick out such a big class of users?
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by Asooka 4mo ago
I honestly do not think source code will be all that useful. Make it so redistribution, decompilation, reverse-engineering and reimplementation is legal after sales stop and that covers it.
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by Asooka 4mo ago
Joe can walk into an Apple store (or wherever they purchased the device) and ask them to enable parental controls on it. We have people whose job it is to service computers and phones, they have been around for more than half a century. I a
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by Asooka 4mo ago
Parental controls can set browsers in "child mode" where the browser sends an "I am a child" header to the server and social networks etc. need to honour it. This has existed for twelve years already: https://
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by Asooka 4mo ago
Or keep stealing IMEI IDs. Now regular people will start getting banned from the internet because of bot activity. You would open your phone one day and see "You have been disconnected from society" and there will be nothing you c
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by Asooka 4mo ago
Google would throw homeless people in a furnace to generate electricity for their datacentres if they could. No, this is not sarcasm, I fully expect they would if they could.

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