bernds74

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by bernds74 12d ago
You need to add Chess-Network to your usual suspects.
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by bernds74 3mo ago
The London Underground have been doing it in reverse for a long time. "There is good service on the Piccadilly line."
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by bernds74 3mo ago
I would argue that even the basic concept behind STL is misguided. The rationale I often see is "you only need N algorithms for M container type, instead of N*M". This ignores the fact that algorithms and data structures are not i
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by bernds74 4mo ago
I had a chemistry teacher who told us that hydrogen reacts violently with oxygen, and this is how the hydrogen bomb works.
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by bernds74 7mo ago
A brand new pair of brogues, rattlin' o'er the bogs...
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by bernds74 10mo ago
There's this: https://www.ifwiki.org/ZILF https://zilf.io/ Although I haven't played with it and can't tell you whether it can compile the open source Zork.
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by bernds74 11mo ago
"if let" just breaks my brain, it feels backwards to me and takes me a minute each time to work out what's going on. In 40 years of programming I've never seen a syntactic construct that I found less intuitive. And it wo
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by bernds74 1y ago
Same here. Hollow Knight was simply wonderful - the graphics, the music, the characters, the boss fight designs, the melancholic feeling of the world. It's hard to say whether it was my best gaming experience ever because there's
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by bernds74 1y ago
It is that bad, at least for me. I enjoyed the first 8 hours of Silksong, but it turned very quickly after that because the punishments were just completely outweighing the rewards. No health upgrade in that time, no meaningful combat upgra
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by bernds74 1y ago
With everything doing 2 points of damage, including environmental hazards, the player is at effectively 2.5 hitpoints for a large majority of Act 1, as opposed to 5 in Hollow Knight. This changes the feeling of the game from "oh, a cha
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by bernds74 1y ago
It was slightly more fiery than a mere "observation", hence "anomaly".
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by bernds74 1y ago
Some guy once famously noted that wealth is not measured in gold or silver, but in goods and services. Mansa Musa didn't have a Ferrari F40, or an RTX4090, or air conditioning. He couldn't buy a trip to low earth orbit or get canc
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by bernds74 1y ago
Perhaps this is a good place to mention that someone is working on remaking the SMAC engine, the project is called "glsmac" on github. Unit graphics seem to be one of the major sticking points since the game used some kind of anci
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by bernds74 1y ago
For interactive fiction at least there are still people interested in it, and people are preserving Infocom history in particular. Other games might get forgotten over time unfortunately, especially on more obscure systems. Nobody ever brin
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by bernds74 1y ago
Well, clicked on it thinking it might be about an old favourite Infocom game, but apparently it appears to be about an old favourite Firaxis game... Are you the author of the web site? Please make sure the PgDn key works for scrolling throu
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by bernds74 1y ago
Actually it means "sex, drugs and rock'n'roll".
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by bernds74 1y ago
You should be so lucky.
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by bernds74 2y ago
How do we actually know these browser forks don't contain malware of their own? If you can hide something in a tiny package like xz-utils... and a browser would seem to be a very juicy target.
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by bernds74 2y ago
To me this has always sounded like the kind of error-prone excessive cleverness that I wouldn't want anywhere near my version control system.
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by bernds74 2y ago
Nice to see that traditions are upheld, such as the unreadable font and colors.
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by bernds74 2y ago
Mercedes have figured those out already. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e21ZjwZGjiQ
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by bernds74 2y ago
Donald could be pretty dense at times.
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by bernds74 2y ago
I first opened it in Firefox on Linux. I think whatever subpixel rendering it's trying to do doesn't work with light fonts on dark background, there is blurriness and colour fringes. It seems to look a little better in Chromium. J
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by bernds74 2y ago
I'm interested, but... could I convince you to change the font and the colours into something that makes the site readable? Very thin font, light on dark, very little contrast is about the worst case for readability.
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by bernds74 3y ago
Racing sims are the killer app, because depth perception really helps with sense of speed, and tight corners on a monitor are often outside the field of view and you can't just turn your head to look at them. Even then, it's not s
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by bernds74 3y ago
Properly indenting code is fine. Now try modifying that code, like removing an if statement inside somewhat nested code and trying to ensure that everything still has the same meaning as before. With Python, you can never be sure you did it
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by bernds74 3y ago
I beg to differ. Early 90s there were some Amiga memory expansions that would constantly flip bits. I'm pretty sure it contributed to the sentiment that the system wasn't the most stable, although I'm pretty sure one or two o
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by bernds74 3y ago
"I would have done it from this other approach". I've seen that, and it's not good when you get the feeling of "code review is when someone who hasn't thought about your problem tells you how you should have so
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by bernds74 3y ago
Not really. It comes across as an extremely contrived example, motivated by a desire to show one language is better, and misusing the other language in order to arrive at that goal. In other words, typical tiresome language evangelism. I th
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by bernds74 3y ago
The full version goes: "We are Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be approximated."

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