I installed Homebrew Channel and got all our Wii games ripped to a USB stick. That was far easier and cheaper than to replace the failing DVD player in the Wii. Now the kids can still play all our old Wii games when…
And good enough does not mean "as good as". Companies happily outsource programming jobs to worse, but much cheaper, programmers, all the time.
My favorite documentary I have not seen (yet), I Dream of Wires from 2013, about modular synthesizers. I know in some trailer there was a maker of modules saying something to the effect that if only people actually…
I don't think I ever had a A4 printer that could not also print Letter. It is almost certainly the exact same models that they also sell in the US, but with just some bit flipped in the firmware to change the default…
Not sure what they are referring to, but it may be that you can declare things as having one of several types (e.g. int|string|void) or even that something can be any type at all (i.e. turn off static type-checking for…
From what I remember of working with Pike, the best part was probably the included image module. Maybe I will install Pike again just to see if I still like it. https://pike.lysator.liu.se/docs/man/chapter_13.html
Is that really true? It is true for me, but I always assumed that is just because I were younger last century. In 1990 I could easily tell if someone was looking like 1980, but today I could never guess if someone…
I am not into this end-of-the-world collapse thing at all, but I like reading about the strong focus on simplicity and support for limited hardware. There is a lot of talk about keeping things simple in software, but…
Clean hierarchy? How do I even guess if some config-file is hidden in ~/.config/ or ~/.local/share? I never figured that out. Looking at the contents of those directories here I can't guess better than a coin-toss. Why…
Why all this MASM hate? I barely ever used it, but I noticed that MASM 5.1 is included (together with MSC 5.1 and various other Microsoft tools from 1988) in Microsoft's MIT-licensed MS-DOS repo. Trying some hello world…
Screenshot shows program in GW-BASIC 3.23 from 1988. I tried it in GW-BASIC 1.0 (the version Microsoft released with a free license a few years ago) and it worked as expected. It also worked well in PC-BASIC.…
Later (~1990's) gamebook series like Fable Lands or Critical IF (AKA Virtual Reality) improved on the mechanics so much that I find it difficult to go back to earlier types of books like FF or Lone Wolf except for…
That seems to be a problem that is getting worse with time though, with increasingly frequent "major" releases and fewer that consider backwards compatibility much at all. Also it used to be much more common to have…
It is sad that searching online is so much more convenient, since between downloading dumps of Stack Exchange sites and downloading the full documentation for programming languages and libraries I use it would be easy…
It probably ships with python on some platforms. Pretty sure it does on Windows. But it does not really have a python API. Most (all?) extensions that ship with Inkscape are written in python, and it comes with some…
Currently reading The BLUE Book About GW-BASIC and QuickBasic (Thomas C. McIntire, 1991, https://github.com/robhagemans/hoard-of-gwbasic). It is full of fascinating and somewhat horrible advice. For rendering text-mode…
Windows 95 had a horrible reputation for games in the early days, for good reasons or not (maybe mostly because how bad Windows 3.x was for games?). Quake was possibly the first mainstream game that managed to convince…
But work from home has revealed how wrong that was and returning to office is a waste of limited free time that we are not compensated for.
Functions are not always pure, no. Clojure is not so strict about I/O, meaning that function could for instance call out to make a database request. But I think that is unrelated to immutability or ownership of data?…
Did you look at Janet? Of course there are many other embeddable LISPs, but I think in particular Janet is a good, light, (subset of) Clojure-like language. It is built into TIC-80 by default, making it already useful…
I do that as well and also in almost all my personal documents on most (but not all) topics. All the books and most online forums I read are in English. I rather have documents uniformly in Swedish English (en-SE?) than…
Or Mode X in some DOS games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_X
How new is this engine? It was renamed to "Castle Game Engine" (from "Kambi VRML Game Engine") in 2011. Version 1.0.0 was released in 2007. Not sure if there were even older releases?…
I installed Homebrew Channel and got all our Wii games ripped to a USB stick. That was far easier and cheaper than to replace the failing DVD player in the Wii. Now the kids can still play all our old Wii games when…
And good enough does not mean "as good as". Companies happily outsource programming jobs to worse, but much cheaper, programmers, all the time.
My favorite documentary I have not seen (yet), I Dream of Wires from 2013, about modular synthesizers. I know in some trailer there was a maker of modules saying something to the effect that if only people actually…
I don't think I ever had a A4 printer that could not also print Letter. It is almost certainly the exact same models that they also sell in the US, but with just some bit flipped in the firmware to change the default…
Not sure what they are referring to, but it may be that you can declare things as having one of several types (e.g. int|string|void) or even that something can be any type at all (i.e. turn off static type-checking for…
From what I remember of working with Pike, the best part was probably the included image module. Maybe I will install Pike again just to see if I still like it. https://pike.lysator.liu.se/docs/man/chapter_13.html
Is that really true? It is true for me, but I always assumed that is just because I were younger last century. In 1990 I could easily tell if someone was looking like 1980, but today I could never guess if someone…
I am not into this end-of-the-world collapse thing at all, but I like reading about the strong focus on simplicity and support for limited hardware. There is a lot of talk about keeping things simple in software, but…
Clean hierarchy? How do I even guess if some config-file is hidden in ~/.config/ or ~/.local/share? I never figured that out. Looking at the contents of those directories here I can't guess better than a coin-toss. Why…
Why all this MASM hate? I barely ever used it, but I noticed that MASM 5.1 is included (together with MSC 5.1 and various other Microsoft tools from 1988) in Microsoft's MIT-licensed MS-DOS repo. Trying some hello world…
Screenshot shows program in GW-BASIC 3.23 from 1988. I tried it in GW-BASIC 1.0 (the version Microsoft released with a free license a few years ago) and it worked as expected. It also worked well in PC-BASIC.…
Later (~1990's) gamebook series like Fable Lands or Critical IF (AKA Virtual Reality) improved on the mechanics so much that I find it difficult to go back to earlier types of books like FF or Lone Wolf except for…
That seems to be a problem that is getting worse with time though, with increasingly frequent "major" releases and fewer that consider backwards compatibility much at all. Also it used to be much more common to have…
It is sad that searching online is so much more convenient, since between downloading dumps of Stack Exchange sites and downloading the full documentation for programming languages and libraries I use it would be easy…
It probably ships with python on some platforms. Pretty sure it does on Windows. But it does not really have a python API. Most (all?) extensions that ship with Inkscape are written in python, and it comes with some…
Currently reading The BLUE Book About GW-BASIC and QuickBasic (Thomas C. McIntire, 1991, https://github.com/robhagemans/hoard-of-gwbasic). It is full of fascinating and somewhat horrible advice. For rendering text-mode…
Windows 95 had a horrible reputation for games in the early days, for good reasons or not (maybe mostly because how bad Windows 3.x was for games?). Quake was possibly the first mainstream game that managed to convince…
But work from home has revealed how wrong that was and returning to office is a waste of limited free time that we are not compensated for.
Functions are not always pure, no. Clojure is not so strict about I/O, meaning that function could for instance call out to make a database request. But I think that is unrelated to immutability or ownership of data?…
Did you look at Janet? Of course there are many other embeddable LISPs, but I think in particular Janet is a good, light, (subset of) Clojure-like language. It is built into TIC-80 by default, making it already useful…
I do that as well and also in almost all my personal documents on most (but not all) topics. All the books and most online forums I read are in English. I rather have documents uniformly in Swedish English (en-SE?) than…
Or Mode X in some DOS games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_X
How new is this engine? It was renamed to "Castle Game Engine" (from "Kambi VRML Game Engine") in 2011. Version 1.0.0 was released in 2007. Not sure if there were even older releases?…