My development PC running linux (I don’t use Arch, BTW) + Steam has by far the most games I’m interested in playing. Games that I have played my entire life run great, through DOSBox, Proton, native, or console emulators.
That being said, I still have a huge soft spot from my old 3DS and wish I still had it. Sure the Switch is great, but the 3DS had so many fun little quirky features that it was just fun to use as well as play games on.
By almost every measure, the world is better than it has ever been. Violence, poverty, starvation are all at or near record lows worldwide. Average lifespans are way up. We are just way, way more aware of what is going on in the world, and bad news drives more clicks than good news.
There are some cracks, no doubt. For example climate change is showing its ugly head, inequality is rising in the US and some other developed countries, and lifespans are taking a slight dip in parts of the US. But, compared to almost anywhere at any time during history, this is a golden age.
And not just any god, but the right god and worship in the right way? People were literally killing each other over whether altars should have rails around them or not and how a church’s middle management should be organized.
Albuquerque had little shorts guy. Walked around Central Ave near the university wearing naught but a tiny, tiny pair of shorts or thong and usually carrying an anti-war/pro-gay sign. Pretty fun fellow to talk to, but was too into drinking urine imho.
Other than a slew of Nintendo titles that maybe hopefully will come down in price (the patient gamers’ bane), I have my eye on the next time Divinity: Original Sin 2 goes on sale. A friend who never plays anything other than WoW loved playing Larian’s newest with me and I’m trying to get her to pick this up. Pretty sure...
System Shock (2023) just had a big new patch and is just about to tick over the one year mark. Seems like a great time to play it again for the first time.
I’m one of them. For a lot of reasons my partner and I want to move, but we have a 3% mortgage. Even though we have a large amount of equity, we still can’t afford to buy now. I’m looking a getting a loan from my parents, which is ridiculous considering our situation but almost 8% interest rates mean our payment would just about double from what we have now.
Take a look at what even the proposer is saying wouldn’t be allowed in:
<span style="color:#323232;"> (1) new and delete. There's no way to pass GFP_* flags in.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;"> (2) Constructors and destructors. Nests of implicit code makes the code less
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> obvious, and the replacement of static initialisation with constructor
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> calls would make the code size larger.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> (3) Exceptions and RTTI. RTTI would bulk the kernel up too much and
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> exception handling is limited without it, and since destructors are not
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> allowed, you still have to manually clean up after an error.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> (4) Operator overloading (except in special cases).
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> (5) Function overloading (except in special inline cases).
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</span><span style="color:#323232;"> (6) STL (though some type trait bits are needed to replace __builtins that
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> don't exist in g++).
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> (7) 'class', 'private', 'namespace'.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;"> (8) 'virtual'. Don't want virtual base classes, though virtual function
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> tables might make operations tables more efficient.
</span>
C++ without class, constructors, destructors, most overloading and the STL? Wow.
I’ve only worked on a few embedded systems where C++ was even an option, but they allowed 2, 4, 5, and 7. Though, for the most part most classes were simple interfaces to some sort of SPI/I2C/CAN/EtherCAT device, most of which were singletons.
There was an interesting physics paper recently that suggested that time travel was possible, but you wouldn’t be able to travel to before when the machine was built. Of course, it also would require an impossibly huge amount on energy, but that’s a problem for the engineers.
There are hundreds of lazy low-budget cyberpunk movies that flooded the (direct-to-video) market in the 80s and 90s. Stuff like Crime Zone, Nemesis, or Omega Doom. So what cyberpunk movies can you admit are objectively bad yet still hold a place in your heart?
Man, now I’m nostalgic for my 3DS. I sold it when I got a Switch, which is a nice system but the 3DS had so many fun little things about it like Streetpass.
I met a girl that I’m interested in and enjoys comics like I do, would something like asking her out to a comic store be dumb? I have a hard time talking to girls so not sure if this would be a dumb idea.
That was the path I took, but I remember a few college friends and several professors had a Zip drive, as did many of the computers in the lab. By the time I had the money and the need for something like that, 1Gb flash drives were cheaper.
When I was a very junior EE I ended up working mostly on microcontroller code. There was one bit of extremely ugly code I inherited that parsed a terribly designed serial communication protocol by using a giant maze of nested if statements. I really wanted to rewrite it to something better, but I never quite came up a solution while I worked there. Years later after I was no longer at the company I had a stress dream about it and finally came up with a working solution. I still wish I could go fix it. I really hope it’s no longer used, or that someone else has finally fixed it.
Gotta use all those brain cells (sh.itjust.works)
New adventuring party just dropped
Older patient gamers: what is your preferred gaming platform?
I used to be a PC-only gamer but the older I get the more I gravitate toward very ‘simple’ platforms....
Are things just shittier or are we more aware of shittiness?
So true (sh.itjust.works)
Games that still need more patience: what games released a year ago (or older) are you waiting for a sale on? Or that need another patch?
Other than a slew of Nintendo titles that maybe hopefully will come down in price (the patient gamers’ bane), I have my eye on the next time Divinity: Original Sin 2 goes on sale. A friend who never plays anything other than WoW loved playing Larian’s newest with me and I’m trying to get her to pick this up. Pretty sure...
A Huge Number of Homeowners Have Mortgage Rates Too Good to Give Up (www.nytimes.com)
Supreme leader mad (sh.itjust.works)
The reason why we never meet time travelers is because our civilization ends before the technology can come to fruition.
Sort of similar to the Great Filter theory, but applied to time travel technology.
What's your favorite *bad* cyberpunk movie? (lemmy.zip)
There are hundreds of lazy low-budget cyberpunk movies that flooded the (direct-to-video) market in the 80s and 90s. Stuff like Crime Zone, Nemesis, or Omega Doom. So what cyberpunk movies can you admit are objectively bad yet still hold a place in your heart?
xkcd #2915: Eclipse Clouds (imgs.xkcd.com)
xkcd.com/2915...
I want Nintendo Streetpass in my life again... (beetoons.tv)
3Ds doesnt feel like retro gaming…but it has been a while. I found this on a peertube instance, so figured this community might like it.
fossils (mander.xyz)
Asking a girl out for comic book store date?
I met a girl that I’m interested in and enjoys comics like I do, would something like asking her out to a comic store be dumb? I have a hard time talking to girls so not sure if this would be a dumb idea.
Did anyone have Iomega Zip drives where they studied/worked/lived?
Where I was it went from 3.5" floppies to USB drives. (There were CDs, but not as easy for things like schoolwork.)...
Games rule (lemmy.world)
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