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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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</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).
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</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.
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C++ without class, constructors, destructors, most overloading and the STL? Wow.