Jeema101

I took this same port (SDL Sopwith) and ported it to Gamecube a number of years back [1]. It was surprisingly not that hard to do. As you said, most of the work was in the porting to SDL. The guy who did the SDL port was Simon Howard, by the way.

[1] https://code.google.com/archive/p/gamecubesopwith/

> z-index should be called z-order or depth and should Just Work on all elements (like it does on flex items).

Z-index is one of the most aggravating things I've run into with CSS. It should always Just Work as the author says and be absolute across the whole page and intuitive. But it isn't. And every time I run into a problem where it's not behaving in the way I expect, I have to once again Google 'z index not working' and refresh my memory on all the reasons why it might not be working with the specific example I'm dealing with.

I thought about going but wasn't sure if it was actually happening or not. There were almost no updates on the website, Facebook, or Twitch in the time leading up to it and during the weekend. This is actually the first confirmation I'm hearing that it actually happened.

5 Years Out! (TM). Just in time for fully automated self-driving cars! /s

It also had other 4-color RGB modes other than magenta, cyan, white, and black, but that was the most commonly used one back in the day (even though it looked terrible IMO).

For example, here's a game (Kings Quest II) where they used the red, green, and brown palette with the background set to blue. A mode like that gave better options for color dithering since R G and B were all available, see here:

https://www.mobygames.com/game/123/kings-quest-ii-romancing-...

I was at a retro barcade not too long ago and came across an old Centipede machine.

Maybe this machine just had a really good CRT in it, but the level of intense brightness against the pitch black background was honestly sort of mesmerizing. I had forgotten just how good CRTs were in that regard.

(A little bit off-topic from what the guy in the video is discussing, but I thought it's worth mentioning since it could be another reason why people have such fond memories of CRT gaming.)

Maybe it's just because I'm old and grumpy and have seen lots of things come and go, but I don't understand how some frontend devs even have this much time to obsess over their tools.

It would be like car guys spending more time arguing about whether Snap-on is better than Craftsman than actually talking about and working on cars.

A lot of it isn't actually news at all: it's news entertainment.

It's very similar to how professional wrestling isn't real wrestling, but actually 'wrestling entertainment'.

I call this the 'WWE-ification' of the news and politics.

I was at an airshow years ago. The whole thing was interrupted at one point because a commercial airliner in the vicinity had to make an emergency landing at the airport that the airshow was being held at due to an engine problem.

The plane landed with power to only one engine (according to the announcers), but you would have never even known there was anything wrong. It just looked like any other landing.

"But then we're stuck with gorillas!"

In addition, a lot of the lower-end CGA monitors at the time didn't have real great native resolution (i.e. the 'dot pitch'). They would generally be fine for playing games in low res mode, but not that great for doing business work in high res mode.

The better CGA monitors had finer dot pitch, but those were usually more expensive.

They could but AM signals have a much larger range compared to FM. FM is mostly line-of-sight - AM signals aren't because they get bounced off the upper atmosphere back to the ground.

I had a similar experience at a doctor's office in my city. I was actually somewhat shocked to see ads in the actual patient room - it was an immediate turn-off.

I've since found another doctor.

I think the problem wasn't the talc itself, but that it was contaminated with asbestos in the process of mining the talc and turning it into talcum powder.

So presumably it's been addressed through closer monitoring, but the article does say that they plan to phase out talcum powder worldwide and replace it with cornstarch powder.

Edit: Apparently there are some studies which suggest talc itself could also be carcinogenic. I suppose this may be one reason why the issue is so confusing, because it's really 2 issues in one: a) whether talc that's sold is contaminated with asbestos, and b) whether talc itself is carcinogenic.

>This is because the Fed’s trillions of dollars of long-term investments yield 2% but cost 4.6% to finance.

This statement isn't exactly true because the cost to finance the purchases of Treasuries during quantitative easing was not 4.6% when the purchases were made.

They would be losing money only if they were now selling those Treasuries at market rate, but they aren't doing that - they're just letting them roll off the balance sheet as they reach maturity.

>At the very least, this warrants taking claims of long COVID seriously, does it not?

Well clearly those Ebola survivors are also grifters who are 'just depressed'.

It's grifters and depression all the way down!

/s

It's true that there was never a true reconciliation after the war.

But that being said, I don't agree that giving in to sectionalism is the answer.

We have more in common most of the time than the news entertainment industry would lead us to believe.

Your comment isn't entirely relevant to the subject of the article. The article is about how the US fertility rate is at about 1.6 now. That's not enough to keep the population from shrinking.

That's the author's point about why the U.S. will need immigration in some form or another going forward, because the only alternative will be a shrinking population and an increasingly older demographic.

I don't share your experience that work politics have to be a fact of life, but I've worked at mostly smaller companies (non start ups). I think it's probably harder to form cliques at a smaller company where there's less people and everyone kind of knows each other. Maybe something to consider.

They're switches, and it looks like it's set to mSv/h based on your English overlay. So 11.37 mSv/h, or .01137 Sv/h - about 4 1/2 times the level of the typical background radiation.

This comment is totally off topic. The theme of the article is pop culture and whether it's possible for alternative types of pop culture to gain traction anymore given the fact that most of the outlets are governed by algorithms that prioritize engagement - you're referring to toxic culture war politics. Did you even read the article?

Don't think so. There's clearly the beginning of a while loop near the top of the obfuscated version. There's no loops at all in the 'de-obfuscated' version.

I think hitting F5 and using the arrow keys in-game should allow you to decrease the size of the gameplay window to try to increase performance. You might try that if you haven't already...

Okay but assuming there's no exposed metal parts, is one of these radios with a polarized cord really more dangerous than a regular old two pronged lamp with a polarized cord?

If you plug that lamp into an outlet with positive and neutral wired wrong you will have mains voltage on the light bulb threads and socket threads instead of ground, and that's gonna be pretty unsafe for anyone changing the bulb.

But lamps are so common, we don't even think about them as safety hazards.

This is known as sprite multiplexing and was used on other systems as well to get around the hardware limits of 'max number of sprites per scanline'.

With the phosphor persistence on old CRT televisions, sometimes the flicker wasn't even really noticeable if it was done right - the sprite would just appear to get a little bit dimmer on-screen.

It's as if nobody's learned anything from the 'self-driving car' boondoggle of the last 20 years or so.

Any problem can seem easy when you don't know the things you don't know.

There is no conspiracy. The main article (linked to in the first sentence of this one) says pretty clearly:

"While anyone can get monkeypox, to date the majority of confirmed cases outside of the endemic regions in Africa occurred in young or middle-aged men who have sex with men (MSM) who had recent sexual contact with new or multiple partners."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_monkeypox_outbreak

I'm younger than you, but one of my hobbies is messing around with old video game systems and arcade hardware.

You're absolutely right - there's something almost magical in the elegant simplicity of those old computing systems.

The sit down cockpit version of After Burner that rotated was especially awesome.

For anyone who doesn't know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVMmFD9mzCI

The Case-Shiller home price index seems to indicate otherwise recently:

https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/indices/indicators/sp-core...

If the bottom of the housing market experiences a drop in sales, then the result would be that the median price would indeed appear to continue increasing for some time unless you are matching past sales to present sales using comparable houses. Maybe that is what's happening here?