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cobalt··on C++ Workflow: C++ Parallel Computing and Asynchronous Networking Engine
maybe age of the project?
cobalt··on C++20: Building a Thread-Pool with Coroutines
also the memory management model in c++ is much more complex - most other languages just use garbage collection to deal with reference lifetimes
cobalt··on Twitter's subscription service might cost $3 per month
twitter lets you mute words so posts with them don't show up (from anyone I believe). I highly recommend it
cobalt··on Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fck-overlays/ppedo...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ffck-overlays...

cobalt··on Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands
or any company that has their hands in everything
cobalt··on The productivity of working from home: Evidence from Japan
depends on where you work. my last job did that (~20 engineers) and everyone had a dedicated desk
cobalt··on The Physics of baking good Pizza [pdf]
Mozzaria is also great in SF
cobalt··on Are we game yet? – A guide to the Rust game development ecosystem
I'm gonna guess 90% those are physics errors either in logic (bunny hopping) or issues with floating point/bad geometry/overlooked design (doors that push you out of the world) if you stand behind them as they ope
cobalt··on Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
WinAmp doesnt
cobalt··on Robert Gore has died
PTFE is used in like a gazillion things
cobalt··on Pure Skill Minesweeper
Heh, i happened to have just written a minesweeper clone https://desu.io/minesweeper.html
cobalt··on Tired of note-taking apps
I'm not a daily note taking type of person but I have a notepad on my desk for doodling, sublime/notepad.exe for quick scratch pad stuff, and a todo app for longer term things
cobalt··on Windows98 Running in the Browser
was Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 & later 2 for me
cobalt··on OpenDiablo2
beyond the obvious 'do it to show that i can' and similar reasons, one less obvious reason may be that often people want to mod these games and its easier than either making a reproduction or using hacks. Having the actual code the game runs (even if decompiled) allows you to both learn how things were done, as well as modify them and improve them.

Many people starting out in games development often want to make games like RPGs to emulate a favorite game they play, but want to experiment with their own rules/mechanics

cobalt··on The Beauty of Unix Pipelines
try powershell, its on linux too
cobalt··on OpenSilver is a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplementation of Silverlight
IIRC prime video also used it for a while. Both because of some msft developed streaming tech in silverlight
cobalt··on Goircd: Minimalistic simple IRC server written on Go
meh.. i wrote my first IRC bot when i was like 12. I don't think i'd get very far writing a DNS server as a 12 yr old
cobalt··on Creating a Pencil Effect in SVG
also known as meta blobs/balls
cobalt··on People of Las Vegas
some (most?) of the casinos have free parking for nevada residents
cobalt··on The Era of the Trident Engine
html/webtech is a horrible shit show (imo), most people would not say that about tcp/ip
cobalt··on Lockheed Martin to develop ground-launched hypersonic missile
what the russians built, we built in the 50s-60s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_Low_Altitude_Missil...)
cobalt··on US atomic waste dump in Marshall Islands to be investigated
not the first, not the last
cobalt··on US atomic waste dump in Marshall Islands to be investigated
I was literally just watching this video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=autMHvj3exA
cobalt··on Show HN: Gameslab, a FPGA powered handheld game console
a lot of old games rely on clock timing to do game timing. Modern generations less so, but still people rely on fixed clocks
cobalt··on Elementary OS 5.1 Hera
tbf, windows key shortcuts are actually OS specific. Clipboarding/etc must be implemented by the app in question. i think a better example would be alt-keys (alt-tab/etc)
cobalt··on Elementary OS 5.1 Hera
windows 10 did add win+;/win+. which pops up an emoji picker. one of the tabs is symbols and has a pretty good range of them

you can also add languages and use the on screen keyboard in said languages

cobalt··on Secretive military spaceplane lands in Florida after record-long orbital flight
http://www.hazmat.tripod.com/id33.html
cobalt··on Stealing sensitive browser data with the W3C Ambient Light Sensor API (2017)
can this be lumped in with the camera permissions? also, why do websites even need to know this? i dont think ive ever seen a native program use my light sensor, just the OS.
cobalt··on The Obvious UI Is Often the Best UI
nah, we'll just do it all again.
cobalt··on Car tires biggest likely source of microplastics in California coastal waters
"quiet and efficient" definitely does not exist in California currently
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