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devnullbrain··on High C Compiler – A C language extension ahead of its time
C23 features won't help many C users because it's a community that takes an uncommonly long time to move to new versions. Linux only recently moved from C89 to C11.
devnullbrain··on www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed
Do you mean Kagi?
devnullbrain··on Fired comedian ordered to get day job back after jokes ruled 'simply funny'
'Woke' is 'red pilled' with a different colour tie.
devnullbrain··on Fired comedian ordered to get day job back after jokes ruled 'simply funny'
A disaster for the ladder climbers but a boon for those who work to live.
devnullbrain··on Archiving Steam games for fun and profit
>I blame Minecraft for starting the trend

>It's weird when I start playing a game at, say, v1.6, really like it, then suddenly it can't be had anywhere because v1.7 is a different game.

Counter Strike immediately comes to mind but I'm sure there are earlier games than that.

devnullbrain··on Something a lot like Pokemon Yellow
This is tangentially related to a pseudo-fact I like to repeat that makes a lot of people very upset:

Wikipedia is the world's largest open source software project.

devnullbrain··on Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
>definitely supplant GNU coreutils

If you're going to make facetious arguments, make them towards beliefs held by people who actually exist.

devnullbrain··on Intel's CEO says Moore's Law is slowing to a three-year cadence but not dead yet
All semiconductor companies are incentivised to protect the myth but none more so than Intel. Not only do they get a competitive advantage over the companies dependent on TSMC, they also derive pride from being the company Moore co-founded.
devnullbrain··on Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
Movies aren't real
devnullbrain··on Microsoft defends Edge's predatory practices with cringe, audacious reply on X
>notifications

Nobody at Microsoft pays attention to these. I'm sure of it. It's the only way to explain why, upon clicking the [x] of a notification, it remains in the notification widget. Surely they - like all the rest of us - are just letting that number above the button tick up and up until the next restart.

If they're going to shoehorn phone features into their desktop OS, do it properly! Once they've fixed this, they can get started on fixing Modern Standby.

devnullbrain··on Sony debuts first PS5 controller for disabled gamers
>But your example of Nintendo doesn’t really mean anything when Nintendo didn’t put a lot of effort in supporting disabled people the last generations.

Because it's not an example of Nintendo being good, it's an example of why this reductive argument is meaningless.

devnullbrain··on Crush Your Interviews with the Power of Storytelling
>I never experienced an interview where somebody wanted to do something else than assess my technical skills.

That's such an outlier I struggle to believe it. Nobody has ever asked you about your work history? Never about a time when you needed to work in a team to solve a problem, etc.?

devnullbrain··on Three American climbers solve the 'last great problem in the Himalayas'
What kind of PEDs?
devnullbrain··on Three American climbers solve the 'last great problem in the Himalayas'
It's also the opposite of a stillsuit from Dune
devnullbrain··on Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs
I was talking about the steering column - looks like I missed what OP was focusing on.
devnullbrain··on Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says
The ship has sailed. If the job is outsourceable, they'll adjust regardless. There's not much inherent value in being from the same region as the headquarters & most of what there is comes from timezones.
devnullbrain··on Shane MacGowan has died
Keith Richards did become addicted to heroin and is 80 in a few weeks.
devnullbrain··on A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography
Every digital photo interpolates or otherwise guesses the unknown data between sensors of each color during debayering.
devnullbrain··on Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs
Transformationally easier packaging requirements.
devnullbrain··on Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs
Tesla have made statements saying that it won't. As a layman, I don't think the flat front is possible.
devnullbrain··on Half-Life: 25th Anniversary Documentary [video]
In 1998 we still called them Doom clones. Goldeneye didn't even use conventional twin-stick aiming. There's a reason there weren't many. How many non-Nintendo 3D platformers are there today?
devnullbrain··on Half-Life: 25th Anniversary Documentary [video]
Other games that released in 1998:

- Ocarina of Time

- Final Fantasy VII

- Baldur's Gate

- Starcraft

- Metal Gear Solid

- Resident Evil 2

- Pokemon Yellow

If only it was as competitive as 2023, in which some of the top games were:

- A Zelda game

- A Final Fantasy game

- A Resident Evil remake

- A Baldur's Gate game

devnullbrain··on Half-Life: 25th Anniversary Documentary [video]
I see it as overspecialisation. When GTA 6 costs 10 years and a billion dollars, it needs to be an unmatched hit. But what if it's just bad on a conceptual level? More money can create more models, textures and 'content' but it can't create fun. For GTA 3, it would have been a setback for a year. For GTA 6, it could be fatal.
devnullbrain··on Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
>Edge also exposes an advertising ID, meant for Bing's Ads, much like what Chrome does for Google. And in true Microsoft spirit, it also has telemetry, which you can't turn off.

Answering the question 'what is the motivation for Microsoft to pay for Edge development?' also answers the question 'why is Edge not an acceptable alternative to Chrome?'

devnullbrain··on Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
The differences are bigger between Chrome on Windows and Chrome on Mac than between Chrome and Firefox on one OS. At least all of the keybindings are the same.
devnullbrain··on Shellcheck finds bugs in your shell scripts
These are mostly complaints about Python the development language, not Python the sh alternative.
devnullbrain··on Shellcheck finds bugs in your shell scripts
You don't need to use its ecosystem at all to use it as a replacement for sh
devnullbrain··on YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
Just turn on DNT in your HTTP headers, Google have made it clear that selectively choosing which data to process is wrong.
devnullbrain··on Shellcheck finds bugs in your shell scripts
Everyone uses Python
devnullbrain··on Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
Either I've read a blog post you've written before or this is a common occurrence.
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