luismedel

For me, Windows 3.x era buttons are the pinnacle of buttons.

Nice.

The earliest jaw-dropping water effect I saw (and somewhat understood at 14) was the awesome credits scene from the Iguana's Earthquake demo[0].

The code[1] contains the following explanation (ancient DOS chars fixed with chatGPT)

  ; // UpdateTable : performs one integration step on U[CT]
  ; Differential equation is:  u  = a²( u  + u  )
  ;                             tt       xx   yy
  ;
  ; Where a² = tension * gravity / surface_density.
  ;
  ; Approximating second derivatives by central differences:
  ;
  ;  [ u(t+1)-2u(t)+u(t-1) ] / Δt² = a² (u(x+1)+u(x-1)+u(y+1)+u(y-1)-4u) / h²
  ;
  ; (where Δt = time step, h=Δx=Δy = mesh resolution)
  ;
  ; From where u(t+1) may be calculated as:
  ;                   ┌   1   ┐
  ; u(t+1) = a²Δt²/h² │ 1 0 1 │u - u(t-1) + (2-4a²Δt²/h²)u
  ;                   └   1   ┘
  ;
  ; When a²Δt²/h² = ½ last term vanishes, giving:
  ;                   ┌   1   ┐
  ;        u(t+1) = ½ │ 1 0 1 │u - u(t-1)
  ;                   └   1   ┘
  ;
  ; This needs only 4 ADD/SUB and one SAR operation per mesh point!

[0] https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=364

[1] https://hornet.org/code/demosrc/demos/hq_water.zip

Politics, football (soccer) and religion are always very sensitive topics.

Maybe the OP's "not that important" was an unfortunate way to put it.

I think the answers you ask for are in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis[0]

[0] https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters...

Catholics.

Exactly. I knew what the link was about and didn't study at ETH Zurich. I (mistakenly?) think Oberon is that kind of "roots knowledge" shared between all of us, like Lisp or Forth. That's why I asked when one should stop clarifying things. Maybe some people need to know what a compiler os, or a VM, or a windowing system, or ...whatever.

What I mean is that having so much info at the toe of our tips, comments like "you should put a link about what this thing is" are needless.

Honest question. Where does one stop clarifying things?

I always loved that intro too [0] :-) I implemented the effect in Pascal back then.

FYI, you can download the source code [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31311461 [1] http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/mirror/x2ftp/msdos/programming/iguan...

What if the agents were trained by leaked Microsoft code?

Perfect answer, fellow cimmerian.

Honestly, I feel that everything UI related has gone backwards to the stone age.

I wonder how hard would it be to go back to visual designers like we had with Delphi or VB6. There were flexible layout container components which helped a lot when adapting forms to varying screen resolutions.

All companies I've worked at had (paid) on-call set up. The right to disconnect isn't incompatible with business needs and the law contemplates it. Also, nurses and doctors do it too.

Another kind of porn?

I remember not only running commands while debugging. I remember moving the program counter back, until a statement above my breakpoint, making live changes in the code and stepping it again until the breakpoint to see the effects of my changes without needing to restart the program.

I consider myself a generalist, but, to be honest, I don't remotely think that I "know a lot of everything". In fact, I suffer about the contrary :-)

About the "when do I say 'I know enough'"...well, never. I just follow my curiosity and it's infinite ramifications. I loss/gain interests about very diverse topics in a somewhat short amount of time.

You're in luck. Your device isn't supported.

I'd pay (even more) for Apple to have the same backwards compatibility policy as Microsoft has.

So,

  $ git-down -d bootstrap-dist https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.git:master dist

is *way* better than

  $ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/twbs/boostrap.git
  $ cd bootstrap
  $ mv ./dist ~/stuff/boostrap-latest 

because: "C'mon, you don't have the time to be doing all that."

And then we wonder how the fuck we end with malware in our systems.

I stopped using UUIDs a while ago and I'm happy with TSIDs[0]. Shorter, sortable and can add semantic meaning to ids.

https://github.com/luismedel/tsid-python

Kudos to the team.

My first contact with Linux was with Debian 2.1. Exactly with this distro CDs https://archive.org/details/linux-actual-06-2/LinuxActual_01...

To be honest, it was a miserable experience to install it on your main computer without anything else available to look for help in case of problems. It was also hard to really try it due to lack of drivers for current (at that moment) ADSL modems.

But here I am a crapload of years later, still loving it :-)

Man, that touched me.

The article title isn't misleading at all: they list the (subjective) benefits without listing any of its disadvantages. Sure, that list is useful for some trivial projects.

But good luck selling that to some regulated companies where basic risk assessment is a must. Tell a financial institution you'll _never_ fuck their money transfer pipeline, because you don't do code reviews, you "deliver value" even on Fridays and your methodology avoids all sort of errors or malicious modifications.

IMHO, trunk based development removes some safety. Software development is a complex task and we all risk to break things even on a good day. You're not smarter by removing safety from the process.

Spain.

But more and more people use "billions" (not billardo, which is our own term for it). The same people that say "diez kas" (for 10k) instead of "diez mil" like they're saving words for doing that (hint: no).

Nice. But if I remember correctly, Mode X was a special VGA mode to squeeze a bit more performance (due to planes and full graphics memory addressing), not the "normal" MCGA 320x200x256 (13h)

If you're interested, I also implemented a few effects like lens[0] and Jare's fire[1] along with some other amusements[2]

[0] https://toys.luismedel.com/lens/index.html

[1] https://toys.luismedel.com/fire/index.html

[2] https://github.com/luismedel/js-toys

The clip is also a superb stress-reliever by biting it :-)

One more case of Fire and Motion[0] in the industry.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

I consider Inferno more interesting too, to be honest.

And tribal knowledge about the rationale behind the need! (sometimes not needed anymore once the issue is fixed but somehow the FF survives)

To be honest, the mass of developers is not only lazy but irresponsible and unaware of the risks of being too liberal in the addition of dependencies.

> [...] Now everyone can click on a button

IMHO the code that the button runs after the click is the problem, not the availability of a button.

> trying to force you to buy it

If the author wanted to "force you" in any way, he wouldn't offer a publicly reachable download link, nor the source, nor a permissive license.

It's OK to have economic expectations related to a software you wrote.

> with md-block for markdown, and highlight.js for syntax highlighting

...served by a simple Kubernetes cluster, I suppose? Back to the roots!

/s