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That heading is the smoking gun.

Yes, this is pretty much what REDCODE is.

The article is about arcade games.

You can just right-click and hide it, though.

It also really depends on whether you pick your battles or not. If an engineer complains every detail of a system then you get a "boy who cried wolf" effect at some point.

This is genuinely a really fun way to browse Wikipedia. Only drawback is that folder names that contain ellipsis don't show the full name when clicked.

Oof, that first example (the idiomatic C++26 way) looks so foreign if you're mostly used to C++11.

Clearly if that was the actual issue I would've been able to get it working :)

The thing is, I was online, I had a working internet connection (and confirmed this by doing the 'utilman' hang to get a command prompt and getting a working ping command). It was just that Windows corrupted some kind of internal Microsoft Account connection and was locking me out.

I've reinstalled using this trick, so this issue won't bite me again in the future.

Yeah, so, to be clear: I'm fairly sure Linux will also have its fair share of issues that I occasionally would have to repair.

I don't necessarily even have a problem with Windows occasionally needing a bit of hand-holding, either. It sucks, but it's IT so meh, unfortunately it still comes with the territory.

What I'm mostly pissed off about is the fact that I have a perfectly useable machine but since I'm unable to login due to vague Microsoft nonsense and there doesn't seem to be a way to fix it I need to reinstall. This seems wholly unnecessary.

Even having some sort of repair installation that doesn't blow away all installed applications would have been somewhat ok as a last resort, but that doesn't exist either.

I recently got locked out of my machine because logging in with the mandatory Microsoft account-backed primary user of my machine didn't work anymore. It said I was offline and I had to use the "previous password" even though I didn't have a previous password for that account.

Hacking around in the recovery console to add another administrator user worked, but then I couldn't reset the original user's password because it was tied to the Microsoft account and you can't change the password locally.

I don't need Copilot managing my inbox through AI, nor do I need a more exciting widget experience.

I just want an OS where if something like the above happens there's a way to fix it without having to reinstall. It doesn't seem like much to ask.

Edit: yes, I can use Linux but I have decades of Windows muscle memory and I do a bunch of DirectX programming. I shouldn't have to switch :)

Sure, but do you diagnose cables so often that you need a permanent icon in the menu bar?

Following that logic, every application you use more than a handful of times should live there.

Anyway. I'm not trying to argue, I think this is a neat tool, but when the Windows tray got bloated with icons people used to complain about it.

This is pretty nice, but why do a lot of Mac apps insist on living in the menu bar?

Ah yes, like those EUV machines America and China have worked on.

Dreams uses SDFs though?

To be fair, it's mostly an evergreen skill because people don't know how to exit.

The argument is that it is older software in the sense that it's unmaintained because better alternatives exist.

Also, I don't believe it is fair to dismiss skeptics as inventing reasons. If anything, "believers" are bending over backwards to praise Anthropic even though they didn't actually release anything.

There are plenty of size limited competitions, too (256 bytes, 4k, 8k, 64k) and competitions for old-school platforms.

This is a fun exercise, but I'm surprised that someone is just dropping nearly $1600 to do so.

The pricing issue is valid, though. It's hard to use a lot of these tools in anger without having to go to fairly expensive plans.

Do you really need an excuse to buy more gear? meme-be-honest.jpg

Actually, visiting from The Netherlands showed me a popup congratulating me on the quality of our postal code system.

When they inevitably move to JSON I sure hope nobody's shop includes a quote in the name.

Alternatively, make your site so popular that manufacturers tune their description to work with your site :)

This blog is so much fun to read. Super well written and researched, and it definitely scratches an itch for me. A lot of these tools seemed boring and mysterious to me when I was growing up, but seeing that these tools were actually already really powerful considering the hardware they're running on is very interesting.

I'm curious to see how this will affect WGSL as used by WebGPU. It's probably not a bad idea if that gets replaced at some point, to make it even easier to port shaders from native applications to ones running in the browser.

Your argument is conflating smart phones with social media apps and you seem to be assuming that kids wouldn't have access to their phone in other locations where they are unsupervised, subject to peer pressure, etc.

The "just say no" argument, basically.

This is like saying parents are at fault when a gun salesman sells a weapon to their 12 year old.

It's good to see that many countries are working on lesiglation to protect children and teens against this, since the companies clearly aren't trying.

It seems like you won't have any trouble finding that yourself if you really wanted to. This "I'm just asking questions" mode you're in can be considered a type of trolling called "sealioning".

More details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning