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by mhd 3y ago
Out of the whole developer pool? Sure, that's a very small fraction. Out of the pool of Gtk developers? That's basically saying "Have you done gtk and kept up to date?". It's not really the equivalent of the dreadfu
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by mhd 3y ago
> Now time for gtk4 Port it back to its original toolkit, Motif, now that that's open. Won't be needing an update after that ;)
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by mhd 3y ago
> Ha, this remind me of a time when I did google(?) searches to find specialized sites of RPGs, Anime, etc. I still think fondly of browsing lspace.org (Discworld) and the Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5.
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by mhd 3y ago
And it's actually a service that still operates, does GDPR, anti-spam etc.
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by mhd 3y ago
Because they're not equivalent to 80s computers, they're equivalent to 80s TVs.
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by mhd 4y ago
Surprisingly not about Kanchō…
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by mhd 4y ago
I'm currently looking for something even more limited and lightweight, where I, as a developer, can just deploy a static site regulary (e.g. built by hugo), but with a few small sections editable on the front page, like a vacation noti
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by mhd 4y ago
> Nerds just can't wrap their heads around this idea: no normal person wants to be a programmer. I'm coming to the exact opposite conclusion: A lot of people benefit from programmin a little . Which, at the time when VB came o
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by mhd 4y ago
Note that "DM" was mentioned, so I'm strictly talking about D&D here, other games and genres focus a lot more on the narrative aspects of RPGs in a planned manner (NB: Although I personally would suspect that the "AI
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by mhd 4y ago
> My initial impressions are that GPT-4 is nearly as competent as a human DM I wonder what kind of campaigns we're talking about here. I mean, if it's just mindless modern encounter-based design, sure, I can believe that. Kicki
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by mhd 4y ago
Everyone working for big corporations is going "Just a few versions behind? Lucky you!" now.
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by mhd 4y ago
I'm definitely going to have a look at this. I was just comparing hugo, soupalt, jekyll and zola for a tiny geocities-ish blog site, and will add that to the list. I do feel rather old when I see 3 megabytes described as tiny, though ;
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by mhd 4y ago
Don't we have "greybeard" for that? My meme game isn't as good as it once was, but I do remember the horrible "neckbeard nests" pictures…
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by mhd 4y ago
> they are worlds apart, build quality, screen quality, weight, battery life, single core & parallel processing, speakers, trackpad - everything Well, depending on your job and work setup, that might matter more or not. If you'r
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by mhd 4y ago
It wasn't done in a nice way, but the kitchen-sink builds of PHP were quite nice as dependency-free environments back in the day. Image manipulation and all kinds of parsing and database connectivity stuff built in. My experience with
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by mhd 4y ago
It seems just a few years ago when I was testing out an early version of react, and it had the JSX compiler as a header include. Worked well enough, and with more modern JS supported by default, I wouldn't mind a newer version of this.
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by mhd 4y ago
"Cloud documents"? Are we talking Google Docs here? I mean, there's nothing special about that, it's just a very limited word processor that uses the ginormous web stack for rendering. Pretty much impossible to map mos
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by mhd 4y ago
I think that type of glazing was once somewhat popular for dinnerware. Gladly that got solved by the colors becoming quite unpopular after the 70s. (I'm aware that I'm writing this on "the orange site"…)
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by mhd 4y ago
Canceled out by the smarter delivery. But I'm willing to allow HEI cannons instead of shrapnel shotguns. I mean, obviously the dumbest, brutest thing would be the jet equivalent of Ben Hur's wheel spikes. Sharpened wings?
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by mhd 4y ago
I wanted to joke about this showing the clear need for jet-mounted shotguns, but there is or was probably some multi-million MIC research project about exactly this. (And yes, I read that 1000 holes weren't sufficient. But software arc
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by mhd 4y ago
One definining characteristic of internet media is where they rank on the "transience" spectrum. The most extreme end probably being some old school chat apps and IRC on one side, and encylopedic wiki's (not the only kind) on
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by mhd 4y ago
That's the ebay templating system, right? Has been around for almost 10 years, but never gained that much traction.
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by mhd 4y ago
Would academia still reward that kind of thinking? Business certainly doesn't seem to, where you're mostly sticking to 'universal' solutions. The problem is that this 'universe' has such an enormous range.
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by mhd 4y ago
There don't seem to be any Wirth's around, design-wise. We're in the Algol-68 committee's time line.
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by mhd 4y ago
I'm currently reading Mössenböck's introduction to OOP (1992), and I'd say it's all pretty much by design. Refreshingly for that era, he doesn't recommend using OOP for everything, and he's aware of other langu
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by mhd 4y ago
And I think "units", the other major milestone in TP's evolution were originally in UCSD Pascal, right?
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by mhd 4y ago
Decent damage control that rolls back a few things they simply couldn't sell but keeps a lot of the problematic parts – or at least keeps them unresolved. But boy, that's grade 1A "My fellow kids" language: "However
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by mhd 4y ago
Yeah, that rule was clearly just there for show. Just like the second digit on levels ("number of professions you've mastered"). There were some rather elaborate rules for constructing armor that didn't really map to D&a
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by mhd 4y ago
> If you chose new names for everything but the rules were otherwise identical that would be completely safe Reminds me of the Judges Guild "Universal System" where they had a lot of weird stats in their books, often with some
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by mhd 4y ago
> We never needed OGL to publish material compatible with D&D And we never needed Apple's permission to have overlapping windows. Alas… There was a long history of C&D letters and outright lawsuits. Heck, up until recently o

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