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Code is art

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kroc, to UX
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"Perhaps the cleverest idea was to equip mice with buttons. By being able to signal a request with the same hand that determines the cursor position, the user obtains the direct impression of issuing position-dependent requests. Various techniques have emerged in this connection, e.g. pop-up menus, pull-down-menus, etc. which are powerful even under the presence of a single button only." -- Niklaus Wirth #ux #ui #gui

dosnostalgic, to random
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Good morning from New York. 🗽

kroc,
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@dosnostalgic Hey there

kroc, to random
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It’s the call of the void, and it’s been trying to contact you about your car’s…

kroc, to random
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Tomb Raider remaster looking fairly good: https://youtu.be/GErN-q8flpY If you’re looking for a remake like the awful Tomb Raider Anniversary (2006), lol, you’ll be disappointed; this is very firmly in the “same but better” remaster territory. I wonder if they’ve made TRIII hate you little less though, that game wants you dead. #tombraider

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TR1 devs: "Seems easy to us"
TR2 devs: "You should have this mastered by now"
TR3 devs: "Your persistence annoys us"

Eggfreckles, to random
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I couldn’t afford the Apple Vision Pro, so I got the Apple Vision Junior instead.

kroc,
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@Eggfreckles They've invented a Microsoft Surface Table you can strap to your face, right down to the looking at "pictures of other people's kids" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY

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https://retrogamecoders.com/neo6502-review/ Neo6502 review

kroc,
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@olimex I hope one day there will be laptop versions of systems like the Neo6502 / Agon Light!

kroc, to PCGaming
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Time to try finally complete Max Payne 2 after two previous failed attempts. I bought the game new and for whatever reason the game never really gripped me like the first one did. The changes to how bullet time works always throws me off.

Screenshot of Max Payne 2 showing his reflection in a mirror, a very advanced and demanding graphical effect at the time.

kroc,
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Amazing how good this game can look with a few polygons and a rudimentary lighting system

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Screenshot from Max Payne 2: Max is in an abandoned ghost-house-esque amusement set in "Noir York", a comic-book 1920s pastiche of New York in cheap wooden props.
Screenshot of Max Payne 2: Noir York takes on a more sinister tone with a house of mirrors type insanity. The shop windows have become large jittering jaws.

kroc, to random
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I have to admit that my mind is not able to comprehend these numbers -- 6.3M views in an hour. Just the bandwidth and spinning disks alone; how could any system supply that kind of throughput and that's just one popular video on a site with a lot of traffic already. The mind boggles.

kroc, to random
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"Writing has been called the process by which you find out you don’t know what you are talking about. Actually doing stuff, meanwhile, is the process by which you find out you also did not know what you were writing about." -- https://spectrum.ieee.org/lean-software-development

kroc, to random
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Remake of The Brave Little Toaster, but they’re all smart appliances so they go straight to e-waste. The End.

thelastpsion, to random
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Musing on #ctran.

I'm starting to wonder if there's any point in having the lexer and parser as two separate classes.

Other than testing, the lexer is only ever going to be called by the parser, and only once during the process.

It might be better to just have a lexer-parser class that grabs a file, tokenises it, then (if it's happy with the file it's tokenised) immediately turns it into a tree.

Is there a really good reason why they should be separate classes?

#compiler #objectpascal #oop

kroc,
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@thelastpsion The function name is an implicit variable you can assign the return value to; Return is convenience name for this. This means that you can read the current return value back and append to it etc.

kroc, to random
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Zombie survival game, but you're a retail worker and it's black friday

kroc, to twitter
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My last tweet, I’m leaving the hellsite for good: #x #twitter #bluesky #mastodon

Last call people. The other place is freely open. Either you move or you are just contributing to this platform’s hate-filled agenda. I will not be complicit — I’m deleting this account in a week.

“We didn’t know. But we knew.”

kroc, (edited ) to random
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Petition to change all ports to TRRS poles. Everything — USB-C, HDMI, PCI-E — uses the same connector. Building a PC should feel like you’re a roady setting up the audio equipment at a 1970s hair-metal concert.

kroc, to random
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.@NanoRaptor Saw this in a dream so I had to pass this on to you: PlayStation 1 controller but it connected via an IDE ribbon cable port embedded in the top

kroc, to vscode
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On the left, #VSCode; this app is using ~470 MB of RAM. There's a lot going on in the background here, a web browser engine, a JavaScript engine and server backend. On the right is Visual Basic 6 (#VB6), with a very large project open, taking up 42 MB RAM. Now this isn't even to complain about bloat because VScode performs really well and is very extensible. It's the only editor I've enjoyed using since #TextMate on MacOS;

Screenshot of Visual BASIC 6 IDE with a project (PhotoDemon) open.

kroc, to random
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The apathy for moving away from bad software is the strangest part of the current zeitgeist we don't take notice of. We will look back on this time and think "why on Earth didn't we switch sooner!?"

kroc, to random
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“Shall we make the world a better place today?”
“No, let us create useless technology for the worst people.”

kroc, (edited ) to random
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Modding an ‘80s portable 5” colour TV into a “Commodore Micro SX-64”! <2.5K views! https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y2ruQbOsMcI #retrocomputing #c64 #commodore #sx64

ActionRetro, to random
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NEW VIDEO! Installing Haiku on the cheapest laptop on sale in the US today - a $79 netbook

https://youtu.be/kDXRTOZwBU4

kroc,
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@ActionRetro There's a MAME port now if you're looking for software

kroc, to random
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New book genre: Annoyance mystery — a murder mystery set on a boat but just as the truth is about to be revealed the ships sinks and everybody perishes.

kroc, to random
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The little artisan coffee stop in the converted camper van is cheaper than Costa and I think that says a lot about how out of whack prices are right now

kroc,
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“Inflation!” (Raises prices 210%) “Weak economy!” (Makes record profits) “Tough times!” (Lays off 1500 staff)

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