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Seeing this actually sent a small wave of dread through my body

Interesting, I’d tend to demote the initialism, ie topSecretFbiFiles.tar.gz

What’s with the downvotes on a silly joke? Is the Linux kernel team on Lemmy?

That’s why Rust had to be developed! Oxidize all those computers and stuff back to nature.

To be fair, this is also how VS looks when you open a project fresh from the clone. Or after updating .net versions. .NET is awful about losing references and then claiming thousands of errors. Sometimes just running the build will fix it by relinking the DLLs it couldn’t find.

But also yes, VS with a team can be “fun” if people don’t sync their formatting settings. I once had a junior that kept converting spaces to tabs on every file he’d touch. You’d get it fixed and then he’d screw up his settings again with a VS update or something.

Recuperation

I don’t believe reclamation has a particular political definition, though leftist projects will often speak of reclaiming things from capitalist culture, which is “reverse recuperation” or what the Situationists called détournement.

I went on a tear at one point trying to really understand, rigorously (I’m a computer and maths person by trade and training), what dialectics are and how, specifically, the material dialectic (the foundation of Marxist thought!) should work.

I was a bit dissapointed to understand that they can’t really be “rigorous” in that fashion and that they’re really more of a philosophical and rhetorical tool. I do still get a lot of use from them, and in discussions with other people the framework of the dialectic (“Ok, what if we took these two ideas and put them on opposite ends of a spectrum, how does that look?”) is very useful for explaining and expounding upon ideas.

I sort of consider dipping fries and fries with stuff on them to be two different but related species of meal, pretty much exactly like the difference between chips-and-salsa and nachos. Frychos.

As to preferences, for dipping, spicy ketchup (mix tomato ketchup 1-for-1 with siriacha or other hot sauce); for frychos, fucking everything! Load em up: guacamole, chilli, cheese, onions, peppers, bacon, mushrooms, gravy, salsa, mustard, marshmallows, spinkles, alright alright I’m getting carried away now, you get the idea!

I should get to work on my opus, “Dirty Code”

Inside I’ll reveal all my secrets like: not writing tests, not documenting anything, putting the whole app into a single python file, object-disoriented relational mapping, obscure SQL tricks, unobscure no-sql tricks, and more!

It looks like the Extra Fabulous guy, yeah. (Not PBF though, very different style. I guess your link was a joint work?)

It never bothered me in Source games, but I don’t really care for it as a mechanic. Specifically in Half-Life, I don’t like how it overlaps with long jumping either. (Jump then crouch to crouch jump, crouch then jump to long jump.)

But I wouldn’t want it in other games because manteling is a superior mechanic. Mantelling is usually when you can hold down the jump key close to a ledge to grab it and pull yourself up, rather than jumping. In most games that have it, mantelling into a smaller space (a vent or pjpe) auto-crouches as you enter.

It allows for making longer jumps, exciting last moment saves, pulling yourself up into small spaces, simpler climbing mechanics, and more. It’s just a better, more intuitive mechanic that replaces long jumps and crouch jumps and requires no extra key presses.

Totally missed touch along with many other senses.

• Killing with my bare hands let’s me feel the life leaving their bodies
• Killing while standing on one leg balances my desires for vengeance
• Feasting upon the flesh of those I murder satiates the hunger within me
• I become lost in the blood frenzy, all sense of time vanishing

4. Abolish the Supreme Court and the Senate.

Lol, and what, give all powers to the House and the Executive? Cut off appeals at the circuit level?

This isn’t policy it’s fantasy. You’d never get half the Dems to agree to most of this, let alone a single non-dem. What leftists need in this country isn’t a fantasy where if we all magically convince our landlords and bosses to vote for communism then we’d win in a landslide overnight revolution.

What we need is sound policy that stands a chance of passing and begins moving our country towards the left. Policies with popular support and real immediate benefits like:

• Nationalized single-payer Healthcare for all
• Making ISPs a regulated utility
• Ranked-choice voting for future elections
• Stronger government protection for worker unions
• Doing fucking anything about climate change before we all go extinct

Ah, that sounded familiar as you described it! Thanks for the correction and context! I’d forgotten how early into multicore we still were. Well that also explains why it doesn’t have specific fans then, it’s “basically” “just” parallel programming (which people still don’t understand!)

Yeah the university running a PS3 cluster was fun news! I recall there being a brief run on the devices as people thought there’d be sudden academic demand for them as supercomputers. I think you could run “folding at home” on them as a screensaver? Which (if I remember right) kind of would make ps3 the biggest research computing cluster around for a while!

I always wondered about the legacy of the Cell architecture, which seems to have gone nowhere. I’ve never seen a developer praise it, and you can find devs who love just about every silly weird computer thing. Like, surely someone out there (emu devs?) have respect for what Cell was doing, right?

I’ve never understood it. Multicore processors already existed (the X360 had a triple-core processor, oddly) so I’m not clear what going back to multiple CPUs accomplished. Cell cores could act as FPUs also, right? PS3 didn’t have dedicated GPU, right?

Such a strange little system, I’m still amazed it ever existed. Especially the OG ones that had PS2 chips in them for backwards compatability! Ah, I miss my old PS3.

I see the comments you replied to have been removed (thanks mods!) but I have to say that anyone with the screen name “octavius” (or any other Roman emperor, general, or guy) is automatically on troll-watch.

Turns out, most people think their stupid views are actually genius

They say there are no asexuals in fox holes

Lol, this is how I’ll eventually open source my game: completely new repo with one fresh checkin. No one will ever see how many curse words and diary-entry commit messages litter my fossil repo.

I made a static site with Hexo a few years back. I thankfully didn’t make any “Get started with Hexo” posts but I did only really use it for a few months. I think that puts me in the cluster with the “switch from Jekyll to Hugo” people. Now it just sits there, absorbing some money every two years for the “personal website tax”.

Shame too, I constantly think I need to get back to it. Hexo is nice, popular with Chinese users I think. I don’t recall now why I liked it over Jekyll or Hugo, but I’ve always loved an underdog. Once I got the hang of using it, it was very customizable and fun to work with.