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Re:The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release on Friday May 12, 2023 @10:57AM (#35917237)
It is really not that much of an involved process. Reading a wiki page and downloading a few files from the first hit of a Google result is probably similar effort to setting up whatever potential product you have in mind.
It is really not that bad. Really the only problem is gcc. Clang/LLVM stuff works perfectly fine and if you really wanted you could use MSVC.
GNU/Linux, or as I've recently been taking to calling it, GNU plus Linux
Re:I Think AI Would Kill My Wife on Friday February 17, 2023 @08:58AM (#34834692)
GLaDOS doesn't seem too far away anymore... what a world we live in
The first time I read this I thought it meant it was an eight year old person answering your question.
What the hell!? I started at 9 or something and I still can't write anything useful
Re:TIPP10 – Free Touch Typing Tutor on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @11:09AM (#34520018)
If you regularly use both (I use workman on my ergo layout board at home and qwerty on my [school] laptop) I type roughly the same speed on both
Even emulated where my pc can run the game at upwards of 100fps at some points still drops to like 30 at Hyrule Castle
Re:TikTok’s Stratospheric Rise: An Oral History on Thursday November 10, 2022 @09:52AM (#33547292)
Sounds a lot like slot machines...
I've used Windows LTSC for a few years now and it is basically the exact opposite of what you are describing. No extra crap, just Windows. It never restarts randomly, and I've only had it have a restart update once.
Re:Sonic Pi – The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone on Thursday November 10, 2022 @09:36AM (#33547035)
Oh my I remember using this like 6 or 7 years ago on a pi B+. It looks nearly identical!
I think relative time is good for things less than a week old, but anything other than that will use the full date. Discord's solution to it is really nice imo.
I mean I've been writing stuff in Python since I was 8 or 9 years old, I'm now writing a bunch of C code for an open source project. I wouldn't say I'm too good at the coding challenges though. I don't know know how those compare to real work.
Re:OpenSSL 3.0.7 Published on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @12:40PM (#33423632)
come on, that is quite harsh. c is easily my favorite programming language and it just works really damn well and produces very small binaries. it's easy to write terrible code in any programming language.
Alpine on bare metal is amazing. I love it.
Re:Solarized on Monday October 31, 2022 @09:12AM (#33405244)
One of my favorite themes has a light grey for everything except strings (light blue) and comments (white). Comments are super important, they should stand out.
Re:From zero to 10M lines of Kotlin on Thursday October 27, 2022 @09:42AM (#33357358)
Honestly. Every JetBrains IDE is incredible.
IMO Lightning is significantly better than USB-C purely for feel. It's slightly smaller and clicks in very well. The only real issues with it are that its 1. proprietary, and 2. only supports USB 2.0 speeds. The fact that to use it you must buy a license is real unfortunate because I really like the form factor.
Yep, US customary ton is 2000lb
Re:Open source is democratizing video game development on Thursday October 20, 2022 @09:21AM (#33274287)
Yep, absolutely. A lot of game code has really big files. Although not exactly the gold standard for code style, the Source Engine does have a significant level of even though almost every file is 1k+ SLOC.

Here's the base Source Engine movement code for example: https://github.com/VSES/SourceEngine2007/blob/master/src_mai...