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What else did they do?
The engine was more like a hybrid 2d/3d. Units were 3d, everything else brilliantly faked.
I mean, i played it on really weak machine (high end 486 or a cheap pentium), and it worked like charm, no gpu involved.
I will never recover from debugging ZODB backed by Oracle. Well, somewhat backed.
Who, like, who thought it was cool to have a pickle-based, mostly in-memory, single process, aaalmost transactional database?!
That was my first web kind of framework. The naivette of Zope still amuses me endlessly to this very day.
It tried to be cool, made ALL the wrong choices, and died silently with people just moving on.
Coincidently, that's where my father was working as a programmer until the shutdown of the plant.
Anyways, he was maintaining a bunch of systems related to collecting data from environment monitoring sensors around the plant. In mid 2000s or so he showed me some data collecting machines using what looked like DOS text UI that mentioned being written in Leningrad, 1989 or 1988.
The software was running in an emulator on Linux, which my father used to replace original x86-compatible machines runninh dos.
Pretty sure thr whole thing was running for quite a while since my family moved elsewhere.
Around 1998-2000 my dad made a little business out of setting up linux servers on commodity hardware in my hometown. Primitive social networks, LAN provider servers, mail servers all worked just fine. Not without some involved convincing, and tinkering, and kernel patching but they did work.
One or two of the companies later became regional champions, running 100s of linux/x86/dell machines.
None of them would be able to afford a proper Sun server. Sun would never bother itself with these original tiny contracts.
It dont think Sun even stood a chance in this game. They couldnt even realize this happening!
Harnesses do correct things, sure.
I walk 10k steps a day on a normal day, only drive when necessary to go out of my normal routes. This has an added benefit of keeping me, an aging programmer, in shape (as well as other relevant activities).
Nothing dramatic about it at all.
Having been to houses/flats across all of eurasia, uk to hong kong, vietnam to lithuania, the majority prefers taking shoes when entering a house, but can be as practical as necessary when the need arises.
There are side effects, problems, long-term consequences...
But testosteron blood levels absolutely do regulate muscle growth.
Physics solved this quite some time ago.
In xml's they clearly overdid it. all the formats/substandards you listed... there is just not a single library that supports all of the standard.
And because implementations are so different, most users just stick to a single C library. That library, btw, is also incomplete and undermaintained.
So that's the problem with complex standards: they are hard to implement and support. Nobody does this, unless it is a business-critical matter.
The json spec just doesnt do anything like that but jsonl does.
JSON is naive, lacks almost everything. But is supereasy to parse and read.
As funny as it sounds, XML is overspecified. Parsing is possible and predictable but supporting the full standard (all of them) is so much work that nobody does it anyway.
So, given the choice above, i'd go for naive simplicity.
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Anyways, yes, weightlifting + something active (tennis, football, etc) is the way to go.
But weightlifting first. It is the only hralth-related hobby that teaches honest body control: muscle, gaining/losing weight, dieting basics, monitoring key body parameters over time.
OBVIOUSLY, the compiler experiment was just a cringe pr stunt. But it has a point: everything works better with a good testing loop, and compilers always have one by thr nature of the work they do
I accept SQL as an industry standard,and i've been solely focusing on databases for th4 last decade or so, but it is such a horrible language nevertheless...
Linux is not userspace. Linux is a kernel, and android is a parallel fork of the kernel. So android is a version of linux but is not GNU/Linux.
Android/Linux, if you will. We dont have to be shy this.
Why does it feel wrong (or meaningless) to you?