#3 was not a good movie. But that scene has stayed with me longer than many scenes in much better movies.
#3 was not a good movie. But that scene has stayed with me longer than many scenes in much better movies.
For those that don't remember/don't know, everything network related in Windows used to use their own, proprietary setup.
Then one day, a bunch of vendors got together and decided to have a shared standard to the benefit of basically everyone.
A good discussion about the setup for Manic Miner by the author is here:
I recently ported my teaching raytracer to the Spectrum [0], not even using assembler, but the horribly slow native BASIC. It was a ton of fun! It's super slow especially when run on the original hardware, but even then I can't remember something like this from back in the day (and I'd bet something like Microhobby would have listed this as some kind of curiosity); makes me think the Spectrum's limitations weren't even fully explored. Raytracing people were probably working on beefier machines and more serious projects.
I've also published stuff that gets little attention and leads nowhere, like Emulator-Backed Remakes[2] or ZX Spectrum Raytracer[3], and I'm totally fine with that. I make these things primarily for my own amusement ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't know how many people visit my website. I have analytics, but I rarely check them.
[0] https://gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratch
[1] https://gabrielgambetta.com/client-server-game-architecture....
In 2018 i was renovating my house in Little Italy Toronto (Canada). There was this 91 year old Italian woman, Assunta, living alone in the house next to mine. She was always curious (or nosey?), but only spoke Italian, so we struggled to communicate. She would always say in broken English encouraging statements like "You make it nice", "lot of work, you do so good" to which I would say "thanks" and often talk about the amount of work ahead of me. She would always follow up with "eh, piano piano...".
I had no idea what she meant until one day I Googled this term and i learnt it essentially means "slowly slowly" or "take it slowly".
Assunta is gone now, but she was a lovable character. I think my dog misses her treats, and I miss the snacks she would bring me when I was working on the house.
BTW Here's an ECG from my Apple Watch showing 3 such beats (you can't miss them): https://link.ekin.dev/l1Vc3Gdf
If you happen to have these, just get checked out by a cardiologist. They are almost always benign but the frequency / daily amount are reasons for concern.
Very early on I realized that turning with the stick gives me nausea, but not moving back and forth. So I use the stick to move back and forth, and my own human body to rotate. Can play for hours with zero issues.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xzibit-yo-dawg
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:DeCOMtamination_Algorithm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455943
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22708241
Who knows (or can invent) any other good ones:
Deadlocksmithing, JSONcology, YAMLectomy, XMLimination, DeDTDification, DeXMLEntitification, ExCDATAration, AntiPOJOification, SOAPerfluousness Scrubbing, WSDLectomy, Delogorrhea, DeK8ification, HelmholtzianRechartification, DevOpsDevangelicalism, FactoryFactoryDefactoringDefactoring, Antiquasimonolithicmicrofragmentedmacrodecontainerizationarianism...
Could it be useful to more people? Almost certainly, and at some point I considered running it as a service, and I even had a few trial users. But then I realized that dealing with GDPR compliance and the like wasn't going to be as fun, so in the end it remained an internal project.