[-] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 months ago

Most languages respond something like "it's nothing", de nada. English is a little weird saying "welcome".

[-] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago

Multiple of your friends have cancer, died of cancer, or of other illnesses. But mostly the cancer.

You wonder if your bowels are OK. They are not.

[-] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 months ago

Don't use either, they're unreliable services and not enough people use them. Stick to IRC.

https://xkcd.com/1782/

[-] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago

This story is a lie.

There's no "computer icon". Dragging the System disk to trash ejects it on a classic Mac. If you burrow down into System, you can try deleting system files… which are locked and can't be deleted.

You can test this yourself on Infinite Mac

[-] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 months ago
  • Greg Egan
  • Rudy Rucker
  • Vernor Vinge

Hard, computational SF aren't given nearly the respect they should, and these apply math, comp sci, and physics in a way nobody else does. If there's any civilization in the future, they'll be seen as visionary.

Runners-up are Robert L. Forward, Alastair Reynolds, but Forward has very little computation, and Reynolds doesn't show his math too often.

[-] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 21 points 5 months ago

Aggressive dialogs begging for my email = close tab. I don't care what your excuse is.

Also, 404 (Not Found) is the dumbest name for any site ever, so I'm just as glad to see it go away.

[-] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 17 points 5 months ago

I was using the Internet before the WWW, and there was already a pretty good ecosystem from nerdy stuff to consumer-usable. Email, Usenet, Gopher, FTP, IRC, were all widely usable.

Gopher especially made a great way to index and search (with WAIS) things on multiple different services, without being a mess of text/hyperlinks/images/sound/video in a hairy ball like the WWW.

[-] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 17 points 7 months ago

I say "developer" is only for code, "designer" can be any system, level, or character designer (ooh they use spreadsheets!), "artist" is only for drawing things. Marketing douchebags are "marketing douchebags". And since I'm indie, I'm all of those.

But some studios just don't care and have stupid titles; as long as thy get paid it doesn't matter to them. WTF cares what some idiot screaming in a forum says?

[-] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 28 points 7 months ago

"My project" doesn't exist in any team. It's everyone's project. A manager needs to have a long conversation with Pink Pants.

If you build your project at anything but highest error level, clang -Wall etc., you're letting errors in, relying at best on coincidence to work the way you think it does.

Commit it and don't revert it!

[-] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 23 points 9 months ago

RUN, BE FREE! You can escape their tracking now. They will never find you in the forest, eating nuts & berries.

[-] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 18 points 10 months ago

What made me mad at RP1 movie was they put the Easter Egg in Atari Adventure. Which is mentioned in chapter 0 of the book, and again in the fake town (not put in the movie) because it's so obvious, nobody who cared about games at all would hide anything there.

And no Tomb of Horrors.

Instead Spielberg put a bunch of lame movie references in, because he's too senile to understand the game references.

And the actors are far too pretty for the "but you're beautiful inside" plot.

[-] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 23 points 11 months ago

Back in the day, even in this century, printing out code in good text formatting on plain paper's not a bad way to work with some problems; you can spread out many pages on a table instead of one screenful at a time, make planned edits in paper or pen, then do them. It doesn't suit half-assed "coding" by hitting code completion and "next" in a wizard, but some of us still remember how to program.

But then marketing hears about this and this meme is the best they can come up with.

I suspect it's like Nigerian scammers being blatant about how dumb their scam is, to weed out the smart targets. "simplilearn" is obviously not for people who read manuals, you know?

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