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The London Underground have been doing it in reverse for a long time. "There is good service on the Piccadilly line."

I would argue that even the basic concept behind STL is misguided. The rationale I often see is "you only need N algorithms for M container type, instead of N*M". This ignores the …

I had a chemistry teacher who told us that hydrogen reacts violently with oxygen, and this is how the hydrogen bomb works.

A brand new pair of brogues, rattlin' o'er the bogs...

There's this: https://www.ifwiki.org/ZILF https://zilf.io/ Although I haven't played with it and can't tell you whether it can compile the open source Zork.

"if let" just breaks my brain, it feels backwards to me and takes me a minute each time to work out what's going on. In 40 years of programming I've never seen a syntactic construc…

Same here. Hollow Knight was simply wonderful - the graphics, the music, the characters, the boss fight designs, the melancholic feeling of the world. It's hard to say whether it w…

It is that bad, at least for me. I enjoyed the first 8 hours of Silksong, but it turned very quickly after that because the punishments were just completely outweighing the rewards…

With everything doing 2 points of damage, including environmental hazards, the player is at effectively 2.5 hitpoints for a large majority of Act 1, as opposed to 5 in Hollow Knigh…

It was slightly more fiery than a mere "observation", hence "anomaly".

Some guy once famously noted that wealth is not measured in gold or silver, but in goods and services. Mansa Musa didn't have a Ferrari F40, or an RTX4090, or air conditioning. He …

Perhaps this is a good place to mention that someone is working on remaking the SMAC engine, the project is called "glsmac" on github. Unit graphics seem to be one of the major sti…

For interactive fiction at least there are still people interested in it, and people are preserving Infocom history in particular. Other games might get forgotten over time unfortu…

Well, clicked on it thinking it might be about an old favourite Infocom game, but apparently it appears to be about an old favourite Firaxis game... Are you the author of the web s…

Actually it means "sex, drugs and rock'n'roll".

You should be so lucky.

How do we actually know these browser forks don't contain malware of their own? If you can hide something in a tiny package like xz-utils... and a browser would seem to be a very j…

To me this has always sounded like the kind of error-prone excessive cleverness that I wouldn't want anywhere near my version control system.

Nice to see that traditions are upheld, such as the unreadable font and colors.

Mercedes have figured those out already. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e21ZjwZGjiQ

Donald could be pretty dense at times.

I first opened it in Firefox on Linux. I think whatever subpixel rendering it's trying to do doesn't work with light fonts on dark background, there is blurriness and colour fringe…

I'm interested, but... could I convince you to change the font and the colours into something that makes the site readable? Very thin font, light on dark, very little contrast is a…

Racing sims are the killer app, because depth perception really helps with sense of speed, and tight corners on a monitor are often outside the field of view and you can't just tur…

Properly indenting code is fine. Now try modifying that code, like removing an if statement inside somewhat nested code and trying to ensure that everything still has the same mean…