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I think AI is fine, the problem is what you mentioned: vibe coding. Have AI do work for you, it’s certainly faster in most cases. But just know exactly what it’s generating and bui…

I was going to say, smooth scrolling is one place where VGA was fairly simple to work with, since it didn’t have to deal with chunky graphics/bitplanes or specific timing tricks. I…

Yeah, OPs claim feels disconnected from C’s identity. C stayed conservative because the areas where it excels (to this day) benefit from its “portable assembler” design history. A …

Just read everything that came before that line.

I mean, when you're getting paid 40-60% for doing more complex work than app/web development...yeah, the drop-off is almost inevitable. Eventually people (unless they just really l…

The difference, and the reason these comparisons are always disingenuous, is that Rockstar didn’t have the consumers fund its development and miss its promises repeatedly. The stud…

So a game that’s at what? 40% of its projected goals/completion is now 33% more expensive than the most expensive game ever? Quite an achievement…

That was the argument back in the day too. For people/devices not looking to run Windows XP/Vista. I don't think the metric has ever changed. What has is the scope as Microsoft con…

Do they finally have a WDM compatible driver stack? For a long time, that was their biggest hamper to being anything useful as a real desktop. If they can pass that hurdle + add WD…

Keeping in mind that this gives quite a bit of access to your data, depending on how someone wants to structure their query

The biggest limit with these older consoles is the VDP/PPU. You can't just render directly to the screen because a framebuffer doesn't exist, instead you have to render to tile and…

"Structured" in this case refers to being able to be directly mapped to a data structure. Think protobuf and other similar transport mechanisms. The recipient knows what structure …

JSON Schema is largely an answer to people seeking that type of built-in validation. As I'm not a huge proponent for either (a tool is a tool and you work with it in its ecosystem)…

The main benefit of XML over JSON is that it is structured, and can be associated with Schema's for built in validation. Obviously, that's only a benefit if you care about and util…

People also have have the choice to ignore their racist grandparents spouting right-wing ideology or try educating them out of hope they'll shift their viewpoints. Unfortunately, l…

They pay for the hardware that they run Linux on. Apple's hardware division is very profitable without the "value" adds they run through their ecosystem, and those people never wou…

And yet, your little slice of the world doesn't represent the world at whole. If you're ignorant of the situation, maybe don't come out with such a self-centered (and arguably, arr…

The vast majority of people that buy Macs for the ecosystem aren't going to switch to Linux. That market will remain untouched. Outside of a few gamers who might want to put up wit…

Whether I saw your other response or not is moot. Your comment said "welcome to Amiga games", as if it were unique to Amiga. The context of the thread is PC, where they had their o…

PC had bare metal games too. They were called “booters” and you can find an entire category of them on mobygames: https://www.mobygames.com/platform/pc-booter/

Crime in Mexico is down, and continues to trend that way. The homicide rate, for instance, is 22% down from 2024 to 2025. Mexico is very much in it's New York mafioso days of the 8…

The debtor can't "vanish", they are either an individual or an entity with registered individuals attached to it. Obviously, their structure matters a little bit along with where t…

The better option would be to just increase the flat odds. DQM: The Dark Prince is brutal with it's odds, but fair. A 45% chance is 45%. In games like Civ/EU/Stellaris/Sins/etc It …

Modern house cats are semi-mostly domesticated. They are accustomed to house life and communal company as much as humans are. Same goes for domesticated canines. Your entire commen…