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Well, I don't know. Most of the Myst games seem to be background, painted, with a bit of moving art. Comparing this with (say) an isometric RPG (think BG3, Pillars of Eternity) and…

Thanks, but I think that is more gardens that are owned by people with professional gardeners and other caretakers. The scheme I was thinking of was more individuals. I remember lo…

Perhaps including one that is scooting across the universe (Dr Becky): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHLF6sgLdrs&t=4s

Too much web stuff.

I remember back in the mid 1980s there was a scheme in Lincolnshire UK where you could just turn up at a house and go into their back garden to admire their plants - only gardens o…

FORTH parsers are ultra simple - get the next space-separated token, if it is a number, push it on the stack, otherwise it's a word - look it up in the dictionary and (if it exists…

but also much slower - people tended to be interested in speed (and the price of the hardware) not determinism

Never heard of Madge before. AFAIK, our token ring networking (at a big 6 accountancy) was all supplied by IBM, but I could be wrong. In any case, I despised it for poor speed and …

Ah yes, back when caring about hardware was a thing. Early 90s, new top-of-line Compaq arrives, for me, project manager. We open it to install network card - token ring (yes, it su…

Mostly in my life, it has been beautiful or not so beautiful women. But I do draw the line at pin-heads.

innovation in what areas are you talking about?

> Every time I leave the US, I’m always struck by how happy other people seem to be. Seems more than a little rose-tinted. I live in the UK and I can certify that there is a lot of…

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Obviously not a flying fish.

> I literally have never found a place where `std::variant` has any positives that can't be written a different, clearer way with drastically better compile time and run time perfo…

> stuff you shouldn't need to care about Such as? I don't believe any C++ compilers are producing extra machine code just for the fun of it.

> If you aren't writing it in assembler, you're writing slow code. Depends in part in how good you are at writing assembler.

> would return 7 more pedantically, it would push 7 onto the stack

Dr Who and the Silurians had this covered: https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Silurian

Bah, people who use .CC or .cc for C++ files deserve to be beaten about the head with a baseball bat. It's not clever.

What happened to the little tramp with the walking stick? I had one of those sticks (as a biro) off an IBM salesperson, early to mid 80s, and IBM must have paid an ungodly amount t…

> PIMPL is the typical solution here, since the inner/impl class is not part of the public ABI. Yep, that's what I've used it for. Didn't find it too difficult to implement it myse…