Epic Pinball, if I recall correctly, also used some ModeX trickery, meaning it had most of the pinball table in VRAM, and then modified the VGA framebuffer pointer for scrolling, then only moving as much data as it was needed (ball, flippers, etc)

For wellness gurus, health care is a threat to their business. That’s why these people are defunding vaccines, because they’ll make you lazy and not work out for your own health. Also a lot of them are eugenicists, see the chronically ill as “undeserving of life”, and think “good genes attract each other” so a few generations adopting to polio will lead to blonde, blue eyed, muscle bound gigachads with chiseled chins.

There’s already a friend shop, it’s called “paying for an LLM chatbot”.

Well, one could make a very overlapping Venn-diagram with “Fourier-transform” and “Furry transfem”.

Band-aid for a gun shot wound.

We need to make the very politicians, activists, etc., who made these kinds of laws possible to fear for their lives.

Here’s my sci-fi novel:

A Star Wars like space western, but without the light sabers and the force, instead it has more laser gun fights.

Who needs implementation when some techbro wants you to think art is all about coming up with an original idea?

I’ve heard about some actually usable frame interpolation tool getting cancelled in favor of promt machines once the latter became more apparent

Reminder that Elon Musk told people on Reddit, that he will set the Age of Consent to 14 on Mars, if not lower.

Grok has guardrails, it’s just they’re there for different reasons.

Expectation: High quality code done quickly by AI.

Reality: Low quality AI generated bug reports being spammed in the hopes the spammers can get bug bounty for fixing them, with AI of course.

When will South Park make a satirical episode on AI water consumption, where Elon Musk will be like Immortam Joe?

Birth control, like a USB thumb drive full with Asmongold videos?

Brutal execution of people committing “crimes”.

Early on, Java was advertized as the next great thing, ending headaches from system development, porting, and “promoting good programming practices through OOP”.

Then people increasingly got tired of OOP and the speed penalty of both that paradigm and the JVM, not to mention more and more education institutes started to claim Java was too hard for beginners, and that Python would be better.

Now we have Rust evangelists promoting the language as the next great thing, ending headaches from memory safety issues, porting (if you target WASM and pack your app into a Chromium instance), and “promoting good programming practices through FP”.

Time is truly a flat circle…

はい、私は「トイレ」を書いた。何はあなたの問題ですか？

何を言うですか？

GOP = Gang of Pedophiles

トイレがどこ？

Rust has many valid reason to critique for.

It’s a functional-first language. Yes, you can opt out from it with constant let muts. But it is like that on purpose, to make it uncomfortable to write procedural code, so you’re incentivized to use less variables. In fact, when I first heard about Rust, it advertized itself not through memory safety, but through the functional programming paradigm, and its evangelists called any kind of memory mutation a hazard, not just the out-of-bound kind. This also makes it extremely obtuse to write games with.

Calling Rust not a functional programming language is like calling Java not an object-oriented programming language, because you can still technically make procedural code with it, you only need to write packaging classes for your code, and still can set globals, via static. The existence of even harder OOP languages, where even the base types like integers are classes themselves could also be used to call Java “not an OOP language, but a general purpose language with OOP features”.

It’s also quite hard to opt-out from its memory safety features, resulting in a very ugly code. And evangelists like to trash-talk some of its memory safe competitors, like calling D not a memory safe language, because it’s more of an opt-in feature.

However, thanks to Brian Lunduke and his anti-woke brainrot, all the critique we get is “code of conduct bad”, “pronouns bad”, “christian extremism masquerading as common sense good”, “elitism and hierarchies good”. Almost no critique of the language itself. Which is bad IMHO. (Can someone suggest me a substack-like place, where I can publish articles, and also not ran by nazis?)

“We need to flood the zone, to overwhelm and burn out the activists!” - Steve Bannon