Nope, they weren’t. But there were definitely differences whether you played on a Sony Trinitron or a cheap TV. Hell, I even played some games on black-white-TV when the color TV wasn’t available.

I’m a lyrical Gungstah!

How deep underground is safe to protect against a modern nuclear blast?

It depends if you live in St. Petersburg or in some bunker in the Urals. If you’re in St. Petersburg, then it doesn’t matter; but you should be pretty safe in the Urals.

RIP Richard Lewis

I watched this a few days ago and I love how he and Larry were able to openly joke about it.

To add one more aspect: When someone writes a reply asking for a source, did they actually do a short Google-search related to the claim? It basically takes the same time to just look at the summary of the search results as asking for a source. So I assume if someone asks for verification for an easily searchable fact, then they are acting in bad faith.

Also one more thing: If you notice someone acting in bad faith, don’t engage with them. Downvote them, move on. This is especially true for the next few months until the US elections are over. You will notice it a day after the elections that the quality of discussions will increase because the bad faith actors will take a vacation. What happened on Reddit in 2016 is happening here right now.

It’s one of Putin’s strategies: To make it look like it is a conflict between the US/NATO and Russia, not between Ukraine and Russia. He also tries to diminish Ukrainian sovereignity by making it appear as if the US is the overlord, as if Ukraine is an American puppet. It’s all about making Ukraine look like it isn’t its own country. That’s why we get those bullshit historic lessons by that pathetic man-child.

As much as I love this song, but because of recent events, it would be better to sing “some Russians love their children too”.

Can someone explain to me why this shootdown is even news instead of a statistic?

It’s a military airplane shot down in a shooting war. Does Russia now call the UN security council when Ukraine destroys a transport truck? Why is the media constantly falling for Russia’s bullshit behaviour?

This reminds me of 2016 and the massive propaganda against Hillary Clinton. It’s clear that these are attempts at manipulating left-wing voters to abstain from voting for Biden.

Since Moscow is the Third Rome and there are angry mercenaries, I present you with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(1527)

Yeah, Prigozhin forgot the golden rule: If you take a swing at the Tsar, you better aim low.

It’s actually pretty recognizable, but that’s because it is Part 1 of Another Brick In The Wall, not the well known Part 2.

It is “Another Brick In The Wall Part 1”, not Part 2 which everyone knows. Curious about the choice of Part 1; I guess that Part 1 doesn’t have such a strong rhythm/groove as Part 2, thus making it easier to reconstruct?

You already forgot that Trump had a lawyer with the name “Pecker” in the Stormy Daniels case? I think there were even more lawyers with penis-names, but I can’t remember all that weird shit that happened.

Ah yeah. I don’t know how often I’ve seen Betelgeuze turning supernova within 30 minutes in a live stream.

I so wish that D would have taken off :/

I used it at the time of the library split (there was a split in the community regarding the standard library, where Tango was the alternative). The compile time features of D were fantastic and they are still unmatched; as an example: For OpenGL (back then OpenGL 2.x) I could define the vertex attributes and had them checked at compile time when I started to fill the data with glMap! D templates and compile time code generation are on a whole new level, although it made tooling more difficult. If you know constexpr in C++, then this is nothing compared to what D has to offer.

Got it, but on the other hand (and as someone else commented): With the right settings, VB.NET can be en par with C#, for instance. They both compile to the same MCIL code, so it should really boil down to a matter of personal preference, right?

I mean, you could also use C++/CLR. Please don’t. Because at some point people like me have to maintain it and they will hate every minute of that experience.

I feel that many people don’t know that and tend to think back to C64 Basic, etc. and just laugh it off.

I don’t know if people laugh it off because of the 8bit Basics, I think it’s more because of VB6. And AFAIR VB.net was made to make it easier for VB6-developers to switch to .net. The real programming language for .net was supposed to be C# and I guess some people at Microsoft also like F#.

I also enjoy other “hated” languages like PHP and Java

But Java is not a bad language per se; I actually enjoyed programming in Java more than C#. Java is hated because of its Enterprise-stuff. C# has managed to get a foot-hold in game development and is therefore cooler than Enterprisey-Java.

I also like to play the UNO reverse card: I personally hate projects that run with Electron, for instance.

I don’t see how that is a UNO reverse card :)

Atari Basic was my very first programming language, so I grew up learning Basic. Having said that: I don’t see any reason why new software should be written in any Basic-dialect except for fun (the same kind of fun like writing a game engine in Ada) or because of legacy reasons. So programming on the C-64, or QBasic and DOS, a.s.o. all those are fun projects, kind of like reenactment of medieval knight fights.

In your case: If you feel comfortable using VB for your personal projects, then go ahead. But for me any variant of VB is awful, and this also applies to PHP. And in a perfect world we also wouldn’t use JavaScript.

Since about 6 months ago I’m doing the classical “read the official documentation and changelogs”, even if it’s as bad as Microsoft’s (their changelogs are good though). I guess we will enter a new era of RTFM while AI is maturing and we find methods for filtering AI generated noise.

It sounds like you got it basically right, but now think about the sentence “the universe is a part of our dimension” which would mean “the universe is a part of our universe”.

The scifi “dimension” is as meaningless as “plane of existence”; it just sounds nice when you want to explain things away in scifi. I mean, it seems to be easier in scifi to travel between those “dimensions” than between the Milky Way and any other galaxy in the visible universe.