Delphi could do complex GUIs pretty well. That makes me miss it sometimes.

You’d think that, and yet I’ve once worked in a project in a fortune 500 company that basically wouldn’t even compile if we didn’t add comments like that. No kidding the compiler enforced specific comment patterns so if you had a line do x = x + 1, it would not compile if it was not preceded by a comment that started with “Add” and included “1” and “to x”. Even in dev mode if you wanted to just try something you had to comment everything.

The original dev was super proud of this tools that generated HTML documentation about everything based on those comments. And the whole documentation was stuff like:

*price*: The price

A friend of mine used to teach coding decades ago and one story I’ll never forget is about the student who had an assignment that asked for a “for” loop to be used, but they didn’t quite know how to use it so they just wrote a broken loop there and then hid a “while” loop at the far end of the line.

Code compiled, had a “for” loop and had the right output.

Oh right I hadn’t thought of combining it with the IP itself.

Would a fingerprint uniqueness hold up in court?

It kinda feels like saying: “we know the crime was committed by someone who’s this tall with this hair color and this skin color and has this tattoo on the right arm and who speaks these three languages and we have never seen anyone else who matches all of those things so it must be you”

Mario 3, though these days I get tired of it after a World or two and haven’t completed it in a while.

Also Xenogears from the PS1 is still one of my favorite games and I replay it every few years.

How did Pinwheel survive the previous presidents?

At least when I had to create a DSL in a project I gave it a fitting name: Bullscript.

Same, though I’ve started having some issues with their slower updates not catching up to changes on OSs and stuff (using it on an atomic distro for example is quite a pain).

For me it was my older brother (who owned the only computer in the house). He had very strict rules about what I could do on his PC but even then he would only leave his room unlocked once a week at most. This was before I even cared for internet so being offline was no big deal.

When I was 13 I managed to talk my way into doing some chores for a neighborhood PC school in exchange for access to computers whenever there was some free spot in any of their classes. A couple years later they opened a Lan House so I worked there and could finally use PCs all day every day. One more year and I was already teaching programming classes there (well, trying to).

The DS would not be able to connect to OP’s network to begin with.

It’s a little bit of both. It was not rare to see people in their 60s but it was also not an age most people expected to reach.

And it’s specific to slack? Or do you have the same issue when sharing the screen on anything else?

Try an atomic distro too, if you haven’t yet. It’s a completely different experience from regular Linux - specially the ones that take care of everything for you like UBlue’s.

They see politics as being a scale from left to right, 1 to 100. Individuals may have any value in that scale and they’ll vote for whoever has a closer value. So if Republicans are 80, Dems move up to 79 so that they’ll be the closest to anything left of 80. If Republicans go up to 100, Dems go up to 99 and then 99% of people will vote Dem as even someone with a value of 1 will see them as the closest party. It’s an incredible and flawless plan. Who cares about the actual politics so long as you win, right?

Now if there were a third party, then suddenly going as close to Republicans as possible is no longer a good strategy because the third party can just do the same with them - so they have to find a new balance in that scale. Add even more parties and then each one would have to find its own thing to fight for or they would get absolutely no votes.

Is there even an ecosystem? I don’t think I have heard of anything for Lua itself, just the stuff that embed it.

Golf Story.

Early in a console’s life cycle I tend to be more generous with what games I’m willing to try. Usually I end up finding some games that turn out to be quite fine, but Golf Story was actually great.

I wouldn’t say it’s the best game on switch, but it’s much better than people give it credit for and I recommend it enthusiastically to make up for it.

I hate the default style of gnome as well but it can be customized to look more like KDE, while still being much more stable and user friendly than it.

Mint is king for old hardware but you wouldn’t have been so lucky with a newish PC.

This image gave birth to an additional meme in Brazil because instead of the “see my pussy” text the translated version had “Do you think you have what it takes to smash my rat?” but written in a way that to us sounded somewhat like what “Doth thou thinkest thou haveth…” would sound to an American.