'spite driven development'

I've seen code like this in console firmware and desktop apps, and it's fine. Can't really do this in code libraries on CPU with speed of light perf needs

My teenagers don't see the point of a LAN, but it sure kept gaming fun when it was just you vs people you knew at school or work

A lot of memory management models assume that there are many objects and many lifetimes (a lifetime per each object). The reality is that there are many object and very few lifetimes (usually like 3-5). So a lot of languages are solving pretty much non-existing problems.

one of my early internet memories from the mid 1990s was stumbling on a Japanese LARPing troupe with a Wehrmacht theme. They had cardboard Panzers

waiting for the inevitable 'cloud printing' which makes printers actually work, subsidized by printing ads between the pages

'Who's Z80? Z80's dead, baby'

youtu.be/5lL1ypndnWA?si…

It's the app store

I occasionally see people lament how it's no longer possible to buy a dumb iPod that merely plays media

I just bought one with Bluetooth, micro SD, PDF, MP3, MP4 video, USB-C, etc for $2.00 from AliExpress

they finally got me. the one thing that could motivate me to reactivate my cable TV subscription

remember how you're supposed to wait for version 3 before a product really works as intended

I want this to be the default user interface, sometimes

Ok, since everyone is adding wrong soundtrack to the new robot video, I had to add proper one from the most obvious movie reference...

this is pretty close to what i'd expect to see in custom silicon, and better than the thing I wrote with integer divides

might trim out that lookup table tho

at a job interview almost 20 years ago, I was asked to list all the ways to optimize a given piece of mathy code, and I deliberately avoided 'early out' and was dinged, and had to explain to this team that early out is slow in modern times

you will blink your eyes one day and your youngest will be in high school, and all the times you'll ever have with them as a small kid will then be in the past, forever

any task that is less than one page of text, which takes more than the blink of an eye to complete

'roguelike' in a game description is like one of these words on a food label

bistro
artisan
harvest

IDK what to call these things with 3 non-identical ops simplifying into 1, but it's neat

((a & b) + (a | b)) == (a + b)
((a & b) + (a ^ b)) == (a | b)
((a | b) - (a ^ b)) == (a & b)
((a + b) - (a | b)) == (a & b)
((a + b) - (a & b)) == (a | b)
((a | b) - (a & b)) == (a ^ b)