Well, THAT wasn’t on my bingo card. More power to 'em, I guess.

I never really understood the appeal of jQuery, it doesn’t do anything that you can’t do natively, and it’s not like it does any of the things it DOES do significantly better than native. Just not worth the cost of adding a dependency, for me.

I myself dislike seeing the same thing posted repeatedly to different comms, but that’s really a product of my 9wn browsing habits, and the fact that I’m too lazy to try out one of the clients that aggregates cross-posts. I’m not sure how the “official cross-post” function on Lemmy works, that triggers posts to be specifically listed as “cross-posted from XXX”, but I think that’s the best way to go about it.

5 Repeat until completion

What the fuck IS completion here? Just running indefinitely until the user manually kills the loop?

I’ll hazard a guess… OPAM was using a text-based utility to get the list of groups, and 33 is the point where the list would wrap to a new line.

No. Turning things into SPAs that should have been simple websites has been. Also developing SPAs in JS.

The generator episode infuriated me greatly, yes. I still really enjoyed the show and am looking forward to more.

It’s kinda remarkable, because there’s depictions of practical engineering later on in the show that are very good.

Season 2 in particular ends with the best depiction of a particular theme I’ve ever seen.

Lovely, thanks.

So, this can’t just be a Hellsing Ultimate Abridged reference, right? There’s an underlying reference I’m just not aware of?

It’s a hobby that allows for a LOT of different types of creative expression, does not require any monetary investment to get started in, or to pursue long term, and even has a small chance to MAKE you money, if it turns out you enjoy it enough to purse that end. It has the potential to make a GREAT hobby.

The Owl House, for sure.

Also, Infinity Train comes to mind.

So, that’s definitely fraud, right?

2018’s Christmas Chronicles was an instant staple for us.

I enjoyed my brief time with gRPC and protobuf, when I was trying them out, and I’d happily use them again, but I think it’s obvious why JSON and REST are more dominant.

For one, gRPC works great for simple server/client apps, but it makes them VERY tightly coupled. If your product is an API itself, open for public use, tight coupling is a hindrance more than a benefit.

And more to the point… have you ever tried to DEBUG gRPC traffic? The efficiency of gRPC is top notch, t optimizes for serialization, deserialization, and bandwidth, all at once. But JSON is human readable, and when you throw in HTTP compression, the efficiency is close enough to protobuf to serve the vast majority of scenarios. JSON is just far more practical.

Unfortunately, the alternatives are really lacking. JetBrains Rider REALLY feels underbaked. No deal-breaking issues, but lots of little low-impact ones, and lots of design decisions that go against common conventions, for no apparent reason. The “Visual Studio Mode” doesn’t really help.

On top of that, I’ve had several issues with RUNNING Rider, on account of being on Bazzite, an immutable distro. It was fine on Mint, but Mint had its own troubles with my NVidia card.

I don’t think so. As far as I’m aware, it’s never come up before. The way it would play out, I think, would be something like…

• Future president issues an EO or whatever rescinding the pardon. This doesn’t really accomplish anything, though. It’s really just a signal to the DoJ that the president proooobably wants them to pursue charges against the individual in question. Which they’ve probably already discussed directly.
• DoJ brings charges against the individual.
• The individual, files a motion for dismissal of charges, on the grounds of the prior pardon.
• The judge hears arguments from the DoJ about why that pardon should be considered invalid, and rules one way or the other. If I had to guess, I’d say most judges would rule that the existing pardon can’t be overturned, as it’s a power defined explicitly in the Constitution, and overturning pardon’s isn’t.
• Regardless of the ruling, the decision gets appealed and escalated through the appeals court system to work out the final outcome.

Drug money.

I mean, the trouble is you gotta move the fridge to get to it, yeah? So surely nothing you’d want to get at frequently.

Christmas/Birthday presents?

Really rare house supplies? Like, say, light bulbs?

One of them portable fireproof safes with important documents?

Not QUITE a program, but I’d have to say my own little GBA ROM hacks for the original Fire Emblem. On account of the following story…

IIRC, it was 2007, and I was a senior in high school, reorganizing some of the stuff for the robotics team, in the cabinets in the big science classroom where we met. There were some freshmen interested in the team (season wouldn’t start for a while yet) who’d taken to hanging out there, after school.

They all had laptops and I recognized the menu theme when one of them pulled up Fire Emblem in an emulator, from across the room, and immediately called out “Who’s playing Fire Emblem?”. When I went over and saw he was using Virtual Boy Advance, it occurred to me what I had in my pocket. Or rather what happened to be ON the flash drive in my pocket.

At the time, I didn’t have my own laptop, so my flash drive had years worth of random crap on it. And over the years, I spent a LOT of time tinkering with ROMs and VBA over the years. In addition to a few copies of different hacked ROMs and save files, I had a portable hex editor, and a LOT of text files with hex tables and memory maps and other research I’d collected over the years.

So, yeah, I pulled out the flash drive, said “Wanna see something cool?” and proceeded to apply many crazy hacks as I could think of, in the most obtuse manner possible, just editing hex values directly in memory as the game was running. Free XP, free items, end game equipment, sprite swaps, etc. At one point, one of them says something like “What kind of wizard ARE you?!”

It’s what comes to mind for me when you say “cool” because I like to think I inspired those kids to get into software and programming themselves, or at least consider it as an option. They certainly stuck around with the team for the rest of the year. Also, it inspired ME to really realize how much I’d grown just by tinkering and being curious, and how much you can accomplish through incremental effort.

I don’t see the point of limiting the nominees to just one-per-game, for best performance. There’s still only one winner, and if that game legitimately had that many fantastic performances, more power to 'em.

I’ll second the idea of keeping Best Indie and Best Debut Indie separate. I’ll go further and say E33 just isn’t an Indie game, it’s pretty solidly AA.

Just that “power plant” I think most people associate with large enclosed facilities that house power generating equipment, which doesn’t quite describe wind and solar farms. Hence that most people refer to them as “farms”.

Shite, I’m pretty damned sure I updated like a week ago. The updates always pop up in the main menu of the app, and they often mean a fix for google’s latest anti-adblock measures, so I usually update right away. I should probably adjust that policy to add some delay.