vkazanov

You are just too tired this morning (hit with tires)

I know i am pedantic, sorry.

The engine was more like a hybrid 2d/3d. Units were 3d, everything else brilliantly faked.

I mean, i played it on really weak machine (high end 486 or a cheap pentium), and it worked like charm, no gpu involved.

Interesting is one way of saying this...

I will never recover from debugging ZODB backed by Oracle. Well, somewhat backed.

Who, like, who thought it was cool to have a pickle-based, mostly in-memory, single process, aaalmost transactional database?!

Ha! People still remember Zope!

That was my first web kind of framework. The naivette of Zope still amuses me endlessly to this very day.

It tried to be cool, made ALL the wrong choices, and died silently with people just moving on.

I grew up in a little post soviet republic, in a small town with a big nuclear power plant.

Coincidently, that's where my father was working as a programmer until the shutdown of the plant.

Anyways, he was maintaining a bunch of systems related to collecting data from environment monitoring sensors around the plant. In mid 2000s or so he showed me some data collecting machines using what looked like DOS text UI that mentioned being written in Leningrad, 1989 or 1988.

The software was running in an emulator on Linux, which my father used to replace original x86-compatible machines runninh dos.

Pretty sure thr whole thing was running for quite a while since my family moved elsewhere.

Well...

Around 1998-2000 my dad made a little business out of setting up linux servers on commodity hardware in my hometown. Primitive social networks, LAN provider servers, mail servers all worked just fine. Not without some involved convincing, and tinkering, and kernel patching but they did work.

One or two of the companies later became regional champions, running 100s of linux/x86/dell machines.

None of them would be able to afford a proper Sun server. Sun would never bother itself with these original tiny contracts.

It dont think Sun even stood a chance in this game. They couldnt even realize this happening!

By the promise of it, llms should be able to both adhere to grammars, or go free form where necessary. I mean, doing math is supposed to be strict but in practice it's a somewhat educated random walk in the space of correct lean theorems.

Harnesses do correct things, sure.

Public transit is not "100 years back". London, uk is not exactly backwards looking in that sense, and the vast majority of people use trains/metto to go to work.

I walk 10k steps a day on a normal day, only drive when necessary to go out of my normal routes. This has an added benefit of keeping me, an aging programmer, in shape (as well as other relevant activities).

Nothing dramatic about it at all.

Yeah! Same for finland, the baltic states, or poland, or russia, or any country really where there is any kind of serious winter happening.

Reality should never stand in thr way of a good export-oriented myth :-)

Most of the west outside of the US takes shoes off or swaps 'em for indoor shoes.

Is this how most of the world operates? :-)

People in the west tend to overthink spirituality.

Having been to houses/flats across all of eurasia, uk to hong kong, vietnam to lithuania, the majority prefers taking shoes when entering a house, but can be as practical as necessary when the need arises.

It will make you stronger period.

There are side effects, problems, long-term consequences...

But testosteron blood levels absolutely do regulate muscle growth.

Or maybe we shouldnt call anything "science" until it assumes replication of foundational results.

Physics solved this quite some time ago.