Nice!
Time for some Tribes or Heroes of Might and Magic.
Probably! According to Wikipedia you get 3-5 hours off of 6 AA batteries. Not sure how that changes with the TV tuner but battery life wasn’t great.
Looks like something from HP’s lab.
https://www.theonion.com/hp-offers-that-cloud-thing-everyone-is-talking-about-1819595260
Hopefully something that gets cut for the final release 😂
Wow! This is the first I heard of this so I looked it up.
According to this article it looks like you need a particular build thats not in the nightly mainline, and its very experimental.
Still, its exciting to see them work on this! I use Tree Style Tabs with custom userchrome.css, but it is a bit fragile. Native vertical tabs would be great!
Yup! Also languages in the ML family and others I’m sure.
Nope. In Rust, a semicolon denotes a statement while a lack of semicolon is an expression so you can’t just omit them at will. This does lead to cool things though like if/else blocks being able to produce values if they end in an expression. But the expression type is checked so you’re less likely to make a mistake. You can see an example here: https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/flow_control/if_else.html
In JavaScript I never skip semicolons because I’ve seen those subtle bugs.
Yeah, semicolons are ugly anyway and they’d ruin the beautiful expression of your code.
That game was amazing!
How did you get the Dreamcast connected to a server?
Sounds fun! I assume you’re read the Async Book?
Finally some positivity around async Rust!
I write a lot of embedded C for a living, and can’t wait for the ecosystem to get better so I can switch to Rust. Threading always starts simple. All I need is to spawn a thread and wait for a message on a queue. Then requirements change and I’m waiting on multiple messages from multiple other threads and suddenly I’m writing yet another state machine that async Rust would write for me.
I also wish I had “coloured” functions in my embedded code. Often times it’s not even documented if a function blocks or not, and sometimes the behaviour changes depending on compile time configuration (blocking, or interrupt driven, or DMA, etc.).
Async Rust certainly has it’s complexity too, but at least to my brain it would make a lot of my code much simpler.
I need to find some time to really dig into Embassy one of these days.
I can’t believe this is the first I’m hearing about this. Tribes is one of my favourite games! I hope this one is good.
I’m curious what you use it for. I use Ivy and it had good fuzzy matching.
Taking your data to flavortown!
I’ve been using Raccoon lately. It’s not perfect, but every release has been improving, and I’m liking it a lot.
I don’t use Flatpak much, but I rarely see issues. Sometimes I see minor things like themes not quite being right, but its never been bad enough for me to spend the time to fix it.
I suppose another downside is the need to have the base runtime packages, so it could take more disk space if each app uses a different one. In practice apps will share runtimes though.
I’ve never heard of Skiff, but it’s sad to see more software gobbled up by VCs. Though it sounds like the back end was never OSS to begin with?
I used to be so excited about a future where people were software literate where we would be building open systems and make a decent living. Instead, people have been force fed locked down systems in the name of “user experience”, all so that a few people can make an absolute killing while the rest of us feed off the scraps (even if the scraps of the software industry are still pretty good). It just makes me sad.
I am extremely appreciative of folks who do make honest open source software though! Many of them do make a decent living too. It’s hard not to lose hope when reading stuff like this, but then I remember that I’m typing this comment using Firefox on KDE Plasma running on a Linux kernel, right next to an Emacs session. Sticking to good open source software is a wonderful thing!
This is something that bugs me too. Its not completely broken but there are a lot of small issues assuming you can even get the game to run at all