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Arc0re_Jul 2, 2024

uwu1ba Jun 20, 2024

@cstross Yo, I'm reading through Accelerando since the first time in almost a decade, feels like. Every page baffles me with how pinpoint accurate you were about our current future... I have a question about storyline : at the beginning Manfred meets Annette again, 5 years after his marriage. She says "It's been 3 years since Amsterdam" and it got me very puzzled, did I miss something or was it just a mistake that slipped past editing? (love your work, always!!! I'm a huge fan)

Arc0re_Aug 28, 2023

Nyek London Aug 28, 2023

I'm finally releasing a public demo for retro FPS that I've been working on for the past several years on September 28th!

Available to wishlist now on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/811760/The_Last_Exterminator/

The Last Exterminator on Steam

You're an exterminator. You kill things for a living. When a hostile invasion of alien cockroaches rocks your city, you've got a job to do. A high-octane retro-FPS inspired by some of the best games of the 90s.

Arc0re_Aug 28, 2023

Charlie Stross Aug 28, 2023

Baron von Totenkopf sat on his infamous Throne of Skulls and gurned furiously, as if pinching a loaf—

Arc0re_Aug 22, 2023

Bahman Movaqar Aug 22, 2023

#TIL When in doubt about #POSIX compliance of a command, just use #Perl FTW.

Example: Asking `date` to produce nanoseconds doesn't work on #MacOS w/o #GNU coreutils installed.

So I simply switched to `perl -MTime::HiRes` and, well, problem was solved!

#programming #linux #devops #sysadmin

Arc0re_Aug 22, 2023

Alina Yossimouse Aug 5, 2023

My new Linux laptop is pretty sweet

Arc0re_Aug 16, 2023

Eniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)Jul 6, 2023

The first episode of Coding History: 3D from Mode7 to DOOM is live now! It explains how to rotate points in 2D space and why the rotation formula so often used in game development is the way it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC5IMfK7Yfw

Please go check it out and boost this post if you want to support an educational video series about old school 80s and 90s 3D 🙏

#GameDev #RetroGaming #math #CodingHistory

Why is the formula for rotating 2D points LIKE THAT?? 2D rotation explained [Coding History]

YouTube

Arc0re_Aug 14, 2023

VimLinks Aug 14, 2023

Most text editors have a linear undo history. If you undo something and then make a change, the previous state is lost. Not so with Vim -- here's a guide to chronological undo/redo that could save you some retyping: https://countvajhula.com/2023/08/08/vim-tip-of-the-day-time-travel/