sukhmel

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Yeah, I thought life was hard but sustainable mostly, turns out one was always at risk of extinction:

Medieval villagers were often living on the edge of subsistence. Agricultural surpluses were skimmed by the church and the feudal lords. Bad harvests, banditry, warfare and disease might decimate a village community at any time. For this very reason, the demography of many European villages remained relatively stable between the twelfth and the eighteenth century.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, when the same API endpoint sometimes return a string for an error, sometimes an object, and sometimes an array, JSON doesn't help much in parsing the mess

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago

At least they don't corrupt the memory like 101-pedes

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

My favourite ones are compiler optimisations based on impossibility of Undefined Behaviour, like this one: https://stackoverflow.com/a/78751225/1122720

And time travel, of course: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140627-00/?p=633

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

It's painful to watch, ngl

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Maybe they want to change it

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago

Narrator: they absolutely did notice

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I eventually found a Wikipedia page about Amazon Game Studios, they still exist and make games, and it looks like they only make mediocre stuff even when they have chances to make something interesting (like King of Meat, that seems to be a well received game, but has awful name, is too pricey, and is almost unknown, making the online too small)

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

$40 is now too much for an old but working laptop? That's crazy

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

Well, it is an image. Technically

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, not for pointing out

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