Fortunately, it’s been ~4 years since I had to tangle with it directly, so I don’t remember my specific pain points. I happily fucked off back to C for work and Rust for fun.

Obligatory “Fuck the Red Sox”, but during the WS they kept talking about how long it took for him to figure it out at the MLB level, so good on Bauers for getting paid.

I am a firmware level guy, so my work is in C/assembly, but for a while I was tasked with enabling a new framework to run some of our low level diags. Most of that work was in a Linux kernel module (still C obviously) but I also had to do the higher level interface and, yeah, the people that started the new framework did it in C++17 and then 20 by the time I got involved.

I don’t think there was a subset per se, but like any biggish codebase there were idiomatic ways of doing everything.

Ironically, the new framework is now almost 10 years old and the framework it was meant to replace (which is dogshit C++03) is still puttering around with a skeleton crew of maintainers.

C++ has become more and more unhinged as it tries to warp itself into a language with every possible feature. I was forced to get up to date with C++20 at work for awhile and it’s miserable.

The article mentions how much C++ runs modern software, and I won’t argue that point, but I really wonder how many of those key pieces of software, browsers, game engines, web servers etc. are still basically C++03 codebases.

I agree that it’s going to be down to candidates. This last election was not just anti-Trump it was anti-Paxton and anti-Abbott. People here are sick of them specifically and Republican voters just didn’t bother. They would absolutely come out for a fresh crop.

That said, it shouldn’t be underestimated how the perception of momentum can help. Especially if the Democrats have a good, progressive candidate, and are able to deliver on some stuff in the next two years. Texas could be in play for a long time.

Inventor of timsort, RIP

Nothing, they just intentionally fuck up the acronym. Sometimes they call the Enterprise the Entrepreneur. It’s usually rooted in some one off comment, but sometimes it takes and slowly they’ve developed their own weird parlance full of in jokes.

On the Greatest Generation podcast, they say RSVP instead of RIP among other little in jokes.

If you haven’t listened to it, it’s a pretty funny take on basically every episode of Trek at this point. It starts a bit rough (and slightly inappropriate with some Wesley jokes IMO) but it gets good quick and now it’s a fulltime job for the hosts. It’s a good time if you’re looking for a parasocial relationship with a couple of Trekkies.

I love the tribute, but it’s pretty bold to put an in joke in a tattoo. There’s a IYKYK factor for Greatest Gen fans, but almost everyone else is gonna need an explanation for why this isn’t a fuck up.

I love Elite and it’s definitely amazing in VR. For everything in a ship I agree with you, NMS is childish in comparison.

However, NMS is attempting a way more multi-cultural galaxy, and I often wish Elite had more diversity in aliens, and more interesting planets similar to NMS. Especially when Elite has so much grind to do rep etc. I wish just once I’d be doing a delivery quest to an acid jungle planet covered in hostile turtles, instead of yet another dead planetoid with a few outposts sticking out of it.

No Man’s Sky is an incredibly uneven experience. The one thing it does better than its peers is the variety of aliens and flora/fauna. There are easily 30 hours of fun in just exploring around and seeing some cool alien vistas and ecosystems, trying to survive on ice or acid planets etc. The game gives you good reason to visit them too.

However, it sort of falls apart after that. The space flight, mining, and combat aren’t nearly as good as (e.g.) Elite, the quests are pretty meh, the base building is okay but it falls down on automating production of anything you actually care about (I.e. it’s mostly aesthetic, but it can be cool to have a home base in a neat spot). Some of the recent DLCs added things like big carrier ships, and the game contrives to give you one to captain with a quest… But that sort of obliterates the ship progression.

You may have more fun with something like Elite or X4 depending on what you’re looking for, but if you just want to fuck around and see neat stuff on your own timeframe, NMS could definitely justify its price tag.

As Carlin said: it’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.

It’s hard to buy candy for yourself as an adult because you know it’s nothing but love handles and tooth decay in shiny wrappers. But if it comes into your orbit once a year without buying it, it’s tempting.

Of course, when my kid was small he basically didn’t bother eating it at all. He’d get like 100 pieces of candy and they’d linger around until Christmas. When I was a kid we’d get pillowcases full and it’d be gone in days. Not sure if that’s a generational thing or if my son was just not very motivated by sweets.

Ah, okay.

That Tawny Newsome show sounded like such a cool premise and angle on the universe, could have been great but yeah I assume it got axed.

Academy also has an S2, not sure if that drops first.

Honestly, I’m kinda happy for Trek to go on hiatus for a while. The Discovery era has been more miss than hit, especially if only considering the mainline live action shows (DSC, PIC, SNW) and with the Skydance acquisition I’m not looking forward to Ellison Trek.

Maybe in another few years, with fresh writers and show runners who are actual Trek fans, etc. but for now, give it some distance and let the influence of Kurtzman/Orci/Abrams be left behind.

The current exploit was found with AI and released (after it was found and kept secret by the original dev in the hopes of keeping GTA VI runnable) but the other infrastructure is still basically the same as it ever was. Post jailbreak, running the Linux ELF loader you’re booting a pretty standard Linux kernel and distro.

If you’re interested in PS5 Linux, I wouldn’t let the drama over the exploit get in your way.

That said, until it can reboot without involving another Linux machine to deliver the payload, it’s a fun trick but you might as well just buy the SoC for $250, a Steam Machine, or build a PC to have a better supported Linux flow.

Haha, I phrased it that way to note that it was a ratings decision. Anyway, hope you like it.

It’s just awful. The second to last episode includes a good little speech from Archer that really works as a bookend of the show. Then the last episode completely crashes and burns trying to bookend the entirety of 90s Trek. If it’s your first time, you kinda have to watch it, but just know a lot of people (myself included) don’t consider it canon and skip it on every rewatch. It’s that bad.

It’s probably more evenly split than VOY. The show builds in a reason for everyone to get semi-naked and it leads to some pretty egregious scenes for the male 18-49 demographic, but there are plenty of cases with shirtless or underwear clad men too. Everyone on the show is attractive and fit even by TV standards.

Watch Enterprise. It’s a divisive show in the community, mostly because it made a decision to be “sexier” and then got dark in response to 9/11, not to mention the whole theme song debacle or the must skip series finale…

However, there is also a lot of good Trek in there and some insight into humanity post First Contact but pre Federation. You owe it to yourself as a fan to at least give it a chance.