vrighter @ vrighter @discuss.tchncs.de

Posts

0

Comments

1,048

Joined

2 yr. ago

so? It was never advertised as intelligent and capable of solving any task other than that one.

Meanwhile slop generators are capable of doing a lot of things and reasoning.

One claims to be good at chess. The other claims to be good at everything.

the driver itself is kilobytes in size. Megabytes is huge for such a simple thing

how does that stop the checker model from "hallucinating" a "yep, this is fine" when it should have said "nah, this is wrong"

the first one was confident. But wrong. The second one could be just as confident and just as wrong.

what makes the checker models any more accurate?

the word insisting shows your arrogance. Insisting on something implies one has a choice. Those who are sticking with X11 are doing so because wayland just does not do what they need.

you made me snort coffee out of my nose. I hoepe you're proud of yourself

25% of users sticking with X11 is a very significant amount. which roughly means wayland does not account for the needs of a quarter of its (hostilely taken over, now) userbase

look at that shaved little tummy!!!!

most code from the before times, from the long-long-ago, actually didn't need a browser, and could fit on a floppy disk!

writing code that doesn't need a browser to run on

i bought an original cartridge and played it on the vcs i iherited from dad

overactors trying to out-overact each other. Love it!

i still enjoyed the crap out of it. Sometimes zoning out and just running around collecting stuff is just what I need.

he was forced to release it quickly to coincide with the film's release. For comparison, it used to take a team of devs a couple of months to make a game. He had 6 weeks.

Also, if you read the manual, this essentially never happened to you. It was easy to avoid.

You also needed to read the manual. The game did stuff that other games at the time didn't, for example, a contextual button. You couldn't know what would happen unless you read the manual to learn what the icons meant. A lot of people never did and so decided that the game was bad.

I don't see a ball in any of the nets. So there are zero goals in that image

when climbing out of the pit, it was very easy to immediately fall back down (due to the pixel-perfect collision detection).

And here is an excerpt from the manual: "Even experienced extraterrestrials sometimes have difficulty levitating out of wells. Start to levitate E.T. by first pressing the controller button and then pushing your Joystick forward. E.T.'s neck will stretch as he rises to the top of the well (see E.T. levitating in Figure 1). Just when he reaches the top of the well and the scene changes to the planet surface (see Figure 2), STOP! Do not try to keep moving up. Instead, move your Joystick right, left, or to the bottom. Do not try to move up, or E.T. might fall back into the well."

it was actually way ahead of its time, for a game. One small bug (the workaround for which was in the manual) ruined its reputation. But I genuinely think it was a good game.

Also written in 6 weeks by one guy. Freaking impressive

I was 14 years old, and I got the 128meg stick for free. Beggars can't be choosers haha

i started using linux on a single core pentium 4 with 384M of ram