They did - their list wasn’t all related to _your_ post, other than to say the site is “perfect” to them, after which they enumerated the reasons including “does not require JavaScript”
At first I had a good chuckle of “this really encapsulates the tropes, even down to being React” and the more I scrolled through the components, it looks like a very serious library - lots of knobs to turn and consideration for various implementations!
Everyone likes a beer analogy (almost as much as CS teachers love car analogies!) so I’ll try and do one that applies in the way I _think_ GP intends:
Brewers want people to want beer, and to perhaps puritans, that desire could appear as “addicted”. However, brewers don’t want addicts - liver failure, destitution, death, are all things I doubt a brewer wants to see in their consumer base because you can’t drink if you don’t have a liver, don’t have money, or don’t have life.
Did I, as a child, think my dad was addicted to alcohol because I saw him drink everyday? I did, that’s the appearance it gave. Was he? Not to the clinical point of addiction, technically - he functioned, maintained relationships and a job, and wasn’t more than occasionally emotionally abusive. He fit the type of customer GP seems to talk about - appearing to be addicted but not wholly, truly addicted.
If you haven’t seen it, @jart’s Actually Portable Executable does just this - it’s definitely got a long ways to go (iirc it only supports CLI apps), but it’s fascinating to see a method of building binaries that can execute across various architectures and operating systems.
It’s been infuriating to see it shoved everywhere in the corporate stack - Teams, Outslook, Jira, GitHub, etc. and since tools are all company-mandated, the best I can do is continuously ignore or say “not now”, but one day Teams will rollover on a forced software update and I’ll have no choice but to “let” CoPilot schedule meetings in an app that already consistently warns that I’m in a different time zone despite all of us being east coast (I’ve checked so many settings, and even with another single coworker who has checked his we see the warning).
My company is also heavily pushing AI, which is worrisome but no surprising - part of my goal for the coming year is to showcase using AI in a productive and innovative way, can’t wait.
Eventually my Google Nest Minis will stop asking me to try Gemini and force me to, and they’ll all get binned unless I can find a firmware replacement which I doubt is out there, and then I’ll get deep into HomeKit and local voice recognition for turning the lights on and off and setting timers because that’s literally 99% of my use-case, and I’m sure Gemini would fuck it up.
There was a talk at a Linux conference a while back relating knitting to programming and I’ve yet to watch it because the audio on YT wasn’t great but it’s on my list.
I find knitting very soothing, and it also scratches the same itch as programming.
And it’s one that already affects Google’s AI results, whether intentional or not. 9/10 if a Reddit thread or scraped StackExchange clone’s search result is in the top of the list, the AI answer pretty much parrots it.
This has led to many a “that doesn’t sound right” when looking things up with friends, or odd technical questions that have serviceable information available but not at the top of results.
I’d wager the money from lobbies and companies like Intuit more than make up for it.
Also, republics are “anti-tax” in word and pro-tax in practice, as is the American way. When it comes to particularly republicans, anti-tax is code for removing social safety nets. They want taxes if it pays them, or pays the right contractors, or funds the military etc but when those tax dollars could go to social welfare they suddenly think it’s time to trim the fat.
Cave Story is in my Mount Rushmore of games, bookmarking this for later! Very curious to see how the controls map out and work. Good job, and keep it up :D
I don't have an explanation of the touch controls on the site, I guess I probably should as they aren't entirely standard although I hope they're intuitive. It's a two thumb control scheme for Cave Story:
Left thumb drag (anywhere on left half of screen): D-pad
Right thumb tap/hold: shoot
Right thumb drag (any direction): jump
Tap weapon/health bar: open inventory/map menu
Swipe weapon/health bar left/right: switch weapon
For Quake, the left half of the screen works like a gamepad left stick for movement, and the right half works like a trackpad for aiming. Your weapon will start shooting automatically when an enemy is near the crosshair, even if they are not directly under it, so you need to track enemies accurately over time to score hits without wasting ammo. Tapping the top right quadrant of the screen will shoot manually, which is mostly useful for the rocket launcher. I didn't figure out a scheme to enable jumping or zoom/scope.
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