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New comment by Sardtok in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

Sardtok — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:29:44 +0000

The project predates Github, although the first official release came out about a month prior. So, yeah, not a lot of AI slop 20 years ago.

New comment by Sardtok in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

Sardtok — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:04:52 +0000

The project was started by Norwegians. So I feel like you should apply juuuust the right amount of cheesiness and sort of push that Ø-vowel looong. Not sure if Ruud would agree, though.

New comment by Sardtok in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

Sardtok — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:49:58 +0000

Well, it's kind of a machine code for a self-modifying compiler, so there's that.

New comment by Sardtok in "Antimatter has been transported for the first time"

Sardtok — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:38:13 +0000

Sounds like the start of research ending in antimatter bombs.

New comment by Sardtok in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

Sardtok — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:17:13 +0000

8 MB for an article about setting up an RSS reader is still ridiculous. Should be <1MB, the text itself is probably a few K, so all the rest is graphics and bullshit JS bundles.

New comment by Sardtok in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

Sardtok — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:00:03 +0000

Before I visited the site, I was really confused. First, the name means bad, as in evil. Second, I couldn't understand what CRaaS was supposed to be.

But I love it! The perfect response to the "clean room" AI re-implementation and re-licensing of whatever that library is called.

New comment by Sardtok in "Terminals should generate the 256-color palette"

Sardtok — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:23:56 +0000

Interesting. You could build a LUT from the 16 color palette to map the 24 bit color space to something 24 bits or less. A bit like mapping 10 bit HDR to 24 bit sRGB.

Perhaps instead of the application overriding the setting, it could be done with an environment var, so the user can easily override it if the mapping messes with the look/usability of the program.

New comment by Sardtok in "Modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space"

Sardtok — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:16:25 +0000

Always... Except for the decades before this became common. Never a bloated C: root directory. Microsoft even had games store stuff in My Documents\Games at one point. My Documents was a user dir that saw a lot of abuse over the years.

New comment by Sardtok in "“Food JPEGs” in Super Smash Bros. and Kirby Air Riders"

Sardtok — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:35:14 +0000

The PAL, JP and US versions are soooo different. Here's the PAL cover: https://i.redd.it/1sra7fk3bsgb1.jpg

That was the first video game I bought myself.

New comment by Sardtok in "enclose.horse"

Sardtok — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:15:04 +0000

If the data gathered is only on gameplay, and not something that can be used as PII like IP addresses or device information, then it should be fine. Gathering things like the score and time spent completing the level, isn't a problem. This could be used to rank the levels, without gathering any user information.

New comment by Sardtok in "FracturedJson"

Sardtok — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:25:21 +0000

Have you heard of EDN? It's mostly used in Clojure and ClojureScript, as it is to Clojure what JSON is to JS.

If you need custom data types, you can use tagged elements, but that requires you to have functions registered to convert the data type to/from representable values (often strings).

It natively supports quite a bit more than JSON does, without writing custom data readers/writers.

https://github.com/edn-format/edn

New comment by Sardtok in "Pokémon Team Optimization"

Sardtok — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:38:33 +0000

Just a wild guess, but perhaps the order of the translations vary across cells. Perhaps the browser just picks the first one that matches your supported locales.

New comment by Sardtok in "“Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number"

Sardtok — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:51:40 +0000

The fact that the PIN is leaked is bad enough, but it also happens to be plaintext. This is a password. It should not be stored unhashed, and it should be hashed with strong algorithms.

New comment by Sardtok in "Rats Play DOOM"

Sardtok — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 12:47:40 +0000

In the year 2032, the rodrone wars broke out. What started as innocent video game experiments, had taken a dark turn. After the rats had perfected playing the classic Doom games in 2026, they were easily trained on more complex simulations. In 2028 the first rodent controlled surveillance drones were tested. The year after weaponised. And the first real deployments in warfare in 2030. They easily outperformed OpenAIs latest battle systems. Home robots were soon after remote controlled by rats, known as Rodots. Rodent intelligence escalated quickly as lab selections bred only the smartest specimens. It was only a matter of time before the takeover. Now rodots were building steadily more capable drones and bots. Long before humans could foresee the need for a defense against the rats, the rodrone attack on all humankind, was a fact...

New comment by Sardtok in "Applets are officially gone, but Java in the browser is better"

Sardtok — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:05:02 +0000

You could easily say the same about C/C++, as the operating systems and most databases are written in the language(s).

New comment by Sardtok in "Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k"

Sardtok — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 08:30:49 +0000

I suppose you're counting the joyo kanji plus kana alphabets with diacritics. But the actual count of kanji is much higher, even if Japanese uses a relatively small number of characters for day-to-day writing.

Pretty much every native university student I met when I studied there, had passed the Kanji Kentei level 1 test. A certification of proficiency in around 6000 kanji.

New comment by Sardtok in "Doomsday scoreboard"

Sardtok — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 23:51:34 +0000

Have a look in the Fiction section of the Cliodynamics article.

New comment by Sardtok in "Lewis and Clark marked their trail with laxatives"

Sardtok — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 07:48:57 +0000

There's this thing called sarcasm

New comment by Sardtok in "Try and"

Sardtok — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 19:40:02 +0000

It's kind of funny that in Norwegian, people mix up the infinitive "to" and "and", as they are pronounced the same, "o" in IPA. So we have the same thing in Norwegian writing, but if you happen to use "and", you must use the imperative form of the verb for it to be grammatically correct. So, "try to stop me" is "prøv å stoppe meg", and "try and stop me" is "prøv og stopp meg". The latter is much more colloquial.

This isn't a problem in Swedish and Danish, as their infinitive marker is "att/at", which in Norwegian only means "that" in its conjunctive form.

I wonder if there's any relation to the Norwegian here.

New comment by Sardtok in "The Epochalypse Project"

Sardtok — Sun, 11 May 2025 17:54:50 +0000

It also says nothing about a formal education, just that he has worked in IT since his teens. I didn't hear of the 2038 problem myself until the whole Y2K debacle, but then, I was in my teens at the time.