Ehhh. React of course! Well, for me anyway.

Cory Doctrow recently wrote a good piece about it here. Cars are going down the renting model, not the ownership model and it sucks.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/

I think you may be miss-remembering.

I dont know, but you made me remember PP Hammer. If you left the character for a while he would stand there and start smoking. oh, how times have changed!

This is a rewrite from scratch of the Turrican 2 PC-DOS version for AGA Amigas. 24bit/256 colours, original music/sounds. All levels plus various things that were missing in the DOS version have been reinstated (missing parallax, animations, waterfall effects, etc.)

I thought Duke Nukem 2 was the DOS port of Turrican?

http://www.nemmelheim.de/turrican/news/duke/

(joke because of all the stolen/similar sprites used in Duke)

Holy shit!

FT(link in the)A:

>SonicSloth, developer: I rewrote the code from scratch attempting to recreate the original as close as possible just by playing the original (and by watching longplay videos). I didn't have any access to the original source code. [0]

[0] https://itch.io/t/2565630/how-did-you-do-this

Thats absolutly mind blowing!!

Im currently thinking of purchasing a Synology NAS that comes with BTRFS. Just wondering, do you happen to know if BTRFS also requires ECC RAM to function correctly?

Bit flips and data corruption affects all filesystems, and all systems stand to benefit from ECC, as shown by Linus' experience.

Depending on the model, most of the larger capacity synologys require ECC when expanding (1821+ for me recently)

Can you tell me what the difference is between your DEV and SANDBOX environemnts is? Curious to know.

We typically use Sandbox for significant deployment changes such as upgrading to Node 16, updating security policies, etc. in an isolated environment. If things break, it doesn’t impact DEV/QA.

Ahh gotcha.. Thanks for the info. Thats useful to know.

C# is my daily driver. But If I had the opportunity to code in one of your languages I would pick Rust. I think its the future. But to your question of maximum financial payoff, surely there are 10X more C++ jobs out there at the ioment than Rust or Go due to the age of the language. I know C++ is long in the tooth but it isnt going anywhere and you can still land some high paying jobs if you have it as a skill.

The performance of .NET is adequate for my usage/industry. There are some embedded Python projects we have that we will rewrite in Rust as we are very unhappy with Python performance overall - it's actually a joke that the community worships it.

lucky sonnofa...

Get a remote job and move out here. :) Rent is expensive as fuck but the view is good.

Oh thats piqued my interest. Just out of interest what type of work have you been doing? Are the fantastic day rates in WebDev, Backend or Database work and could you give me a rough figure for the day rates? Also what language are you using and how long have you been in the contracting world? Sorry for all the questions.

It's all publicly available on the Internet (look at jobserve.co.uk for example). The rates for backend work go up to 700 GBP per day, depending on the tech stack.

+1

I tend to work with companies in Scotland due to being based in Edinburgh. I make 550-600 a day.

I do iOS development so swift primarily inside some combo swift/c# codebases.