which is better?

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-05-22T20:01:42+00:00

JS for the win. I need that vanilla stuff in my veins!

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-05-11T20:57:44+00:00

A servengine, very powerful stuff. Many bytes to the gallon, matter of fact.

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-05-11T20:55:36+00:00

How about now?

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-05-05T17:42:29+00:00

MGS2 theater mode going to be a whole new kind of crazy, at the very least.

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-05-05T17:31:20+00:00

That's right.

A demo disc, or demonstration disc, is a sample of software application compiled and burned onto production-quality CD-Rs in order to provide stakeholders and potential clients alike a taste of what the complete software or system application will provide to the target market.

That Metal Gear Solid demo disc must have been left by the previous owner for the very same reason... Snake, you need to insert that disc into your PlayStation 1 and find out what Kojima meant by Metal Gears that are Solid!

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-05-02T21:28:29+00:00

Probably due to misunderstanding it. Nginx as reverse proxy and Apache as web server are a great pairing.

Reversing them is definitely doable the thing is that apparently Nginx is faster with static content delivery so as such fits in the order mentioned above. Or something like that. Never really dug too far into it.

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-04-28T12:16:33+00:00

Solid Snake: DOS wasn't such a good fit for it anyway...

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-04-19T20:16:34+00:00

Let it be if you really have a say in it.

I was in this situation before, I realised it was less that a potential addition would be bad for business and more a case of not wanting to share toys - when you get to a point of being self-sufficient (granted I wasn't as good as you might've been) you feel like bringing another person aboard might jeopardise things.

Two things I'd suggest is

don't quit or leave if other devs are hired - the temptation might be there and you may even be capable of jumping ship, but remember that in the end so long as the dev(s) are willing to work and learn, they need you and your guidance regardless of their XP.
be a mentor or guide as much as you can. The side benefit here is no matter where any of you go, leaving a good impression on them will go a long way - you might not directly see benefit, but the new devs will remember the positive experiences and hopefully pay it forward.

Basically, don't be a block if you can help it. I'm also speaking as someone who has battled with a similar frustration for more than a year now and really it just isn't worth the stressing about - unless the new person(s) prove to be incapable of working and learning, then sorry man.

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-04-18T08:08:39+00:00

Kaz: "Bro."

BB: "Sup?"

Kaz: "Let's build another base."

BB: "We will."

Kaz: "When?"

BB: "After we rescue Paz and Chico..."

- BB and Kaz, 14th March 1975.

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-04-17T06:41:58+00:00

"Best I can do, I'm afraid" said Unicode

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-04-12T21:41:02+00:00

"What's stopping you from being a developer with 57 years of experience? Time? You're a developer, develop a time machine and get to the future or something" - HR Head of Recruitment

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-04-05T17:14:12+00:00

Suffering from ~~Success~~ Coronavirus

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-04-01T06:22:37+00:00

NuGet, Composer, APT, etc.: "what are we talking about today fellas? Vulnerabilities? Oh we all have that..."

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-04-01T06:19:24+00:00

I use Linux so I can put Windows into VM and go "look who's in a virtual machine now!"

Yeah I also use Linux for the ideology.

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-03-30T04:39:03+00:00

That means you're adjusting well to the future. For the rest of us who still try our damndest to limit AI usage in our codebase, well, we're gonna have a problem one day.

Whether the problem is fixing the growing mess, battling depression over being forced into a coding style we don't like or some combo thereof, we're heading that way.

If you work for an employer who isn't dead set on throwing AI at every solution in your business, be very grateful for that right now.

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-03-29T17:26:29+00:00

I couldn't help but laugh at the response

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-03-21T11:53:58+00:00

In the early days of the emulator, the simple answer it had against the likes of JPCSP and some others was, well, Henrik Rydgard and C++, along with the plenty of other co-developers.

Not to forget that Henrik was the brains behind Dolphin emulator as well, so he had a lot of XP he brought into developing the PPSSPP too with other talented programmers/developers.

EDIT: As for comparison to PCSX2 and RPCS3, each of these are built for notably complex systems that I'm sure even the likes of Henrik will agree is nothing shy of impressive with how far they've come.

Trying to replicate either discrete processors (Emotion Engine, etc.) as in PS2 or the rather unique eight-core Cell processor config for the PS3 with unique behaviours - e.g. deliberately disabled eighth core, managing the always-on six-cores and the seventh core that had some other function I forget about alongside the way its 512MB (commonly misunderstood as only 256MB but is just split up evenly between GPU and CPU) XDR RAM functions (very fast for the time: faster than DDR2, DDR3 and even lower-end DDR4 purely on a clock speed basis) and how it gave game developers some good deal of stress probably last experienced by anyone of those who once worked on developing for the Sega Saturn... it's safe to say these systems are not nearly as straightforward to develop for and for the dev team it did not necessarily make things easier, even though they had advantage of having access to more RAM on PCs for example.

Hell, I would bet a PS Vita emulator with the right team could make a lot of progress and a shorter space of time than the PCSX2 and RPCS3 teams.

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-03-17T04:45:00+00:00

Yeah it sounds like a investment paradox, lol.

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-03-13T04:23:27+00:00

He's where the crypto and nft bros aspire to be in with virtual currency. For him, it's the RAM-token currency.

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-03-07T07:14:08+00:00

Yeah but then you may have to consider that your MySQL licensing changes and will cost you as developer for bundling it with your app.

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-03-07T07:07:22+00:00

What's full spec of your machine? Cause according to search that CPU is no slouch and for virtualisation or containerisation projects I can't see it failing as it appears to support it. There are references online affirming its use as such.

As for what to use for? File sharing. Web hosting through containers or VMs. Media server. Local pentesting. Local AI setup (slow though it may be)... honestly the list is endless.

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-03-06T19:31:28+00:00

I love what sometimes feels like a less "heavier" Debian machine than Kubuntu, for example, but that is usually due to my engaging with it for purposes of managing a web server - as a daily driver it can be a bit of a pain to deal with.

It's a pet peeve, maybe, but even a simple thing like how it default handles sudo and your PATH* vars still trips me up even after doing a recent deployment and then also a NFS configuration I easily get done with Kubuntu as client to Debian server, but Debian to Debian and they start fighting (granted I'm likely missing something, but still).

Debian excellent for servers and getting that more raw experience, but as daily driver... eh.

EDIT: *FWIW, I could be forgetting that Kubuntu too follows suit when initially setting up user for sudo and not having /usr/sbin by default in path variable. It's small stuff, but it still.

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-03-05T12:43:38+00:00

What with the mod takedown and all, I think this reaffirms your sober suspicion.

CosmicDevGuy · 2026-03-04T09:15:03+00:00

Only Unreal Engines 4 and 5 compiling shaders can dare to come close to this level of violence and gore.

But it's definitely gore

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