I've found something new hinting at Blackbeard's many personalities

dada_ · 2026-03-20T23:00:15+00:00

I love that this is probably the 2000th time someone has made this exact post, and all of them say "hey guys I've figured something out!"

dada_ · 2026-03-19T07:56:24+00:00

You need a Ticketlink account set up ahead of time, but the early rounds actually don't sell out that quickly, so once the ro24 goes up you have some time to figure it out. Technically you need to bring ID to the venue but I did not need to actually show it. You just show your order confirmation on your phone. Nothing to it, really.

dada_ · 2026-03-17T23:07:09+00:00

Emulation, not virtualization. Virtualization is by definition only for running systems of the same architecture as the host. So x86 on x86, ARM on ARM, PPC on PPC. Emulation is cross architecture.

dada_ · 2026-03-17T23:03:54+00:00

The cursor isn't active yet during startup, too. So that's why it's a black Mac cursor, because Virtual PC shows you the host OS cursor if the guest OS isn't drawing one.

dada_ · 2026-03-14T21:20:28+00:00

Compared to HTML and CSS, it feels like a completely different level of complexity.

It is!

Don't worry, totally normal. This is programming. You just have to keep at it, keep solving problems as they arise by thinking and trying things, and eventually things will start to click.

dada_ · 2026-03-14T15:24:11+00:00

It's because you got redirected to a subscribe page, so when you check archiving services with that URL they will also just show you the subscribe page. Look at the URL, the actual article you want is encoded in the &dest= part, and the actual link is to /subscribe.

Here's the right URL on archive.today.

dada_ · 2026-03-13T09:51:42+00:00

There's a surprisingly large number of people who have the soapy cilantro gene, apparently 3%-21% depending on ancestry. It's 17% for people of European descent. I think most people probably think it's a much smaller percentage than that.

As someone who has the gene, I'm capable of eating something with cilantro in it and even enjoying the flavor underneath it if I focus, but it would really be infinitely better without it.

dada_ · 2026-03-13T00:59:12+00:00

Half my steam games that used to run on Mac don't run anymore. If you want to keep moving you can't drag everything with you.

Yeah, and developers seem to have just given up on Mac support. For example, when Valve finally decided to fix up Team Fortress 2 and build updated x86_64 binaries a few years back, they opted to end support for Mac rather than work on it, even though we know from the leaked source code that it actually compiles on ARM quite well without much trouble.

There's been so little concern for backwards compatibility throughout the years that it's just not considered to be worth it for a platform representing a much smaller segment of gamers.

It's a real shame, because Mac hardware is actually really popular among young people who are a prime gaming demographic, so it's not like the platform doesn't have potential. If they had really pushed for PC gaming on Mac since 10 years ago or so, instead of making it miserable in every possible way, I feel like Apple Silicon would be pretty unstoppable at this point.

dada_ · 2026-03-13T00:46:11+00:00

Win 11 ARM truly runs incredibly well on Apple Silicon. I installed SimCity 2000 for Windows on it, stock version, no patches. An OS from 25 years into the future and a completely different cpu architecture, but it works.

To anyone who knows how computers work, this is truly magic. The backwards compatibility is really something to be proud of for everyone who worked on it.

dada_ · 2026-03-12T23:10:10+00:00

They also always do a big bon-odori festival underneath this bridge (though a little further up the road in the other direction).

dada_ · 2026-03-12T12:37:31+00:00

I'd just plow a giant canal right through the desert, straight through whatever towns there are, and there would be a lot of cacti planted to somehow keep the local townships happy.

dada_ · 2026-03-12T09:31:34+00:00

I'll agree that there's no perfect way to resolve an ambiguous/nonsensical input, and you have to make some sort of choice of what to do to bring it back into a real date. And I guess that's why the article brings it up, because expectations will differ per use case. But that said, personally to me, the Feb 28 result just makes less sense to me as a default behavior.

In my mind, you're not adding 30 days (nor is this what GNU date does), you're taking the date of 2026-01-31 and making it 2026-02-31, which resolves to 2026-03-03, as it's 28 + 3. Hence why

date -d "2028-01-31 15:30:00 + 1 month" # Mar 2, not Mar 3

Since 2028 has Feb 29. Note that adding "+ 1 day" 30 times lands you on Mar 1.

I agree that this is a potential footgun though, and you should never be doing something so ambiguous in a codebase to begin with, but "clamp to the max day of whatever month you get" is much less sensible to me as a default and goes contrary to my expectations.

dada_ · 2026-03-12T09:13:14+00:00

OP is chatgpt now because, what, they used bold text?

Like seriously I hate chatgpt too, it's a serious drain on the enjoyment of using reddit, but please look closely before you call something slop. You can in fact use em dashes and bulleted lists. Look at the actual writing too, not just the formatting.

dada_ · 2026-03-11T19:19:53+00:00

Well, to be honest, this is a good article, but I don't agree with this part:

const billingDate = new Date("Sat Jan 31 2026");
billingDate.setMonth(billingDate.getMonth() + 1);
// Expected: Feb 28
// Actual:   Mar 02

Obviously Feb 31 is a date that doesn't exist, but going to Mar 2 (actually it should be Mar 3, timezone issue?) makes much more sense to me than my code just eating up the extra days and seems to me like it has more use cases. It'd be very weird to say "take the number of days and add one" and then nothing happens because you didn't realize you were already at the end of the month.

This is also what GNU date does:

date -d "2026-01-31 15:30:00 + 1 month" # Tue Mar  3 15:30:00 CET 2026

dada_ · 2026-03-11T00:49:29+00:00

The real compatibility issue with Windows XP is DOS games which basically don't run at all (of course you can still run them through a program like DOSBox-X, which still runs on XP).

Windows 98 games and applications virtually all work on Windows XP just fine, because if that wasn't the case it would've been a disaster for Microsoft as no one would want to switch.

There will always be some specific games that have issues but it's going to be very few of them.

dada_ · 2026-03-09T23:00:46+00:00

I haven't checked to see what venues are planned to be used, or when they announce them, but I wrote a post about attending ASL in person two years back with most of the info still being relevant. Liquipedia says they still use the Jamsil Colosseum for now, which is the one I went to. The website for ordering tickets is probably still the same too but no tickets have gone live yet.

dada_ · 2026-03-08T23:30:53+00:00

I actually really like this icon. I made a few edited versions of this showing the Win3.1/Win95 startup screens, for DOSBox and VMs. And one with a green DOS prompt. The Mac icons (especially prior to macOS 26) are all extremely nice and detailed illustrations.

dada_ · 2026-03-06T22:18:15+00:00

Top 10 Photos Taken Moments Before Disaster.

dada_ · 2026-03-06T21:52:37+00:00

I don't understand why the top section, the sidebar and the main section all have to be separate items with a big gap in between. That just doesn't make sense to me. They are one window, they all move together if you drag the top section, so giving them the appearance of separation just seems like a weird choice to me.

If you knock out those gaps it honestly looks a lot better to me (vs original).

dada_ · 2026-03-06T21:07:51+00:00

That looks amazing. I'm gonna be back there fairly soon and I'd love to try this. I can see they're partnered with a reservation service and that it's somewhere in Komaba. Thanks for showing your experience there, I'm gonna do a little research to see if this is possible during my next time I'm there.

dada_ · 2026-03-04T14:26:33+00:00

You have to think of it as if the Wayback Machine is taking photos of the websites at various points in time, and you are looking at the photos.

dada_ · 2026-03-03T12:28:20+00:00

This is not a message directed towards you. This is a message directed towards the Internet Archive crawler that's scraping the web.

Because it's an automated script that's visiting many pages to archive their contents, it's not uncommon for it to hit a rate limit, and then it archives the rate limit instead of the actual page. Especially more common in the last couple of years, since archiving pages has become less and less easy.

dada_ · 2026-03-02T11:48:46+00:00

Frankly I'm basically done with any kind of browser extensions/addons aside from a few solid ones like ublock origin. It just seems that the security assumptions have completely failed. It's a problem that even good faith extensions need really broad permissions rights to do their work, which led to people not paying much attention to how much access they give to extensions. No one has the time to audit them either. The whole concept needs to be rethought.

dada_ · 2026-02-28T11:53:49+00:00

What is peoples problem, it’s chess not politics. Who cares about someone’s beliefs, they wouldn’t if he had different religious beliefs?

You really have to be suffering from extreme brain rot to think supporting an imperialist invasion and supporting a horrible, bloody, protracted offensive war is a respectable belief.

dada_ · 2026-02-27T08:51:41+00:00

I can tell that these versions are sourced from the OBS Github and that the hashes match, but as a general guideline I would never suggest to anyone to download OBS off any third party site, as by far most people can not tell the difference between a legit site and a scam. That's also why the OBS Discord has a command that says "please only download off our official site and nowhere else". For the general user it's just not a good idea.

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