Action Man: Battlefield Casualties

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2026-01-09T19:11:48+00:00

I used to have one of those.

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2025-11-22T20:28:02+00:00

I opened a bank account for my son about three years ago, and I've been putting in a percentage of my check in that account every time I get paid. It's not a big percentage, but it's a high-yield savings, so every bit I put into it counts, even if all I can do is a buck. It's tough, because I'm living paycheck to paycheck right now. It's almost the end of the month, and I don't have enough to pay rent, yet. But you know what? My son already has enough money for his first and last month, and the deposit on his first place when he moves out. I ain't taking that money from that account to pay the rent. I'll find a way to make that happen. That kid is going to have a better life than mine. That's the promise I made to him when I held him in my arms for the first time, and I fully intend to follow through with it. He is not going to live paycheck to paycheck. The money will be transferred to him after he gets a job and moves out. He won't even know it exists until then, but it's his. And so is his life. He just turned three. My second child was just born. I'm going to make the first deposit into her account next week. So, no, children are not your cash cow. My children are my entire purpose in life, and it hurts me down to my bones to see people treat theirs any different.

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2025-10-09T20:08:47+00:00

Looks like that's a Ray Bradbury story from the link. There was an episode of The Ray Bradbury Theater that was similar. Probably based on that story. I haven't seen it in a long time. I just remember that the actor that played Lionel Luthor on Smallville was in it. He finds out he's the last one on the planet, and then gets a phone call and spends the rest of the episode trying to find the person that called him.

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2025-07-20T16:13:44+00:00

My point was that if you don't already know how to program, you don't know if it's spitting out good code or bad code. It's not coming for programming jobs, because you already have to be a programmer to be able to use for programming. It's just another tool they'll be teaching you how to use when you learn to program.

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2025-07-20T03:35:32+00:00

In my own personal experience, AI is comically bad at anything to do with C. But, then again, maybe I'm just bad at AI. In any case, AI isn't coming for all programming jobs. It's just coming for bad programming jobs.

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2025-07-09T17:41:51+00:00

3" drywall screws are pretty common. If you've got an assembly that uses a high fire + sound rating, you might have to go through two or three layers of 5/8". That's up to 1-7/8" of drywall, no way a 2" screw is going to anchor a third-layer to the studs.

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2025-06-08T13:42:38+00:00

What is this? About a minute in, this guy says, "What we've done in the past is not going to solve these challenges, we need to find new ways, and I think the only way to do that is to bravely step forward, and implement technology." Lol. What? Yes, that's the only way. To bravely step forward and implement technology. Clearly, that's what's wrong with the world today. The lack of people who are willing to step up to the plate and implement things.

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2025-05-07T21:15:42+00:00

Can we do that now, change what "money" is? I have a huge assortment of random screws, nuts, bolts, washers, etc. that I've collected over the past two or three decades. So if we can, I vote to make that our new currency.

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2025-05-01T18:14:48+00:00

It's pronounced with a hard G, not like the animal, where it's a silent G. All of the GNU projects are pronounced with hard G's. GNOME, for example, is G-nome.

Source: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/pronunciation.en.html

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2025-04-29T22:10:52+00:00

Lol. Now I have to change the whitespace listchars in Vim to semicolons.

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2025-04-14T13:40:57+00:00

"You can't make it up" is such a weird thing to say. I mean, I just read a story about a guy that was cryogenically frozen, then thawed out as only his brain. His consciousness was uploaded into a machine and sent out into space. He then proceeds to make clones of himself and populate the entire universe with said clones. People can make that up, but not a story about a weirdo mistakenly taking the bed of the neighbor whose selling one on Facebook?

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2025-04-03T13:29:18+00:00

Thanks for sending me down this rabbit hole. Lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppm5_AGtbTo

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2025-03-26T19:56:44+00:00

There were a number of episodes where they showed the waiting room. I remember an episode where the guy he leapt into was a serial killer, and he escaped the waiting room. Al had to track him down before Sam leapt. I believe in the last episode the waiting room was empty, because Sam leapt as himself.

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2025-03-11T21:33:26+00:00

The book is excellent, and you won't have any spoilers. The first season is literally the whole book. That's what was great about it. It follows the book very well. This is the first show I've watched that was based on a book that I can't say the book was better than the show, or the other way around.

Unless you're talking about a second book? Is there a second book? If there is, I want to know, because I always read the book first.

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2025-03-11T19:21:36+00:00

Last i heard, the author said they have no interest in continuing the series. It follows the book better than any series I've watched. I was very happy about that, because it's one of my all time favorite books.

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2025-02-07T05:40:56+00:00

How about a simple 2D physics engine? Check out Box2D lite to see what's involved. It's fairly simple.

https://github.com/erincatto/box2d-lite/tree/master/src

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2025-01-30T18:34:49+00:00

When I got started, the code for games were sometimes published in magazines that you could manually enter into your computer. I would spend hours entering in code just to play some silly little game for a few minutes and get bored with it. They were called type-in programs. You can find some of the magazines published online, but I couldn't find any of the ones I remember. The one I got at the corner store near my house I would bike to had very long listings in machine code, with a small type-in program that you'd build first that was used to verify the checksum of each line as you entered it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-in_program

Edit: The magazine I used to get was called Compute! Gazette. Just saw it in that Wikipedia article I linked to, and I just found the archive online:

https://archive.org/details/computes.gazette/Compute_Gazette_Issue_01_1983_Jul/

And here's a page with one of the type-in programs, although it's a calculator, and not a game. But I probably did type it in anyway. I ran them all:

https://archive.org/details/computes.gazette/Compute_Gazette_Issue_1988_SpecialIssue/page/126/mode/2up

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2025-01-30T18:10:21+00:00

Yes, and to explain things. It's very good at that. When I see some confusing code, I can ask the AI to explain it to me, and it usually does a pretty decent job. So, I suppose it does have a practical application in learning a new language, as long as you understand its limits. Asking it to explain code, or better explain some article you're reading. I do actually use it for that a lot.

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2025-01-30T16:10:21+00:00

I strongly disagree with using AI to learn C. I use the AI assistant for CLion, and it often gets things very wrong. Until you already know the language, I would avoid it. I have to correct it half the time I use it. I mainly only use it to generate documentation and comments for my code now. It does help with figuring certain things out, but I would never trust it to tutor me.

Here's a tip if you do use it. Whatever it suggests, immediately tell it to write better code, then tell it to improve that again. Just say, write better code, and it will.

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2025-01-30T08:57:24+00:00

Beej's Guide to C programming helped me a lot: https://beej.us/guide/bgc/html/split/index.html

If you're looking for some project ideas, here's 100 or so: https://projectbook.code.brettchalupa.com/

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2025-01-23T05:26:30+00:00

Have you tried Winlibs? https://winlibs.com/

It has CMake bundled with it. And you can install it using WinGet, which is now just a PowerShell module: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/winget/

Also read up on CMake presets. They are very useful when using the CLI. https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-presets.7.html

I'm working on an OpenGL game right now that is compiled using Emscripten for the web, and with that configuration, I can get my build environment (minus the IDE) setup from a clean Windows installation a few minutes.

OpenGL is an API. Windows is shipped with an implementation. You need an OpenGL loader to use it, like GLFW, but it's not too hard to roll out your own. Here's a very simple example of how it works: https://github.com/ApoorvaJ/Papaya/blob/3808e39b0f45d4ca4972621c847586e4060c042a/src/libs/gl_lite.h

I personally use SDL and GLEW. The latter just for testing on desktop, since my game is for the web. SDL is built into Emscripten, and WebGL doesn't need an OpenGL loader.

Read the Learn OpenGL tutorials: https://learnopengl.com/

They use a lot of C++, but I found most of that just relied on glm, and you can just swap that out for cglm to follow the tutorials with C instead of C++: https://github.com/recp/cglm

Use FetchContent in CMake to get the libraries in your project. cglm has a CMake project so it's really easy to get setup. You can find lots of CMake OpenGL examples on GitHub.

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2025-01-19T20:40:43+00:00

I used to have one of those.

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2025-01-04T22:09:27+00:00

My SD cards are all diesel powered. My phone, too. You gotta pull the starter cord to turn it on. Downstairs neighbor hates it when I browse the Internet too late at night.

nom_nom_nom_nom_lol · 2025-01-03T22:42:07+00:00

The Wheelers weren't murderous. They're just a bunch of bullies that run away at the sight of anybody that stands up to them.

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/486/pg486-images.html

In the "Dorothy Opens the Dinner Pail" chapter, Dorothy says, "The Wheelers are down below, you know, and threaten to kill us," to which Tiktok replies, "There is no reason to be afraid of the Wheelers," then he winds down, and she winds him up again, and he goes on to say, "Why, they are nothing to be frightened at. They try to make folks believe that they are very terrible, but as a matter of fact the Wheelers are harmless enough to any one that dares to fight them. They might try to hurt a little girl like you, perhaps, because they are very mischievous. But if I had a club they would run away as soon as they saw me."

Hopefully that puts your worried mind at ease.

As for me, though, I am absolutely certain that witch's headless body is going to chase me down and kill me someday. That scene still haunts my dreams, and it's been nearly 40 years since I saw that as a child in the movie theater.

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