Yes! That is a true masterpiece that at the time set a new standard.
3 of them:
watching an Amiga 500 load from disk having only seen 8bit games on tape. Everything that machine did at the time was like magic.
watching the castle fly through intro for Unreal on PC when the first 3D accelerators appeared. Everything changed after that.
experiencing the shark diving demo on PlayStation VR. And also how nothing changed after that! xD
And to have been able to experience that evolution from space invaders to cyberpunk in a single life time has been a privilege.
working link to the rom hack: https://romhackplaza.org/romhacks/jurassic-park-volcanic-edition-genesis/
“Whatever opinion you may have of advertising as an economic model, it’s a powerful industry that’s not going to pack up and go away,” Holley said." ... “We’ve been collaborating with Meta on this, because any successful mechanism will need to be actually useful to advertisers, and designing something that Mozilla and Meta are simultaneously happy with is a good indicator we’ve hit the mark,” Holley believes.
Even if this is true, for Mozilla to take a position of capitulating to the ad companies and working with likes of meta to find what works for them is a sad day in the history of Mozilla. They need a new CEO who believes in a better internet. Until then, Firefox users might as well take the same position and move to a chromium based browser, where at least we get the speed and compatibility with web standards dictated by Google, if data mining and tracking is the only future left. What a sad state of affairs this is.
It's very complex with hyper visors and virtualization technology. I don't fully understand it myself in terms of how resources are allocated across something like aws or azure, but take a look at openshift vs openstack maybe. Openshift is for deploying containers and openstack is virtual machines. Openshift is kubernetes with some customizations for enterprise. Openstack is same for vm's.
Instances are virtual machines which tend to host an operating system, and a container is lighter and only hosts an application where the code and dependencies are isolated from the underlying operating system it runs on. k8 is kubernetes, which is container orchestration. I think of virtual machines for jobs that scale vertically, while containers are suited to jobs that scale horizontally. But this isn't necessarily true as kubernetes is starting to get slurm functionality using tools like sunk.
For integrating these things it depends on the application. You can run services in either by exposing ports and interact through API end points that point at them, eg for frontend web app serving data from a database hosted on a server or a container via fastapi. But I'm no dev ops engineer and the field is very complicated. There are many discussions around building micro services (containers) vs monolith (vm). Many decisions depend on the project. Hopefully some actual dev ops engineers will chime in and correct all of the above! xD
You know you're old when games you still play quite regularly turn up in retro reviews! The community master server is still pretty well populated, as are UT '99 servers. These games are still the pinnacle of their genre. No micro transactions, no DRM, no pay to win. Just you, your shock rifle, and as much amphetamine as your nerve endings will take. As the reviewer says, the level design and game mechanics are legendary at this point, and players of any ability can quickly get into a flow state that modern games can only dream of. These are fine wines in a world of cheap lager. New gamers should drink deep from the pc games of the 2000's.
Lapce is an interesting alternative to vs code too: https://lapce.dev/
For me, vim is nice to use because it's ubiquitous across any system I log into. Any server will have vi at the least. It's also light and can load a file instantly on any hardware, reducing dependency to zero. Once you have a comfortable config, you're done for the rest of your life. Although, in reality vim config is a lifestyle and not a choice ;)
Hunter was an early sandbox game on the Amiga and was quite good back in the day. Mercenary series too. Daggerfall was/is a huge sandbox rpg. Minecraft was the first to capture the lego style creativity though. Dwarf fortress is probably the closest to Minecraft.
To flip this around, think of some projects you want to do. The languages are just tools and will be determined by what you want to do, and then each type of project has it's best tool chain. Think of the problem(s) you want to solve first and the rest will follow.
I bet they struggle to compete with Electronic Arts these days! ;p
i hope this works with brutal doom!