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Just testing 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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 Yep.
OriginalGriff wrote: and which killed Odin
Are you saying that we are all progeny of Lif and Lifthrasir after the events at Ragnarök?
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I see no Norse Gods around (other than Vidar, Vali, Baldur, Hodr, Modi, and Magni - and they emigrated to Florida, I think) so it's entirely possible!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It's here and it's Zig (ZigLang[^]).
If you didn't like Go and you hated Rust well, you're going to detest Zig.
But the dealio is that you can play this nice game in your browser all thanks to Zig (Oxid[^]).
Based Upon, which Was Based Upon...which was...
Oxid is an arcade-style game where you fight waves of monsters in a fixed-screen maze. This is more or less a clone of Verminian Trap (2013, Locomalito). Verminian Trap was originally inspired by Wizard of Wor (1980, Midway).
So, get your loathing powers fired up and start loathing Zig today.
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Looks good! 
I almost want to try it out, and be the zag to your zig! 
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Yes, we really need another one...
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Quote: originally inspired by Wizard of Wor (1980, Midway).
Man, that brings back memories! First played it on my first PC (which I learned to program on), the venerable C64.
Quote: If you didn't like Go and you hated Rust well, you're going to detest Zig.
There's a few nice new languages that aim for simplicity (See also: Nim), but more and more I'm starting to think that Rust shouldn't be on any list of new languages that include Zig or Go.
Those are languages that aim to simplify programming; Rust resembles line-noise and looks more like Perl in some cases than anything else. We all know what happened to Perl.
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Member 13301679 wrote: the venerable C64
C64!! I had a C128 but always ran it in C64 mode anyways.
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Member 13301679 wrote: We all know what happened to Perl
It became one of the most popular language of all time so far and got to be so ubiquitous that no one notices it any more?
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Hi
We designed a new perfect programming language and named it TFL (the final language) 
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Mandatory xKCD[^]
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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it's cute and as someone who has written programming languages and multiple compilers in my career, I have to give kudos to its attempt to do something about error processing which is pretty much overlooked by everyone because...well... it's hard.
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...in a recent reply to a post.
The only problem I have with Darwinism is that it doesn't work fast enough so we are stuck with millions of idiots we can't get rid of!
Note: This post may seem to be political (and therefore verboten) but it isn't meant to be; just a sad reflection on the human race today.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Darwinism does not work any more. It's predicated on the weak dying but in a civilised society, that does not happen
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Christian Graus wrote: It's predicated on the weak dying but in a civilised modern society, that does not happen
FTFY
civilised is way too nice for our society.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Well, sure, society has become increasingly sh*t. But the underlying principles that stop darwinism are still intact.
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Isn't that why they created Covid-19?
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You're confusing evolution and end-of-life. Yes, you can "hurry" the last one.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Quote: [Go to Parent]
Darwinism does not work any more. It's predicated on the weak dying but in a civilised society, that does not happen
It's still in force; it's based on natural selection, and in some environments being "weak" (for whatever definition of "weak" you want to use) is not necessarily the same as "being selected against".
This whole idea I've been seeing that Darwinism is not in effect anymore is based on the misguided notion that it works by weeding out the weak. It doesn't. It works by weeding out the less suitable characteristics for a particular environment.
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OK, so you're saying the most desirable people still get to breed more? I still think the less desirable elements still get to breed now
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Quote: [Go to Parent]
OK, so you're saying the most desirable people still get to breed more? I still think the less desirable elements still get to breed now
But I didn't say that. Desire has nothing to do with suitability. Darwinism is "survival of the fittest", where fittest means "those characteristics most suitable to the environment".
Those characteristics may have nothing at all to do with how strong/weak/tough/etc an individual is. The environment exerts a selection pressure, and in civilised society there is no selection pressure against weak individuals. None at all.
In fact, in civilised society there are very few selection pressures on the human population - an individual who is a weak midget with slight mental retardation will still pass on their genes. That's because there is no selection against weak midgets with slight mental retardation - we take care of everyone, young, old, weak, helpless, etc.
That doesn't mean Darwinism isn't in effect, it just means that it is not selecting for th characteristics you think it should.
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They have to do with capacity to survive and thrive. But people who can't do that, are not stopped from existing and therefore breeding.
The only selection going on is that some people are more likely to find a mate. But no one is having lots of kids and most people can find someone to have kids with
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Member 13301679 wrote: Darwinism is "survival of the fittest", where fittest means "those characteristics most suitable to the environment".
More specifically, fittest is defined as those individuals who successfully produce the next generation. Once that's done, their death has no impact on evolution.
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There are times when I feel the gene pool could use some chlorine ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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