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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_(demoparty)

Revision is a demoparty which takes place on Easter in Saarbrücken, Germany. It is the successor of the Breakpoint party series, and retains many of the organizing staff.

The party hosts around 800 people from around the world each year. It is currently the largest pure-demoscene event in the world.


The same in Sweden since 2017.

To clarify: every young person regardless of gender is legally obliged to go through fitness testing for conscription and if deemed suitable must go through it if selected. I imagine it’s roughly similar in Denmark?

Up until the fall of the USSR ~all men did go through conscription/basic military training. After the fall only the ones that wanted to and were selected did. Now it’s ramping up massively.


Seems very likely, even if Google has behaved ethically.

Simon and YC/HN has published/boosted these gradual improvements and evaluations for quite some time now.

There is a https://simonwillison.net/robots.txt but it allows pretty much everything, AI-wise.


(Maybe use some of those skills to figure out a way to read more than the headline.)

I recommend reading at least the closing line:

This means introducing digital technology at later ages after basic reading and other skills have been achieved.


Which shifts things from "before high school" to "in primary school and then gradual introduce aspects on it".

I remember NASA broadcasts being top notch up until the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011. That stabilized footage from when the shuttle was landing is iconic.

However: That quality was lost earlier than last year. Not sure exactly when, but it been like this for years now.


The ergonomic aspects are horrible. I believe there's actual research on this from the 70s/80s/90s.

Would be neat if POSIX was reasonably kept up to date. Just saying.

The game logic runs in JavaScript

Also: a modern CPU is around 10000x faster than the 486 CPU Doom was designed for. Per core.


xv was very neatly and cleverly designed. I liked it a lot in the 90s. Still somehow remember his name.

saw a screenshot as I was reading this article, made me eager to try it, and it's indeed simple, slick and featured... elegant look and feel for a different age.

Here's two screenshots:

https://snapcraft.io/xv


Reminds me of the 90s cgi scene, softimage, lightwave3d

It uses raw Xlib to implement a custom widget toolkit. Yeah, it does feel Amiga-ish.

A button (thanks for the github link, em-bee):

https://github.com/jasper-software/xv/blob/main/src/xvbutt.c


you can try it. a few years ago some people picked up maintenance: https://github.com/jasper-software/xv

i just built it on my machine. works!


it's available on arch aur too, a quick build away and ready to serve

I built something very broadly similar approximately 20 years ago.

Then I forgot about it. It’s not like the data is lost, but availability is. Bringing it back up is a pain. I could probably do it in a full day of work.

What I learned: Static HTML export on every change by default is a must. I don’t think HTML will cease to be easily readable in our lifetimes.


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