Spastic Hamburger

Unlike The Simpsons, The Flintstones doesn’t contain a whole lot of satire so I’m not sure that is entirely accurate. It was a carbon copy of The Honeymooners at first, however. Fred definitely starts to mellow once he decides he wants a child in the third season but his abusiveness still rears its head from time to time. Interestingly, the…[Read more]

In honor of this product, here’s some AC/DC:

And in related products, here’s a unique design:…[Read more]

Forgot to mention that they also confirmed that their changes were to mostly satisfy changes to the Windows API over the last twenty years.

It’s wonderful! I’ve been playing it off and on on Linux and Windows for years 🙂

It also has a hidden sandbox mode that lets you remove most of the limitations. I forget the key combination, though.

It’s definitely taking time to relearn it and not go too fast at the beginning but I’m getting better. I don’t really care about the scoring, I…[Read more]

So I reinstalled OpenTTD the other day and it’s still just as relaxing as it was last time I gave it a whirl. Now, though, there are a lot more add-ons for better graphics in the online content menu. Haven’t tried those out yet.

Okay, my finger is healed enough to work now so I’ve reached out to rfuzzo about the warnings 🙂

For reference, this is how I ran cpplint:
./cpplint --filter=-whitespace,-readabiltiy/braces --recursive ~/Code/mwedit/

Another note:

We’ll want to make sure we compile the Windows executable as a static executable. This is important as, unlike *nix systems, Windows doesn’t have a central repository on system for libraries so each program needs to bundle its DLLs with them if built dynamically. The distribution can get a bit messy. Makes it harder to update…[Read more]

Part of the issue is also the hoarding of resources. Instead of investing it back into new markets and advances, corporations are simply letting the resources accumulate. This kills growth as there is little to no incentive to continue purchasing more services and products so things tend to stagnate over time. It also does harm to general society.…[Read more]

Wiki’s got a pretty extensive list, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Microsoft Lots of stuff in there!

Haven’t used Watcom before but I’ve definitely run across it. Can’t forget about Borland, either! It still lives as C++ Builder 🙂

Yeah, I’ll keep an eye out. Did an ISO conversion once using the built-in tools on Windows when I was having some issues with the CD drive twenty-years ago as requested by tech support to test out the drive. Turned out to be a failing drive at the time and the process wasn’t pretty. Had to use a weird xcopy command 😛

Sounds good. I’ve had my…[Read more]

Looks like he may have disabled new comments some years ago. Maybe he had a spam problem? He’s got some good information!

Have you looked into Hyper-V? Never used it before but it looks like it may be a good native option, even if it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles. Sadly, it only supports back to W7 from the official list.

I can’t…[Read more]

While I do have Fallout 3, it’s on disc and I don’t have an external optical drive and would need to buy it again 🙁 I suspect there will be similar problems with 3, though, since New Vegas is mostly a modded 3. I do plan on picking up Fallout 4 at some point but that depends on a sale 😛

Sorry for the late response!

We do have a fishing skiff but it’s currently half-baked. Hopefully they do some more work on it in the future 🙂

These are more like rocky planets with a gaseous atmosphere. They’re pretty weird. I guess you could say they’re more akin to Venus that Jupiter? Or a combination.

Cool! Remember browsing AliWeb’s list of links way back when. And…[Read more]

Just ran the code base through cpplint. There’s some overlap but it does do a good job of picking up stuff that needs modernization whereas cppcheck mostly looks for potential problems.

Here’s the log: https://stearnvault.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cpplint.zip

I tried to suppress the style warnings but wasn’t able to suppress the…[Read more]

Yeah. I get that they’re a source of revenue but there comes a point where they’re so bad that the site becomes unusable on certain devices. In those cases, I usually go back and read them on the computer where I have uBlock. They also need to turn off auto play. That takes up a lot of battery power. Funny thing is that the outfits complain about…[Read more]

Doesn’t appear that the bbPress documentation has something similar. The closest it has is an old guide to styling: https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-styling-crib/

The touchscreen on my A7 Lite isn’t as responsive as I like and doesn’t pick up all my finger motions. Probably on account of the low cost screen but it does the job. Still struggles a tad on reading web articles due to it not being able to handle the processing of all the ads, videos, etc that I don’t care about so I may upgrade it at some point…[Read more]

More than likely! No platform is perfect, after all. It would help if more of the bbPress bugs were tackled, though! That and more integration 😛

We have something similar called the BBB. The ratings don’t mean much as they just reflect how the business responds to customers but it does help give you a general idea of how doing business with the…[Read more]

Fred Flintstone is so abusive, it’s a wonder that Barney and Wilma put up with him!

Sorry, not a whole lot I can do about the smiley in the spoiler. It’s due to there not being a semantic spoiler tag on the web so browsers don’t understand it’s supposed to be hidden. Maybe one day!

Yeah, a lot of Tarantino films are a bit rough but they’re generally pretty fun. Pulp Fiction will always be his best, though.