Every time I consider learning more JS because it’s widely used I find myself between a rock and a hard place. It’s popular but it probably shouldn’t be and I don’t want to contribute to it being used even more for whatever mad shit is being attempted now.
Smartphones with WiFi came waaaaay later!
I’ve no idea what market penetration was like on a different continent twenty years ago 😂
Many Nokia phones ran Symbian S60 (I specify because there was a number of Symbian OSes. I’ve never quite pinned down why). Not just Nokia, but in their day Nokia were THE phone company.
I went from a Nokia N90 to an iPhone. The iPhone had fewer features at the time (the app store came later, it couldn’t record video - let alone edit it, etc.). The thing was that the features it did have were so much more user friendly. It was night and day.
Smartphones are surprisingly old although I doubt more than a tiny handful of their users actually knew what they were capable of back in the day. I had my N-Gage setup with a web browser, MSN Messenger client (the IM service of choice in the UK at the time), Xvid video player, Ogg Vorbis audio, office software, and quite a few games too (both Java and native). My N90 could use all the same software when I moved to it a few years later.
Smartphones are much older than that. Symbian Series 60 had a substantial install base long before the iPhone. The N-Gage was a smart phone, for example, so we’re not just talking high end stuff.
Smart phones didn’t start with those features.
…he said, oldly.
I should get some new batteries for mine.
For me the PSP is a story of squandered potential. There were some great games but so few seemed to really embrace the potential of the format.
It’s absolutely not unplayable now. It’s not the slickest but it’s no worse than plenty of other modern indies.
When I played through last I modded out the whole temple of trials. Such a waste of time.
Edit: https://www.nma-fallout.com/threads/skipping-the-temple-of-trials.213739/#post-4247332
Ew ew ew.
No one is asking for AI, you weirdos!
Yeah, that’s the problem I have - it’s something I end up doing on an awful lot of photos. I need that tool.
Krita is missing one feature that I rely on often - setting the white point in the levels tool.
How are we defining “nowadays”?
We’re in the middle of a release and last week was a lot. I shouldn’t have stepped into the thread!
I really don’t feel like getting in depth about work on the weekend, sorry.
I’m perplexed as to why there’s so much advertising and pushing for AI. If it was so good it would sell itself. Instead it’s just sort of a bit shit. Not completely useless but in need of babysitting.
If I ask it to do something there’s about a 30% chance that it made up the method/specifics of an API call based on lots of other similar things. No, .toxml() doesn’t exist for this object. No, I know that .toXml() exists but it works differently from other libraries.
I can make it just about muddle through but mostly I find it handy for time intensive grunt work (convert this variable to the format used by another language, add another argparser argument for the function’s new argument, etc…).
It’s just a bit naff. It cannot be relied on to deliver consistent results and if a computer can’t be consistent then what bloody good is it?
Could have done with a bit less of a focus on space marines.
Why though?
I’ve sat through a lot of things that I didn’t enjoy in my life!
In this case it was my optimistic nature hoping that eventually there would be something I felt was worthwhile. Alas, no, it was just a post-modern miseryfest, from my perspective.
Boak.