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Welcome to 2024! Classic Adventures Solution Archive has been online for an impressive 25 years. Despite being a small hobby site, it has hosted solutions for over 10,000 games. In this era of professionalization and commercialization of the internet, CASA remains a haven for knowledgeable amateur enthusiasts. The site defies extinction, thanks to its dedicated […]
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This week, our colleague David Holladay passed away, leaving a significant impact on the braille software community. As a cancer survivor, he bravely battled multiple medical issues over the past five years. With his wife, Caryn Navy, he co-founded Raised Dot Computing, a groundbreaking company in the braille technology field. His work, especially on MegaDots, […]
Fra Mauro’s world map is a comprehensive and intricate depiction of the known world during his time. The map showcases trade routes, maritime exploration, and geographical features in great detail. Controversially, it presents the world in a south-up orientation, challenging traditional map orientation. The map includes cartouches highlighting kingdoms, provinces, cities, and more, providing a […]
Hancho is a streamlined build system taking inspiration from Ninja and Bazel, focusing on fast and efficient command assembly and execution. It eschews complex build tools, fitting neatly in 500 lines of Python without requiring installation. Hancho allows rule invocation without separate build rules for each output file, resembling Ninja, while also enabling build rules […]
A team encountered an unexpected issue with std::shared_mutex on Windows w/ MSVC, causing occasional deadlocks. The behavior is well understood, but the question remains whether it is a bug in std::shared_mutex or the Windows SlimReaderWriter implementation. The issue arises when multiple child threads try to acquire shared locks, with only one succeeding and the rest […]
In this series of tutorials, we will explore creating 2D games in Common Lisp, assuming readers have some programming knowledge and an interest in game development. The tutorials aim to showcase Common Lisp’s capabilities, including metalinguistic abstraction, allowing users to create their own language constructs within Lisp. The Entity-Component-System pattern, highlighted in the cl-fast-ecs library, […]
The mortality rate for unhoused Americans tripled in 10 years, revealing that living on the streets in California is a death sentence. Overdoses were a leading cause, but the lack of preventive medical care also played a role in deaths related to exposure, traffic injuries, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. Even though older individuals comprise a […]
Patients struggling to obtain crucial medications can blame the AlphV crime group for their woes, as they targeted UnitedHealth Group’s subsidiary Optum, which manages the Change Healthcare network. This led to widespread disruptions in processing insurance claims and payments for pharmacies and healthcare providers. While efforts have been made to restore services, the incident highlights […]
Algorithmic Thinking, as praised by industry professionals and educators, provides a comprehensive resource for students and professionals looking to enhance their programming skills. The second edition by Daniel Zingaro introduces challenging programming problems with clear algorithm and data structure explanations. The book is beginner-friendly and hands-on, offering a practical approach to tackling problems. The inclusion […]
Before software repositories like CPAN, NPM, or PyPI, developers used user groups like DECUS and SHARE to share code via catalogs in the 1950s and 1960s. These groups promoted discoverability of software and maintained quality standards. Shared code focused on reusable subroutines rather than standalone programs. Initial concerns were about accuracy, efficiency, and documentation, with […]