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My Heart Will Go On — Dragonforce

Back in maybe 2012-ish my friend built a new pc with some excessive amount of ram for the time. He had a small enough amount of stuff installed on it that he was able to just load the entire fs into ram, and just load anything off of it effectively instantly.

Maybe not exactly what you’re looking for, but Wanderstop could fit the bill. It’s a little unconventional, but to great effect; going in without too many preconceptions is probably the best way to play it.

Like a lot of people mentioned, there’s a few good things you could start with, but C is probably not one of them. At my old job I ran a course for software engineer 2s to go over C, and even they had some struggles with it. If professional engineers struggle with C, it’s maybe not the best starting point. Even C++ might be better, but still adds a lot of complexity that isn’t necessary to know as immediately as the beginning.

Whenever people ask me where to start, I say python. It gives you a relatively tame taste of environment setup, and can run code very easily and flexibly. Its type system is flexible enough to make a user aware of it, without it being as rigid as C or as vague as javascript. Because there’s enough libraries that are easy to pull in, even a beginner can start building useful programs without having to know how to build something equivalent to those libraries themselves.

Obviously if you want them to make websites, javascript will be necessary eventually, and isn’t a bad place to start. If you’re going purely for CS knowledge, I do think python is a little better; going from python to JS is probably easier than JS to python.

I thought I might have as well, but then I realized repeating the question word-for-word is there to help rule that out. It’s not fool-proof, but a human would be a lot less likely to fall for it when reading the question with the explicit intent to make sure they don’t miss, add, or misread any words.

My wife and I play a lot of games; my wife is also not super technical — she can get her way around some problems, but not deeper ones, and never uses the terminal, — and we’ve enjoyed bazzite quite a bit with almost no issues.

I also do development, and that’s been fine as well.

With reflowing zoom, all elements get bigger, but lose their relative sizing; eg. sidebars will remain on the screen, taking up relatively more space than they usually would. With pinch zoom, all elements get bigger, and retain their relative sizing to each other.

Basically, reflowing zoom tries to fit everything into a smaller space, while pinch zoom expands everything equally.

Any game with a free cam should have the option to turn off 3d fly. Trying to perfectly position a camera while having to constantly turn in order to not go up or down while trying to slightly reposition has got to be one of the most annoying things.

One thing you can do that I find comes up pretty often in C is start using switch statements to avoid code duplication. Because your operators all take 2 numbers, you’ve separated out the input handling into its own block; that alone is a really good insight.
You can take it another step further by making your print statement also, mostly, one block of code, with the only difference being the operation being preformed. By printing “The” followed by using an if-else block — or, again, preferably a switch statement — to both print the operation text, and compute memory, you can print the remainder of the line the same way for every operation.
It may seem nitpicky for such a simple program; but the use case of C is for programs which require tight execution and often contain complex, low-level logic. Reducing complexity whenever possible helps make C more readable, as well as signal when the complexity is necessary.

My last haircut was in October 2019 when I decided I wanted to, starting then, go to an every-six-months haircut schedule

In no particular order, and without adjusting for recency bias:

Single player

• Hollow Knight
• Undertale
• Outer Wilds

Multiplayer

• The Finals
• Awesomenauts*
• YOMI Hustle

* Right now the game is in a weird state where the original company who owned it went backrupt, and the game is in the process of being revived by a different company. In the meantime, the already low player count got lower. On top of that, there’s two versions of the game: an old version that used Steam matchmaking (as the matchmaking server went down when the game original closed); and what had been the current patch, being accessible on a beta branch, which currently has issues making it hard to actaully play a match.

This doesn’t answer the question, but I think “ping” is a fine way to describe it, as most people will know what you mean. If you want a more technical word, “latency” is a generalized form of “ping”.

When I’ve used Teams for meetings from my home computers, I use the web version (as I don’t really want to instal the app.) I’ve never had an issue with it on Firefox; not even on devices running Linux.